Longford Football (& Hurling) Thread

[North Longford]

Laurel come back over here before some of them friendly neighbours do away with ya!!!
And shamrock, laurel doesn't have to go the whole way to Colmcille to sample an atmosphere...always blamed the height of the trees for keeping the sound in!!

[Shamrock Shore]

At times like these it's great to have civilised neighbours in Cavan, Leitrim and Roscommon 

[Farrandeelin]

Fair play to ye. Apparently ye beat us again (this time at minor level) in Connacht Minor League. Mayo 3-11 Longford 2-15 it finished. Ye have the indian sign over us now it's sure to say.

[Denn Forever]

See ye next year.

Should olde acquaintance be forgot.......

The battles of the BMW commences.

[LaurelEye]

Senior Championship begins weekend after next:

Friday 10/6:

Group 1: Longford Slashers v Cashel, 8pm, Cloonbonny.
Group 3: Granard v Seán Connollys, 8pm, Ballyboy.

Saturday 11/6:

Group 2: Colmcille v Ballymahon, 6.30pm, Edgeworthstown.
Group 4: Abbeylara v Mullinalaghta, 8pm, Higginstown.
Group 4: Clonguish v Ardagh, 8pm, Edgeworthstown.

Sunday 12/6:

Group 3: Mostrim v Killoe, 4.30pm, Ballinalee.
Group 2: Dromard v Rathcline, 6pm, Slashers.
Group 1: Fr Manning Gaels v Carrickedmond, 7.30pm, Slashers.

For reference, league tables half-way through look like this:

Division 1A:
                                P      W     D      L       F      A     Diff    Pts
Longford Slashers    7    6    1    0    101    58    43    13
Dromard                    7    6    0    1    116    69    47    12
Killoe                    7    4    1    2    95    88    7    9
Fr Manning Gaels    7    4    0    3    75    64    11    8
Mullinalaghta        7    3    0    4    87    98    -11    6
Ardagh                 7    2    1    4    71    99    -28    5
Cashel                  7    1    1    5    69    101    -32    3
Seán Connollys            7    0    0    7    42    79    -37    0

Division 1B:
                                P      W     D      L       F      A     Diff    Pts
Abbeylara                    7    5    1    1    107    97    10    11
Clonguish                    7    4    2    1    101    87    14    10
Mostrim                7    4    0    3    96    74    22    8
Carrickedmond            7    3    1    3    80    80    0    7
Colmcille                7    2    2    3    90    83    7    6
Rathcline              7    2    2    3    76    96    -20    6
Granard                7    2    0    5    70    95    -25    4
Ballymahon           7    2    0    5    71    79    -8    4

[LaurelEye]

Official launch of the Senior Championship:



Tension mounts as the weekend draws near:

[Shamrock Shore]

LOL Laureleye

Second pic probably sums it all up.

[panc56]

OMG...........life should be for the living.

[Longfordian]

Making the journey back from London to see us start our championship campaign ....
Will be a tough opening game v Killoe , have heard Killoe have been hit with allot of emigration , dont know how accurate that it , but they will be keen to get revenge over us after beating them in quarter final last year ...will bring my boots just in case Gerry needs me !!!

[LaurelEye]

OMG...........life should be for the living.

Confident about Saturday night?

[LaurelEye]

First results:

Longford Slashers 1-19 Cashel 0-4 
Seán Connollys 0-11 Granard 0-8

Saturday evening:

Ballymahon 2-7 Colmcille 0-6
Abbeylara 1-11 Mullinalaghta 1-8
Clonguish 2-15 Ardagh 0-5

[Shamrock Shore]

A pattern emerges 

[LaurelEye]

A pattern emerges 

At this stage, we can pretty certainly pencil in six of the quarter-finalists (Abbey, Clonguish, Dromard, Killoe, Mostrim and Slashers) with the winners of the Gaels-Carrickedmond game tomorrow making up a seventh. Granard and Cashel look likely to drop down to Intermediate.

As far as our match went, I didn't have high expectations beforehand; the demands of the County management team have been a disruption for us all year and on the occasions when we have had a full team available to us, form has been poor. Having said that, we threw away the game tonight - when we dominated the game in the third quarter, we failed to make our advantage tell, and there were a couple of bad misses from frees and 45s in the closing five minutes. We'll not beat Clonguish and all I hope for at this stage is that we'll manage to hold it together against Ardagh; the precedent of 2009 is not good.

[Billys Boots]

Boots Junior was called upon to find his rusty 'boots' for last night, to no discernible avail.   

[Longfordian]

Words cant describe how bad we were today .... Laurel , wouldnt be too sure of our quarter final place , given our performane today ....