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you would wonder who they would bring in and/our step up next. cant see blaney coming back anytime soon tbh wondering it paul barr would take the new head coach role tbh. Also can't see seans brother staying around much longer either unless there way something in it for him. Either way there be alot of transition in that team next year should still be competitive but not the same danergous side they once were for since post covid onwards really. Lot of players gone and the coaching team behind that all more or less gone now.

2 up from 1B again with City of Armaghs loss. That playoff used to be a closed shop but last 2 seasons has seen the 1A club lose in the semi final.

Bridge between 1A and 1B definitely getting smaller.

UCC with a really impressive second half of the season push to make this playoff final but I think Nenagh will be too strong.

It would be great to see them promoted with a really impressive story in recent years.

@Lost Ormond you'd definitely be in the know, I'm hearing Connacht are very keen on Nenagh Ormond at the moment despite being a Munster club because they've a (relative) geographical convenience for some of their younger fellas to join. Especially since Buccs are on a massive slide now

Those are the whisperings I heard yeah. Something also about north tipp and provincial loyalties too (not touching that 😂)

There was a short lived rivalry with Belvo this season and I'm not going to lie I thought only one was going up this season and was disappointed we wouldn't have been playing you again for at least a year

I'm rooting for you lot this weekend anyway. I think it's a brilliant story to have in 1A.

You'd need to bolster the squad a bit to survive the jump I reckon tho (same for us)

With Cashel potentially going to 1B it's a big weekend for Tipp rugby.

so are the Wanderers coaches who got them promoted sacked? Seems a strange one? He’s so high calibre that it must be to coach the team going up? No shortage of money on Merrion Road!!!

That's Dermot Desmond money 👀

got my ticket for the 1a final yesterday

I spoke to someone in the know in Terenure & they said that coaching the SCT & AIL team had become to much for Skehan, I think he has a couple of young kids. He supposedly played for Wanderers when he was younger and is very much just in the background. I’m sure Wanderers are paying him very well all the same, very surprised Terenure let him go. I had heard he was going to Bath, he is the new Leinster Schools coach by all accounts

Sean Skehan's destined to go into the pro game if he wants to. A top class coach.

Apparently, with him not being in the Munster squad, Andrew Smith is playing for Clontarf this weekend.