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Poorer than usual yesterday, but the league has broadly gone as expected. I don't see promotion coming next year either, this rebuild will take time. He might as well throw in a bunch of new lads against Wexford seeing as its a dead rubber, and see if any impress enough to warrant a run in Leinster or Tailteann. All we can hope for is a loss with a decent performance against Wicklow so we don't find ourselves face to face with Dublin in Leinster, then push on to Tailteann and keep experimenting. What other choice do we have (other than amalgamation with Leitrim)!
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First round of the division 2 club leagues on last week was anybody at any games? Division 1 on this weekend, no county players makes it hard to judge?
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Co Board meeting last night decided to retain 12 team senior championship and 8 team Intermediate championship. What was the point of relegation matches last year if this is the case, can a club who gets relegated this year now use last years results to say they shouldn't go down. Is there only 3 solely junior clubs in the county now out of 23 clubs? Its ridiculous carry on
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So Carrickedmond to stay in the senior championship while the 2 teams relegated to junior stay in the intermediate championship. Laughable the whole thing, is it any wonder the senior team is a mess when it's mess behind closed doors.
williesboy (Leitrim) - Posts: 481 - 26/03/2025 14:00:42
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From Longford Leader twitter:
"News from tonight's county board meeting confirms a 12 team senior championship confirmed for this year with 2 teams relegated over 2 years to get to a 10 team senior championship in 2027. Carrickedmond stay Senior. Championship format remains much the same with two groups of 6".
"Also from tonight's county board meeting, Cashel and Ardagh/Moydow confirmed their position in an 8 team intermediate championship. Round Robin format with each team playing each other once to determine semi final pairings. With 2 teams also being relegated".
Has any reason been provided for why the CB rowed back on the previously agreed changes and why relegations have been reversed? Also if intermediate now has 8 teams, that must mean Grattans get promoted with nobody relegated to Junior, meaning that Legan are now the only junior club. Hard to see how it makes sense to have 12 senior clubs but only 1 junior club in the county. All feels like politics above progress.
LongfordgaaAbú (Longford) - Posts: 600 - 26/03/2025 14:26:39
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Replying To williesboy: "So Carrickedmond to stay in the senior championship while the 2 teams relegated to junior stay in the intermediate championship. Laughable the whole thing, is it any wonder the senior team is a mess when it's mess behind closed doors." It needs a complete and utter reset, how are junior and intermediate players going to progress without playing a meaningful championship. Theres no way Longford has 12 'Senior' championship teams, an acceptance of that has to be pushed through at county board level regardless of who it upsets or offends. If you're good enough to play at a higher level then go and prove it on the field of play
keepitlit (Longford) - Posts: 42 - 26/03/2025 15:20:13
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Replying To LongfordgaaAbú: "From Longford Leader twitter:
"News from tonight's county board meeting confirms a 12 team senior championship confirmed for this year with 2 teams relegated over 2 years to get to a 10 team senior championship in 2027. Carrickedmond stay Senior. Championship format remains much the same with two groups of 6".
"Also from tonight's county board meeting, Cashel and Ardagh/Moydow confirmed their position in an 8 team intermediate championship. Round Robin format with each team playing each other once to determine semi final pairings. With 2 teams also being relegated".
Has any reason been provided for why the CB rowed back on the previously agreed changes and why relegations have been reversed? Also if intermediate now has 8 teams, that must mean Grattans get promoted with nobody relegated to Junior, meaning that Legan are now the only junior club. Hard to see how it makes sense to have 12 senior clubs but only 1 junior club in the county. All feels like politics above progress." Very difficult to understamd this decision why has everything been reversed no chance of any teams progressing with this type of carry on. No wonder we're stuck in division 4
Clonbonnyrabbitt (Longford) - Posts: 44 - 26/03/2025 16:40:30
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Three teams relegated from Senior in Leitrim last year. Three from Intermediate last year and this year.
Anyone in the loop in Longford able to shed light on;
a) Why there is reluctance just to get on with it and balance the championships over one year/ two max?
b) What is stopping any team relegated this year to simply stand their ground, refuse to go down and cite this year as precedent?
Aside from the 'ghost point' controversy that didn't get upheld by Leinster, did Carrickedmond not lose a relegation playoff to Slashers fair and square?
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Replying To LongfordgaaAbú: "From Longford Leader twitter:
"News from tonight's county board meeting confirms a 12 team senior championship confirmed for this year with 2 teams relegated over 2 years to get to a 10 team senior championship in 2027. Carrickedmond stay Senior. Championship format remains much the same with two groups of 6".
"Also from tonight's county board meeting, Cashel and Ardagh/Moydow confirmed their position in an 8 team intermediate championship. Round Robin format with each team playing each other once to determine semi final pairings. With 2 teams also being relegated".
Has any reason been provided for why the CB rowed back on the previously agreed changes and why relegations have been reversed? Also if intermediate now has 8 teams, that must mean Grattans get promoted with nobody relegated to Junior, meaning that Legan are now the only junior club. Hard to see how it makes sense to have 12 senior clubs but only 1 junior club in the county. All feels like politics above progress." Agree but however voted with short term view all this destroy integrity in long run and false expectations
Gaaforlife2023 (Longford) - Posts: 660 - 26/03/2025 18:56:31
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Replying To keepitlit: "Co Board meeting last night decided to retain 12 team senior championship and 8 team Intermediate championship. What was the point of relegation matches last year if this is the case, can a club who gets relegated this year now use last years results to say they shouldn't go down. Is there only 3 solely junior clubs in the county now out of 23 clubs? Its ridiculous carry on" Only 1 now
Gaaforlife2023 (Longford) - Posts: 660 - 26/03/2025 18:57:05
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Absolute farce of a situation ... AGAIN. It's the same every couple of years and Carrickedmond are an absolute disgrace, its not the 1st or even 2nd time they have refused to go down when relegated.
What's worse this time is, their refusal to go down has likely resulted in Cashel & Ardagh/Moydow refusing to go down to intermediate. At least Kenagh had the decency to do the right thing.
What's to say this wont set a precedence for the same thing to happen this year also, and where will this leave the state of Longford Football in the years to come? Not in a good place, more than likely.
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Kenagh the only club coming out of this with integrity and realism.
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If we avoid a group with Abbey, Colmcille, Dromard, Clonguish, Killoe, Slashers, Mullinalaghata, Granard, Rathcline, Carrickedmond and Mostrim we might have a chance of staying senior this year!!!
The mess the CB have made of our championships is anabsolute disgrace. What was once a great achievement in winning an Intermediate and also the bit of hope you had of possibly staying senior for a couple of years has been completely wiped by our incompetent 'leaders'.
What chance does an Intermediate team have when they are playing in a completely unbalanced championship.
I call a spade a spade, and in any other county we would be a bottom tier Intermediate team, but here we are parachuted up into senior where we will probably take 5 beatings. Senior Championship needs to be reduced to 8 clubs as really that is there is that have a chance of winning it.
Every year this happens with our CB messing with our championships. 57% of our clubs are 'senior'.....an absolute joke.
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Replying To Spinx: "If we avoid a group with Abbey, Colmcille, Dromard, Clonguish, Killoe, Slashers, Mullinalaghata, Granard, Rathcline, Carrickedmond and Mostrim we might have a chance of staying senior this year!!!
The mess the CB have made of our championships is anabsolute disgrace. What was once a great achievement in winning an Intermediate and also the bit of hope you had of possibly staying senior for a couple of years has been completely wiped by our incompetent 'leaders'.
What chance does an Intermediate team have when they are playing in a completely unbalanced championship.
I call a spade a spade, and in any other county we would be a bottom tier Intermediate team, but here we are parachuted up into senior where we will probably take 5 beatings. Senior Championship needs to be reduced to 8 clubs as really that is there is that have a chance of winning it.
Every year this happens with our CB messing with our championships. 57% of our clubs are 'senior'.....an absolute joke." Agree with all that, but i would add that the clubs have to take some responsibility too. Why do Carrickedmond think they deservedly are warranted a place in Senior Championship? They lost the Relegation playoff and competed in the same for the league? As i mentioned before, its not the first time they've done this, so they are definitely playing their own part in making a mockery of our championships.
Ballymahon and Kenagh were on the wrong end of some of the most horrendous defeats I've ever seen in championship, highlighting the imbalance that exists. Fair play to both sides for fielding a team all the same, something Kilashee didnt bother doing after the first beating they got when they went up senior. However , that being said it shouldnt be as predictable as or known before the championship even starts that whoever comes up to senior will be bet out the gap.
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Replying To Rockshorecider: "Kenagh the only club coming out of this with integrity and realism." Agreed!
keepitlit (Longford) - Posts: 42 - 27/03/2025 15:35:20
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Replying To LongfordSham: "Absolute farce of a situation ... AGAIN. It's the same every couple of years and Carrickedmond are an absolute disgrace, its not the 1st or even 2nd time they have refused to go down when relegated.
What's worse this time is, their refusal to go down has likely resulted in Cashel & Ardagh/Moydow refusing to go down to intermediate. At least Kenagh had the decency to do the right thing.
What's to say this wont set a precedence for the same thing to happen this year also, and where will this leave the state of Longford Football in the years to come? Not in a good place, more than likely." Once Carrickedmond were allowed to stay up, Cashel and Ardagh Moydow had no option other than to seek the same arrangement in the spirit of fairness and consistency in decision making.
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Replying To LongfordSham: "Agree with all that, but i would add that the clubs have to take some responsibility too. Why do Carrickedmond think they deservedly are warranted a place in Senior Championship? They lost the Relegation playoff and competed in the same for the league? As i mentioned before, its not the first time they've done this, so they are definitely playing their own part in making a mockery of our championships.
Ballymahon and Kenagh were on the wrong end of some of the most horrendous defeats I've ever seen in championship, highlighting the imbalance that exists. Fair play to both sides for fielding a team all the same, something Kilashee didnt bother doing after the first beating they got when they went up senior. However , that being said it shouldnt be as predictable as or known before the championship even starts that whoever comes up to senior will be bet out the gap." The clubs have to take ALL the responsibility for this one. This was a set of requests taken to CB by the clubs involved, and approved unanimously by all clubs. Top table didn't propose or push this through, the clubs did. I'm all for criticism of the officials when they drop the ball, but I think this one is all on the clubs. Everyone seems paralysed by the idea of being relegated (as if it's the end of the world) so they support anything that makes it harder to happen. Lets hope the season goes without even a single glitch, because if there is one, and that team gets relegated. it will be deja vu. A high bar in a season with a bunch of new rules!
LongfordgaaAbú (Longford) - Posts: 600 - 27/03/2025 17:38:07
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Replying To LongfordSham: "Absolute farce of a situation ... AGAIN. It's the same every couple of years and Carrickedmond are an absolute disgrace, its not the 1st or even 2nd time they have refused to go down when relegated.
What's worse this time is, their refusal to go down has likely resulted in Cashel & Ardagh/Moydow refusing to go down to intermediate. At least Kenagh had the decency to do the right thing.
What's to say this wont set a precedence for the same thing to happen this year also, and where will this leave the state of Longford Football in the years to come? Not in a good place, more than likely." Once Carrickedmond were allowed to stay up, Cashel and Ardagh Moydow had no option other than to seek the same arrangement in the spirit of fairness and consistency in decision making.
SHCEIGHTY (Longford) - Posts: 8 - 27/03/2025 18:10:31
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Replying To SHCEIGHTY: "Once Carrickedmond were allowed to stay up, Cashel and Ardagh Moydow had no option other than to seek the same arrangement in the spirit of fairness and consistency in decision making." Well the other thing is all the clubs voted for this to happen so nobody is completely free of blame. Eventually the championships will be sorted out but until then the football will still be a mess. At least the league is back!!!! Nobody ever complains about the league or do they?
Clonbonnyrabbitt (Longford) - Posts: 44 - 28/03/2025 12:30:15
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Replying To Clonbonnyrabbitt: "Well the other thing is all the clubs voted for this to happen so nobody is completely free of blame. Eventually the championships will be sorted out but until then the football will still be a mess. At least the league is back!!!! Nobody ever complains about the league or do they?" For anyone wondering when they get their county lads back for club league games, the last Tailteann Cup group game is on weekend of 1st July, so if we don't qualify from the group the county lads will be back at clubs for the last 2 rounds of Division 1, or last 3 rounds of Division 2. If we qualify from the group in Tailteann, they won't feature at all in any of the league rounds of Division 1.
Same as previous years, but worth the reminder.
Will be interesting to see how the new rules impact things at club level.
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