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Replying To Clonbonnyrabbitt: "We get to see which group is a farce again in this years championship" Is there relegation this year in the championship B&G (Longford) - Posts: 377 - 24/05/2025 20:44:20 2612177 Link
Replying To B&G: "Is there relegation this year in the championship" 2 go down, 1 comes up and SFC reduces from 12 to 11 next year. The plan is to have 10 in senior, 8 in intermediate and 6 in junior (3 Junior clubs, 3 second teams) by the end of 2026. That's the theory, in practice it will probably depend on who gets relegated or fails to get promoted and what short-term interest they start lobbying for next Spring. LongfordgaaAbú (Longford) - Posts: 620 - 25/05/2025 12:06:55 2612324 Link
Replying To B&G: "Is there relegation this year in the championship" Probably not sure there hasn't been proper relegation for a long time. Might as well have a 20 team senior championship Clonbonnyrabbitt (Longford) - Posts: 62 - 25/05/2025 12:40:29 2612345 Link
Replying To B&G: "Is there relegation this year in the championship" My guess is that we will have a 12 team championship next year. If Fr. Manning Gaels surprise us and stay clear of the 2 relegation spots, then we will have 13 teams playing Senior football next year. Bookmark this now!!! Oddball (Roscommon) - Posts: 959 - 25/05/2025 20:36:31 2612523 Link
What time is the draw? I assume it's on Shannonside? Rockshorecider (Longford) - Posts: 64 - 26/05/2025 10:35:43 2612650 Link
A 12 team round robin of two groups with 5 games to determine the quarter finalists. The bottom 2 in each group then go into a round robin group of 4 with the bottom 2 in that being relegated. Only in Longford!!! Mostrim and Fr Manning Gaels also handily kept apart to avoid one group being over before it starts Clonbonnyrabbitt (Longford) - Posts: 62 - 27/05/2025 13:10:47 2613033 Link
Replying To Clonbonnyrabbitt: "A 12 team round robin of two groups with 5 games to determine the quarter finalists. The bottom 2 in each group then go into a round robin group of 4 with the bottom 2 in that being relegated. Only in Longford!!! Mostrim and Fr Manning Gaels also handily kept apart to avoid one group being over before it starts" What are the groups B&G (Longford) - Posts: 377 - 27/05/2025 16:19:47 2613089 Link
Peter Hanley Motors Longford Senior Football Championship Draw. 2 groups of 6 with top 4 into Q Finals. 2 Relegated. First Round; Group A Killoe v Granard Dromard v Mostrim Colmcille v Carrickedmond Group B Slashers v Clonguish Mullinalaghta v Rathcline Drumlish v Abbeylara Mulleady Group Longford Intermediate Football Championship Draw; Intermediate: 2 groups of 4. Top 2 into semi finals. 2 teams relegated. 1st Round; Group A; Grattan Og v Ardagh/Moydow. Killashee St. Brigids vs Sean Connolly's. Group B: Cashel v Ballymore. Kenagh v Ballymahon The Longford Junior A Championshio will consist of 6 teams made up of the sole junior club in the county; Legan Sarsfields and the second strings of 5 senior clubs. They will play a round robin format. 1st Round; Carrick v Killoe, Slashers v Clonguish , Colmcille v Legan LongfordSham (Longford) - Posts: 124 - 27/05/2025 16:34:26 2613093 Link
Replying To B&G: "What are the groups" Group 1 Colmcille Killoe Granard Carrickedmond Dromard Mostrim Group Abbeylara Longford Slashers Mullineachta Rathcline Clongish Fr Manning Gaels Clonbonnyrabbitt (Longford) - Posts: 62 - 27/05/2025 16:35:36 2613095 Link
Well done to the County Minors on a great win on Saturday. Never a bad day when you win an all ireland title of any stripe. Management and players deserve great credit. Good to get the win yesterday against Carlow and end the year on a positive note. Matthew Carey turning into a two pointer pro. Very poor season for Longford, no dressing it up, but have to push on and keep developing lads and trying different things. Next year expectations on management will be higher. Could really use those extra O'Byrne Cup games. I read that Paddy Collum has retired. A fantastic keeper right to the end, some great saves yesterday too. Fair play and best of luck to him. LongfordgaaAbú (Longford) - Posts: 620 - 02/06/2025 14:10:14 2614313 Link
At least we finally got a win. Outstanding performance from Matthew. When he is on his day he is as accurate as anyone. I would like Solan to stay on and keep this rebuild going. All the best to Paddy Collum on his retirement. 130 appearances he does not owe the county a thing. That is the last of that 2010 Leinster group. With the demands of the modern era it will be unlikely we will see too many more players playing for as long liosbreac6265 (Longford) - Posts: 260 - 03/06/2025 09:53:22 2614484 Link
Hopefully solan stays on but the worry is that mayo will be looking for a new manager and he will be well regarded for it. Thanks to all the players for their commitment this year. Hopefully brighter times are ahead in the future for the group. Just need to keep striving. Rockshorecider (Longford) - Posts: 64 - 03/06/2025 21:03:03 2614674 Link
Replying To Rockshorecider: "Hopefully solan stays on but the worry is that mayo will be looking for a new manager and he will be well regarded for it. Thanks to all the players for their commitment this year. Hopefully brighter times are ahead in the future for the group. Just need to keep striving." With all due respect to Solan who I think is doing a decent job i don't think Mayo are going to be looking at a manager who won three games all year with Longford. Clonbonnyrabbitt (Longford) - Posts: 62 - 04/06/2025 17:37:18 2614922 Link
Replying To LongfordgaaAbú: "Grattans flying, would be some achievement if they keep it up. Clonguish will win division 1 and leader cup and the championship. Clocking up big scorelines and without the county's top scorer who will be back once Tailteann is over. This is their breakthrough year." I must say, this has aged like a fine wine. Grattans still flying, though will probably lose on promotion in the end, but still a serious season for them. Meanwhile in Division 1... what's this I see??? Clonguish winning the title with two games left to play!!! I'll be back in a few weeks to update this again once they win the Leader Cup. This is fun. LongfordgaaAbú (Longford) - Posts: 620 - 07/06/2025 17:22:09 2615564 Link
They are starting to falter though! Mullinalaghta beat them tonight and were missing Paddy Fox and Donie McElligott. Spinx (Longford) - Posts: 1360 - 07/06/2025 21:55:56 2615634 Link
Replying To LongfordgaaAbú: "I must say, this has aged like a fine wine. Grattans still flying, though will probably lose on promotion in the end, but still a serious season for them. Meanwhile in Division 1... what's this I see??? Clonguish winning the title with two games left to play!!! I'll be back in a few weeks to update this again once they win the Leader Cup. This is fun." This is so transparent. If we do go on and win you have "I told you so" written in drafts. If we don't you have "overhyped Clonguish crumble" when the only one who has hyped the team is you. You should put one of your stats tables together on the number of times this formula has been done over the years!! liosbreac6265 (Longford) - Posts: 260 - 07/06/2025 23:51:16 2615662 Link
Replying To Spinx: "They are starting to falter though! Mullinalaghta beat them tonight and were missing Paddy Fox and Donie McElligott." Mullineacht will be one of the closest teams to winning the championship if they don't win it this year. So many excellent footballers on display and great kickers of the ball they had too much physicality for Clongusish last night again, Clonbonnyrabbitt (Longford) - Posts: 62 - 08/06/2025 14:56:43 2615741 Link
Replying To Spinx: "They are starting to falter though! Mullinalaghta beat them tonight and were missing Paddy Fox and Donie McElligott." Are you telling me Clonguish were at full strength? They were missing at least 14 players from what I was told!! 11 of them would be considered starters. Oddball (Roscommon) - Posts: 959 - 08/06/2025 16:24:49 2615777 Link
Replying To Oddball: "Are you telling me Clonguish were at full strength? They were missing at least 14 players from what I was told!! 11 of them would be considered starters." That's not what I heard. They were as close to full strength for this season as they will be. Conor Smith is injured and out for the year, so he won't be back for them. Spinx (Longford) - Posts: 1360 - 09/06/2025 12:08:22 2616061 Link
Replying To Spinx: "That's not what I heard. They were as close to full strength for this season as they will be. Conor Smith is injured and out for the year, so he won't be back for them." You are in cuckoo land!! Oddball (Roscommon) - Posts: 959 - 10/06/2025 10:47:23 2616325 Link