Duelplayer you have a chip on your shoulder. Stop trying to create a hurling/football issue. Your insecurity about your sport is laughable. This is a club issue. For the record neither the football manager nor the hurling manager should have the power to call off championship fixtures. It destroys the club scene and totally messes up the plans of 14 panels X 25 odd players rather than 30 county players in this case.

Ironically if you are really from a dual club the mess in August will be unspeakable for your club if there are 4 football and latter stage of hurling championship to play

The soccer players prepare for a champions league semi final by playing league game at the weekend. There was Davis cup then league this week over 5 days. Mickey Burke is released every year by MOD to play championship so your arguments make no sense. Players need to play not be wrapped up in cotton wool.

The manger has had 6 months to prepare his charges for this game. Having them play the week before wont make any more difference than 2 weeks. (if you do a hamstring it's min 3 weeks) I assume based on what you are throwing out that you are a part of the hurling set up yourself. Is that true? I have no axe to grind with any sport. My interest is the club game

Absolutely mental set up. Needs to be addressed big time

bert09 (Meath) - Posts: 1792 - 04/05/2016 21:56:42    1852128

It's a terrible setup. There's at least 600 club players who are left in the dark for the sake of the hurlers. Why not play football championship for those involved with the Meath hurlers this weekend, and again next Thursday. The fact they just called the fixtures off and didn't even consult the clubs involved.

The county board have gambled the entire fixture planner for the year on the hurlers not reaching the Christy Ring semi-final which is a joke.

begining (UK) - Posts: 300 - 05/05/2016 08:56:24    1852143

Really are we not just getting to the stage where the club league and championship are combined to groups that would give teams maybe 8 matches and start it off in april and have it finished by june/july.
At least it would be a definite season and everybody could plan their lives.
Really the club player since the qualifiers were introduced have been completely messed about and treated completely
unfairly.

Foley91 (Meath) - Posts: 418 - 05/05/2016 09:17:32    1852149

Goldback (Meath)
Quiet the opposite Mr Goldback , I am involved with a small rural club and also involved with both our Football and hurling teams. We struggle for numbers for league matches but we always fulfill our fixtures and are quiet competitive in both league and championship each year. This all despite our two best players been involved with the county senior teams, one in football and one in hurling, and both have started every match this year for their county senior teams. Our clubs philosophy is to support our players on the county teams and the squads they play for. We want our players and county teams to play at the highest level they can and achieve their goals at this level. If this means we are without these players for the vast majority of the year well so be it. We also know that these players will come back to our club bigger, better, fitter and stronger than they would if they were not on the county teams , so it a win win for us.
I ask you this question , Why do we coach our players from the age of 6 years old ? Is it to only play for the club ?
Well in our club we coach our players to be the best that they can be, we work on their skills and attitude and instill the the core values of the GAA into them in the hope that some day they will pull on the county jersey at some stage in either football or hurling. At our club we take it as a complement to our coaches at under age level and beyond that we have helped a young player develop into a player that is of inter county standard.
You on the other hand Goldback can only see the club, your club you can not see beyond the end of your nose to see the wider picture of a fully committed inter county player.
Long live the GAA
Long Live The Club,
Long Live the county.

duelplayer1 (Meath) - Posts: 97 - 05/05/2016 09:22:51    1852153

Could this scenario involving the hurlers not have been anticipated? After all, the win for the hurlers was great and very welcome and could have gone either way but it was hardly a massive shock either. So why was this scenario not accounted for in the fixtures planning and, as you say, football planned for this weekend?

oldsam_newsam (Meath) - Posts: 638 - 05/05/2016 11:00:17    1852203

The hurling scenario should have been planned for. I note that the chairman of the CCC said that the Christy Ring games are 2 weeks ahead of where they were in prior years. The other major problem is that the county squad were away in Donegal last weekend, thus ensuring no championship games could be played.
I'm wondering why there were not 2 championship games in April and 1 in May like the last number of years.

GoalsWinGames (Meath) - Posts: 303 - 05/05/2016 12:02:26    1852238

In my opinion, you can talk about the hurling and football, Managers not accepting this condition and that condition but the fact of the matter is that the Count Board messed up once again(has done year in, year out) and are not allowing football or hurling players to plan more that 7 days ahead in an amateur sport where players have so many other commitments. Also they were so many games postponed which could of been filled in with the teams who can play if they did a bit of research.

rightthere (Meath) - Posts: 128 - 05/05/2016 12:17:36    1852247

Total disregard being shown to club players by the county board/fixtures committee. Without a decent club structure, proper fixtures calendar drawn up at the start of the year, and adhered to, our county set up will continuously be p***ing against the wind. At the end of the day there would not be a county team without the clubs & the current situation where club players don't know what way fixtures are going to be thrown at them is only going to drive more & more players away from our games. Catering for the elite and sod the rest in true Irish fashion!!

royal87 (Meath) - Posts: 91 - 05/05/2016 12:54:12    1852263

Bottom line here is the CCC planned fixtures for the hurlers to fail, they did not take into consideration that the hurlers could reach the semi final.
Its all down to the CCC. The ring cup fixtures are on GAA.IE since January and this master planner was issued to the clubs in late February.

duelplayer1 (Meath) - Posts: 97 - 05/05/2016 16:19:39    1852379

Is there a county board meeting in Carlanstown tonight ? There should be a rising and fixtures as planned should be adhered to. This is father ted stuff at this stage

Analyst (Meath) - Posts:563 - 04/05/2016 13:39:03 1851923

ANALYST - any word on this meeting that was held in Carlanstown???

Also your previous:
On the training issue this comes from club managers who have players in on the panel, yes the hill of tara is back in vogue and the sight of a football is rare indeed. Doesn't the amount of defections speak volumes.
Analyst (Meath) - Posts:563 - 04/05/2016 19:07:13

((You sound like a very knowledgeable man that speaks to a lot of a managers around the county ))

Sure is the club scene not all about running these days and even at club training lads rarely see a ball which baffles me as the game is called FOOTBALL.
And so if this is the case I'm sure lads would rather run on the hill of tara than run on the pitch looking at goalposts and footballs on the side of the pitch in the bag!!!

Would you not agree??

letDballdoDwork (Meath) - Posts: 6 - 06/05/2016 15:52:14    1852614

Is there a county board meeting in Carlanstown tonight ? There should be a rising and fixtures as planned should be adhered to. This is father ted stuff at this stage

Analyst (Meath) - Posts:563 - 04/05/2016 13:39:03 1851923

ANALYST - any word on this meeting that was held in Carlanstown???

Also your previous:
On the training issue this comes from club managers who have players in on the panel, yes the hill of tara is back in vogue and the sight of a football is rare indeed. Doesn't the amount of defections speak volumes.
Analyst (Meath) - Posts:563 - 04/05/2016 19:07:13

((You sound like a very knowledgeable man that speaks to a lot of a managers around the county ))

Sure is the club scene not all about running these days and even at club training lads rarely see a ball which baffles me as the game is called FOOTBALL.
And so if this is the case I'm sure lads would rather run on the hill of tara than run on the pitch looking at goalposts and footballs on the side of the pitch in the bag!!!

Would you not agree??

letDballdoDwork (Meath) - Posts: 6 - 06/05/2016 16:05:24    1852618

Another prime example of the disaster that is the county board. Just noticed the fixtures for b-league for monday night. This is giving players 3 days notice for a game. MADNESS

rightthere (Meath) - Posts: 128 - 06/05/2016 16:26:52    1852622

Not sure what clubs are at that but of the 6 or 7 clubs that i would know lads from the days of just running around the pitch are gone. Lads will of course do running but the old days of 12 laps are long gone

Analyst (Meath) - Posts: 1467 - 06/05/2016 17:29:31    1852636

We got text Thursday afternoon on B league so I make that 5 days ... Anyway a game is better than training in my mind

numberedjerseys (USA) - Posts: 348 - 06/05/2016 21:55:31    1852678