Replying To Carlowrising: "It was Summer 2023 we beat Longford, although Longford could be the new Waterford by looks of it"
Longford were in Division 3 that year. Bad season so far this year but they are the current Leinster minor champions so Longford will recover soon enough.
Replying To Onion Breath: ""The tedious bit was finding out low long Carlow is in div.4 without getting promoted."
Jeez that wouldn't be hard to find. Promoted three times in the last 45 years. Twice in the mid 80's and then recently under Turlo.
Remember though that during that time sometimes the league was just randomly drawn i.e. divisions weren't done on merit like they are now and you could end up with anybody so no county ever got promoted that way and then there was a revamp to 3 divisions, 1, 2 and 3 south and 3 North but we never got up, then it changed again to just two Divisions, 1 and 2 which were divided into A and B so for Carlow to get into the top 16 (Div 1) would have been a challenge but we nearly did it once when collapsed on the last day v Wexford after a great campaign under Cyril Hughes when a draw would have put us up but Wexford hammered us which was a huge blow as they didn't have anything to play for I think complacency caught Carlow that day.
So while we might not have got promoted often, at the same time we weren't always only playing Div 4/bottom 8 standard teams so you not always comparing like with like. One year we were in the same division as Mayo and Cork and we played both a couple of months after they had both played in all Ireland semi finals so a bit different to what we face now in the league."
That's why I assumed he had to be trolling.
I think in 1997 we played Galway AND Mayo in the league. Totally different to what you'd face now.
Replying To CARPS: "Three times. 1983 and 1986 under Vinny Harvey and in 2018 under Turlough.
Cyril's team was in 1999, I think. That was a strong panel which got absolutely messed around with the four red cards against Westmeath.
After that, the county board wasted a decade with outside managers before Luke Dempsey improved things a bit.
It's worth nothing that in most of the period since 1960-odd, the league wasn't split into four simple divisions. We had various formats, like 2A/2B or even evenly matched groups. So some of the time Carlow would have shown Division Two or Three form, but it wouldn't translate easily to the current format.
I remember one year in the sixties we were in with Kerry, Cork, Kildare and Wexford (all very strong teams then) and I think we came 2nd or 3rd."
That match against Westmeath was a catastrophe. We were on the up and the time and to my mind, it set us back years. Westmeath kicked on thereafter for their own golden spell. Am I right in saying that a replay was acceded to by the Leinster Council, but Westmeath dug their heels in? We were used as "guinea pigs" that day as Cyril Hughes rightly put it, "sent down here to practice on us".
Say what we want about our friends immediately across the Barrow, but Laois provided fair play in the 90s in the replay of that championship game.
Replying To Blackbog: "Team Posted for Sunday on Carlow gaa twitter Don't see any new names on team sheet Clarke is back on management team. Have I missed them out"
Collie Byrne is back in on the team. If I'm not mistaken he had left the squad and was back playing for Rathvilly but he's obviously back in now and is picked for Sunday. Don't see anyone else back in. I'd say it'll be the TC before we see one or two more back on the team or matchday squad. I see choo choo is on the bench but he'll be an impact sub anyway as soon as we need him which could be early. Good to see Kevin Murphy starting.
Replying To Passer_By: "That match against Westmeath was a catastrophe. We were on the up and the time and to my mind, it set us back years. Westmeath kicked on thereafter for their own golden spell. Am I right in saying that a replay was acceded to by the Leinster Council, but Westmeath dug their heels in? We were used as "guinea pigs" that day as Cyril Hughes rightly put it, "sent down here to practice on us".
Say what we want about our friends immediately across the Barrow, but Laois provided fair play in the 90s in the replay of that championship game."
I was at the Westmeath match and it was a farce but there wasn't any mention of a replay to be honest.
The worst of the sendings off was a Carlow player barely putting his hand on the shoulder of a Westmeath man as they contested a high ball. As we gave out about the awarding of a free the ref reached for the red.
I've never heard a crowd so silent in disbelief.
Out of the reds only one was deserved, when our hard working midfielder mistimed a shoulder and sent a player nearly out over the fence.