Offaly Hurling 2026

[Fairplayalways]

be it with injuries or indecesions, a massive obstacle Offaly do have is almost every line of the team is not fully settled, fair enough other counties chopping and changing too I suppose, but we have a different line each week on all our team lines.. It might happen for us then on Championship day, and it may not..

[G91]

I thought offaly might consider a change of management this year felt the tried and tested of jk rwnnuts course after Leinster last year made some odd calls that just didn't make any sense..

Now In also if the opinion trust the process but what the process is remains to be seen

And it's not the fact we are playing the best there is every week it's the simple position changing and no pattern of what sorta tune he is trying to get out of the team

That first half v cork there now would have you believe it's the first game of the year on a heavy pitch , touches poor , decision making poor , passing poor

Every tackle is borderline a foul

We don't look like a team that's about to play the first round of championship in a couple weeks

Regardless of how good the opposition is if you can't rise a ball of that pitch on your own shouldn't be happening

Or putting in a ball the comes back down with snow on it to adam screeny

There was stages where they use the ball better but the second half would want to be alot better than what's happening

[Faithful Future]

Very apparent that the management team have taken this group as far as they are going to.

The only pattern of play that we seem to have built on is a short puckout where we play one pass to a loose man and he then switches to the other wing where Hoare makes a run out. Hoare then plays a long ball to the full forward line, which the opposition wins and then they work the ball out easily as our players are too physically light to turn over the ball.

Has to be serious questions asked of our S&C. Of course it will take a couple of years for our players to fully fill out physically for this level, but a lot of our lads are the same age or older than Darragh McCarthy, Sam O Farrell, Aaron Niland, Jason Rabbitte, Cillian Trayers, William Buckley and more who all seemed to have pushed on over the winter.

We're really lacking on options on the inside forward line. Hopefully we can get Rigney and Mitchell back to bolster our options.

Positives for today although limited, were Ter Guinan who worked hard and Dan Ravenhill who hit some fine scores. Adam tried hard but I think he should be restricted to frees inside the 65 - too often he misses the frees further out particularly when the ball is wet and isn't travelling as well. Dan Ravenhill has the accuracy and distance and should be used more often.

I'm still adamant that our best midfield is two out of Cathal King, Luke Watkins and Ter Guinan. Surprised Watkins wasn't given a run today, meanwhile King was moved to corner back where his influence was reduced. Colin Spain will have to add some power but is a good option off the bench for now.

I make our injury list: Ben miller, Ciaran Burke, Shane Rigney, Charlie Mitchell, James Mahon, Ruairi Kelly, Daniel Hand - do we know if any are close to returning?

[private joker]

In regards to s/c. The groups as a whole are not embracing what needs to be done. I would say nearly every single hurling club in offaly is of the same mentality. There needs to be a compete change in culture across the board. Not just when you come in at County level. There are players who "go" to the gym and there are players who actually "embrace the gym"