LetItIn6 (Wexford) - Posts: 20 - 09/09/2019 07:44:05    2233719

Dualclub1 (Carlow) - Posts: 266 - 16/09/2019 09:07:21    2235928

How will the Senior semi go sunday folks? St mullins gave Ballinkillen a trimming in the group game but Ballinkillen seemed to have got it together in the games against Myshall and MLR. Can anyone foresee Ballinkillen winning?

LetItIn6 (Wexford) - Posts: 20 - 26/09/2019 08:22:00    2239276

The game is off today. Brave decision by Ballinkillen to stand their ground over the situation.

hurlingguru (Carlow) - Posts: 1823 - 29/09/2019 09:50:47    2239962

I see from the Ballinkillen statement that alternative dates were proposed. I'm curious as to what these proposals were and if they were also agreeable to Kildavin Clonegal, Myshall, Fenagh and St Mullins who are the other affected clubs.
A midweek re-fixing of the KC vs Myshall IFC SF seemed like the most logical solution but I'm not sure if this was ever suggested.

Milltown (Carlow) - Posts: 21 - 01/10/2019 09:26:29    2240527

Are Ballinkillen gone now,does anyone know?

hogg (Carlow) - Posts: 321 - 01/10/2019 10:55:57    2240557

hurlingguru (Carlow) - Posts: 1823 - 01/10/2019 11:50:26    2240582

CARPS (Carlow) - Posts: 352 - 01/10/2019 12:14:33    2240591

hogg (Carlow) - Posts: 321 - 01/10/2019 12:58:13    2240608

Dualclub1 (Carlow) - Posts: 266 - 01/10/2019 15:05:54    2240663

County Board made it difficult for themselves with having the Kildavin Myshall football match rescheduled for ths day before semi of hurling.
Looks like Balinkillen will.stand their ground and hard to blame them.
I think they have the support of the vast majority of hurling supporters in the county.
A hornets nest stirred up by that football fixture has been further complicated by it ending level !
Hope the Co Board back down, accede to Balinkillen request and get out of the mess they started.
Hurling under enough pressure without having to deal with football fixtures interfering as well.

carlowman (Carlow) - Posts: 1577 - 01/10/2019 15:47:17    2240684

Why are the club championships not already completed by now?

Carlow Hurlers and footballers finished intercounty action on weekend of June 9th. There is no excuse for not having enough time to have championships completed by now without having to resort to any midweek games

Onfor15 (Wexford) - Posts: 255 - 01/10/2019 17:26:49    2240713

moll (Carlow) - Posts: 153 - 01/10/2019 19:06:50    2240732

4 teams in the shc and here we are in October still not finished and one of the 4 teams booted out. Limericks made it to the all Ireland semis and their final is this weekend. There is something majorly wrong if we can't run off our competitions a little bit better than this. I don't think any player should have to play two championship games with 18hrs of each other, and it's worth noting that player welfare is used as a reason why clubs can't fix under 15s to 17s games on weekends as they are with the county.

Barrowsider (Carlow) - Posts: 1321 - 01/10/2019 22:05:19    2240783

Anyone know when BK appeal is due to be held?isint chairman of L council from Carlow!surely he can't adjudicate on this!

hogg (Carlow) - Posts: 321 - 01/10/2019 23:10:49    2240809

What's the format of the Carlow club hurling Championships?

I know in total there are 6 rounds of football championship, but I'm not sure of football format.

In Wexford, there are 8 rounds of both hurling and football. So 16 championship weekends. Nearly all clubs are dual. Wexford finished in the All Ireland championship on July 28th, a full 7 weeks later than Carlow, yet as it currently stands Wexford is at the final stage of the football championship and all but for a game being cancelled due to a bereavement we would be at the semi final stages of the hurling.


My point is that Carlow have less rounds in both their hurling and football championships than Wexford, and have had 7 weeks EXTRA in which championship could be played, yet you're championships are only at the same stage as Wexford? And teams are being expected to cram in games now, when nearly the whole months of June and July, a 6/7 weeks period passed when none of your championships were fixed. Do people in Carlow GAA circles not see how seriously unacceptable this is?

Onfor15 (Wexford) - Posts: 255 - 01/10/2019 23:48:39    2240818

LetItIn6 (Wexford) - Posts: 20 - 02/10/2019 08:29:17    2240843

Yes, the championships should have been run off earlier especially in the few weeks after Carlow got knocked out of the championship but I think we are more affected than other counties when it comes to balancing hurling/football at this time of year.

Because we have such few clubs, there's more of an overlap of players at the knockout stages of competitions. For example:

Naomh Eoin are involved in IHC semi final and IFC quarter final, semi final and a replay. They also have a few with Kilbride.
Bagenalstown involved in IHC final and SFC quarter final and semi final.
Ballinkillen involved in SHC semi final and have players involved with Kildavin in IFC semi final and replay and with Fenagh in JFC semi final and final.
MLR involved in SHC final and a SFC relegation final
Naomh Brid playing Intermediate B hurling have players with Ballinabranna and Old Leighlin who had relegation/knockout games.

Hopefully it all works out in the end but if the senior hurling semi final is refixed, the fixtures will be a nightmare.

hurlingguru (Carlow) - Posts: 1823 - 03/10/2019 17:15:56    2241192

Anyone any update here? SHC final down for Sunday week, IHC final supposed to be on same weekend. IHC b final still to be played too.

fergie (Carlow) - Posts: 1105 - 03/10/2019 20:17:29    2241222

Barrowsider (Carlow) - Posts: 1321 - 04/10/2019 10:48:26    2241299