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Ballyfin relegated? Is it because they lost to Borris-Kilcotton, because their score difference is much better?

Wexford at home might have been manageable, but beyond that...

Against Clare was one of their better showings in the league, but then again, that was at home... Yikes!

The Offaly 'keeper made a couple of great saves in the first half, for sure, but it felt like Laoise were lucky enough to be level at half-time - though, to be fair, they clawed back a five-point deficit to be one up approaching half-time. There was one sequence late in the first-half when Offaly looked certain to get a goal, only for some amazing saving blocks to come in. Sort of lifted them a bit. Of course, the second half was a write-off, and the only good thing from a Leix point of view was a couple of great scores from Cha. Otherwise, there's nothing to say, except that Offaly looked good, and Leix looked dire. I think it's more of the latter, to be honest, and it's back to the bad old days again. Maybe they DO need the round robin games - though on today's performance, they wouldn't even get out of that.

Clonad/ Ratheniska beat Portlaoise 7-16 to 0-3 in the u14 A hurling league last night. Why would anyone in Clonad WANT to go to Portlaoise to hurl??!

Good spread of clubs - 10 is more than would usually be on a Leix lineout.
Still, it'll be a hard one to win, and Offaly certainly deserve to be favourites.

Who are the props?! Leix are noticeably smaller than a lot of inter-county teams. I think you need a bit of size and physicality just to execute the skills under pressure. A team of skilful midgets won't win you much - though I do acknowledge there's always room for one or two...

And one more point, why did Joe campion walk away from the county set up, senior & 21, a huge loss to both panels who did appear to be one of the best & committed emerging talents we had,

Wasn't it something to do w/ the CB not changing a Borris U/21 fixture?

Absolutely. And you can be damn sure they'll lose to Offaly, too.

Another depressing result for Laoise hurling. And this was the team that was supposed to get to a Leinster final?? Pah. What is wrong?

As far as I know, Cripps has made himself unavailable. Kevin Bergin has gone to America.

Well, sort of. The last puck of the game was a 21 yard free, with about 10 Galway lads on the line, and Leix down by two points. The odds were stacked against him, and it was duly saved. Certainly not like the one on one scenarios nowadays!

Is Mark Kavanagh out? Heard he did his shoulder.

I believe Mark Kavanagh is out w/ a shoulder injury. Not a starter, I know, but he'll be a loss for the U21s.

Ha ha! Thanks! Not always possible to squeeze logic out of the GAA, ho ho!