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Replying To Carlovian83:  "Split again"
Thanks. Hurling or Football first?

TrueBlue95 (Dublin) - Posts: 11 - 21/01/2025 10:35:35    2586749

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Replying To TrueBlue95:  "Thanks. Hurling or Football first?"
Hurling

Dualclub1 (Carlow) - Posts: 282 - 21/01/2025 11:30:58    2586758

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Any word from hurling camp?..... Look to have strong team but have nt heard about challenge games etc

Bimb (Carlow) - Posts: 475 - 24/01/2025 10:01:49    2587271

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I think they played a couple of challenges against DCU and Meath. Not sure how they're going tbh. Squad seems strong and there's a couple of new young players too. I'm personally happy to see alex delaney in, I think he's a very good prospect.

Unusedsub (Carlow) - Posts: 97 - 24/01/2025 11:21:54    2587285

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2 up 2 down in league i think........ Gonna be very competitive

Bimb (Carlow) - Posts: 475 - 24/01/2025 11:45:42    2587291

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Congrats to Turlough and Simon on their recent appointment as manager and coach of Portlaoise senior footballer club.

supersub15 (Carlow) - Posts: 3089 - 24/01/2025 21:04:45    2587400

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Solid start to the league away v offaly. This team deserves a lot of credit as they continue to churn out performances. I'm confident they'll provide some good days ahead over the coming months.

Unusedsub (Carlow) - Posts: 97 - 25/01/2025 16:28:13    2587470

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Replying To Unusedsub:  "Solid start to the league away v offaly. This team deserves a lot of credit as they continue to churn out performances. I'm confident they'll provide some good days ahead over the coming months."
Indeed. Great to see it. Shame footballers couldn't emulate them. What happened to them, they seemed to be cruising and then collapsed.From 28 minute to the finish they scored 1-3 to tipps1-11. Stark stuff.

Overthebar53 (Carlow) - Posts: 298 - 25/01/2025 20:07:23    2587501

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I was at both games. Great gritty performance by the hurlers who just about deserved the draw. Missing a few key players at the start especially Chris Nolan who's suspended. They'd have certainly won today with him but Offaly were missing a few of their top performers so they'd say the same. With Waterford not having a competitive game today it will be very interesting to see if the hurlers can upset them next Saturday in DCP.

Footballers messed up big time. 8 point lead and in end could easily have lost. Missed Leno was crucial I suppose. A goal then and we'd have been 7 up and home and hosed I'd say. Poor calls from the sideline by Cake late on I'm afraid to say. Two scorable frees and he personally intervened to instruct first Darragh O'Brien to take the first and then Paddy McDonnell to take the second. Anyone who knows these players and no criticism of them knew they were never going to score those frees. Neither has enough of a whack of the ball in them. Kevin Murphy has been whacking frees over regularly and did precisely that for a two-pointer in the first half. Both frees weren't his side I know but he has the technique to adjust and would surely have scored one of them. Whatever went on in the Carlow dressing room at half time I dunno but they came out asleep for the second half after a dominant first half when by far the better team.

Onion Breath (Carlow) - Posts: 1439 - 25/01/2025 21:16:31    2587511

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Replying To Onion Breath:  "I was at both games. Great gritty performance by the hurlers who just about deserved the draw. Missing a few key players at the start especially Chris Nolan who's suspended. They'd have certainly won today with him but Offaly were missing a few of their top performers so they'd say the same. With Waterford not having a competitive game today it will be very interesting to see if the hurlers can upset them next Saturday in DCP.

Footballers messed up big time. 8 point lead and in end could easily have lost. Missed Leno was crucial I suppose. A goal then and we'd have been 7 up and home and hosed I'd say. Poor calls from the sideline by Cake late on I'm afraid to say. Two scorable frees and he personally intervened to instruct first Darragh O'Brien to take the first and then Paddy McDonnell to take the second. Anyone who knows these players and no criticism of them knew they were never going to score those frees. Neither has enough of a whack of the ball in them. Kevin Murphy has been whacking frees over regularly and did precisely that for a two-pointer in the first half. Both frees weren't his side I know but he has the technique to adjust and would surely have scored one of them. Whatever went on in the Carlow dressing room at half time I dunno but they came out asleep for the second half after a dominant first half when by far the better team."
Desperate second half, Dunphy was running the show first half but went out of it and we struggled to get the ball up to the 3. Squad is just a bit weak not a whole pile on the bench to bring on.They have the potential to play well though so hopefully Waterford will be a win.

Carlovian83 (Carlow) - Posts: 10 - 26/01/2025 17:22:09    2587724

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Replying To Carlovian83:  "Desperate second half, Dunphy was running the show first half but went out of it and we struggled to get the ball up to the 3. Squad is just a bit weak not a whole pile on the bench to bring on.They have the potential to play well though so hopefully Waterford will be a win."
Sean Murphy and Jamie Clarke would be big additions.Neither of them togged yesterday. Injured or what?

Overthebar53 (Carlow) - Posts: 298 - 26/01/2025 19:47:51    2587767

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Well done to your hurlers, keep sticking it up them.

sponger (Wicklow) - Posts: 2915 - 26/01/2025 20:08:14    2587770

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Congrats to your hurlers from here also. I, like many in Wicklow have great respect for what you are doing in hurling down there. Keep her lit.

Freethinker (Wicklow) - Posts: 1348 - 26/01/2025 21:02:29    2587777

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Replying To Overthebar53:  "Sean Murphy and Jamie Clarke would be big additions.Neither of them togged yesterday. Injured or what?"
From what I hear. They have 39 lads in and will rotate squad . So you could see different team next week

Barrowsider (Carlow) - Posts: 1676 - 26/01/2025 22:11:08    2587791

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Replying To Barrowsider:  "From what I hear. They have 39 lads in and will rotate squad . So you could see different team next week"
Cheers for that barrowsider.39 seems an awful lot to try and keep happy.

Overthebar53 (Carlow) - Posts: 298 - 27/01/2025 00:44:54    2587811

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Replying To Overthebar53:  "Cheers for that barrowsider.39 seems an awful lot to try and keep happy."
It's an awful lot of lads. In fairness though it's a new management and you want to see as many as is possible.

Barrowsider (Carlow) - Posts: 1676 - 27/01/2025 09:49:01    2587833

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Replying To Barrowsider:  "From what I hear. They have 39 lads in and will rotate squad . So you could see different team next week"
Cake clearly aiming to win Leinster and just using the league to experiment. Sure, why not?

CARPS (Carlow) - Posts: 743 - 27/01/2025 11:31:40    2587853

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