Carlow GAA Discussion Thread

fadofado · 23-04-2015 12:35AM

That's the second time in a couple of years that Murphy has done this. He may be a great player but he is no use to the team with his attitude. Sure they're playing Laois on the 16th of May. College won't even be over then so the "going to the states" BS doesn't even stack up.

fadofado · 04-05-2015 11:24AM

Very poor by hurlers yesterday, but no surprise really. When you have lads out drinking only few days before game what do you expect. No respect for the jersey i'm afraid.

Bahanaman · 04-05-2015 04:53PM

fadofado wrote: »

Very poor by hurlers yesterday, but no surprise really. When you have lads out drinking only few days before game what do you expect. No respect for the jersey i'm afraid.

Where did you hear about players out drinking? Did you see for yourself? Bad form if true!

04-05-2015 06:28PM

fadofado wrote: »

Very poor by hurlers yesterday, but no surprise really. When you have lads out drinking only few days before game what do you expect. No respect for the jersey i'm afraid.

Is the current Carlow team relatively young? Surely the elder lads are getting a hold of the situation? Awful shame considering they could have just as easily been a 1B team this year. Is there perhaps a bit of disillusionment with the county board?

fadofado · 05-05-2015 11:31AM

Bahanaman wrote: »

Where did you hear about players out drinking? Did you see for yourself? Bad form if true!

saw them myself. had been told that it was going on but was doubtful, unfortunately I witnessed it myself last weekend.

fadofado · 05-05-2015 11:39AM

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Is the current Carlow team relatively young? Surely the elder lads are getting a hold of the situation? Awful shame considering they could have just as easily been a 1B team this year. Is there perhaps a bit of disillusionment with the county board?

Eddie Coady is mid 30's. Rest are 27 or under. six or seven only 22-23 mark.Eddie was prob. best performer on Sunday. What is missing in Carlow (in both codes) is real hunger, that was evident again on Sunday when the game was there for the taking. Hurling wise carlow were superior but don't have it in the guts.

In this instance I would be loathe to blame the CO.board. They have done their bit this year. I would have issues with management ok. They are still thinking like club men. Evidence of this was obvious on Sunday.

TaosHum · 05-05-2015 12:37PM

fadofado wrote: »

Eddie Coady is mid 30's. Rest are 27 or under. six or seven only 22-23 mark.Eddie was prob. best performer on Sunday. What is missing in Carlow (in both codes) is real hunger, that was evident again on Sunday when the game was there for the taking. Hurling wise carlow were superior but don't have it in the guts.

In this instance I would be loathe to blame the CO.board. They have done their bit this year. I would have issues with management ok. They are still thinking like club men. Evidence of this was obvious on Sunday.

Your dead right about the club team mentality. When Carlow have come up against good opposition this season, they look off the pace and not as sharp as the opposition. Too many lads not working hard enough either and leaving free men.

As for the lads out drinking, I'd 100% believe it as I've seen it myself a few days before the Westmeath game in the League.

TaosHum · 12-05-2015 11:09AM

Another disappointing defeat at the weekend. Can't really complain, Laois were the better side and the 10 minutes after half made the difference. Fair play to the lads for not giving in and been able to claw it back from 10 to 3 at the end. Need a big performance against Antrim to save themselves, as relegation would be a huge blow.

Laois again on Saturday, this time in the football. Broderick back is a huge plus, but no Gahan and Murhy are blows.

racso1975 · 17-05-2015 08:33AM

Well that was truly rough

TaosHum · 17-05-2015 10:08AM

Laois to their credit were superior in every aspect. Can't say any Carlowman won his own battle against his man.

Carlow football is in big trouble lads.

king size mars bar · 17-05-2015 10:14AM

I think it's time we forget about football at snr level and drop back to junior. In div 4 and looking like never getting out of it how do we expect to compete in the Leinster championship at all.

dartsfan · 19-05-2015 04:17AM

Just watched the highlights tonight, is that Carlow's best team?

They looked appalling, players a mile off the pace, not marking, almost giving up at times.

Time for a rethink of the All-Ireland structure. Perhaps the round robin in Leinster will help?

TaosHum · 19-05-2015 09:05AM

dartsfan wrote: »

Just watched the highlights tonight, is that Carlow's best team?

They looked appalling, players a mile off the pace, not marking, almost giving up at times.

Time for a rethink of the All-Ireland structure. Perhaps the round robin in Leinster will help?

Missing two of the counties best players in Paul Broderick and Brendan Murphy, along with other decent players, but even if they were on the field it wouldn't have made much of a difference to the final scoreline. As you said, Carlow were just way off the pace in every facet of the game.

A round-robin in Leinster would perhaps be the best solution without drastically altering the entire system, but the structure of it would need abit of figuring out, as in who goes into it each season along with Carlow and Wicklow and do they still go into the qualifiers?

Ultimately, the likes of Wicklow, Carlow, London, New York, Waterford, Leitrim and possibly one or two more should have their own Championship in my book.

Stevecw · 22-05-2015 08:24PM

Football was a disaster last week. Expected a loss by about 8 pts after a decent effort, but it ended up so much worse. We lost out everywhere by a long way. If we can't compete with a lower half Div 2 side like Laois where do we go!

Hurlers v Antrim on Sunday is basically the biggest game Carlow hurlers have played in years. Lose or draw we are gone from the all ireland back down to Christy Ring. Win, we at worst stay up & at best might even get into a leinster quarter final v Wexford.

allthedoyles · 25-05-2015 12:19AM

Great win for Carlow today , especially the way it planned out with a man down early .

That was a fair smash between Coady and the Antrim player who came out it with only a cracked rib .

Would I be right in thinking there were at least 12 MLR / St.M players in the starting 15 for Carlow ?

TaosHum · 25-05-2015 08:32AM

Yeah fair play to the lads, in the grand scheme of things, it's a vital win to keep themselves in the SHC.

Was a tough year for them, alot of narrow defeats that could have made the season look alot different, but at least they salvaged something from it.

Antrim hurling in big trouble it would seem. Two relegations in the one year.

Only the 9 from MLR/St Mullin's in the starting 15.

Stevecw · 26-05-2015 06:25PM

Great win on Sunday, delivered when it mattered most. Such a pity we couldn't have played like that in the league and the other 2 group games.
At least we are still in Leinster for next year, that at least will encourage players to commit to the panel.
Hopefully by the start of next years league whatever the issues were that made so many leave the panel will have been sorted and we can for once have all the best players available to us.

Hopefully now the U-21s can follow Sunday up with a win in Portlaoise tomorrow evening.

Stevecw · 27-05-2015 09:09PM

Great stuff from the u-21s this evening. The introduction of Kevin McDonald was crucial, he stuck over every free. We were missing easy frees along with dodgy goalkeeping & full back line play it was killing us in the 1st half.
Even though we had looked the better side, i felt those goals would cost us the win.
2nd half was seriously impressive. What a win and adding that to Sundays hammering of Antrim by seniors suddenly Carlow hurling looks promising again.

TaosHum · 27-05-2015 11:26PM

Great stuff from the u21's tonight against a good Laois side. Do they play Dublin or KK at home next round or in a neutral venue?

allthedoyles · 28-05-2015 12:12AM

And well done Johnny Nevin too

Stevecw · 28-05-2015 01:07PM

TaosHum wrote: »

Great stuff from the u21's tonight against a good Laois side. Do they play Dublin or KK at home next round or in a neutral venue?

Looks like it is a home game for us.

http://www.carlowgaa.ie/big-win-for-carlow-in-portlaoise/

http://www.leinstergaa.ie/news/bord-gais-energy-leinster-u21-quarter-final-wins-for-offaly-wexford-and-carlow.7264.html

phkk · 28-05-2015 10:23PM

Great win for Carlow 21s. I see where Peter Shaw was wing forward. Can someone tell me was he on the senior panel this year? Perhaps he was injured? I saw him play underage years ago and was as good a hurler as I ever saw in Kilkenny underage

TaosHum · 28-05-2015 11:38PM

phkk wrote: »

Great win for Carlow 21s. I see where Peter Shaw was wing forward. Can someone tell me was he on the senior panel this year? Perhaps he was injured? I saw him play underage years ago and was as good a hurler as I ever saw in Kilkenny underage

Was called up for the Antrim into the senior panel. That was it I think.

TaosHum · 25-06-2015 12:47PM

Fantastic effort from the u21 hurlers last night. Thought Kilkenny would run away with it in the second half, but Carlow really stepped up and certainly gave the Cats a fright!

I think we might finally be seeing the benefits of Borris N.S. playing at the highest level in school's hurling, as 8 of the side was from MLR.

Todd Toddington III · 28-06-2015 03:47PM

Boris V S surely!!!

More than MLR would benefit from the high level that Borris plays at in school's competitions. Likes of Ballinkillen, St Mullins and Mysheal would all have players attending the school so a nice spread throughout the county benefit from this

TaosHum · 23-10-2015 01:55PM

Are Palatine playing against the Laois champions this weekend, even though the Laois county final is on Saturday evening?

Surely that can't be right?

brookville · 23-10-2015 04:14PM

That's correct the laois final is saturday evin and the winners play pal sunday, same scenario in kilkenny this weekend with the intermediate champions out the following day in leinster, so much for player welfare and burnout

TaosHum · 24-10-2015 11:38AM

It's shocking as players can't even celebrate winning a county final and expected to play 2 games in 18 hours.

18-03-2018 06:30PM

Wow this thread has been very quiet considering. :eek:

A congratulations today on your magnificent achievement on promotion to D3.

brookville · 18-03-2018 07:11PM

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Wow this thread has been very quiet considering. :eek:

A congratulations today on your magnificent achievement on promotion to D3.

Fair play to them continuing their good form for last year.

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