Longford Football (& Hurling) Thread

[Shamrock Shore]

Lads of a Longford persuasion

There is an online survey vias twitter and the website where Peter & co are looking for some feedback. Mainly to do with the Underage scene. There is some class of voucher for a lucky club if 15 of its members complete.

Bombs away.

http://longford.gaa.ie/club-news-1/longfordgaasurvey-1

[North Longford]

Anyone have any idea why when I try and go into the Longford GAA page I am now told I need permission to open the page. Never had a problem before yesterday

[Shamrock Shore]

Works fine for me NL.

Check that the auld porn filter isn't enabled!

[LaurelEye]

I can't open it in Firefox but Chrome works OK.

[The Insider]

Back working as normal , some technical glitch in cyber space . Probably out a bit longer than it should because the PRO was able to get into and figured there was nothing wrong with it . When no one else could log on at the meeting on Thursday night the penny dropped

[LaurelEye]

Well, I suppose it's that time of year again...

Senior Championship first round:

Longford Slashers 4-9 Fr Manning Gaels 0-9
Colmcille 2-14 Granard 1-8
Mullinalaghta 2-8 Abbeylara 0-9
Dromard 0-13 Clonguish 0-10
Killoe 2-16 Mostrim 0-7
Ardagh v Ballymahon to be played tomorrow night because of a thunderstorm on Friday.
Ballymahon 3-16 Ardagh 1-8

Next weekend:

Colmcille v Mostrim, Fri 8pm (Abbeylara)
Ballymahon v Mullinalaghta Sat 6.30pm (Monaduff)
Dromard v Abbeylara Sat 8pm (Monaduff)
Ardagh v Fr Manning Gaels Sun 2pm (Edgeworthstown)
Killoe v Granard Sun 3.30pm (Edgeworthstown)
Longford Slashers v Clonguish Sat 7pm (Ballinalee)

Dromard, Slashers, Killoe and Clonguish probably ahead of the pack in that order, although Clonguish are now in an awkward spot.

Paddy Power odds:

Killoe 6/4
Longford Slashers, Dromard 7/2
Colmcille, Mullinalaghta 13/2
Clonguish 12/1
Abbeylara 14/1
Fr Manning Gaels 20/1
Mostrim 25/1
Ballymahon, Granard 50/1

Odds on Clonguish are very generous even if they have an awkward draw.

[LaurelEye]

Senior Championship second round:

Colmcille 1-13 Mostrim 0-9
Mullinalaghta 3-12 Ballymahon 1-6
Abbeylara 2-11 Dromard 0-9
Fr Manning Gaels 2-16 Ardagh 0-5
Killoe 5-13 Granard 1-12
Clonguish 1-12 Longford Slashers 0-11

Colmcille, Mullinalaghta and Killoe go through to quarter-finals. Abbey shock Dromard and Clonguish get back in contention.

Next round:

Colmcille v Clonguish
Abbeylara v Longford Slashers
Fr Manning Gaels v Mostrim
Granard v Ardagh
Killoe v Ballymahon
Dromard v Mullinalaghta

Paddy Power odds:

Killoe 6/4 6/5
Longford Slashers 7/2 4/1
Dromard 7/2 5/1
Mullinalaghta 13/2 11/2
Colmcille 13/2
Clonguish 12/1 7/1
Abbeylara 14/1 10/1
Fr Manning Gaels 20/1 25/1
Ballymahon 50/1 100/1
Mostrim 25/1 125/1
Granard 50/1 125/1

Odds on Clonguish still extremely generous.

[LaurelEye]

Someone in PP taking notice:

Paddy Power odds:

Killoe 6/4 6/5 10/11
Longford Slashers 7/2 4/1
Dromard 7/2 5/1
Clonguish 12/1 7/1
Mullinalaghta 13/2 11/2 7/1
Colmcille 13/2 10/1
Abbeylara 14/1 10/1
Fr Manning Gaels 20/1 25/1
Ballymahon 50/1 100/1
Mostrim 25/1 125/1
Granard 50/1 125/1

[LaurelEye]

Clonguish 0-19 Colmcille 0-10
Mostrim 2-7 Fr Manning Gaels 1-6
Longford Slashers 1-7 Abbeylara 0-7
Killoe 2-15 Ballymahon 1-9
Granard 0-13 Ardagh 1-6
Mullinalaghta 0-12 Dromard 0-8

Clonguish and Slashers go through to the last 8. Granard limp into the playoffs along with Abbey, Ballymahon, Dromard, the Gaels and Mostrim. After three rounds of matches, one team out of twelve has been eliminated from the championship.

Next week's playoffs:

Ballymahon v Dromard
Mostrim v Granard
Fr Manning Gaels v Abbeylara

Paddy Power odds:

Killoe 6/4 6/5 10/11
Longford Slashers 7/2 4/1
Dromard 7/2 5/1
Clonguish 12/1 7/1
Mullinalaghta 13/2 11/2 7/1
Colmcille 13/2 10/1
Abbeylara 14/1 10/1
Fr Manning Gaels 20/1 25/1 33/1
Mostrim 25/1 125/1 33/1
Granard 50/1 125/1 100/1
Ballymahon 50/1 100/1 150/1

[LaurelEye]

Playoffs:

Abbeylara 1-12 Fr Manning Gaels 1-10
Dromard 3-22 Ballymahon 2-12
Granard 1-8 Mostrim 0-10 (No, I couldn't believe it either; commiserations to Shamrock, Longfordian and The Insider)

Quarter-final draw:

1. Dromard v Colmcille
2. Killoe v Longford Slashers
3. Granard v Mullinalaghta
4. Clonguish v Abbeylara

Semi-finals: 1 v 2, 3 v 4

Killoe-Clonguish final looks most likely out of that.

Paddy Power odds:

Killoe 6/4 6/5 10/11 11/10
Mullinalaghta 13/2 11/2 7/1 9/2
Longford Slashers 7/2 4/1 5/1
Dromard 7/2 5/1
Clonguish 12/1 7/1 13/2
Abbeylara 14/1 10/1 11/1
Colmcille 13/2 10/1 14/1
Granard 50/1 125/1 100/1 33/1

[Shamrock Shore]

Granard 1-8 Mostrim 0-10

Last min of game score is Mostrim 0-10 Granard 0-07.

A minute later it was over. Granard smash and grab.

Ah well.

At least the Mullinalaghta trainer can prepare for the 1/4 final without a crisis of conscience now.

Killoe's to lose or will Columba's come out of the trenches and capture the crown?

[LaurelEye]

Granard 1-8 Mostrim 0-10

Last min of game score is Mostrim 0-10 Granard 0-07.

A minute later it was over. Granard smash and grab.

Ah well.

They were four up with a minute of normal time to go. I don't think anyone who was looking at it could believe what was happening.

At least the Mullinalaghta trainer can prepare for the 1/4 final without a crisis of conscience now.

Killoe's to lose or will Columba's come out of the trenches and capture the crown?

At least we have moved out now on PP to 5/1 along with Slashers and Dromard, with the Reich coming in as second favourites on 9/2.

I will wait until the match against Granard is over before I say anything more about our chances (assuming that we still have any at that stage). After all, Mostrim thought they had an easy draw last weekend (and right up until a minute into stoppage time they did have).

SheedyTime tomorrow night.

[LaurelEye]

Sheedy reappointed manager by 14-4.

Centre of Mediocrity Excellence to be relocated to Carriglass, with the Lyneen Water Park being put on the open market.

[LaurelEye]

Dromard 1-10 Colmcille 1-9

[Billys Boots]

Damn and blast them swamp critters.