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Replying To BadgerDog: "Well I would say that these guys are good enough to play Senior Club football in Longford but not in a lot of other counties. The standard of Longford club football is incredibly low." 100% all you have to do is watch Kill oe in 2023 against Lomans. Easiest match Lomans ever had in Leinster. Bluelake (Westmeath) - Posts: 368 - 03/09/2026 22:15:19 2692622 Link
Replying To Bluelake: "100% all you have to do is watch Kill oe in 2023 against Lomans. Easiest match Lomans ever had in Leinster." I think personally the towns in Westmeath skew it in our favour. Athlone and Mullingar are two of the biggest towns in Ireland that Longford don't have. Lomans/Downs now and Garrycadtle in the past are much stronger than most teams. But most teams in Westmeath no better than the Longford teams. My own club in senior b have been hammered by a couple of Longford teams in challenges. You have to go back to 2008 for a rural club in castle day won the Flanagan cup. Shamrocks and Downs have one apiece whilst lomans and garrycastle won all the rest. So let's not cod ourselves. Clubs in north Longford like dromard , Colmcille , Killoe , Clonguish, Abbeylara , Mullinalaghta all rural sides far ahead of our similar sized clubs in Westmeath. Look at tang / tyresllspass in a relegation scrap they're no better than Rathcline or Carrick . Paidi04 (Westmeath) - Posts: 21 - 04/09/2026 01:34:29 2692639 Link
Replying To Paidi04: "I think personally the towns in Westmeath skew it in our favour. Athlone and Mullingar are two of the biggest towns in Ireland that Longford don't have. Lomans/Downs now and Garrycadtle in the past are much stronger than most teams. But most teams in Westmeath no better than the Longford teams. My own club in senior b have been hammered by a couple of Longford teams in challenges. You have to go back to 2008 for a rural club in castle day won the Flanagan cup. Shamrocks and Downs have one apiece whilst lomans and garrycastle won all the rest. So let's not cod ourselves. Clubs in north Longford like dromard , Colmcille , Killoe , Clonguish, Abbeylara , Mullinalaghta all rural sides far ahead of our similar sized clubs in Westmeath. Look at tang / tyresllspass in a relegation scrap they're no better than Rathcline or Carrick ." That's fair enough but I would say Mostrim wouldn't get near an intermediate semi final here. Look I probably shouldn't be talking about Westmeath. Just think there are too many auld fellas playing in Longford, I think Frankie Dolan was right. Bluelake (Westmeath) - Posts: 368 - 04/09/2026 14:18:43 2692719 Link
With Joyce and his management team gone in Galway, does it now put Mickey Graham into the frame for the Longford job? He has been approached previously and I think would like to stay involved in inter county set-ups Maybe his style is more suited to old rules, but I think he'd be a good fit with a good backroom team around him and he'd have a good network for that rover08 (Longford) - Posts: 450 - 05/09/2026 07:36:00 2692794 Link
Replying To rover08: "With Joyce and his management team gone in Galway, does it now put Mickey Graham into the frame for the Longford job? He has been approached previously and I think would like to stay involved in inter county set-ups Maybe his style is more suited to old rules, but I think he'd be a good fit with a good backroom team around him and he'd have a good network for that" Frankie Dolan has the job B&G (Longford) - Posts: 447 - 05/09/2026 14:38:12 2692827 Link
Replying To B&G: "Frankie Dolan has the job" He said he doesn't want it williesboy (Leitrim) - Posts: 559 - 05/09/2026 20:55:12 2692850 Link
Congrats to Slashers today on winning the first back to back Longford Hurling Championships since Wolfe Tones in 2000 & 2001. 3 months before the championship started everyone knew it was going to be a Slashers Tones final. I think the aim of the county board should be of course to keep those 2 progressing, but put more emphasis on attracting young players to step up to senior grade for Clonguish and prevent hurling from dying in their club. Also I see Dromard, Shannon Gaels (Rathcline) and Kenagh all have teams competing in the U12 mini league. I think the county board should 100% try their best to make sure that those 3 progress into an u14 team, then u16, then minor then eventually a senior team. I mean wouldn't it just be spectacular in roughly 15 years time to have a 6 team Longford Hurling Championship Sportrex (Longford) - Posts: 28 - 06/09/2026 21:28:52 2692940 Link
Replying To Bluelake: "That's fair enough but I would say Mostrim wouldn't get near an intermediate semi final here. Look I probably shouldn't be talking about Westmeath. Just think there are too many auld fellas playing in Longford, I think Frankie Dolan was right." If structures were correct in Longford football Mostrim wouldn't be near an intermediate semi final in Longford either NorthLongfordforlife (Longford) - Posts: 11 - 07/09/2026 09:21:22 2692966 Link