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That might have been a pretty good show from your lads last night. Ok, they went behind in the first half, but " won" the second half and kicked I think 7 two pointers. Out team is possibly a little better than those of the last few years so, the knockouts should be interesting - for both sides.
Freethinker (Wicklow) - Posts: 2207 - 08/04/2026 08:53:46 2665190 Link 0 |
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Sad to see the fall of our underage hurling squads in the past few years while we where never ones to beat the kk wexfords dublin etc of the world we always would compete and give a good game to most of these teams. To see us taking a bit of bearing against meath and kerry this year is very worrying but do we take the approach of trying to breed 3 or 4 of these hurlers for our senior team going forward. Seems to work for st.mullins who for there senior success rarely win much underage but always have 2 to 3 new faces coming on board most years and stay very competitive. Think first game of joe mac will tell alot if we rock up and can beat laois then you can be content this was just a poor league but if we take a beating I would be seriously concerned going forward. One point I would also note is the lack of hirling in our secondary schools at present borris probably been where it's taken most serious but still in b comps DLS in c comps remember a time when both where in the A and competitive enough with a majority blend of carlow hurlers involved. This exposed more hurlers to a higher standard driving competition in county teams I dont think it's breaking new ground and when these schools where at there most competitive i think the county squads where also at there most competitive. ITSCHOLAR (Carlow) - Posts: 330 - 08/04/2026 17:16:21 2665306 Link 1 |
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Genuinely what new initiative has been put in place in Carlow to develop hurling in the last 5 years? 10years? We've left it all to MLR and St Mullins to do the work for us propped up by the better lads from other clubs. That's our strategy as a county. It's soul destroying benchtoaster (Carlow) - Posts: 54 - 09/04/2026 08:35:58 2665360 Link 1 |
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The underage football is exactly the same except it's Eire Og, Rathvilly and now Palatine. The Colts system should be completely disbanded. It's not working. It would be more useful to send GDAs into underperforming areas like Tullow and Bagenalstown, and try to sort out the huge Naomh Brid/Michael Davitts area. CARPS (Carlow) - Posts: 1077 - 09/04/2026 12:01:15 2665400 Link 0 |
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The underage football is exactly the same except it's based on Eire Og, Rathvilly and now Palatine. The Colts system should be completely disbanded. It's clearly not working. It would be more useful to send GDAs into underperforming areas like Tullow and Bagenalstown, and try to sort out the huge Naomh Brid/Michael Davitts area, which extends from almost Paulstown to Graiguecullen. CARPS (Carlow) - Posts: 1077 - 09/04/2026 12:39:15 2665410 Link 0 |
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Do we have GDA's?
Dualclub1 (Carlow) - Posts: 300 - 09/04/2026 14:03:18 2665425 Link 0 |
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It's not a case that the Colts should be disbanded because the majority of coaching of underage is via the clubs. The work that the GDAs are doing should be focused on the overall development and skills levels of underage players in each code. How many do we have in the county? Is it even 5 for both codes combined? The Colts is just the best of the clubs, if the overall base level of the underage is poor, you're going to struggle going forward.
CarlowJuniorB (Clare) - Posts: 141 - 09/04/2026 15:11:12 2665439 Link 0 |
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I've said it on here a few times. We need to create 2 schools competing at A level. One for football based around the town, one for hurling based in the south of the county. Award scholarships to promising players to go to that school. Provide transport, supervised study, hot meals etc. to make it attractive for parents. Have them training together at least 4 times a week, & provide appropriate elite level coaching. The schools team will become our de facto county minor team, but thats no different to Kierans, Flannans, Mels etc. in other counties. Smokeless Red (Carlow) - Posts: 41 - 09/04/2026 15:48:57 2665442 Link 0 |
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Best of luck to our footballers tomorrow against Wicklow. It is a real 50/50 game & there is never much between us. I have read most of the pre match predictions & the majority of pundits are going with a Wicklow win & that's fine with me. Hopefully the lads are rearing to go & the league win hasn't blunted us a little bit. A home game for the winners against the Dubs is a real incentive. In the league game we should have been out of sight but nearly got caught at the end so please god we get the job done tomorrow carlo (Carlow) - Posts: 324 - 11/04/2026 16:10:59 2665761 Link 0 |
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On league form we should win tomorrow but it often happens that a team that wins their league then falls flat in their first championship game. The fact that it's only two weeks since the league final doesn't help as previously there would be a longer gap. Added to that, because we win silverware so rarely, the players have had a lot of "events" over the past two weeks bringing the cup around to schools, getting photos with sponsors, and having the open night with kids etc … all these things are important and have to be done in fairness, so I've no complaints but you'd have to wonder if all these things might have taken the focus off tomorrow's match. So I'd be a bit worried that the prep has not been all that it should normally be and we might not be quite ready for tomorrow's match. In contrast Wicklow will surely have been stung by the collapse in their last league game which cost them promotion. You'd imagine there could be a backlash tomorrow. They have also been out recruiting since the league and brought two lads in from Galway and Donegal Carlin and Brennan which should make them a good bit stronger than when we outplayed them in the league, once it doesn't cause morale damage in their camp. We'll know this time tomorrow. Hoping for a win and a crack at the Dubs at home but whatever happens the most important ambition for this year has already been achieved and that's ensuring we got out of Division 4 and hopefully we can build on that at a higher level next year. So after that anything else in the championship is just a bonus now as far as I'm concerned. Best of luck to the squad tomorrow. Onion Breath (Carlow) - Posts: 1813 - 11/04/2026 16:56:58 2665773 Link 0 |
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In fairness Kilkenny CBS and Good Counsel contribute plenty of players to Kilkennys minors teams. This year those schools will likely have better representation on Kilkennys minors team than Kierans. They met in the Leinster Junior A final this year, and Kierans didnt even make it out of their group after losing to Counsel and Enniscorthy CBS. There will be others from other secondary schools also. And the same goes for Clares minors, many of whom attend Tulla and Ardscoil Ris. Not sure about Longford. Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 19177 - 11/04/2026 18:16:11 2665786 Link 0 |
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Is it a home match for the winner tomorrow against the dubs? That would be amazing, the footballers haven't had a big occasion like that since the Tyrone match in 2018 was it? I'm hoping the two week break will suit us now and Joe has them in the right mind. We should have beaten them by 10 points earlier in the year. Decent enough breeze tomorrow so 2 pointers could be the winning of the game. We haven't been able to kill games off and silly mistakes keep teams in it, hopefully not the same tomorrow. Can't wait for it now. CarlowJuniorB (Clare) - Posts: 141 - 11/04/2026 19:14:07 2665798 Link 0 |
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Tell us more about this recruiting. How is it possible?
CARPS (Carlow) - Posts: 1077 - 11/04/2026 19:42:52 2665801 Link 0 |
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Yeah home venue for winners of tomorrow's game. Was originally fixed for Croke Park but they taking q/t finals & semi finals out of Croker for a better atmosphere in smaller grounds. Correct last big home game in the Championship was in 2018 against Tyrone in the qualifiers. I actually think we haven't played a Leinster championship game at home since Wexford in 2017 so looking forward to home comforts tomorrow carlo (Carlow) - Posts: 324 - 11/04/2026 19:49:38 2665805 Link 0 |
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Googled it and Jonathon Carlin was with Wicklow before and was with the Donegal panel last year. Think he's been back with Wicklow the last two matches. Colm Brennan was the Galway fella but he's not in the Wicklow panel tomorrow I don't think.
CarlowJuniorB (Clare) - Posts: 141 - 11/04/2026 20:09:44 2665808 Link 0 |