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Well no not really. For example if I trained Monday to Friday for endurance and each Saturday I went out on the lash and I did this for 3 months by the end of it my endurance capabilities would still have increased greatly. My drinking in itself wouldn't have prevented me improving my fitness levels. Now don't get me wrong I'm not encouraging drinking at all, but I don't agree with drinking bans for teams. There is no reason why amateur sports men who look after themselves during the week and are training 3-5 times per week can't go out on a Saturday night and have 6-8 pints with their friends. If I were in charge of a serious senior club team I'd leave it up to the players themselves but I'd ask them to be sensible about their social lives rather than being fanatical about it.

I disagree on that one Zulu. Im not playing GAA at a serious level but I like to stay fit. I find that a session of beer sets you back a week or so as regards training and fitness. A major session sets me back a lot more.

Drinking alcohol itself stops the body from breaking down vital nutrients that food provides. The food you eat while on the beer or hungover will more than likely be stored as fat rather than energy. Therefore your muscles are not getting the fuel it needs to recover/build when you are on the beer/suffering from a hangover.

Your recovery time slows way down also so I cant see any positive effects of a session of beer. Most lads in my home club got off the beer for 13-15 weeks last year and we won a county title. It was mostly their own choice to do it. You can only get so-fit by by drinking regularly IMO. If you get off the drink you can push on to higher levels of fitness. That said I wouldnt agree with a total drinking ban in the season, a session (within reason, nothing crazy) is Ok now and again but drinking every weekend is out of the question. IMO

I reckon this time of year its important to scale down or quit the beer for a while just so that you can get to a good level fitness and then after a while during the summer e.t.c you can have your few pints . I find it easier to recover from a session when im fit. But i suppose you have to watch how close to games that you drink

Yeah just heard last week he is leaving to go back to Cavan, he's a decent footballer alright and should make a big difference to Kildallon, he just wasn't quite cut out for senior football though. He's a big strong fella but I think he found the pace hard to deal with at senior level...by all accounts he would have struggled to make the first team in Allenwood this year so it is probably a good call moving home.  Very nice fella though and couldn't fault him for effort, would like to see him do well...

That fella was never gonna cut the mustard at senior level...sure he's only an auld mucker, all that fella is good for is cuttin turf and batin auld fat fella's around the pitch in mickey mouse junior games...I dunno why he went to Allenwood in the first place, he was always gonna be found out up there...

I have played against O'hara and he wasnt bad at junior level but the step up to senior would have been difficult for him i reckon. I understand he had a few runs out in the kildare senior league when the allenwood team were without the county players but then come summer and c\ship he was dropped. If he is back with kildallon he will get first team football anyway even if its only junior.

Relegation to division 4 might be a blessing in disguise for Templeport, I'd imagine that some of the teams in that division would be far better than beating the likes of Maghera by cricket scores. Then again we are talking about Templeport... They might be playing our junior team next year... 

i hope they fecking sort it out one way or the other