Conor Gormleyâs Carrickmore will take on Joe McMahonâs Omagh in the Tyrone Championship final.
Imagine Omagh will be heavy favourites, they have six county panelists in the two McMahons, Ronan OâNeill, Tierney, Grugan and Clarke although Clarke will miss the final as he recovers from surgery on his cruciate. Itâs 26 years ago since Omagh last won the title.
Portlaoise were relegated out of the Senior Hurling in Laois last night. They should be ashamed of themselves the way theyâve let hurling slide in that town.
[QUOTE=âIl Bomber Destro, post: 1009284, member: 2533â]Conor Gormleyâs Carrickmore will take on Joe McMahonâs Omagh in the Tyrone Championship final.
Imagine Omagh will be heavy favourites, they have six county panelists in the two McMahons, Ronan OâNeill, Tierney, Grugan and Clarke although Clarke will miss the final as he recovers from surgery on his cruciate. Itâs 26 years ago since Omagh last won the title.[/QUOTE]
carrickmore will be right fired up playing them towniesâŠdid penrose move to carrickmore or was it another team?..
Yeah Penrose is with them now, married to a girl from Carrickmore and lives there.
Agreed.
Tullamore are in the Offaly relagation semis but should be safe enough. They actually beat Birr this weekend but wasnât enough to get them into the quarters.
Kilcormac favourites to win it again but Coolderry and Seir Kieran (Clareen) should make a good go at it
Laois Senior Football Championship in a pickle of a situation at the moment. In a bid to cull some of the teams in the Championship from 16, they relegated 2 last year and planned to do so again this year. However 2 down and 1 up last year, left an uneven number in the Championship, thereby requiring a bye in the 1st round of this years tournament. It also left an uneven number in the Losers group, which then required one team there to get a bye to the next round. To cut a long story short, we were left with unfancied Crettyard benefiting from the bye and Arles Kilcruise, Stradbally and St Josephs dropping into a relegation dogfight. 2 from that 3 needed to go down, so there was a draw made and it would see Joes play Kilcruise, losers down, winners playing Stradbally, losers down. These 3 teams would be unfamiliar with being outside the top tier shall we say, and wouldnât appreciate dropping out of Senior.
Now it seems a technicality in the rules has been found (something about needing permission from Croke Park to allow a Bye in Round 2 of a Championship) and it appears one of two things may happen, the relegation may be scrapped, or if the matter is pushed, the entire Championship may have to be scrapped. This is going to get very very messy one suspects.
[QUOTE=âmyboyblue, post: 1010372, member: 180â]Laois Senior Football Championship in a pickle of a situation at the moment. In a bid to cull some of the teams in the Championship from 16, they relegated 2 last year and planned to do so again this year. However 2 down and 1 up last year, left an uneven number in the Championship, thereby requiring a bye in the 1st round of this years tournament. It also left an uneven number in the Losers group, which then required one team there to get a bye to the next round. To cut a long story short, we were left with unfancied Crettyard benefiting from the bye and Arles Kilcruise, Stradbally and St Josephs dropping into a relegation dogfight. 2 from that 3 needed to go down, so there was a draw made and it would see Joes play Kilcruise, losers down, winners playing Stradbally, losers down. These 3 teams would be unfamiliar with being outside the top tier shall we say, and wouldnât appreciate dropping out of Senior.
Now it seems a technicality in the rules has been found (something about needing permission from Croke Park to allow a Bye in Round 2 of a Championship) and it appears one of two things may happen, the relegation may be scrapped, or if the matter is pushed, the entire Championship may have to be scrapped. This is going to get very very messy one suspects.[/QUOTE]
That is absolutely absurd administration. You get from 16 to 12 simply in two years via 3 down and 1 up in each campaign. 4 teams into relegation semi-finals, with both losers down and the the two winners into a final with the loser of that down too.
[QUOTE=âmyboyblue, post: 1010372, member: 180â]Laois Senior Football Championship in a pickle of a situation at the moment. In a bid to cull some of the teams in the Championship from 16, they relegated 2 last year and planned to do so again this year. However 2 down and 1 up last year, left an uneven number in the Championship, thereby requiring a bye in the 1st round of this years tournament. It also left an uneven number in the Losers group, which then required one team there to get a bye to the next round. To cut a long story short, we were left with unfancied Crettyard benefiting from the bye and Arles Kilcruise, Stradbally and St Josephs dropping into a relegation dogfight. 2 from that 3 needed to go down, so there was a draw made and it would see Joes play Kilcruise, losers down, winners playing Stradbally, losers down. These 3 teams would be unfamiliar with being outside the top tier shall we say, and wouldnât appreciate dropping out of Senior.
Now it seems a technicality in the rules has been found (something about needing permission from Croke Park to allow a Bye in Round 2 of a Championship) and it appears one of two things may happen, the relegation may be scrapped, or if the matter is pushed, the entire Championship may have to be scrapped. This is going to get very very messy one suspects.[/QUOTE]
Amazing the way the club of the county board chairman and secretary stand to benefit from this debacle. The Weasel is some little bollocks. Iâd say youâve a great love for that club yourself MBB!
Portlaoise relegated! seriously? were they not in a senior final in recent years?
It is a not good sign that there is just one GAA club in a town that size. Loads of vibrant GAA clubs in Tralee and Killarney town. 4 within the urban boundary of Tralee town.
Yea, Clough Ballacolla beat them in 09 I think it was.
Emergency meeting tonight re the SFC, its possible the entire thing could be null and void now. This is some mess.
Laois may scrap relegation play-off after rules oversight
Wednesday, September 03, 2014
By Colm OâConnor
Laois County Board have called an emergency meeting tonight following claims the countyâs senior football championship does not adhere to GAA rules.
The startling revelation came to light on Monday when two clubs, St Josephâs and Arles-Kilcruise, who are due to play in a relegation play-off on Friday night, queried the validity of the relegation process.
Under rule 6.20.3 in the GAAâs Treoir OifigiĂșl, club championships are permitted to have a bye in Round 1 only, with permission needed from the GAAâs Central Council to award a bye in any further rounds.
Crettyard were awarded a bye in the second round as part of the restructuring of the Laois SFC, thus sparing them from the threat of relegation, and it is claimed county officials did not apply for permission to award that bye.
Emergency meetings of the Laois Competitions Control Committee and County Executive took place on Monday night to discuss the query submitted by the clubs, and arising from that, it is proposed to scrap the relegation play-offs in this yearâs championship.
The rest of the competition would proceed as planned. It is not expected to have any knock-on effect on the winners of the Laois SFC competing in the Leinster club championship, unless an objection was lodged to the Leinster Council.
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The last line of that article makes the rest of it irrelevant, it canât go ahead like this surely.
Derm Connolly picking up where he left off in the club final in March with an outrageous goal tonight v Sylvesters in Parnell. Went through 4 men before a one two with Mossy and volleying into the roof of the net. Set up the other 2 goals too. Vins and Fennell cleaned in midfield though despite winning relatively easy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3scnP7Ojbk
[QUOTE=âSpidey, post: 1018362, member: 289â]Derm Connolly picking up where he left off in the club final in March with an outrageous goal tonight v Sylvesters in Parnell. Went through 4 men before a one two with Mossy and volleying into the roof of the net. Set up the other 2 goals too. Vins and Fennell cleaned in midfield though despite winning relatively easy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3scnP7Ojbk
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It was good, but not outrageous
He ran straight and hand passed. Shocking defending. I expected more from the fawning over it.
Between good and outrageous in my view.
Looked a lot faster in the flesh than on that vid. Bit of crowd sound mightâve helped 
Vins were only a point down at that stage so opting to volley it was pretty ballsy.
So you agree it wasnât outrageous then?
It was a pretty fine looking goal.
Indeed.
[QUOTE=âmyboyblue, post: 1018475, member: 180â]He ran straight and hand passed. Shocking defending. I expected more from the fawning over it.
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Agree completely