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If ye will excuse me as I paraphrase the Donegal tune … 'Joey is winning matches " … Bainisteoir (National) - Posts: 602 - 31/01/2026 22:24:34 2654225 Link 0 |
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Wicklow Perspective - Back from Carlow. Very poor performance. Bar the good start. 1-2 to 0-0 up early on. Carlow played with a very direct attacking style. Wicklow recycled and meandered and tediously moved slowly. It was painful to watch. I found myself enjoying Carlow's incisive movement simply because it was so much better to watch! Jackson scored 0-6 of our 1-7 in the 1st half. In the second half we could have been beaten by 10. We barely won a contested kickout. We were so lucky Carlow despite kicking great points kicked so many wides. And yet we almost undeservedly drew the game. Podge O'Toole got a goal from close range with about 10 minutes to go. Then with the last kick of the game, it appeared Wicklow had scored a 3rd goal. It was hard to tell if this was the right call. Either way we deservedly lost. Our slow insipid build up needs to end if we are to improve, it's ineffective and incredibly predictable and I'd imagine quite easy to defend against. Wicklowman (Wicklow) - Posts: 1149 - 31/01/2026 22:32:36 2654227 Link 0 |
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Carlow won by 3 but should have won by 8 or 9 points. Far the better team. I'd be worried if I was from Wicklow as Jackson scored 6 points in the first half & kept them in the game. They were trying everything to bring him into general play. If your keeper is your top scorer you are in serious trouble. As always with Carlow we almost let them equaliser with the last play but thank god the whistle had gone. I though Ruth was brilliant in Midfield & I had worries about him coming back into the panel after 2 years away & his age. When you think we didn't use Foley, Walker, John Murphy, Clarke, Phiiri & Amond & Cho Cho only came on in 2nd half we have an unbelievably strong panel. Not getting carried away but fingers crossed. Ceatharlach abu carlo (Carlow) - Posts: 300 - 31/01/2026 22:56:42 2654232 Link 0 |
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Was the goal not disallowed for square ball? That's what everyone around me thought. Time up didn't make sense. The ref said one last play. The goal resulted from that. It had to have been square ball.
Wicklowman (Wicklow) - Posts: 1149 - 01/02/2026 10:57:25 2654264 Link 0 |
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Ruth coming back in has been the biggest change. We lost that little bit in midfield when he came off and struggled a bit more with their kick outs. Be really helped pin them in while we turned over a lot of their kick outs. Put a lot wide and honestly think when the bad wides go over we are going to steam roll a a team soon. So impressive to watch. CarlowJuniorB (Clare) - Posts: 91 - 01/02/2026 11:35:04 2654273 Link 0 |
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Kick outs huge change as well
Bimb (Carlow) - Posts: 576 - 01/02/2026 15:21:55 2654303 Link 0 |
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Goal was disallowed for a squareball infringement. There were at least 3 Wicklow lads in the square & the ref had blown the whistle for the free out before the ball hit the net. Correct call. Incorrect call was giving Wicklow the free in the first place. There was a clear breach of the 3 players back rule & even though the linesman pointed this out to the ref he overruled him even thou he had his back to it & couldn't possibly have seen it. Terrible decision & nearly cost Carlow. Having said all that Carlow were the better team & deserved the win. Lots of tricky games to come so not getting carried away
carlo (Carlow) - Posts: 300 - 01/02/2026 16:43:55 2654336 Link 0 |
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Did we win all of ours yesterday? Some different to the usual lump it high or out over the sidelines
CarlowJuniorB (Clare) - Posts: 91 - 01/02/2026 16:54:50 2654337 Link 0 |
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Ben has been very impressive from kick outs in the two games. The corner backs great at giving him an option too. What I liked the most was even when Wicklow changed their set up on our kick out, we adapted to still find a man. Our defenders have the pace to break out and we also have the option of dropping Paddy McDonnell or Mikey Bambrick back to be an option for defenders to offload if needed. On the Wicklow kick out, the management obviously identified one or two Wicklow defenders who they didn't mind getting the ball and for Carlow to press up once the kick out was taken. Worked very well in the first half, not so much in the second. Week off coming at the right time to allow the lads recover. Tough assignment next with Tipperary in Thurles, they had a good win over Antrim today. Also good wins for Leitrim.and Londo who will be no pushovers and Longford never easy beat in Pearse Park so a long way to go but plenty of positives from the last week. ACarlowGael (Carlow) - Posts: 31 - 01/02/2026 18:21:09 2654370 Link 0 |
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For historic reasons Carlows' first away game against Antrim was a big ask. The distance in travel time alone added to the ask, but they came home with the two points against the opinion of many on the outside. supersub15 (Carlow) - Posts: 3349 - 01/02/2026 18:39:09 2654378 Link 0 |
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Have to agree, Carlow are motoring well and should have too much for the remaining games, with my Leinster hat on I'd like to see Wicklow press on as well. Still a ways to go however.
Young_gael (Meath) - Posts: 616 - 01/02/2026 18:50:18 2654382 Link 0 |
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Tipp must be serious promotion contenders after today's win v Antrim. I didn't see that coming. Now we face Tipp away in our next game which is not ideal given that they will now be full of belief. Whoever wins will be in a great position for promotion. I would imagine Semple Stadium should suit our lads very well though. Nice firm surface and a big open pitch which our strong runners can exploit. Just need to turn possession into more scores after leaving an awful lot behind last night and we were nearly caught in the end which would have been a travesty given how totally dominant we were. Good to have a break next weekend. It's been a hectic few weeks with lots of games since the start of January. Hats off to Joe and his all Carlow management team. Not that we're surprised I think we all knew he would turn our fortunes around and quickly it's just a pity we wasted the last few years. Onion Breath (Carlow) - Posts: 1766 - 01/02/2026 18:54:39 2654387 Link 0 |
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Wicklow got a merited and deserved win against Leitrim?You clearly weren't at the game spouting rubbish like that. Wicklow were extremely lucky to win that game and over the course of the game Leitrim were far the better, fitter team. Wicklow's goalkeeper saved the day for them and it looks like he kept them in touch against yourselves yesterday as well. Wicklow are definitely not the great shakes you make them out to be and despite all came within a whisker of drawing the game yesterday. Nor does it look like Antrim are up to much either so we'll see how useful Carlow are in the coming weeks.
Square_B (Leitrim) - Posts: 1741 - 01/02/2026 21:41:34 2654467 Link 0 |