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Its high time the whole championship was re-structured.The provincial championships are dead and everyone knows it. Condorman (Dublin) - Posts: 983 - 11/07/2016 18:08:43 1881184 Link 0 |
How is it flawed. They showed gradual improvement during and we were decent enough, unlike Leinster counties to leave them in hook line and sinker.
Oldtourman (Limerick) - Posts: 4344 - 11/07/2016 21:09:56 1881370 Link 0 |
Great post, Marlon. Totally agree.
PoolSturgeon (Galway) - Posts: 1907 - 11/07/2016 22:20:13 1881432 Link 0 |
Find one Galway person to agree with you!
keeper7 (Longford) - Posts: 4088 - 12/07/2016 02:53:05 1881501 Link 0 |
Were they at senior games in Munster involving in late sixties when the Maroon brigade were giving plenty of it to Cork and Tipp or 71 when they had a titanic game with Tipp in their second year out of Munster? Oh silly me when we played them in the 2002 All Ireland Final Martin Brehony, himself a Galway man reckoned that there was twenty LK people at the game for every one Galway man. Well I was at many of those Championship games and I can assure Galway hurling teams were improving in those years.
Oldtourman (Limerick) - Posts: 4344 - 12/07/2016 10:02:40 1881571 Link 0 |
Perhaps you're right. Why did they pull out of Munster then, though? keeper7 (Longford) - Posts: 4088 - 12/07/2016 13:01:45 1881752 Link 0 |
Well in 1970, their first year out of Munster, they qualified for the All Ireland Minor Final and they won their first All Ireland U 21 Final in 1972, so I think they did benefit from their spell down here..
Oldtourman (Limerick) - Posts: 4344 - 12/07/2016 20:26:48 1882099 Link 0 |
While their seniors were competing in Munster in the 60's it's hard to see how their minors & U21s would have subsequently benefited in the 70's.
keeper7 (Longford) - Posts: 4088 - 13/07/2016 01:51:19 1882287 Link 0 |
Correct, but who are the ones harping on about it? TBH the current structures in hurling are designed to keep the strong stronger and is doing nothing to bring more counties up to the required level. Time for a structured open draw with everyone entering at the right level, i.e. Div 2 teams playing off for the right at a crack at a Div1B team, the winners going on to face a Div1A team, semi-finals and so on. In relation to the minors, in Munster you can afford to lose a game and still proceed and that's not to mention the Munster and Leinster final losers getting to meet Galway and Ulster champions. Yes, cut the Ulster teams off even more and then give us degrading and insulting moral platitudes about keeping the game going up there!! bricktop (Down) - Posts: 2503 - 13/07/2016 10:44:40 1882384 Link 1 |
"TBH the current structures in hurling are designed to keep the strong stronger and is doing nothing to bring more counties up to the required level." keeper7 (Longford) - Posts: 4088 - 13/07/2016 12:47:40 1882462 Link 0 |
Until the attitude towards hurling within counties like my own (& yours) changes it doesn't matter what structure is there. bricktop (Down) - Posts: 2503 - 13/07/2016 13:04:10 1882478 Link 1 |
Agreed. My issue with keeping the weaker counties hurling into August is that it leaves no scope for the hurling clubs in those counties who already are contending with dual players with club football commitments. keeper7 (Longford) - Posts: 4088 - 13/07/2016 13:52:24 1882510 Link 0 |