Offaly Senior Football 2026

[Barnes]

Judging off a game against Tyrone in Tyrone , never change anon never change

Or we could judge them off meaths 2nd team in O Byrne cup? Or cork or louth at home? Or kildare away? Or maybe even the hiding last week? When do we decide to judge them do you think?

[Bord na Mona man]

Lets wait until Offaly win a game, then we'll judge!

[Barnes]

Yes the cheek of people looking to judge a team for loosing all year.. they will tell you to judge last year not this year, so we have to wait until next year to judge this year

[Fairplayalways]

well the glass is half full thank God anywway, some think for God knows how many year in a row, we will win the Tailteann, or even get a good run in it, and maybe we will, but not based of current form...fast forward to Feb 2027...copy and paste...

[Wingbackassassin]

"For a county like Offaly with a relatively small pool of players, some of whom like Egan himself play both club football and hurling, it’s easy to believe that the load placed on players could be a contributory factor.

The motion coming before Annual Congress on Saturday that seeks to introduce an ‘Inter-County Certification Programme’ proposes alleviating such overloads through strict adherence to any ‘return to training’ or ‘closed season’ stipulations and the mandatory sharing of gps and injury data so the Association would have a better understanding of what an optimum training load for an amateur GAA athlete should look like.

Egan sees some merit in such an approach.

“I think that could be quite important, to be honest, because monitoring GPS and stuff like that, it is so important in terms of these injuries like osteitis pubis that are coming from overuse,” he says.

“That is not happening by accident, you know, that has to be in the reports, that has to be in the data. So, it probably really is something that does need to be looked at."
Quotes from C Egan interview with indo. Interesting regarding posters on here claiming managers and coaches were deliberately holding back GPS data

[DurrowBoy17]

Yes, I noticed that quote in Egan's interview all right.
I also noticed he said this;



“The one thing I would say that could do with being a bit more set in stone would be a rest period for lads who go a long way in club championships before they return to inter-county set-ups.

“That they are not straight back in, that they do get a mandatory little bit of a break, because at the end of the day, it probably is all year round now, with the way it has gone.

“I play hurling as well so by the time you finish the club season, you are kind of thinking, geez, like, I don't want to think about the county season for a little while, I want to just have a little bit of time to myself here and then go back into it.

“If there was a bit more regulation in terms of that, yeah, it would make a bit of a difference.”



Another subtle message there. I know after Tullamore were knocked out of the Leinster, DK wanted the boys straight back in despite Tullamore players wanting a bit of a break.
I'm fairly sure every other club had to go into the county set-up with little to no break after the club. Another key ingredient why there's probably that long injury list at the moment.

[Anon11]

Couldnt wait to get them in and dog them. Niall Furlong a prime example. Full year will Offaly u20s and then Tullamore. No rest.. straight into Offaly and a grade 3 hamstring strain right away.

[Superhans75]

Just read the midland tribune report on the Derry game
It's embarrassing journalism
Why isn't anyone putting questions
About management or the all suckling off the same pateron tit ?
I can't comment on the hurling as wasn't at that
But great journalism on the pitch grass and the weather
From what I read
So it's gardeners world.
We are sleep walking into oblivion again
Hopefully Dungannon has some nice pubs

[Anon11]

Yes, I noticed that quote in Egan's interview all right.
I also noticed he said this;



“The one thing I would say that could do with being a bit more set in stone would be a rest period for lads who go a long way in club championships before they return to inter-county set-ups.

“That they are not straight back in, that they do get a mandatory little bit of a break, because at the end of the day, it probably is all year round now, with the way it has gone.

“I play hurling as well so by the time you finish the club season, you are kind of thinking, geez, like, I don't want to think about the county season for a little while, I want to just have a little bit of time to myself here and then go back into it.

“If there was a bit more regulation in terms of that, yeah, it would make a bit of a difference.”



Another subtle message there. I know after Tullamore were knocked out of the Leinster, DK wanted the boys straight back in despite Tullamore players wanting a bit of a break.
I'm fairly sure every other club had to go into the county set-up with little to no break after the club. Another key ingredient why there's probably that long injury list at the moment.

Didn't appreciate his comment about "outside noise". The outside noise is coming from supporters who are spending a small fortune traveling to games and paying into them. The same people who are buying the 50/50 draw tickets. They are entitled to be outraged by what's going on with the footballers.

Another hamstring injury picked up too against Derry, this time by a substitute. It's gone beyond a joke at this stage.

[jimbob17]

While there may be not such obvious links between one or more prominent Offaly GAA journalists/s and current Offaly football management, there is a very strong one now and this may explain why there is more emphasis on the grass and pitch, than there is on the results, performances and injuries. In any other management term in any other era, the same journalist/s would be calling a lot of things out at this stage but as I see it, they will continue to frame a positive narrative as long as the current regime is in the hot-seat. Don't expect that to change any time soon!

The injury epidemic is a joke at this stage. Your job as a manager is to manage. That is to do what you need to do to get the best players on the pitch playing for each other. You are responsible for the training, the injury prevention and ensuring best practice applies to ensure this is the case so we can be competitive. You are responsible for what happens on your watch. Full stop. That may mean changing physios or S&C personnel where applicable - or even listening to their advice and expertise where applicable. There is no point hiding behind S&C coaches and physios and coaches etc. The two managers are ultimately responsible for all of this! Not sure what the Tyrone or other set ups were like under Mickey Harte but I don't recall there being issues like what we are having currently - at least that were in public domain.

We have scenario now where all these players were fit enough to play with clubs in the main, but owing to exposure to certain elements of training programme with Offaly senior footballers, they are becoming injured and now unavailable to train or play. Normally it is the other way around, where the county team are the more professional team than the club team. It is bizarre, shocking and damning what is going on currently in my eyes. Rumours have circled that members of medical team have left the set up. Not sure how true or otherwise that is but the county board executive need to be strong and start asking serious questions at this stage. There are as many injured players in the panel now than there are fit players to the best of my knowledge.

It'll soon come to light how serious the most recent injuries are, and if they are medium to long term, we are in serious bother (not that we aren't anyway).

Where was that Cormac Egan interview?

[DurrowBoy17]

I presume this journalist you're referring to is Kevin Corrigan??

[Barnes]

I think said journalist is snotser

[jimbob17]

I am inclined to agree with you Barnes!

[Offy]

No sign of a team named yet. It’ll be on that app before the county puts it up on Instagram or facebook.

Is there any where that puts the team up on social media before the county do?

[Snotser123]

John furlong was injured playing for his club when he hadn't trained / played with Offaly an age.......hyland the same................cathal Flynn shoulder......there's your 3 best players....
Fair enough to not like a manager but stop the lying.....Johnson has a broken finger so I don't think that's down to overtraining either