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Offaly 0 - 6 Dublin 2 - 12

At half time.

Edited by monarch

Correct Joey, after the first 15 minutes when Offaly tried to batter us off the pitch we controlled the whole game. Your man's hit on Maguire was appalling and deserved more than a yellow card. How the referee played advantage is a complete mystery. If Offaly had turned over posession they had an empty goal to shoot into. Ridiculous. Fair play to Gary though,he had a stormer afterwards.

Great spread of scorers with the young lads contributing plenty,great game from McCaffrey who seemed to be everywhere and two nice goals from Ryan O'Dwyer.

If we can turn over the Wexicans next week...........................dare to dream .

A win for the footballers to 0-13 to 1-9 against Monaghan  not very pretty but a wins a win.

Thats 4 from 4 now with three left to play Mayo Down and last but not least Galway looking good so far heres hoping................

Very bad news for hurling captain, Stephen Hiney.

Anterior cruciate injury rules him out for the season. This the 3rd such injury to hit us in the last year with David Treacy and Shane Stapleton coming to the end of their recovery period.

Best of luck to Stephen in his recovery and hopefully the rest of the lads can go out and give him something to smile about.

Yeah Blondie ,,we were in this posistion last year but we had not played all the big guns,,and then it all went wrong for the hurlers and the footballers were a bit unlucky not to get to the final  ,,and if you look at the hurlers again this year their last 3 games are against Galway ,Cork and then Killkenny,,,anyroad at least we are both safe and will remain in Div 1 next year.

Hiney will be a big lose ,,hope he makes a good recovery  ,it will test Daly,s panel again ,,

2 good games in Croker yesterday ,,some turn around for Clarebridge

Was like a training match yesterday with the amount if handy scores
both teams got. Still, happy with the way we are going, scoring plenty
and the best of our backs still to return to the team. See the difference
Philly and Kev Nolan made when they came on to steady the ship.
Champo team taking shape now although we are struggling badly in
midfield.

Nice to see you and Marie the other night J . Love the new accent

Have given Galway a good game every time we have played them
over the last few years. Two league wins in Parnell, a two point defeat
down there last Easter with us down to 14 and the recent Walsh Cup
win when we were also down to 14. Can go into this with great
confidence even with the injuries we have. Can't wait for this one.
Have to make sure to hit the road from Wexford in plenty of time to
get back in time for the Throw In.

An awful pity Joey but the wides definitely killed us.On another day Keaney would have knocked over at least three of those frees. The pressure of the Galway backs certainly contributed to the wides from play and to our failure to score any goals.Always been our main problem against the better teams.

Plenty of positives though,matched them physically even though some of their challenges were a little suspect,the return to form of Gough,the performances of Brady, Corcoran and Boland and our ability to overcome the hammer blows of the missed peno and the first goal.

Negatives for me,failure to remove the free taking duties from Keaney sooner once it was obvious he was having a bad day,failure to get Dec O'Dwyer or even Conor Clinton on for Carton who was having a poor day,failure to replace Durkin earlier who was clearly struggling and who was the target of all of their puck outs in the last fifteen minutes.

Also thought the ref was poor,letting some bad stuff go on both sides. Should have sent Donnellan off after his clothes line on Corcoran and should have given us a second penalty.

 

Lovely weather in Parnell.Enjoyed the game, and think the kids enjoyed it. I'm telling them they did anyway....

Gas to see Anthony Daly walk out past us as we walked in so he could go in and have a slash. you wouldn't get that in the Premiership

Think we take a long time to get ball into hand and have done for a long time. Small things like that make a big difference, particularly come champo

Great battling from the boys - Boland and Brady are as solid as. But we always seem to have one in the full back line who has a bad day.

Does Joey Boland switch hands to catch a ball when he has time and space? Have to bring him down to Barrog with the five year olds and teach him the basics again. Is he injured? He's a loss.

We are there or thereabouts - but on a bad day Antrim beat us, on a good day we are a match for anyone.

I see more and more hurls round town - that's the really important bit. The future. Would love to see this bunch gain a medal, but if they inspire a future bunch, then that's as important.

Dublin 1 - 17 Kilkenny 3 - 11

Wow! what a last few minutes.