Longford Football (& Hurling) Thread

[North Longford]

Shamrock Shore senior was always one to put legs on a story.

After their surprising draw with the sheepless Ardagh things may have deteriorated.

[LaurelEye]

Ah thats a misinterpretation of the facts...........there's only one who won't play but he's the size of 8 players!!!

In all seriousness I've heard for the last 2 years of constant issues between Mickey and the players but they always seem to have him back!

I do believe the big man did site his relationship with the manager as his reason for quitting, couldn't take the abuse apparently but that would be from a third party so quite possible not true

As far as I know, the big lad is only playing with the Intermediates and the younger goalkeeper is not available to the senior team either.

A few fellas - some well-known, some less well-known - have also headed Stateside or Thames-side for work now that opportunities in the building trade have dried up locally. One of the Stateside departures has been in NY off and on for the last two or three years and I don't really think that Harkins, no matter what his other failings, can be blamed for his frequent absences.

[LaurelEye]

Shamrock Shore senior was always one to put legs on a story.

Longford v Kilmacud Crokes tonight in Stillorgan at 7.30. As this is but 1 mile from Shore Manor I will attend on yer behalf and report on progress.

Will be interesting to see what team St. Patrick's lost sheep will play for 

You will be rewarded in a future life for that, I hope.

[Shamrock Shore]

Final score:

Longford 4-25 Kilmacud 2-13

Half time it was Crokes 1-06 Longford 1-05.

Longford played some good stuff in the second half in the 80 min encounter with Liam Keenan, Shane Mulligan and Declan Reilly getting top marks. Longford's goals were by Padraic Berry in the first half and Paul Barden and two by ? Mulvihill from Cashel in the second.

A useful exercise ahead of Sat v Laois whom, I believe, went 12 rounds the other evening with CAvan!

[Shamrock Shore]

Luke at it agin in Oirish Daily Mail.

Give it a rest Luke FFS!

[North Longford]

Heard there have been a few late call ups to the panel.
Ciaran Mulvihill from Cashel and Danny Keenan from Ardagh I believe accepted the challenge!
Believe a couple more didn't.

[Billys Boots]

With the end of the County's season only a few days away, we should be thinking about a post-mortem.

[Shamrock Shore]

Bye bye Luke and, well, thanks for moving it forward ever so slightly.

Is the Dromard lad Sean Hagan now a shoo-in. Big Joe Kernan was the subject of whispers earlier. Can we afford his "expenses"?

[LaurelEye]

Bye bye Luke and, well, thanks for moving it forward ever so slightly.

Slightly forward overall, possibly, but stayed on too long. We are going backwards, and have been since Portlaoise last year. At the end of the day, we won one Leinster Championship match in four years and didn't win a qualifier match in three years out of four. League performances were mediocre every year. I don't view that as being anything to write home about.

Is the Dromard lad Sean Hagan now a shoo-in. Big Joe Kernan was the subject of whispers earlier. Can we afford his "expenses"?

Hagan is supposedly not interested. I'd expect, given the current County Board leadership, that we'd be looking for someone local rather than a big name.

[Shamrock Shore]

And someone with a lower level of 'expenses'.

Next manager has to teach free takers how to take frees off the ground AND how to pass to a better placed colleague and also he/she should look at cloning Cathal Conefrey.

And Liam Keenan. If there were All Stars for honest Jazesing effort he'd be a shoo in. Gives 110% every time.

[Billys Boots]

I suppose the Killoe fellah 'doesn't want it' either, like Hagan.  If a swampie says he 'doesn't want it', you can be assured he'll be doing it in 10 mins time.  At least the upside is that Colmcille lads won't be getting injured on duty for the county. 

[LaurelEye]

Next manager has to teach free takers how to take frees off the ground AND how to pass to a better placed colleague

I wish them luck with that proposition. I'd say they'd concentrate on an easier task like human cloning.

[Billys Boots]

They should find him a better place to practice than Edgytown too. 

[AZOffaly]

Things are so bad in Offaly that we're looking at Luke to be our saviour 

[LaurelEye]

Things are so bad in Offaly that we're looking at Luke to be our saviour 

Well, he won't be able to whinge about club fixtures interfering with his preparations anyway.