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Replying To Garmin:  "Killoe by 3

Granard by 2

Dromard vs Carrick Draw

Mostrim by 4

Clonguish by 4

Abbey by 2

Looking forward to another year...."
Is Darren Gallagher unavailable for Granard tonight

Redzer99 (Waterford) - Posts: 71 - 18/07/2024 13:35:45    2559909

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Replying To Garmin:  "Killoe by 3

Granard by 2

Dromard vs Carrick Draw

Mostrim by 4

Clonguish by 4

Abbey by 2

Looking forward to another year...."
Is Darren Gallagher unavailable for Granard tonight

Redzer99 (Waterford) - Posts: 71 - 18/07/2024 14:35:06    2559925

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Best of luck to Mickey Quinn as he retires from intercounty football. A great servant for his county. Just interesting to note, this comes a day or two after PC announces he is staying on. There is another Killoe player who possibly will also not be going back this year after 'words' were had with PC.

Great exhibition of scoring in last night's game, especially Shane Kennys second goal. Was refreshing to see two teams just going out to play football. Gallagher was a huge loss for Granard, but if you want to be winning the bigger trophies on offer, you can't be depending on 1 lad to do it for you.

Spinx (Longford) - Posts: 1275 - 19/07/2024 07:48:03    2560004

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Replying To Spinx:  "Best of luck to Mickey Quinn as he retires from intercounty football. A great servant for his county. Just interesting to note, this comes a day or two after PC announces he is staying on. There is another Killoe player who possibly will also not be going back this year after 'words' were had with PC.

Great exhibition of scoring in last night's game, especially Shane Kennys second goal. Was refreshing to see two teams just going out to play football. Gallagher was a huge loss for Granard, but if you want to be winning the bigger trophies on offer, you can't be depending on 1 lad to do it for you."
Watched the game on clubber, v enjoyable to game to watch in fairness- end to end stuff. The 2 Kennys were simply outstanding for Rathcline. Just goes to show league form counts for little and Granard are well depleted without Gallagher.

maximus02 (Longford) - Posts: 201 - 19/07/2024 10:01:25    2560020

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Shane Kenny is an outrageous footballer who has had his career ruined by injuries, from the age of 14+ he was head and shoulders above anyone he came up against for years, lad had it awful unlucky with injuries from when he hit 18 and on. Hope he can put those injuries behind him and make the most of the years ahead of him, absolutely eats up ground.

BallWatching (Longford) - Posts: 7 - 19/07/2024 16:16:09    2560097

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Another shock in the senior championship this evening. Form book turned upside down. Were Carrickedmond missing anyone this evening

B&G (Longford) - Posts: 313 - 19/07/2024 22:06:37    2560125

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Has anyone got a list of managers for the coming season? I'm not convinced by our appointment but he probably can't do much worse than the last lad we had in charge. My worry is that Sheridan did nothing with Granard, had a great chance of winning an intermediate with Ardagh Moydow and blew it. Then he was part of the management team of the first Abbey team in over 20 years not to make at least a senior quarter final.

Spinx (Longford) - Posts: 1258 - 06/01/2024 12:02:35

Looks like my worries about Niall Sheridans appointment is coming true. What an absolute disaster last night was. We were well on top at the beginning and then just collapsed. I would have had hope of winning Intermediate this year but from what I seen last night we will be lucky not to go down to Junior.

Spinx (Longford) - Posts: 1275 - 20/07/2024 12:06:27    2560160

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Mostrim only just about beat Kenagh. Signs aren't great coming from them. If they ever go down intermediate they might never get back.

Bluelake (Westmeath) - Posts: 89 - 21/07/2024 08:22:30    2560254

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Replying To Bluelake:  "Mostrim only just about beat Kenagh. Signs aren't great coming from them. If they ever go down intermediate they might never get back."
Top of group this morning.

Hitachi (Longford) - Posts: 15 - 21/07/2024 09:16:43    2560257

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So were Slashers any good or just Clonguish not at the races ?

Hitachi (Longford) - Posts: 15 - 21/07/2024 09:17:58    2560258

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Replying To Hitachi:  "Top of group this morning."
Judging by the standard of intermediate teams coming up in longford the last 3 years, that win isn't much of an achievement

Bluelake (Westmeath) - Posts: 89 - 21/07/2024 09:31:53    2560259

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Replying To Hitachi:  "So were Slashers any good or just Clonguish not at the races ?"
I would say more us not been at the races. We were missing Jack Duggan, Conor, Andrew and Michael Flynn, Johnny Burke and Peter Hanley. The worrying thing about them lads missing is that all of them were because of injury and no real time frame on the majority of them on when they will return. Slashers were missing 1 or 2 lads also. It was a very poor game to watch.

Frank74 (Longford) - Posts: 161 - 21/07/2024 13:09:47    2560295

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Replying To Frank74:  "I would say more us not been at the races. We were missing Jack Duggan, Conor, Andrew and Michael Flynn, Johnny Burke and Peter Hanley. The worrying thing about them lads missing is that all of them were because of injury and no real time frame on the majority of them on when they will return. Slashers were missing 1 or 2 lads also. It was a very poor game to watch."
Look at all the results over the weekend, mostly low scoring games. Clonguish missing 4/5 players while slashers missing 3. Slashers took the game to ye with a 6 point lead in the second half and probably unlucky not to win it. Was poor to watch on Clubber with both teams setting up defensively but every team sets up that way now unfortunately. Clonguish will improve and have their mind on lifting the cup while slashers will be delighted to come out of that group.

williesboy (Leitrim) - Posts: 367 - 21/07/2024 13:37:21    2560299

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Was PC at many matches over the weekend

B&G (Longford) - Posts: 313 - 21/07/2024 16:50:40    2560340

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Replying To B&G:  "Was PC at many matches over the weekend"
Yes the Dublin Championship was on.

Hitachi (Longford) - Posts: 15 - 21/07/2024 17:23:02    2560344

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From a footballing perspective, do you think the Longford football championship is a good standard? I am from Ballyleague so am quite close to Rathcline and follow a lot of teams and games every year. While the Rathcline granard game was very enjoyable to watch, I don't see either of these teams going to the semi final stage but it was good to see attacking football and some lovely scores (Oran and Shane Kenny were immense, a real shame not involved with Longford).

Killoe are obviously a talented side but the standard across some of the games at the weekend was so, so poor. Mostrim, Slashers, Dromard, Kenagh, Abbeylara and Carrickedmond would genuinely I believe struggle to beat some Intermediate teams in Roscommon. I think all these teams above would be absolutely hockeyed by St. Brigits, Padraig Pearses, Boyle and a couple more.

Not trying to provoke anything but is the structure of the championship wrong? Is the intermediate in Longford too weak? Will be taking in 3 or 4 senior games in 2 weeks time again so maybe its the 1st round syndrome.

Rossfan93 (Roscommon) - Posts: 50 - 22/07/2024 11:00:35    2560524

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Replying To Rossfan93:  "From a footballing perspective, do you think the Longford football championship is a good standard? I am from Ballyleague so am quite close to Rathcline and follow a lot of teams and games every year. While the Rathcline granard game was very enjoyable to watch, I don't see either of these teams going to the semi final stage but it was good to see attacking football and some lovely scores (Oran and Shane Kenny were immense, a real shame not involved with Longford).

Killoe are obviously a talented side but the standard across some of the games at the weekend was so, so poor. Mostrim, Slashers, Dromard, Kenagh, Abbeylara and Carrickedmond would genuinely I believe struggle to beat some Intermediate teams in Roscommon. I think all these teams above would be absolutely hockeyed by St. Brigits, Padraig Pearses, Boyle and a couple more.

Not trying to provoke anything but is the structure of the championship wrong? Is the intermediate in Longford too weak? Will be taking in 3 or 4 senior games in 2 weeks time again so maybe its the 1st round syndrome."
Shocking games at the weekend hear macken has left dromard and there manger fm last
zy year is back

drunkensailor (Longford) - Posts: 80 - 22/07/2024 14:03:20    2560620

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Very hard to look bye kiloe this year dromard will do really well to stay up

drunkensailor (Longford) - Posts: 80 - 22/07/2024 14:29:08    2560635

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Replying To Rossfan93:  "From a footballing perspective, do you think the Longford football championship is a good standard? I am from Ballyleague so am quite close to Rathcline and follow a lot of teams and games every year. While the Rathcline granard game was very enjoyable to watch, I don't see either of these teams going to the semi final stage but it was good to see attacking football and some lovely scores (Oran and Shane Kenny were immense, a real shame not involved with Longford).

Killoe are obviously a talented side but the standard across some of the games at the weekend was so, so poor. Mostrim, Slashers, Dromard, Kenagh, Abbeylara and Carrickedmond would genuinely I believe struggle to beat some Intermediate teams in Roscommon. I think all these teams above would be absolutely hockeyed by St. Brigits, Padraig Pearses, Boyle and a couple more.

Not trying to provoke anything but is the structure of the championship wrong? Is the intermediate in Longford too weak? Will be taking in 3 or 4 senior games in 2 weeks time again so maybe its the 1st round syndrome."
Bit too early to judge. It's round 1 of 5 in the group stage and lots of injured lads from a few key clubs won't appear until the knockout stage. The real championship starts in September. Hard to take much out of the first round of games. Surprised Clonguish drew but just saw the list of injuries so that explains that. Slashers and Dromard always come out of their shell for championship. Colmcille were fairly poor though Killoe had a few key lads out injured but also have a bit of a weakness at the back. Abbey vs Mullinalaghta in championship is always a hard watch so nothing new there. Rathcline capable of a shock or two. Long way to go yet.

LongfordgaaAbú (Longford) - Posts: 533 - 22/07/2024 15:27:30    2560668

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Hearing now Christie won't be returning niot conformed but that's talk from some

Gaaforlife2023 (Longford) - Posts: 391 - 23/07/2024 15:16:13    2560949

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