Club Football Championship 2022

[pigeon house biffo]

Looks like we have divisional teams coming!

I think this could be the way forward, if its done right.

Would be great to see buy in from everyone on this.

https://www.offalyexpress.ie/news/gaa/9 ... ships.html

[pigeon house biffo]

With all due respect to mullinavat, is it not a bit embarrassing for an offaly football club to lose to a Kilkenny club? Particularly an offaly club with at least one county man and maybe 2/3 others who would be county hopefuls?

[JiminyCricket]

Bracknagh in fairness bar the top 4 senior teams in Offaly are probably on a par with the rest . Because it was a Kilkenny team it probably doesn’t look great but would I be right in saying they were bet in a Leinster intermediate final 2 or 3 year ago .

[SearingDrive]

Bracknagh in fairness bar the top 4 senior teams in Offaly are probably on a par with the rest . Because it was a Kilkenny team it probably doesn’t look great but would I be right in saying they were bet in a Leinster intermediate final 2 or 3 year ago .

Mullinavat contested the 2019 Leinster IFC Final. They were 5 points behind at one stage today, but recovered to win by 2 points. Bracknagh were tipped to have a good run in Leinster, in the Offaly Independent.

[kingscounty]

Surely Bracknagh should be winning this, wasn’t at the game, were there lads missing or injured? Kilkenny junior hurling teams have easily beaten our intermediate champs over the years which is probably expect with the level of interest in hurling, there’s no way they should be beaten an Offaly club team in football, not saying Offaly football is on a high just that there surely is 90% more club football in Offaly than Kilkenny.

[SearingDrive]

Surely Bracknagh should be winning this, wasn’t at the game, were there lads missing or injured? Kilkenny junior hurling teams have easily beaten our intermediate champs over the years which is probably expect with the level of interest in hurling, there’s no way they should be beaten an Offaly club team in football, not saying Offaly football is on a high just that there surely is 90% more club football in Offaly than Kilkenny.

The match report in this week’s local paper will be interesting.

[pigeon house biffo]

Seen the report in the express. Looked like a full strength bracknagh team, including the cunninghams and stefan geoghan. Those players alone should have been more than enough to get them over the line. Its a really very sad state of affairs.

Trying to think of a comparable loss. Would it be like the offaly senior b champions losing to the louth senior champions? Hard to know, you’d think there would be a serious level of introspection afterwards.

[Plain of the Herbs]

Mullinavat beat Ballyboughal and Rosenallis on the way to reaching 2019's Leinster Intermediate club final.

Bracknagh in fairness bar the top 4 senior teams in Offaly are probably on a par with the rest . Because it was a Kilkenny team it probably doesn’t look great but would I be right in saying they were bet in a Leinster intermediate final 2 or 3 year ago .

[llkj]

Seen the report in the express. Looked like a full strength bracknagh team, including the cunninghams and stefan geoghan. Those players alone should have been more than enough to get them over the line. Its a really very sad state of affairs.

Trying to think of a comparable loss. Would it be like the offaly senior b champions losing to the louth senior champions? Hard to know, you’d think there would be a serious level of introspection afterwards.

I assume you are trying to compare it to a hurling example within Leinster? If so, I would say it is the equivalent of the Offaly Senior B champions losing to the Senior champions in Meath or Wicklow, where their first team competes in the intermediate grade in Leinster club. The Louth champions in hurling compete in Junior (along with Longford champions) so I don't think that is an accurate comparison.

[private joker]

A match between meath hurling champions and senior b county champions would be a 50/50 game.

[jimbob17]

Surely Bracknagh should be winning this, wasn’t at the game, were there lads missing or injured? Kilkenny junior hurling teams have easily beaten our intermediate champs over the years which is probably expect with the level of interest in hurling, there’s no way they should be beaten an Offaly club team in football, not saying Offaly football is on a high just that there surely is 90% more club football in Offaly than Kilkenny.

In my opinion, this Mullinavat issue is a non argument. Kilkenny won junior inter county All Ireland this year with about 10 starters from Mullinavat. They would draw from a few hurling clubs around them too and have a tradition of winning football championships in Kilkenny. They beat Rosenalis to reach a Leinster Inter final 3 years ago and Rosenalis are very competitive in Laois senior football championship. Maybe Bracknagh took them for granted but they had absolutely no reason to.

Many club teams have come from what are or were considered weaker counties to do well at club level. I am thinking of likes of Eire Og Carlow, St Galls Antrim, Clonmel Commercials Tipperary, Mullinaghta in Longford, Kilcoo in Down, among numerous others. In hurling, you had Slaughtneil in Derry, Mount Leinster Rangers, Loughiel, and we could also throw in Offaly hurling champions of last number of years (Kilcormac, Coolderry and Rynaghs) when we were not competitive at McCarthy Cup level.

For the best team in Kilkenny to be competitive with the 9th best team in Offaly is not beyond reason and suggesting so is a bit disrespectful to the Kilkenny champions. They make very little effort at inter-county level but it does not mean there is not good footballers in Kilkenny.

[private joker]

Mullinavat bet the westmeath champions

[SearingDrive]

Ballycommon lost to Multyfarnham, of Westmeath today, by 2-6 to 1-6.

[jimbob17]

Mullinavat bet the westmeath champions

Shandonagh have been at business end of WH senior championships so just shows that Mullinavat are a decent outfit. Mullinavat have now beaten Offaly and Westmeath champions in Bracknagh and Shandonagh and with their experience from making final a few years ago, they should have every chance of making or even winning the final.

[private joker]

Rhode lose by two. Is that every team bet now in the first round?