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If yer looking for inspiration from Sligo, yer going to get it, because there going down with ye Timmy86 (Sligo) - Posts: 323 - 16/02/2025 14:19:50 2591337 Link
Replying To boxtyburgerbuns: "The bus won't be able to move with the amount of people being thrown under it there" Shur it's the truth. At least he's being honest about it, not like the last gawbeen. What he was paid would pay for a good prunty pitch somewhere... and what do we have to show for it? Sweet FA. Square_B (Leitrim) - Posts: 1159 - 16/02/2025 14:31:21 2591339 Link
Bring back Andy… KingdomOfBriefne (Cavan) - Posts: 11 - 16/02/2025 14:55:34 2591344 Link
Replying To Timmy86: "If yer looking for inspiration from Sligo, yer going to get it, because there going down with ye" You weren't at the Sligo Laois game. At least Sligo had a purple patch in the game and kicked 13 points. No shame in going down, at least ye are giving a decent effort. Lost to Kildare by 6 too williesboy (Leitrim) - Posts: 468 - 16/02/2025 15:16:31 2591348 Link
A better showing today but not until the game was gone from ye, the faith in Poacher may have been unjustified. martinjoe (Mayo) - Posts: 526 - 16/02/2025 15:46:35 2591356 Link
Replying To martinjoe: "A better showing today but not until the game was gone from ye, the faith in Poacher may have been unjustified." Poacher is only trying to clean up the mess your hero left. Square_B (Leitrim) - Posts: 1159 - 16/02/2025 15:57:52 2591361 Link
Martinjo we kicked 1 point in the 1st half. How in the name of god was this a better showing? Will u stick to your own page and stop following the game on twitter. Poacher talking nonsense in the build up to the game. Everyone else's fault except his by the sounds of it. A manager who cant manage but fires the blame game at everyone else but his own feet. Jesus if we have 4/5 years of him we will be aswell pack up and partition for a third tier. He is in the process of setting Leitrim football back 10 years in and its taken his 4 months to achieve this. Also just to note on the price of previous managers do we think Poacher coming from Down, McGrath coming from Belfast, Ledger coming Meath, Jones from Enniskillen, Morrison from Armagh are coming for free? Wise up this is costing as much if not more. Very nieve of ye to think that these lads are driving 2-3 hours for training for the going milage rate. Willies24 (Leitrim) - Posts: 23 - 16/02/2025 16:38:43 2591380 Link
Seems we are scoring less under conditions meant to improve scoring rates boxtyburgerbuns (Leitrim) - Posts: 126 - 16/02/2025 17:36:30 2591385 Link
Replying To Willies24: "Martinjo we kicked 1 point in the 1st half. How in the name of god was this a better showing? Will u stick to your own page and stop following the game on twitter. Poacher talking nonsense in the build up to the game. Everyone else's fault except his by the sounds of it. A manager who cant manage but fires the blame game at everyone else but his own feet. Jesus if we have 4/5 years of him we will be aswell pack up and partition for a third tier. He is in the process of setting Leitrim football back 10 years in and its taken his 4 months to achieve this. Also just to note on the price of previous managers do we think Poacher coming from Down, McGrath coming from Belfast, Ledger coming Meath, Jones from Enniskillen, Morrison from Armagh are coming for free? Wise up this is costing as much if not more. Very nieve of ye to think that these lads are driving 2-3 hours for training for the going milage rate." Surly Jones is living in Leitrim Village now..... and now costing us awful much....... senior set up waste of money and has been for the last number of years. We should call a spade a spade Kildare shouldn't be Division 3 but they are and we shouldn't be division 3 Wexford should. But we are where we are, let's pump all the money we have into this great management team, where not one of them have any idea what Leitrim football is like or what players we have. At least Andy had a couple of former Leitrim players in around him when he started. But anyways, is it true Darren Cox walked aswell? #leitrimsinking Taytofoley83 (Leitrim) - Posts: 31 - 16/02/2025 17:38:00 2591386 Link
Replying To Taytofoley83: "Surly Jones is living in Leitrim Village now..... and now costing us awful much....... senior set up waste of money and has been for the last number of years. We should call a spade a spade Kildare shouldn't be Division 3 but they are and we shouldn't be division 3 Wexford should. But we are where we are, let's pump all the money we have into this great management team, where not one of them have any idea what Leitrim football is like or what players we have. At least Andy had a couple of former Leitrim players in around him when he started. But anyways, is it true Darren Cox walked aswell? #leitrimsinking" It's hard to argue that it isn't a huge waste of money, but I said the same for last management team also. 3rdmidfielder (Australia) - Posts: 371 - 16/02/2025 18:07:44 2591392 Link
You can't but feel sorry for for this young team that's suffering badly and today was a very tough watch. This is probably going to be the way for the last four games too. Any small progress made in last few years has been totally destroyed and we're heading back to division 4 probably with a record minus scoring difference after losing all 7 games. How are we going to recover from this and what will it do to these young lads confidence? It's a disaster and while I'm not absolving Poacher of blame by any means and probably giving that interview wasn't a wise move on his part but if we're all honest he's right in a lot of what he said. JimmyNail (Leitrim) - Posts: 269 - 16/02/2025 21:00:41 2591437 Link
Replying To boxtyburgerbuns: "Seems we are scoring less under conditions meant to improve scoring rates" But the teams ye are playing against are scoring plenty…not sure if that's to do with the rules though…. D.Hyde (Roscommon) - Posts: 235 - 16/02/2025 22:19:18 2591453 Link
If we are being honest with ourselves anyone who has a clue about football in the county knew these results were coming. The new rules mean that the cream always rises to the top and Div 3 was never going to pan out well with our panel. Unfortunately our age profile is just far too young for div 3 football. I have no doubt if you had a full team and blooded these young players a few at a time wed see massive development but its impossible for them to play well against quality opposition with no experience beside them. Jack foley (19) 2nd season Ben g(19) 2nd season Paul honeyman (19) 1st proper season Darren cox (19) 1st proper season Eanna mcnamara (18) 1st season Barry mcnulty(20) 3rd season Brian cull (19?) 1st season Eoin mcloughlin (23) 1st season Conor Quinn (21) 1st season Conall mcgovern (23) 1st season 2 harkins (1st season) The list goes on and on and on The reality is our average age versus laois was 23 years old. Beirne and squidgy the only players over 26. All players mentioned above have bags of potential and should have long intercounty careers The only positive that we can take out of this league format is that our players will see what it takes to become a competitive div 3 team and if this crew sticks together , some of the recently departed return and a few from the minors and 20s join throughout this development period we will become better for the future. Everyone is giving out about poacher, the man has come in and been handed the least experienced and youngest team in the country with only 2 months of preseason with all the new rules. Give him time Roadtodiv3 (Leitrim) - Posts: 8 - 17/02/2025 01:55:09 2591477 Link
Would Mohill beat the current Leitrim team? Has to be the worst leitrim team I can ever remember harleys (Leitrim) - Posts: 313 - 17/02/2025 08:10:03 2591488 Link
Replying To D.Hyde: "But the teams ye are playing against are scoring plenty…not sure if that's to do with the rules though…." Thanks for letting me know that, great post. boxtyburgerbuns (Leitrim) - Posts: 126 - 17/02/2025 08:13:25 2591489 Link
Replying To Roadtodiv3: "If we are being honest with ourselves anyone who has a clue about football in the county knew these results were coming. The new rules mean that the cream always rises to the top and Div 3 was never going to pan out well with our panel. Unfortunately our age profile is just far too young for div 3 football. I have no doubt if you had a full team and blooded these young players a few at a time wed see massive development but its impossible for them to play well against quality opposition with no experience beside them. Jack foley (19) 2nd season Ben g(19) 2nd season Paul honeyman (19) 1st proper season Darren cox (19) 1st proper season Eanna mcnamara (18) 1st season Barry mcnulty(20) 3rd season Brian cull (19?) 1st season Eoin mcloughlin (23) 1st season Conor Quinn (21) 1st season Conall mcgovern (23) 1st season 2 harkins (1st season) The list goes on and on and on The reality is our average age versus laois was 23 years old. Beirne and squidgy the only players over 26. All players mentioned above have bags of potential and should have long intercounty careers The only positive that we can take out of this league format is that our players will see what it takes to become a competitive div 3 team and if this crew sticks together , some of the recently departed return and a few from the minors and 20s join throughout this development period we will become better for the future. Everyone is giving out about poacher, the man has come in and been handed the least experienced and youngest team in the country with only 2 months of preseason with all the new rules. Give him time" But he wasn't handed the least experienced panel! He took over a panel that had achieved promotion and only had 2 possibly 3 departures. We have seen the lists of who left after his departure. Every manager in the country had 2 months with no preseason tournaments for everyone. Level playing field for everyone in that regard. Willies24 (Leitrim) - Posts: 23 - 17/02/2025 08:43:33 2591491 Link
Replying To JimmyNail: "You can't but feel sorry for for this young team that's suffering badly and today was a very tough watch. This is probably going to be the way for the last four games too. Any small progress made in last few years has been totally destroyed and we're heading back to division 4 probably with a record minus scoring difference after losing all 7 games. How are we going to recover from this and what will it do to these young lads confidence? It's a disaster and while I'm not absolving Poacher of blame by any means and probably giving that interview wasn't a wise move on his part but if we're all honest he's right in a lot of what he said." What will the Poacher pre match team talk consist of on April 20th? Keephimthere (Roscommon) - Posts: 109 - 17/02/2025 09:41:00 2591508 Link
Replying To harleys: "Would Mohill beat the current Leitrim team? Has to be the worst leitrim team I can ever remember" That's maybe a little hard. You are up in div3. You have played some of the stronger teams in it. You have still to play Sligo, Fermanagh and Antrim, probably the 3 games your management would have been targetting at the start of the year, although Offaly might put a score on you the way they are going atm. Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 14821 - 17/02/2025 09:45:29 2591510 Link
Replying To Roadtodiv3: "If we are being honest with ourselves anyone who has a clue about football in the county knew these results were coming. The new rules mean that the cream always rises to the top and Div 3 was never going to pan out well with our panel. Unfortunately our age profile is just far too young for div 3 football. I have no doubt if you had a full team and blooded these young players a few at a time wed see massive development but its impossible for them to play well against quality opposition with no experience beside them. Jack foley (19) 2nd season Ben g(19) 2nd season Paul honeyman (19) 1st proper season Darren cox (19) 1st proper season Eanna mcnamara (18) 1st season Barry mcnulty(20) 3rd season Brian cull (19?) 1st season Eoin mcloughlin (23) 1st season Conor Quinn (21) 1st season Conall mcgovern (23) 1st season 2 harkins (1st season) The list goes on and on and on The reality is our average age versus laois was 23 years old. Beirne and squidgy the only players over 26. All players mentioned above have bags of potential and should have long intercounty careers The only positive that we can take out of this league format is that our players will see what it takes to become a competitive div 3 team and if this crew sticks together , some of the recently departed return and a few from the minors and 20s join throughout this development period we will become better for the future. Everyone is giving out about poacher, the man has come in and been handed the least experienced and youngest team in the country with only 2 months of preseason with all the new rules. Give him time" No doubt the usual clowns will be on looking for a change in mgt. The attrition rate leitrim has for player's at senior intercounty is far too high in comparison with other counties and especially given the small playing pool within the county. No one should be berating the player's who are making themselves available to commit to the county and also if players don't want to commit that's fair enough too that's their decision. totalrecall (Leitrim) - Posts: 1008 - 17/02/2025 10:18:21 2591527 Link
We are at our level, a div 4 team who are good enough (or lucky enough) to get promoted occasionally. No shame in that. A county of 250,000 like Kildare shouldn't be down in Div 3 in any case. boxtyburgerbuns (Leitrim) - Posts: 126 - 17/02/2025 11:18:08 2591536 Link