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Replying To Barrowsider: "Great win for the Carlow ladies yesterday. Unbeaten all year, hopefully they can take that final step now. Great bunch of players, hopefully a good crowd goes up to support them in 3 weeks time" Glad you gave them a mention. A great result. 17 from 17.
CARPS (Carlow) - Posts: 1127 - 13/07/2026 17:42:58
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Football kicks off this week and should be interesting with the new format. Will it be a disadvantage to the dual player and dual clubs, time will tell.
Rathvilly look best suited to win the Senior with the usual suspects of Palatine, EO and Old Leighlin next best. Relagtion looks likely to be between Fenagh and Grange.
Tinryland will be fancied by many to come straight up but the likes of Ballon, St Pats and Clonmore all have a decent chance. Relegation is likely to feature Ballinabranna and EO.
Junior is open but Leighlinbridge, Myshall and possibly the Blues should be among the favourites. Relegation is wide open and hard to call.
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Replying To jigger: "Football kicks off this week and should be interesting with the new format. Will it be a disadvantage to the dual player and dual clubs, time will tell.
Rathvilly look best suited to win the Senior with the usual suspects of Palatine, EO and Old Leighlin next best. Relagtion looks likely to be between Fenagh and Grange.
Tinryland will be fancied by many to come straight up but the likes of Ballon, St Pats and Clonmore all have a decent chance. Relegation is likely to feature Ballinabranna and EO.
Junior is open but Leighlinbridge, Myshall and possibly the Blues should be among the favourites. Relegation is wide open and hard to call." No real surprises in senior at the weekend. From what I saw EO looked like nothing special, Pal did a serious job on MLR with chris's 2 pointers keeping it respectful. Can't judge from the other two matches.
Inter looking like a mixed bag and interesting. Kildavin and EO was a poor standard and somehow kildavin lost. Tinryland lost and coming out with a few injuries, uphill battle there. Ballinabranna stuffed and looks like it's going one way.
Good win for myshall in junior. Leighlinbridge not setting the world alight barely beating pal. Big win for the blues in Kilbride. It's a pity St. Mullins just didn't bother with a team.
CarlowJuniorB (Clare) - Posts: 197 - 19/07/2026 21:50:15
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Replying To CarlowJuniorB: "No real surprises in senior at the weekend. From what I saw EO looked like nothing special, Pal did a serious job on MLR with chris's 2 pointers keeping it respectful. Can't judge from the other two matches.
Inter looking like a mixed bag and interesting. Kildavin and EO was a poor standard and somehow kildavin lost. Tinryland lost and coming out with a few injuries, uphill battle there. Ballinabranna stuffed and looks like it's going one way.
Good win for myshall in junior. Leighlinbridge not setting the world alight barely beating pal. Big win for the blues in Kilbride. It's a pity St. Mullins just didn't bother with a team." I've been away for a few weeks so I've seen no hurling yet so can't comment on it.
I saw a lot of senior football over the weekend though. I have to say I thought the standard was poor. Difficult conditions I know with the heat and rock hard pitches but the lack of zip and lack of fluency in the play was disappointing. Maybe it was the conditions and it's only round one and some teams have a lot of hurlers as an excuse and I suppose it can only get better as the weeks go on.
One team that doesn't have hurling overlap problems is Rathvilly who seem to be everyone's favourites. I thought they were poor enough (v Grange who simply are not senior standard) considering they probably have the best players on paper. No obvious game plan at all, I thought they were poorly drilled and got away with that just knocking it about any oul way without any shape, rhythm or structure to their play. One team who will come on for last weekend is Bagenalstown and I for one wouldn't be shocked if they beat Rathvilly this weekend.
EO were EO and so were OL. Neither set the world on fire with OL winning in third gear but EO were hard pushed to beat Bagenalstown who as i say will improve. Pal have introduced Mark Buggy and he's a star of the future (still minor I understand) and they'd be my favourites with Bagenalstown the dark horses but hurling commitments might count against them in the end. Town probably won't win it but they could well take someone big out in a knock out round later.
The intermediate championship is wide open and very interesting. I thought Tinryland would walk it but now I'm not sure of that at all. A few missing and a bad defeat v Tullow. Kildavin very disappointing, and they've started the hurling badly too.
Junior I think Myshall will win it. They're as good as done with the hurling which itself is shocking to see but they'll rally now and win the junior football for their pride I'd say. Blues will not have enough players of the standard needed and based on what I heard v Kilbride indiscipline will do for them as it often does.
Nice win for Carlow U-15 footballers at the weekend v Louth. I saw most of it. Like a lot of our recent underage county teams (I've said this before) there's a core of 3-4 really strong players on that team. Hopefully we don't lose them to other sports which has been a problem as they get towards 18 especially with LOI soccer in the county now.
Onion Breath (Carlow) - Posts: 1879 - 20/07/2026 11:45:41
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I meant to say also I thought Chris Nolan gave an exhibition of two point kicking at the weekend. He scored four two-pointers, two with his left and two with his right. There are few players playing at the very highest level of county football who could do that, Clifford and maybe no more than a dozen more I'd say. I know Chris is a hurler and will always be so I'm not starting any argument about county hurling v football etc but if the county footballers had him he would transform the team.
Onion Breath (Carlow) - Posts: 1879 - 20/07/2026 14:13:23
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Replying To Onion Breath: "I've been away for a few weeks so I've seen no hurling yet so can't comment on it.
I saw a lot of senior football over the weekend though. I have to say I thought the standard was poor. Difficult conditions I know with the heat and rock hard pitches but the lack of zip and lack of fluency in the play was disappointing. Maybe it was the conditions and it's only round one and some teams have a lot of hurlers as an excuse and I suppose it can only get better as the weeks go on.
One team that doesn't have hurling overlap problems is Rathvilly who seem to be everyone's favourites. I thought they were poor enough (v Grange who simply are not senior standard) considering they probably have the best players on paper. No obvious game plan at all, I thought they were poorly drilled and got away with that just knocking it about any oul way without any shape, rhythm or structure to their play. One team who will come on for last weekend is Bagenalstown and I for one wouldn't be shocked if they beat Rathvilly this weekend.
EO were EO and so were OL. Neither set the world on fire with OL winning in third gear but EO were hard pushed to beat Bagenalstown who as i say will improve. Pal have introduced Mark Buggy and he's a star of the future (still minor I understand) and they'd be my favourites with Bagenalstown the dark horses but hurling commitments might count against them in the end. Town probably won't win it but they could well take someone big out in a knock out round later.
The intermediate championship is wide open and very interesting. I thought Tinryland would walk it but now I'm not sure of that at all. A few missing and a bad defeat v Tullow. Kildavin very disappointing, and they've started the hurling badly too.
Junior I think Myshall will win it. They're as good as done with the hurling which itself is shocking to see but they'll rally now and win the junior football for their pride I'd say. Blues will not have enough players of the standard needed and based on what I heard v Kilbride indiscipline will do for them as it often does.
Nice win for Carlow U-15 footballers at the weekend v Louth. I saw most of it. Like a lot of our recent underage county teams (I've said this before) there's a core of 3-4 really strong players on that team. Hopefully we don't lose them to other sports which has been a problem as they get towards 18 especially with LOI soccer in the county now." I wouldn't be reading into that rathvilly performance at all. They won by 11 points without much effort don't see how you can hold that against them. I agree it was an impressive win for pal, rangers had a relatively strong team out and Pal were convincing winners. A long way to go yet however the county final isn't for another 3 months so I don't think any performances last week will be indicative of what we see in October.
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Replying To Onion Breath: "I meant to say also I thought Chris Nolan gave an exhibition of two point kicking at the weekend. He scored four two-pointers, two with his left and two with his right. There are few players playing at the very highest level of county football who could do that, Clifford and maybe no more than a dozen more I'd say. I know Chris is a hurler and will always be so I'm not starting any argument about county hurling v football etc but if the county footballers had him he would transform the team." To say he'd transform the team is gross hyperbole…
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Replying To Collio: "To say he'd transform the team is gross hyperbole…" Yes and no. There's an attitude that the hurlers have that can't be bought. The footballers lack that mentality to an extent and that would transform the team
CarlowJuniorB (Clare) - Posts: 197 - 20/07/2026 17:06:01
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Replying To Onion Breath: "I've been away for a few weeks so I've seen no hurling yet so can't comment on it.
I saw a lot of senior football over the weekend though. I have to say I thought the standard was poor. Difficult conditions I know with the heat and rock hard pitches but the lack of zip and lack of fluency in the play was disappointing. Maybe it was the conditions and it's only round one and some teams have a lot of hurlers as an excuse and I suppose it can only get better as the weeks go on.
One team that doesn't have hurling overlap problems is Rathvilly who seem to be everyone's favourites. I thought they were poor enough (v Grange who simply are not senior standard) considering they probably have the best players on paper. No obvious game plan at all, I thought they were poorly drilled and got away with that just knocking it about any oul way without any shape, rhythm or structure to their play. One team who will come on for last weekend is Bagenalstown and I for one wouldn't be shocked if they beat Rathvilly this weekend.
EO were EO and so were OL. Neither set the world on fire with OL winning in third gear but EO were hard pushed to beat Bagenalstown who as i say will improve. Pal have introduced Mark Buggy and he's a star of the future (still minor I understand) and they'd be my favourites with Bagenalstown the dark horses but hurling commitments might count against them in the end. Town probably won't win it but they could well take someone big out in a knock out round later.
The intermediate championship is wide open and very interesting. I thought Tinryland would walk it but now I'm not sure of that at all. A few missing and a bad defeat v Tullow. Kildavin very disappointing, and they've started the hurling badly too.
Junior I think Myshall will win it. They're as good as done with the hurling which itself is shocking to see but they'll rally now and win the junior football for their pride I'd say. Blues will not have enough players of the standard needed and based on what I heard v Kilbride indiscipline will do for them as it often does.
Nice win for Carlow U-15 footballers at the weekend v Louth. I saw most of it. Like a lot of our recent underage county teams (I've said this before) there's a core of 3-4 really strong players on that team. Hopefully we don't lose them to other sports which has been a problem as they get towards 18 especially with LOI soccer in the county now." I agree about Grange not being good for senior and I also dislike the new format. There's no shape to it and you can still end up with the top teams avoiding each other.
The board should seriously moving to 6-6-6 formats, in my opinion. It would mean more teams would be playing at their own level and give more chances to win silverware.
Also, everyone would play everyone each year at least once and that would be fairer.
Top 4 into semis and bottom 2 into relegation. 1 v 4 and 2 v 3. Simple.
CARPS (Carlow) - Posts: 1127 - 20/07/2026 17:53:09
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Replying To Onion Breath: "I meant to say also I thought Chris Nolan gave an exhibition of two point kicking at the weekend. He scored four two-pointers, two with his left and two with his right. There are few players playing at the very highest level of county football who could do that, Clifford and maybe no more than a dozen more I'd say. I know Chris is a hurler and will always be so I'm not starting any argument about county hurling v football etc but if the county footballers had him he would transform the team." Well, if he were around now, Paddy Quirke would probably never have played football for Carlow either. And he was probably in the top 10 ever to play for the county, in both codes.
The GAA killed off the dual player and also punished dual counties like ourselves and Leix. Even Cork have suffered from it.
Chris will always choose hurling, but it's a shame the dual route is closed to him.
CARPS (Carlow) - Posts: 1127 - 20/07/2026 20:58:47
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