As I stated above, the 30 points is disgraceful. No one should lose to that Armagh side by double figures, let alone 30 points. Laois, bottom of Div 3 and flatlining, have beaten them 4, FOUR times, in the past 12 months.
The rest of his post however, still stands. The sooner players in the 26 also rans, cop on, the better for themselves.
People were saying similar enough things about the likes of Donegal and Mayo in 2010 and within two years they were contesting an All-Ireland final.
Monaghan I presume are in the “six” you’re talking about. Again, they have 60k. At least 12 to 15 counties out there could realistically make themselves All-Ireland contenders if they got their act together.
Donegal and Mayo were never at Offaly’s level. Monaghan aren’t a dual county. As the game goes on, the gaps widen. Bridging them going forward, won’t even be as easy as it was for the likes of Donegal, who incidentally, aren’t a dual county either.
GAA could assist weaker counties in new sports campus with coaching the coaches, centralising some S and C, skills acquisition etc. Give 12 weakest counties a weekend there every 6 weeks. Work with their coaches.
Capping expenditure on teams as is suggested doesn’t really address the issue that these lads are way behind by 20 and don’t work as hard
If Offaly players were honest they don’t work as hard as Dublin players. Maybe because they cannot but as Jerry Kiernan would say some GAA players are fooling themselves about how hard they train. Irish track and field athletes train 12 to 15 times a week under mainly volunteer coaches and hold down full time jobs or exist on subsistence grants. If Offaly adopted a similar work ethic for a four year Olympic cycle (say) they would close the gap.
Donegal and Mayo were both humiliated in the first round of the qualifiers in 2010. Cork also humiliated Donegal in 2009. Donegal beat them well in 2012.
Westmeath are a dual county with a similar population to Offaly and have made the last two Leinster football finals.
Offaly are shit because they don’t take either sport seriously in inter-county terms and are still living in the 1980s.
Westmeath have made the last two Leinster finals because they’re the best of the rest, the top of a low low barrel. Its an indictment of the rest that they have, and possibly a vindication of a good manager in Cribbin who is the definition of an alright sort.
Its a dark day in somewhere, when I’ll stand up for Offaly GAA. This isnt about them, merely about the insanity that is the modern intercounty scene for over 70% of intercounty players. God willing they’ll cop the fuck on soon and leave it to the rest of them.
If Monaghan can win two Ulster titles and be regular All-Ireland quarter-finalists with a population of 60k there’s no excuse for anybody else being shit.
Fuck’s sake, Sean Quigley was one point off being top scorer in the All-Ireland football championship in 2015 and he’s got an arse like a bag of cement.
There’s not many Sean Quigleys out there. In fact he’s barely out there himself anymore.
Offaly have Niall McNamee.
They’ve made fuck all use of him over the last decade.
He’s not done much for himself. Apart from help himself off the pitch.
Wanna bet on that ??
Hasn’t the O Connor Park project taken up a lot of resources in Offaly ??
Kildare better not get an unmerciful hammering soon or you’ll be a really awkward spot
Didnt they get one from Kerry not so long ago. Another single code county FWIW.
WRONG
FOAD.
Fergus is a good man for a bit of deep penetration too