Trials: Offaly, Laois, Meath

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SeamusMurphy wrote:: I assume we will also need to replace Dan Flynn & Sean Hurley ?

Why Hurley? Is he off to Oz too?

Subject: Re: Trials: Offaly, Laois, Meath Sat Oct 26, 2013 12:11 am

I understand that Hurley is flying out to Perth in the hope of securing a contract. Nothing signed as of yet.

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steviegenius wrote:: There is definitely 3 or 4 or more players out there that are not on the panel that have not got a chance. I know for a fact last year that if a player that thought he was good enough all he had to do was ring Kieran McGeeney? surely the management went to club games and could see if there were wait a minute? any clubs games last year the Kildare panel always had a training session hopefully that will change.

Can you prove this fact Stevie. Facts are after all verifiable by their own definition.

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Yes I would be friendly with one of the management team. I wouldnt bother him much about things but he did say that to me Walter White

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Kinihan Mulhall o keeffe and eaton are the ones that I would give a trial to ,

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From talking to someone in Athy, they have put forward 8 for trials but 2 have turned them down.

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Kildare lost 2-9 to 2-4 to Offaly in Hawkfield tonight. The lads took it seriously and tried hard but I couldn't honestly say anybody stood out. The standard from Kildare was poor enough to be honest.
A couple of things about the game. There were no umpires so I'm not really sure how accurate the score is. Also, a couple of times a Kildare player was down injured and there was nobody there to treat them. Somebody eventually came on with some water. I thought that was disgraceful really. I know it was only a low key trial match, but surely the least the players deserve is proper medical treatment.

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Were Offaly trialing lads as well or were they closer to full strength?

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JohnnyC wrote:: Kildare lost 2-9 to 2-4 to Offaly in Hawkfield tonight. The lads took it seriously and tried hard but I couldn't honestly say anybody stood out. The standard from Kildare was poor enough to be honest.
A couple of things about the game. There were no umpires so I'm not really sure how accurate the score is. Also, a couple of times a Kildare player was down injured and there was nobody there to treat them. Somebody eventually came on with some water. I thought that was disgraceful really. I know it was only a low key trial match, but surely the least the players deserve is proper medical treatment.

Welcome to the dawning of a new era in Kildare GAA.

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I'm not sure if Offaly were trialling players or if it was a sort of development squad but they seemed to have a bit more understanding than our lads. We played like a team that had got together just before the throw-in. Hard to expect anything else really.

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Who played for kildare?

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What was the team lineout like lads?

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Dare I say it but if McGeeney had been in charge the amateur nature of the match with no physio on hand would never happen. Once you let the level drop you won't get it back again. The result is irrelevant what worries me is that it was organised in what appears a slip shod manner. Something that was an anathema to the previous management.

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Baba O' Reily wrote:: Dare I say it but if McGeeney had been in charge the amateur nature of the match with no physio on hand would never happen. Once you let the level drop you won't get it back again. The result is irrelevant what worries me is that it was organised in what appears a slip shod manner. Something that was an anathema to the previous management.

but if geezer was in charge, would this game have happened?

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Who knows, but you can guarantee everything would have been up to scratch for the players to give their best. It appears this was not the case tonight.

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Its a start,a challenge game that's all so don't read anything from it.
More worrying for me is after going to a lot of senior championship games this year, only a few players stood out for me that are any way near the county team.
The best player on view has retired this year and that being Roly, no one near him and you can say what you like but could anyone come up with anyone better.
He lead the moores from start to finish in both the semi and the final,was my man of the Match in the final...

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In fairness Dido, it is not only this year Roli has been the best club player in the county, over the last 10-12 years, Roli has been the best club footballer in the county. His size and power makes him unmarkable at club level.

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There were no team sheets so it was hard to identify some of the players. Podge Fogarty, Conor Tiernan and Ciaran Fitzpatrick were probably the best known players. Shane Bergin, Seamus Hanafin, Richie Scahill, Joe Kavanagh and Paddy Mahon(?) also played. No disrespect to anyone playing tonight but I thought there might be a few more "bigger names" playing but we'll wait and see how the other 2 games go.
In fairness to Jason Ryan, I'd cut him a bit of slack on the shoddy organisation. The trials were organised before his backroom team has been finalised so he doesn't have the personnel yet to delegate the various tasks to.

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Johnnyc there were team sheets as I had one and everyone around me. Best players were David cash and Barry noone until both got hurt. Kavanagh and Tiernan showed patches ! Was hard for lads and will be the same again for the others as lads have not played together before

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Matthew Duggan
Darren Barker
Kieran Fitzpatrick
Kevin Corrigan
Conor Tiernan
Daryl O'Brien
Shane Bergin
David Cash
Emmet Ralph
Richie Scahill
Seamus Hanafin
Nicky Conlon
Paddy Mahon
Joe Kavanagh
Barry Noone

Ger McNally put that up on facebook.
Willie Clynch, Mark Donnelly, Eoin Powderly, Podge Fogarty & John McAndrew all played in the second half.

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That's certainly a very experimental line up. Have any of those 20 players ever played for the county seniors even in the league apart from Fitzpatrick and Fogarty?
Well done to the manager for giving them all a chance and hopefully a few might come through from it. Lets not forget the last time we played Offaly we were hanging on at the end and very thankful they butchered a great goal chance late on in the game.
Its a trial game at the end of the season which gives the new manager a chance to see as many players as possible, nothing more, nothing less.

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JohnnyC wrote:: There were no team sheets so it was hard to identify some of the players. Podge Fogarty, Conor Tiernan and Ciaran Fitzpatrick were probably the best known players. Shane Bergin, Seamus Hanafin, Richie Scahill, Joe Kavanagh and Paddy Mahon(?) also played. No disrespect to anyone playing tonight but I thought there might be a few more "bigger names" playing but we'll wait and see how the other 2 games go.
In fairness to Jason Ryan, I'd cut him a bit of slack on the shoddy organisation. The trials were organised before his backroom team has been finalised so he doesn't have the personnel yet to delegate the various tasks to.

Johnny, In fairness most of the Players mentioned would be well known, as most would have Played Underage County at some stage.. I wasnt at the Match tbh, but I would be familiar with these Players, and they would probably be some of those Clubs they represents better Players... One of the big draw backs of trial Matches at any level / Age Group is Lads tring to do to much (to impress), as they may believe its their only opportunity to impress... which in turn is never going to lead to a Team performance..

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SeamusMurphy wrote:: Johnny, In fairness most of the Players mentioned would be well known, as most would have Played Underage County at some stage.. I wasnt at the Match tbh, but I would be familiar with these Players, and they would probably be some of those Clubs they represents better Players... One of the big draw backs of trial Matches at any level / Age Group is Lads tring to do to much (to impress), as they may believe its their only opportunity to impress... which in turn is never going to lead to a Team performance..

Seamus - I wasn't implying that the lads who played last night aren't good players or that they didn't deserve their chance. I just thought the team was very experimental and it was very hard for lads to impress. That's probably to be expected as we are playing 3 trial games and a lot of players (Moorefield and Under-21) are probably unavailable. It wasn't that the lads didn't try hard or that they were being selfish, it was just that they were on different wavelengths a lot of the time.

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Anyone know who the selectors are. Surely it seems pointless to hold trials, if your selectors are not in place.

Junior C Posts : 4 Join date : 2013-10-17

What's the venue and day (+time) for the Laois match lads? Wouldn't mind getting to see atleast one of these trial games!

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