Replying To Collio:  "Outside of the hurlers who isn't in that should be for the footballers? Not sure why we always try put them down."

Replying To Onion Breath:  "As I a said above I'm not putting the footballers down at all. I'm making the factual comment that the footballers are always missing some.

Players have their own reasons for not committing and in each case that's 100% fair enough. They're amateurs. And so are the hurlers.

I'm not going to name players for that very reason. They all have their own reasons. Some prefer to play soccer in the local pub league, others are studying for exams, others want to concentrate solely on their club, some are building a house, some are working away from Carlow and it's too much to get back to train for county and so on. All valid reasons. It's great that the hurlers aren't affected in the same way. That's my point."

Replying To Onion Breath:  "It's not a "drive by" or a criticism of the footballers at all. All credit to the ones who are in there and have committed. It's a factual comment that for whatever reason though there surely is no question that the footballers have never ever been in the position the hurlers currently are where the strongest players in the county are all in with no exceptions (that I can think of anyway).

It is a fact the footballers never have had the strongest team that this county could put out on paper. That has been the case over the years and including through all of the eras when we had some success (success by Carlow standards anyway). The Paudie Doyle team of the 80s, the Bobby Millar of the 90's, the Liam Hayes team of the 00's, the Turlo/Poacher team of the last decade and again this year's promotion winning squad is definitely short a handful of players who aren't available for their own reasons."