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Deserves its own thread.
Saw Ballylinan beat Arles last night. Gary Walsh basically the difference between the two teams. Not fit but a class act. Ballylinan picked up a couple of really bad looking injuries including Ryan Brady who was very good. Could cost them in round two.
Could be between between Ballylinan and Mountmellick but the likes of Ballyfin, Kilcavan, Annanough might put a couple of wins together too. Pretty open championship.

When are those "drainage lines" going to be sorted out in OMP? They are like that for over a year now and they look dreadful.

Not too much quality on view over the past few days in the senior football.
Port were obviously comfortable v The Heath but took their time to get going. Very hard to see them being beaten this year.
Courtwood and O'Dempseys was very poor. Courtwood only performed for 15 or 20 minutes and it was enough to beat their neighbours.
Saw second half of Graigue v Emo on Clubber. Big collapse from Emo but Graigue were moving well.
Killeen got quite a test from Park/Ratheniska - again, unlikely either of them will be in contention.
Didn't see the other games. Heard Portlaoise were unimpressive?

Favourite sporting rivalries

Club - Arles Kilcruise v Arles Killeen

County - Laois v Offaly

Other sports - Ali v Frazier

Emo vs Graigue -
Emo after extra time

Killeshin v Stradbally -
Strad narrowly

Courtwood v O'Dempseys -
O'Dempseys

St Joseph's v Crettyard -
 Joseph's easily enough

BA v Rosenallis -
 BA by maybe 7 or 8

Portlaoise v CSM - Portlaoise by 5 or 6

Arles Killeen v Park Ratheniska - Killeen by 5 or 6

Portarlington v The Heath
Port by over 10

Shocker of a game. Galway haven't turned up at all.

ports to lose i think .

Have to agree. Seem to be getting most of their big guns back early this year.
Hard to see Courtwood sustain it. Biggest challenge should come from Josephs. Bally Abbey and Portlaoise will probably both be thereabouts too.
If I had to pick a dark horse I'd say Emo.

All senior hurling and football championship games will be on Clubber over the coming weeks.

Umpires are provided by Refs which is a bit too loose an arrangement for top level games.

Sean Hurson takes 4 referees from Tyrone for his umpires. Maybe a good solution to the taking the 'oul boy' for a day out argument.

Say you start out doing a bit of umpiring with Sean Hurson 10 years ago. He starts to climb the ladder and get big games and you're told you're not needed for those days.
If Sean messages you to do a Division 3 game in Strabane in March with him, you mightn't be as responsive to him.

Devlin seems to be a savage operator.

Heroic.

I like Hurson. Generally a very good ref. For some reason he's killing Louth today.

The 16 men of Ulster getting on top you'd think

Ah, you're from the partitionist hotbed of Laois, makes sense.

Ooh. Touchy.

The 16 men of Ulster getting on top you'd think

Louth have been excellent with their 14 against 16.