Mayo and Sligo have a minor hurling team

cuchulainn35 (Armagh) - Posts: 1676 - 17/04/2016 10:11:57    1846325

Meath beat Wicklow by 45 points in hurling last week. Where were all the calls to bar Wicklow and force them to put more resources into hurling?

CastleBravo (Meath) - Posts:845 - 16/04/2016 20:58:08 1846289

They take same hammering in football unfortunetly as well, i agreee Hurling is treated poorly in a lot of counties , but that usually is the county boards lack of ambition or interest, In a lot of mainly football counties hurling is still respected even though the effort put in should be greater.
Kilkenny have total contempt for football, totally different. Kids that chose football are like the village lepers
They have no problem watching young lads humiliated , because they haven't taken to the hurl and sliothar.
Id agree with Cue ,
Definetly think Dubs should boycott spending any money in Kilkenny for their championship opener. The irony of having a sellout championship football game in a county that hates football . When a county like Laois that promotes both codes has a bigger capacity stadium and a strong chance that they will be the opponents is overlooked.

AthCliath (Dublin) - Posts: 4347 - 17/04/2016 10:38:02    1846330

Mayo and Sligo have a minor hurling team

cuchulainn35 (Armagh) - Posts: 1676 - 17/04/2016 10:47:17    1846333

Cavanman,

The decision to withdraw your county senior hurling team was taken 5 years ago. There was a great lad employed there for 3 years who did massive work to get proper underage structures in place but after he left 2 years ago the whole thing took a nosedive. Cavan are now almost back to where they started 5 years ago.

keeper7 (Longford) - Posts: 4088 - 17/04/2016 11:10:30    1846337

I gather that the Kilkenny county board were under pressure from the Leinster council and business interests locally to make some token gesture towards football in order to justify the Marble city being chosen to host the lucrative money spinning 'Dubs on tour' event.
This gesture falls well short of being enough!

Curlew66 (Roscommon) - Posts: 507 - 17/04/2016 11:21:16    1846341

AthCliath

You are absolutely correct here. Mind you it will take place here and the general public will spend money in Kilkenny as the masses of people probably do not care or even know about the result yesterday .

On another note - the match shouldn't be in Kilkenny anyway should it ?

TheRightStuff (Donegal) - Posts: 1688 - 17/04/2016 11:27:56    1846342

Ath Cliath Nowlan Park may be smaller than O Moore Park but the Kilkenny venue has more seats.

OLLIE (Louth) - Posts: 12224 - 17/04/2016 11:43:05    1846347

A result like yesterday does nothing for the Kilkenny players, to be humiliated is demoralising for those lads. Whoever in the Co. Board can stand by and see a result like that, should be ashamed, but their minor footballers are used to defeats like that sadly.
Anyone who thinks Kilkenny will face sanctions from Croke Park, knows there are 2chances of that. No other county would get away with it.
There is a penalty in soccer called bringing the game into disrepute, is there no similar sanction in the GAA?
Dublin should refuse to play their SFC game there later in the summer.

thelongridge (Offaly) - Posts: 1751 - 17/04/2016 11:59:30    1846356

Terintom
When was that it was at least 10 years ago. I will say we can't preach to much about Kilkenny co board in Wexford. Wexford co board have very little respect for football in wex and players a been told at underage levels (minor especially) that if they play football it will go against there chances of been on the hurling team.

mrfox (Wexford) - Posts: 338 - 17/04/2016 12:17:23    1846360

I agree with the poster earlier who says that it's time (in fact it is way overtime) that the 2 sports were separated. People here are referring to "our sports". Fair enough, for them that works. But obviously for KK people it doesn't. Have to say it doesn't work for me either.

PoolSturgeon (Galway) - Posts: 1907 - 17/04/2016 12:38:07    1846365

Ollie sure nowlan park has more seats than thurles too haha but they don't play a hurling quarter final there.
the real reason game is in nowlan park is because portlaoise town cannot cope traffic wise with a full house.

hill16no1man (Dublin) - Posts: 12665 - 17/04/2016 13:28:22    1846377

It all about money there are i believe 15 football clubs in Kilkenny, fermanagh were getting bashed on another thread but the produce a senior hurling team out of just 1 club. Cut Kilkenny funding to the hurlers then you will see a bit of effort in to football. No county out as little effort into hurling as the cats do in football.

ros1 (Roscommon) - Posts: 1211 - 17/04/2016 14:04:07    1846383

Ath Cliath Nowlan Park may be smaller than O Moore Park but the Kilkenny venue has more seats.

OLLIE (Louth) - Posts:8981 - 17/04/2016 11:43:05 1846347[

I know, I'm sure having extra seats was a factor when considering season ticket holders, Also the traffic in and out on the day would have been a concern for O Moore park.
Doesn't make it right choice as a venue though. This result yesterday although not new or unique just shows the irony of it.

AthCliath (Dublin) - Posts: 4347 - 17/04/2016 14:12:17    1846388

"Not sure why people are having a go at Kilkenny. Look at My County between Bray Arklow and Greystones thers over 60 thousand people and if you picked a team between the lot of them they wouldn't win the Wicklow Championship. Wicklow Co Board should hold there heads in shame the same people are in charge as long as I can remember and I'm 62 yrs old.Bar the odd game once in a blue moon we are getting hammered at under age level year in year out .Unless there is professional people put charge it's going to remain as it is. People give out about the funding Dublin get but they put it to good use and look after under age players from under 8 upwards. If you have funding to the clowns that run some of the County Boards around the country they would just waste it.That my friends is why weak counties will always remain weak .

dubarra (Wicklow)"

Great post.

keeper7 (Longford) - Posts: 4088 - 17/04/2016 14:17:36    1846389

cuchulainn35,

"Mayo and Sligo have a minor hurling team"

No they don't. The All-Ireland Minor Hurling 'C' competition has been scrapped so Mayo, Sligo, Leitrim & Longford have no intercounty competition to play in. The Ulster counties have a minor league/shield thingy in place but no national competition. I think the Minor 'B' was scrapped too but has been reinstated after counties objected. A Longford Development Squad has qualified for the Westmeath Minor Hurling League Final but now they will have no intercounty competition to play in. It's a disgrace.

keeper7 (Longford) - Posts: 4088 - 17/04/2016 14:32:23    1846393

Hill 16 I take it that you were never in Semple if you think Nowlan Park has more seats than Semple.

OLLIE (Louth) - Posts: 12224 - 17/04/2016 14:50:58    1846397

They talk about contempt for football in Kilkenny. Well I went down to my local GAA club today (insofar as it's a GAA club though it's a football club in a football county with a token involvement in hurling) to watch the hurling league semi finals. I walked in and saw Leicester and West Ham on one TV and I think Rangers and Celtic was on on the other TV. There might have been one or two others in the bar but that's about the size of the crowd that was there. I asked the barman could he put the hurling on. He said no, both TVs were being used. Have to say it was a pleasure to walk out of the bar and it will be a long time before I will be back.

PoolSturgeon (Galway) - Posts: 1907 - 17/04/2016 15:32:29    1846406

clare 4-22 KK 2-19

Kikennys attitude to hurling is a disgrace!

ZUL10 (Clare) - Posts: 693 - 17/04/2016 17:38:31    1846452

And Pool two hurling largely only clubs in Galway actively discourage the big ball game once they reached u16 yet both clubs have won county A football feile in recent years. Swings and roundabouts in Galway am afraid and our current financial dilemma is a hurling created problem with the failed centre of excellence. However I agree that showing soccer in a GAA club bar above the other GAA code is poor form.

kiloughter (Galway) - Posts: 1947 - 17/04/2016 18:53:51    1846481

Surely Wexford management should not have allowed this to happen.

liner (Mayo) - Posts: 756 - 17/04/2016 18:55:19    1846483