Replying To Eire89: "The Gort game is huge for them and they will fancy chances if they can get the players mentioned above back but tyey would not fear a castlegar or in a relegation battle if they lose to Gort. The gap is massive between the top side Thoams`s Loughrea Clareinbridge & Turlough but as a poster said its time for Turlough & The Bridge to get over the line they "have been up & coming" and tipped many a time over the last decade. I do think Clareinbridge look priomed to deliver but again would question their battling qualities in a tight semi or final against a Loughrea or Thomas`s."
Not sure who in the name of god would be backing Oranmore at that price. The top four are miles clear and I'd be pretty sure Oranmore aren't even the next best team. Also wouldn't have St Thomas' ahead of Bridge or Turlough. Wouldn't fancy Thomas' against either of those teams without Fintan Burke and Cian Mahoney.
Not sure who in the name of god would be backing Oranmore at that price. The top four are miles clear and I'd be pretty sure Oranmore aren't even the next best team. Also wouldn't have St Thomas' ahead of Bridge or Turlough. Wouldn't fancy Thomas' against either of those teams without Fintan Burke and Cian Mahoney."
The bit that you're not weighing in perhaps is the difference between teams that get it done, and teams that don't get it done.
Replying To Pope_Benedict: "The bit that you're not weighing in perhaps is the difference between teams that get it done, and teams that don't get it done."
Well said. Until Bridge and Tourlough do it on a regular basis they will be an afterthought compared to St Thomas's.
Replying To Pope_Benedict: "The bit that you're not weighing in perhaps is the difference between teams that get it done, and teams that don't get it done."
Thomas' won't get it done this year without Fintan, for all their undoubted experience and never say die attitude. I don't really get this whole thing of Clarinbridge bottling it or "not getting it done". In Clarinbridge's case, the main reason I see for them winning it this year is having Aaron Niland, Sean Murphy and Darragh Counihan in their starting team and the emergence of Josh Ryan coming off a year with the county panel. Niland didn't really play at all last year and it's pretty much a completely new setup for them this year in terms of how the team lines out. These young lads have only been hurling senior for one year so they can't really be tarred with saying they just don't get it done.
You could have said Loughrea were doing nothing at Senior for the last 15 years but now after winning one title beating Capptaggle (doesn't read that well now with this year's Cappy form), and now all of a sudden people are saying Loughrea are in the St Thomas' bracket for being trusted in a knockout game? They were in danger in that second half of the quarter final last year of losing to Castlegar for god's sake!
Not sure who in the name of god would be backing Oranmore at that price. The top four are miles clear and I'd be pretty sure Oranmore aren't even the next best team. Also wouldn't have St Thomas' ahead of Bridge or Turlough. Wouldn't fancy Thomas' against either of those teams without Fintan Burke and Cian Mahoney."
Replying To galway19: "Thomas' won't get it done this year without Fintan, for all their undoubted experience and never say die attitude. I don't really get this whole thing of Clarinbridge bottling it or "not getting it done". In Clarinbridge's case, the main reason I see for them winning it this year is having Aaron Niland, Sean Murphy and Darragh Counihan in their starting team and the emergence of Josh Ryan coming off a year with the county panel. Niland didn't really play at all last year and it's pretty much a completely new setup for them this year in terms of how the team lines out. These young lads have only been hurling senior for one year so they can't really be tarred with saying they just don't get it done.
You could have said Loughrea were doing nothing at Senior for the last 15 years but now after winning one title beating Capptaggle (doesn't read that well now with this year's Cappy form), and now all of a sudden people are saying Loughrea are in the St Thomas' bracket for being trusted in a knockout game? They were in danger in that second half of the quarter final last year of losing to Castlegar for god's sake!"
If you've conviction about value in the odds, hit the bookies and fill your boots. A smarter move than whinging about the odds, i would have thought.
Replying To Pope_Benedict: "If you've conviction about value in the odds, hit the bookies and fill your boots. A smarter move than whinging about the odds, i would have thought."
Toms are outstanding value at 11/4 I reckon and I'm getting stuck into that
Replying To galway19: "Thomas' won't get it done this year without Fintan, for all their undoubted experience and never say die attitude. I don't really get this whole thing of Clarinbridge bottling it or "not getting it done". In Clarinbridge's case, the main reason I see for them winning it this year is having Aaron Niland, Sean Murphy and Darragh Counihan in their starting team and the emergence of Josh Ryan coming off a year with the county panel. Niland didn't really play at all last year and it's pretty much a completely new setup for them this year in terms of how the team lines out. These young lads have only been hurling senior for one year so they can't really be tarred with saying they just don't get it done.
You could have said Loughrea were doing nothing at Senior for the last 15 years but now after winning one title beating Capptaggle (doesn't read that well now with this year's Cappy form), and now all of a sudden people are saying Loughrea are in the St Thomas' bracket for being trusted in a knockout game? They were in danger in that second half of the quarter final last year of losing to Castlegar for god's sake!"
Loughrea would have atleast 6 county titles won only for portumna. Loughrea are the most consistent club in Galway over the last 30 years, making atleast a quarter final for the last 26 years in a row.