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Was a really good game there on Sunday. Played at a decent pace & some quality scores...especially some of the long range points by Carlow. But overall Antrim looked more dangerous in the forwards, got the 2 goals and might have had a couple more.

Was up at the Westmeath/Carlow game the week before and it was a lot slower, more low key. Westmeath were bad, and Carlow were a lot better but hit a stupid amount of wides. Should have won by a lot more. After seeing Westmeath, not that surprised that Kildare bet them.

Kildare will be tricky for both Antrim & Carlow, but would imagine we'd have enough to overcome their band of imports. Can only see a Carlow v Antrim final and hopefully it will be half as good as last Sundays game.

My own team Carlow are struggling for this one. Eire Og who are very strong at u-21 level have nobody on the panel. 2 of the better players are out due to illness. Can only see Wexford winning this easily, if you can get any bookies to give you decent odds go for it.
Louth will also hammer Wicklow, home advantage in Baltinglass is no use to them. A very poor side, kinda thrown together really from what I hear and will be well beaten too.

Was at the game on Sunday and as a Carlowman have to be happy coming away with a draw against the league favourites, especially with an injury time goal. But still feel like it was a game we could have won.
After a nightmare 1st 2 mins where we went 1-1 to 0 down, we owned the rest of that 1st half. Kicked some crazy amount of stupid wides. It was 1-4 to 1-3 at ht but we kicked 7 wides to Westmeaths 1. Should have been much further ahead.
2nd half Westmeath made changes and it was a much more even game, their tactic of long ball into ff line got some success for a while.
We brought on 2 scoring forwards with pace near the end instead of the managers son & another workhorse who won't score and straight away we levelled it up. Then Westmeath got a very dodgy goal, it looked like a square ball all the way.
Luckily for us Westmeath were naive enough to allow us put a great move together and Shane O'Neill only on the pitch making his league debut scored a cracking goal to level it.

For Division 4 it was a quality game, some great long range scores by both sides. The ref bottled out of giving Heslin & a couple of others black cards and waited till injury time to finally give one. The Carlow coach Poacher is exactly what we need, but can see how opposition fans & teams will hate him. He may reel it all in a bit as i'd imagine other refs might send him off.

Carlow and Louth could be close too, Louth have gone back a long way while Carlow showed some promise in the League. Still Louth should have enough.

No idea where you are getting this from. Louth won Div 4 along the way beating Carlow in Carlow by 13 points!  I seriously doubt it will be close, anything less than a 10 point defeat would be a sort of success for us sadly.

Promotion will be 2 of Louth, Antrim & Wexford. Those 3 will be a level above the rest over 7 games. Leitrim might have a run at it, but fall short. Wicklow have lost so many important players to retirement at once that they will suffer badly. Waterford might improve a bit and get a couple of wins but won't be involved in top half of table. London keep getting better and might pick up a win or 2 in Ruislip.

As for my own Carlow, well wouldn't hold out much hope of doing well at all. Seriously lacking this year is quality backs last years full back is out with a cruciate injury and the only other top full back is playing hurling instead so we basically don't have a full back. Conceded very soft scores in the O'byrne Cup as a result.

Have 2 good forwards back involved which means we should score a bit more, and with Brendan Murphy at midfield we will always win at least 50% of ball at mf. But our backline is seriously weak and I can see teams scoring a lot against us. 4 away games and just the 3 at home means we will we be in bottom 3 in Div 4 this year sadly.

I see Brendan Murphy won't be playing for Carlow. He's off to the US for the summer. He'll be a huge loss to them and this should ensure we go through to play Kildare.

Ye will beat us easily enough. Brendan Murphy & Hughie Gahan the 2 best midfielders in Carlow have left the panel. Our keeper whose kick outs were crucial to our good start to the league got a 12 week ban and he misses the Laois game too. 2nd choice keeper is injured.
So basically we will be playing ye with a 3rd choice keeper who is tiny, our 1st choice midfield gone, and our only quality forward coming back from 3 months out injured.

The fact we are playing at home doesn't help either. For some reason we always play better away. Even in the league just gone, we beat Waterford away, drew away to Antrim were robbed away to Offaly losing by a point that was well wide (that's why our keeper got the 12 week ban, abuse to officials!) Home games we got hammered by Leitrim & Longford. Scraped a lucky draw v Wicklow & bet London by 2 pts.

Paddy Power have Laois -4 @5/6 right now. Will be going big on that.

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Was surprised to hear at the game Sunday that a few had left the Longford panel alrite. But was talking to a dad of one of the players and he was saying his son will be packing it in after this year too as the commitment is too much. Seemingly they were due in for training yesterday morning after playing on Sunday! Crazy stuff.

As for the game itself, Longford blitzed us in 1st 15 mins 8-2 then we woke up and after that it was an even entertaining game. Some great scores by both sides and as always in Div 4 a few weird ref decisions. We should have had at least 2 black cards but didn't get them, and then for a free won by a dive by McCormack the Longford defender got a black card! Our corner forward was fouled inside the line and it was an obvious penalty but ref went to umpire and gave a free in! At a vital part of game too a goal there and it was a 1pt game.

For us, it was a 3rd defeat in a row and after such a promising start to the league it's all gone back to normal. Talk of players dropping off panel now and a couple who were "injured" still managed to play for their clubs on Sunday evening.

As for Longford, well done on the promotion and if that's a lot of back up players then in attack ye'll be fine. Defence might be a problem.

Horrible injury to your no 9, it looked from the stand like a broken leg. Has that been confirmed? Just landing wrong while going for a high ball, but it looked terrible.

Awful display by Carlow on Sunday v Leitrim. 19 wides, 7 different free takers, 6 who missed. As it turned out with Longford beating Offaly, even if we'd won the game promotion was not possible.
But it was continuing a worrying theme where we play terribly at home and are decent away.Very lucky to beat London, a seriously fortunate draw v Wicklow and that hammering by Leitrim are what we we did at home. Away we drew with Antrim, beat Waterford and were very unlucky to lose by a pt to Offaly, playing well in all 3 games!

Playing Laois in championship which unfortunately is at home. We'd honestly be better off in Portlaoise.

Offaly v Antrim should be a great game on Sunday. Hard to call who'll will it but wouldn't at all be surprised if Antrim come down and scrape it.

We are obviously hoping for 2 Offaly wins, but can't really see it. Wasn't impressed with them at all the last day and hard to see them getting anything in Longford.
Antrim will beat Wicklow Sunday.
We always struggle at home for some reason. Game v Leitrim is exactly the kind of game we could lose. Lucky to draw home to Wicklow and very lucky to win home to London. 3 best displays were away. Broderick as has been mentioned has been a massive loss and he is out for next 2 games too.
For us this has been a very decent league, a massive improvement on finishing bottom of table last year no matter what way last 2 games go.

Longford should beat Offaly Sunday, and 2nd promotion place will come down to that game between Offaly & Antrim.

So close to a great result yesterday we were. A point up 2 mins left, at worst it should have been a draw. Complete lack of experience at even being involved in games like this is new to us.
Very good game tho yesterday in Tullamore, 2 evenly matched sides went right to the last second and sadly it was Offaly who got the winner in exactly the last min.

Carlow won the midfield battle well, but we had for most of the game Brendan Murphy playing at 25% after a bad injury in 1st half. Still him at 25% is better than most of what we have. We defended really well, but had not any scoring forwards to win us the game. Broderick who is a class forward is injured since he starred in the away draw to Antrim. We have also lost our free taker and another potential scorer too.

The lack of scoring forwards has cost us promotion, but it's a massive improvement on where we were last year. Turlough O'Brien has done an incredible job in a few months. All is no lost re promotion but can't see Offaly beating Longford away

An unexpected win for Carlow down in Dungarvan this evening really complicates things. We have 3 home games left and just the 1 away trip to Offaly. Can see as I said earlier Offaly ending top, but for the 1st time I actually think Carlow have a great chance of coming 2nd. It might come down to the Carlow/Longford game on the last day.

2-12 to 0-8 the final score

UCC took control since HT, now ahead 1-12 to 0-7 after 50 mins.

Still expect Offaly to run away with this div 4, probably unbeaten. Be a big fight for 2nd between 5 others I reckon. Only Leitrim & London won't be involved.

Was at the Carlow v London game on Sunday and London are a good side. Seriously accurate, they had about 25% of the ball but somehow ended up going in 5-4 up. Carlow kicked 9 wides & another 5 at least into keepers hands. By the 50th min i'd say London had 9 shots all = 9 points...maybe 1 wide.
2nd half we got goals at vital stages, but even after 2nd goal to put us 2-7 to 0-9 ahead they got 4 points in 4 mins. On top at mf & kicking points from anywhere once inside the 45. Luckily we got a monster score from about 60 yards by St Ledger and scored a classy point by managers son to wrap it up.

Ok we were missing our 2 main players Brendan Murphy who broke a bone in his foot v Antrim 1st day out. So looks like he's gone for league. Paul Broderick our free taker & main scoring forward was also injured for the London game. He should be back for next game. London are a good side and they will def take a point or points off some team in this Div 4