What counties fix a round of club league games on St Patrick Day?

valley84 (Westmeath) - Posts: 1890 - 12/03/2017 12:20:21    1966345

gotmilk (Fermanagh) - Posts: 4971 - 12/03/2017 17:13:37    1966425

mike03 (Limerick) - Posts: 2000 - 12/03/2017 17:27:17    1966432

Westmeath have fixed hurling league games for this Friday

valley84 (Westmeath) - Posts: 1890 - 12/03/2017 20:33:01    1966513

In fairness the Westmeath Co. Board would fix a game for Christmas morning. They have no respect towards the players.

wd45 (Westmeath) - Posts: 211 - 13/03/2017 15:05:15    1966743

How early on Christmas morning? As long as the players get finished in time for mass, then it's ok.

Tacaí Liatroma (Leitrim) - Posts: 1029 - 13/03/2017 15:47:43    1966756

fixing games for st patricks day is taking the proverbial piss and shows total disregard or respect for players and their families especially as most counties will still be playing in the slush and shyt in nov and dec. Time players started taking more interest in what their clubs are doing and if possible start getting a player rep to be the club rep on county boards. Most of the time you will see the same faces from the same clubs on the county committee for decades and are only there for the gossip and a guaranteed ticket later in the year. players need to start taking a bit more responsibility for the decisions being made for them which most of the time is not going to be made to suit players but the county committees who only have the goal of getting fixtures played or not and nearly always at the behest of county managers.

bulmccabe (Tyrone) - Posts: 361 - 13/03/2017 16:34:51    1966770

Playing on Paddy's day is not as bad as playing the day after on the Saturday or on the Sunday like a lot of counties have fixed club league games for. At least if u play on Paddy's day u have a weekend to urself. If u playing Saturday/Sunday it means no weekend at all for club players.

ryan (Donegal) - Posts: 724 - 14/03/2017 17:48:52    1967023

What counties fix a round of club league games on St Patrick Day?
valley84 (Westmeath) - Posts:1212 - 12/03/2017 12:20:21Is it really that bad? Why does Paddys Day have to be so important?

I would imagine none due to the club finals.
gotmilk (Fermanagh) - Posts:4092 - 12/03/2017 17:13:37What relevance would the club finals have?

fixing games for st patricks day is taking the proverbial piss and shows total disregard or respect for players and their families especially as most counties will still be playing in the slush and shyt in nov and dec. Time players started taking more interest in what their clubs are doing and if possible start getting a player rep to be the club rep on county boards. Most of the time you will see the same faces from the same clubs on the county committee for decades and are only there for the gossip and a guaranteed ticket later in the year. players need to start taking a bit more responsibility for the decisions being made for them which most of the time is not going to be made to suit players but the county committees who only have the goal of getting fixtures played or not and nearly always at the behest of county managers.
bulmccabe (Tyrone) - Posts:87 - 13/03/2017 16:34:51why is playing on paddys day taking the piss or showing a disregard for players?
Why is Paddys Day so special? Surely playing early that day then allows people do as they like. people stay on committees not for tickets but for power and influence. Not for tickets.
I played my one and only Munster rugby final on a Paddys Day. It was a great day for a game. bank holiday. Game was played early, Think it was a 11.30am/midday kick off. We were finished by half 1. 2 players had to go to hospital and while waiting for them to be released we went to offie and bought cans for bus back to tipp. it was great.
though players and coaches do need to take more responsibility and look for more respect in getting regular fixtures.

ormondbannerman (Clare) - Posts: 13473 - 14/03/2017 21:38:08    1967102