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Replying To CARPS:  "I warned stuff like this would happened when the county board ditched our wonderful split season.

Expect Naomh Brid to struggle badly this year and Carlow Town and Burren Rangers to go backwards too. And Mt Leinster Rangers to fall off in football.

The whole thing is a disaster."
All the above team's made little or no progress during the split season.
Our leinster club form dropped significantly in both codes.
Player's will have a preference for either hurling or football and split or non split won't change that.

At least now Player's that take their game seriously have a proper summers hurling or football to look foward to. Not a championship that is run off in 5 weeks.
That won't improve either code.

With small playing numbers like we have (especially in hurling)
Quality is more important the quantity.

Skippy2 (Carlow) - Posts: 82 - 14/03/2026 21:17:46    2661182

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I can safely say that was the worst performance of forward play I've ever seen from any team anywhere. Some of the misses in the first half were just jaw dropping. A 20m free kicked wide from in front of the posts was matched by another 4-5 equally shocking misses. Dreadful decision making then compounded it. Why would we move a 20m free back out to the 40m D for a two pointer when the free taker had been kicking wide after wide and very clearly we needed a score to settle us.

It started off bad (which is now usual - why do we start every game so badly) and it just seemed that Conor Doyle apart no one played without fear. The malaise and self doubts and fear of taking a shot on just spread through the team like wildfire.

Then the basic handling and ball control was just atrocious all over the park. They played like lads who never ever played football before. How can so many lads miss-solo a ball I cannot understand. We're getting to the stage of the season when skill levels should be getting sharper not the type of blunt lack of basic skill we saw tonight.

With a great start we got ourselves into a situation where we just needed to win one of our last three games to be promoted and now we're down to the last chance saloon. Mess this up and honestly we may just give it up. It would surely be the worst collapse of any GAA team in history. At this stage I can only hope that there will be a massive backlash next weekend and we take it out on Leitrim. But that's just hope on my part now, not belief that that's what will happen.

Onion Breath (Carlow) - Posts: 1798 - 14/03/2026 21:22:16    2661184

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Replying To CarlowJuniorB:  "As bad of a performance that I have seen in a long long time. The free missed right in front of the posts summed it up.

Onto next weekend. Still in our hands."
Correct me if I'm mistaken, I don't think it's still in our hands.

Should Tipperary beat Wicklow tomorrow and follow it up with a likely victory over Waterford they will finish on 11pts. Meanwhile if Longford defeat Leitrim tomorrow they would face Wicklow next week (if Wicklow lose tomorrow, they would have nothing to play for v Longford . Perhaps they would be potentially motivated to play their u20s again in this scenario as they won't want to face a newly promoted confident Carlow side in their opening Championship match 2 weeks later?) so, if both Tipperary & Longford win their next two games they will each finish on 11pts. We can only finish on 10pts with a win v Leitrim next week. In fact, Longford may only need to finish on 10pts as they have us beat on H2H - so a win and a draw is enough for Longford.

All eyes on Wicklow V Tipp tomorrow!

Bad showing from our lads tonight, a real missed opportunity. Not only that, but a 5 point loss equals our biggest ever defeat to London at home. Also happened in 2017 when London beat us 2-15 to 16pts on home turf. Please god Tipp don't win tomorrow and we get over the line next week against lovely Leitrim.

Carlowrising (Carlow) - Posts: 200 - 14/03/2026 21:30:23    2661185

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I have seen plenty of bad days but because of what was on the line today that has to be one of the worst performances ever by a Carlow Football team.
After losing to Longford you would think we would have rectified our mistakes & got over the line today.
No we sank deeper into our shell & put in a brutal performance. Having said that if we took our chances we could have won but there's no doubt the better team won. I sick after that & have no faith in them beating leitrim now. What do they say " it's the hope that kills you"
Team selection is also a major talking point. I've said it before but our kick outs are killing us. Not up to inter county standard but I'm sure I'll be pulled up on that. Starting John Phiri in his first game back after injury was also a mistake & I would have started John Murphy. We lacked leaders tonight & even though he's a good age now I would have loved to see Darragh Foley in the 26 as he could have steadied the ship. Joe will have a lot to ponder.
As always I'll go to the leitrim game in hope but tonight has left me bitterly disappointed & I've lost trust in this team

carlo (Carlow) - Posts: 316 - 14/03/2026 22:18:19    2661188

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Replying To CarlowJuniorB:  "As bad of a performance that I have seen in a long long time. The free missed right in front of the posts summed it up.

Onto next weekend. Still in our hands."
Very suprised how things have gone for Carlow over the last few weeks. Longford will probably beat us tomorrow and go top. Assuming no draw between Wicklow & Tipp, one of them will join ye so a lot of pressure going into next week. Ye probably will do enough to go up, can't see a win for us next weekend as the steam well and truly went out of our season after the London game.

Square_B (Leitrim) - Posts: 1869 - 14/03/2026 22:50:41    2661192

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Scratch that, my mistake, I see Tipperary are actually only on 6pts not 7 so thankfully it is still in our hands!

Carlowrising (Carlow) - Posts: 200 - 14/03/2026 23:00:51    2661195

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