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Poacher. Can he talk anymore about Kildare. I've never witness anything like the interview he gave to the observer. Excuses before a ball is even kicked

williesboy (Leitrim) - Posts: 468 - 13/02/2025 15:01:52    2590844

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Replying To williesboy:  "Poacher. Can he talk anymore about Kildare. I've never witness anything like the interview he gave to the observer. Excuses before a ball is even kicked"
We've had managers in the not too distant past who were more interested in talking about themselves.

boxtyburgerbuns (Leitrim) - Posts: 126 - 13/02/2025 15:22:45    2590850

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I love the opinions on here and the healthy debate, it's good to see all sides so can I ask a question what would you see as a sucessful manager? Going on past managers, current manager and also future managers? What do we see as sucess.

Willies24 (Leitrim) - Posts: 23 - 13/02/2025 21:07:34    2590891

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Replying To williesboy:  "Poacher. Can he talk anymore about Kildare. I've never witness anything like the interview he gave to the observer. Excuses before a ball is even kicked"
We lost 1-16 to 12 last year in the Tailteann to Kildare. A far bigger winning margin may be in store. Maybe this well quell the talk of last years team would make no difference to this years panel. Lets see how Poacher sets up for this weekend. Im praying for a miracle but the bookies are rarely wrong even if the price is massive! I setting myself up for a long day of despair. As they say its the hope that kills ya.

Willies24 (Leitrim) - Posts: 23 - 14/02/2025 09:27:01    2590927

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Replying To Willies24:  "We lost 1-16 to 12 last year in the Tailteann to Kildare. A far bigger winning margin may be in store. Maybe this well quell the talk of last years team would make no difference to this years panel. Lets see how Poacher sets up for this weekend. Im praying for a miracle but the bookies are rarely wrong even if the price is massive! I setting myself up for a long day of despair. As they say its the hope that kills ya."
Kildare have improved considerably since last year and with the new rules you can't just 'try' and shut up shop. Along with the fact that from last weeks starting team we probably won't have Jordan Reynolds and potentially Tom Prior (who will have been celebrating for the last few days and has played 4 games in the last two weeks already - last thing we need is another long term injury like Barry McNulty).

Darren Cox will come in to start but unless some of our other injured players are fit to return we really are down to the bare bones of what is already our second choice panel if we are being honest.

Anyone know what our U20s schedule has been like lately? Have Honeyman or McNamara been involved with them at all?

Leitrim1234 (Leitrim) - Posts: 333 - 14/02/2025 09:40:26    2590929

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Replying To Willies24:  "We lost 1-16 to 12 last year in the Tailteann to Kildare. A far bigger winning margin may be in store. Maybe this well quell the talk of last years team would make no difference to this years panel. Lets see how Poacher sets up for this weekend. Im praying for a miracle but the bookies are rarely wrong even if the price is massive! I setting myself up for a long day of despair. As they say its the hope that kills ya."
Kildare this year are a completely proposition to last year. Look at their league results against Fermanagh before you start comparing last year and this year.
Fermanagh beat them last year by 2 points and lost this year by 15. So you could also reason that anything less than a 24 point defeat shows improvement. Considering where Kildare are at.

Backheel (Leitrim) - Posts: 188 - 14/02/2025 11:22:10    2590939

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Why bring Fermanagh into it. I simply stated that posters here have said that last years team would fair out no better than this years in the league so do we not use this weekends result to compare? Also where do u pull 24 points out of? I maintain that if we had been able to keep the majority of last years panel together that we would be far more competitive this year and they younger players would adapt far more quickly.

Willies24 (Leitrim) - Posts: 23 - 14/02/2025 11:55:31    2590942

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Replying To Willies24:  "Why bring Fermanagh into it. I simply stated that posters here have said that last years team would fair out no better than this years in the league so do we not use this weekends result to compare? Also where do u pull 24 points out of? I maintain that if we had been able to keep the majority of last years panel together that we would be far more competitive this year and they younger players would adapt far more quickly."
The logic of comparing this years Kildare result to last years. Is pointless I. Regards to the improvement in Kildare this year. My point is that there is 17 points difference in the Fermanagh result which by you logic makes them 17 points better than last year. Plus seven from last years result is 24.

Backheel (Leitrim) - Posts: 188 - 14/02/2025 12:41:57    2590956

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Any word of a master fixture plan or when the Leitrim CCC are due to meet ? Surely should be out by now as you'd be looking at games kicking off in around a month's time. Talk of championship being pushed back a few weeks aswel and a few other motions to be considered. Should be all sorted by now

Hatchetman76 (Leitrim) - Posts: 21 - 14/02/2025 12:44:23    2590957

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It being Kildare it wouldn't surprise me if we got a result against them, even at this low ebb

boxtyburgerbuns (Leitrim) - Posts: 126 - 14/02/2025 13:28:46    2590971

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Hard luck to Robert McGuire from Carrigallen on today fm who took part in the competition on today fm this morning.
His plans for the weekend....go to a match on Sunday. Ian Dempsey pressed him further and he hoped for a good result against Kildare. It was good to hear the optimism.

We have to keep the heads up and keep going.
Laois was a tough day at the office. I'd be looking for a response from the players. We may get beaten by 15+ points but come the final whistle, if they've 'died with their boots on', that's all you can ask for.

Mugatay (Leitrim) - Posts: 164 - 14/02/2025 13:52:20    2590982

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Replying To boxtyburgerbuns:  "It being Kildare it wouldn't surprise me if we got a result against them, even at this low ebb"
Just to offer a bit of context, on the Leitrim forum you're predicting a "result" for Leitrim against Kildare at the weekend. If by a result you're predicting a very defeat then technically you can't be wrong. If you mean that we can be in anyway competitive then I'll put your rugby knowledge in the same category as your GAA knowledge.

ThePowerhouse (Leitrim) - Posts: 163 - 14/02/2025 14:01:46    2590986

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What's parking like near the ground lads? I was actually in that ground back in 1993. Athy played a challenge match there and we stayed in Ballinamore that night, the Kildare b Leitrim match was in Carrick the following day. We were both playing for Division 1 that day...Those were heady days for us all. Anyway looking forward to travelling up on Sunday

LilywhiteGael (Kildare) - Posts: 117 - 14/02/2025 16:07:46    2591024

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Replying To Willies24:  "I love the opinions on here and the healthy debate, it's good to see all sides so can I ask a question what would you see as a sucessful manager? Going on past managers, current manager and also future managers? What do we see as sucess."
It's hard to say without being in the camp etc, but pre-Covid Terry Hyland seemed about ten steps above anyone else we've had since maybe Mickey Moran

MagnumPIG (Leitrim) - Posts: 148 - 14/02/2025 17:19:35    2591034

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Replying To Leitrim1234:  "Kildare have improved considerably since last year and with the new rules you can't just 'try' and shut up shop. Along with the fact that from last weeks starting team we probably won't have Jordan Reynolds and potentially Tom Prior (who will have been celebrating for the last few days and has played 4 games in the last two weeks already - last thing we need is another long term injury like Barry McNulty).

Darren Cox will come in to start but unless some of our other injured players are fit to return we really are down to the bare bones of what is already our second choice panel if we are being honest.

Anyone know what our U20s schedule has been like lately? Have Honeyman or McNamara been involved with them at all?"
They were comfortably beaten by a Longford team without their senior forward Matthew Carey or any of their Freshers who contested the A final the other night, so down about 5-6 players.

Presumably none of our 'Senior' U20 players played.

Minors had a good result Sunday hopefully both can be in the shake up for Connacht Semi Finals (finish 3rd in a 5 team comp)

Dodgy_Pass (Leitrim) - Posts: 393 - 14/02/2025 17:53:44    2591039

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Replying To ThePowerhouse:  "Just to offer a bit of context, on the Leitrim forum you're predicting a "result" for Leitrim against Kildare at the weekend. If by a result you're predicting a very defeat then technically you can't be wrong. If you mean that we can be in anyway competitive then I'll put your rugby knowledge in the same category as your GAA knowledge."
What is a 'very defeat? Makes no sense. Perhaps you need an eye test because nowhere did I predict a result for us. I said it wouldn't surprise me knowing how flaky Kildare are. But that isn't saying we'll get one.

What has rugby got to do with this, talk sense man.

boxtyburgerbuns (Leitrim) - Posts: 126 - 14/02/2025 19:26:39    2591050

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Replying To LilywhiteGael:  "What's parking like near the ground lads? I was actually in that ground back in 1993. Athy played a challenge match there and we stayed in Ballinamore that night, the Kildare b Leitrim match was in Carrick the following day. We were both playing for Division 1 that day...Those were heady days for us all. Anyway looking forward to travelling up on Sunday"
Just park out the road heading out towards Shergar's grave - if you don't know it yourself maybe one of your colleagues will.

saorkick (Dublin) - Posts: 14 - 14/02/2025 22:01:04    2591073

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Anyone have a crack at the u20 squad ?

Honeyman2000 (Leitrim) - Posts: 15 - 15/02/2025 22:03:03    2591239

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Poachers comments in today's Sunday Independent

"It's a tough learning curve," admits Poacher, who says he made 65 phone calls to players when he took up the post. "When I came in, to be honest with you, no point beating about the bush, it was left in a pretty dismal state. There were a lot of structures that weren't there. There was no physio in place, there was no nutritionist in place, the S&C had been left drift away a bit. Some players hadn't been contacted for over two months. So the players were left very much in limbo.


"I met a county board who were very enthusiastic, very passionate football men who really wanted what was best for Leitrim football and to move it forward. Their whole emphasis was development and youth, not about winning, it wasn't about begging players to come out of retirement. I had 65 conversations, 65 phone calls, and met players on a one-to-one basis. I had some really good, open, frank discussions and really and truly, there were very few players who said no to us; players had already probably made up their mind


"And we have to be realistic from a football point of view, when all of those players were available last year, Leitrim were still beaten by 14 points by Laois in a league final in Croke Park. That's the reality. We are not inheriting a team that is competing for Connacht titles.

"The only real question I have to answer now, for me, is where is this going to be in three or four years time? This is a development project, this is not a short-term project, and that is the key message: we want a group of players who are willing to commit for three or four years. Not dip in when it's Division 4 and when they get to Division 3 not fancy it because it's too tight and too tough

Dodgy_Pass (Leitrim) - Posts: 393 - 16/02/2025 10:54:39    2591302

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Replying To Dodgy_Pass:  "Poachers comments in today's Sunday Independent

"It's a tough learning curve," admits Poacher, who says he made 65 phone calls to players when he took up the post. "When I came in, to be honest with you, no point beating about the bush, it was left in a pretty dismal state. There were a lot of structures that weren't there. There was no physio in place, there was no nutritionist in place, the S&C had been left drift away a bit. Some players hadn't been contacted for over two months. So the players were left very much in limbo.


"I met a county board who were very enthusiastic, very passionate football men who really wanted what was best for Leitrim football and to move it forward. Their whole emphasis was development and youth, not about winning, it wasn't about begging players to come out of retirement. I had 65 conversations, 65 phone calls, and met players on a one-to-one basis. I had some really good, open, frank discussions and really and truly, there were very few players who said no to us; players had already probably made up their mind


"And we have to be realistic from a football point of view, when all of those players were available last year, Leitrim were still beaten by 14 points by Laois in a league final in Croke Park. That's the reality. We are not inheriting a team that is competing for Connacht titles.

"The only real question I have to answer now, for me, is where is this going to be in three or four years time? This is a development project, this is not a short-term project, and that is the key message: we want a group of players who are willing to commit for three or four years. Not dip in when it's Division 4 and when they get to Division 3 not fancy it because it's too tight and too tough"
The bus won't be able to move with the amount of people being thrown under it there

boxtyburgerbuns (Leitrim) - Posts: 126 - 16/02/2025 11:49:10    2591308

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