Offaly Hurling 2026

[Faithfully]

Team named. Sam Bourke, Ciarán Burke and Jack Clancy in for Brecon Kavanagh, Cathal King and Dan Ravenhill.

[Géill Slí]

Sensible team selection by management. Hoping for a competitive game from our lads. Let’s bring the attitude and workrate from the last day for a start and see where that takes us. Galway looking formidable, in the top 3 I’d say with Limerick and Cork.

[Géill Slí]

Big win incoming from Kilkenny here, 13 points up on 69 mins. Wexford look very beatable. Stop Lee Chin and you’re half way there.

[oneshot]

the first 20 minutes will be vital on sunday stay will galway and we could give them a good game.

[frankthetank]

Bookies say Galway by 12.

I tend to agree unfortunately.

If we keep it to single digits it’s been a reasonable day at the office.

[frankthetank]

Anyone got an official attendance figure for yesterday?

Apparently just shy of 6,000.
For context the same fixture in Parnell Park in 2025 attracted 5,300.

That is a woeful effort to be fair.

I wouldn’t expect a large Offaly crowd to make the trek to Salthill either considering it’s such of a nightmare of a venue to get to and the fact that we will be really up against it.

HOWEVER, if we remain competitive vs Galway and Wexford turn Kilkenny over I would expect a large Offaly crowd in OCP for Offaly v Kilkenny. The smell of blood in the water would entice us all in!!

The smell of blood in the water is not quite as pronounced after Kilkenny’s win over Wexford.

No harm that it will temper expectations.

[faithfulfanatic]

Was close enough for a good while but the game was played at a pedestrian pace and an 11 point loss was about right.
Hoare’s puckouts were desperate and we got cleaned out. Too slow and ponderous. Made some good saves.
Doyle did well in the first half after a slow start. Rigney and Bourke were poor.
Killian Sampson was poor at centre back, need him back in the forwards.
Sam Bourke not up to it.
We seem obsessed when playing top teams to focus on the matchups rather than positions.
This led to Ross Ravenhill spending the first half in our full back line and Pat Taaffe spending the second half at wing back. Management need to be quicker to spot these things.

We were anonymous in the middle of the field.
If David Nally, Eimhin Kelly, Cian Burke or Colin Spain aren’t good enough to go in there then I don’t know.
Kick in the teeth to a lot of lads to see Ciaran Cleary being brought in.
Oisin should have been on a lot sooner.

[private joker]

In fairness, most teams do match ups ahead of positions. Way game as gone. The big test is vs wexford and then kildare. As it always was going to be. Dublin bet kildare handy enough. Kilkenny will best offaly by a similar scoreline as Galway. They fairly whipped wexford. Beat wexford and the last game give a 3rd place finish a possibility. Dublin vs wexford is a crucial match, expect dubs to win that.

[Superhans75]

Thought we played ok for periods but our team shape seems very strange
Players out of position and some very slow for young chaps
Scoring goals against the top teams we are going to struggle .
I don't Wexford are as bad as everyone says they tend to raise there game against especially at O'Connor park
Enjoy the sun

[SearingDrive]

In fairness, most teams do match ups ahead of positions. Way game as gone. The big test is vs wexford and then kildare. As it always was going to be. Dublin bet kildare handy enough. Kilkenny will best offaly by a similar scoreline as Galway. They fairly whipped wexford. Beat wexford and the last game give a 3rd place finish a possibility. Dublin vs wexford is a crucial match, expect dubs to win that.

It could yet come down to the Kildare game, to decide the final placing in LSHC.

[bracknaghboy]

Enjoy the sun

What sun??