Offaly minor football panel 2025

[Bord na Mona man]

Is it too early to assess the affect the new rules are having at underage?
There was disgruntlement last year, for certain underage games, when Offaly were deploying mass defences, leading to extremely low scoring contests.

[ah lethimoutwithit]

Is it too early to assess the affect the new rules are having at underage?
There was disgruntlement last year, for certain underage games, when Offaly were deploying mass defences, leading to extremely low scoring contests.

I've seen one match on Sat at county level. So for me thats too early. At county level though, and particularly with U20 up north, indications are that the strong teams are winning by more than normal (Tyrone and Armagh dished out serious hammerings).
On Sat all I could say was that if Offaly didnt win the first ball, Dublin cut through them with not a hand on them. No exageration to say they could have had 7 in forst half. But we could have had 4.
Dubs eased off in second half and group games plus impact that subs had contributed to that.

no score in last 10 mins was strange and overall hard to say what impact rules will have.

For Offaly if they can regroup, which they should as they put in a hard shift in the second half, they will have a good chance to progress with games away to Louth and Laois (not sure where) to come. Louth beat Laois by 8 and will be a handful in Louth no question.

[Anonymous1]

This is the third year in a row the minors have had the same management and unsurprisingly this is the third year in a row where they’ve been well stuffed.

The definition of insanity…

[del]

I said this months ago the best players were not picked for this panel clearly the manager is out of his depth as the results have proven as such the last few yrs . No blame lys with the players they gave it their all .bleak times for underage football

[SizeFive2024]

Massive hole in midfield and 4 Clara lads starting is insane

[del]

Tullamore have won the last 3 u 15 football championships and feiles yet only had one starter tonight . Kk have been the dominant force in the same period in hurling and backbone our hurling teams and rightly so . Yeh the dominant force in football in those yrs only has one with young rouse been introduced who is only back from an injury been another. I know the talent that’s out there and this mgt team got it badly wrong.
But suppose they have a chance to still qualify if the best laois

[Payperview1]

As usual it's all the manager's fault when results don't go our way. Don't think there was a queue of top class replacements waiting to take over this team if the manager didn't put his name forward again.

[SizeFive2024]

As usual it's all the manager's fault when results don't go our way. Don't think there was a queue of top class replacements waiting to take over this team if the manager didn't put his name forward again.

Fair point, anything can happen with 16/17 year old bit the hole in midfield was worrying. I do believe that they have selected the best footballers in the county and any greviences are petty.

[classof81]

Its a strong panel, I would think there will be 3 or 4 changes from the last day, completely opened up in the back when we were ran at and supply into full forwards was poor.Roger has put in alot of work over the last few year, it would be nice to see them get a run going, He needs to gamble though and shuffle it up abit, laois are definitely there for the taken.

[Doon Exile]

Brilliant gutsy and well deserved win for rhr minors this evening. Against a strong physical Laois side, they fought for every ball from the first to final minute.

Well done to Roger and team.

[oneshot]

well done lads great win .

[Fear Uibh]

Minor footballers drawn against Wicklow in pre 1/4 final i see Thursday 24th