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Replying To Tacaí Liatroma:  "So tell me this, a chairde, just what exactly has changed from Poacher's Leitrim during the league and Poacher's Leitrim during the championship? I'm absolutely delighted with how the team did against Mayo, but only a couple of weeks ago we were ready for him to pack his bags. Why/how did Leitrim find form against Mayo that they wouldn't/couldn't in the League?"
As I said a few posts back it says more about what's happening with Mayo at the moment. Now that could change next week and Mayo could go out and beat Galway however I have my strong doubts about that. The acid tests will be the first round of the Tailteann and the matches after that. We all eagerly await the draw on Wednesday....

Square_B (Leitrim) - Posts: 1274 - 28/04/2025 10:13:07    2604892

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Replying To joeman123:  "A few suggestions

The return of Barry McNulty and Donal Casey plus Cillian McGloin who only featured towards the end of the campaign after surgery.

He had little time to prepare for the league and was dealing with a very inexperienced panel due to the departures which prompted Mikey Graham to walk.

He was then hit with a spate of new injuries, McNulty, Jordon Reynolds,Harkin bros, Conor Quinn are just some.

He was depending on 6 under 20 players ,which is unprecedented for any county.

In those circumstances it wasn't too surprising the results were poor.

However, the performance against Mayo was still a huge surprise and the team was well prepared.Let us hope they can build on this ;only time will tell."
If he had so little time for the league- how could he have the team so well prepared from the end of the league to the championship with only two weeks?? He would still have been depending on six under 20s in the Mayo game- the lads you mentioned who were injured wouldn't have made much difference apart from McNulty.

I think it was a backs to the wall performance and lots of teams can pull off one off performances like that and have done through the years- issue is to do it consistently and I do not think we will. That is at his door- he needs to get them performing consistently not in a one off game. So only time will tell.

bláthach (Leitrim) - Posts: 38 - 28/04/2025 11:11:07    2604920

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