(Oldest Posts First) - Go To The Latest Post
I saw a proposal last year where the top team of 6 got straight to semi final and earned a week off. Like any idea that makes sense I presume it got very little support.
wexfordwin (Wexford) - Posts: 178 - 25/09/2023 12:35:00 2505599 Link 0 |
It was slightly different pre-2020, in that we got two rounds of both football and hurling played during the 'Club Month' of April. But yes, once the club championships resumed (generally around mid to late July in those days), it was week after week after week for the full 12 rounds that were left.
Pikeman96 (Wexford) - Posts: 2525 - 25/09/2023 12:38:51 2505601 Link 0 |
Well said
alwaysasub (Wexford) - Posts: 429 - 25/09/2023 12:53:02 2505607 Link 0 |
Am fairly sure that was a CCCC proposal. Either way, it got little or no support from clubs. The "problem" as they saw it was that it would mean only three teams out of six would qualify - the two first-placed teams would go straight to semi-finals, and then the second- and third-placed teams in each group would play quarter-finals for the other two semi-final spots. Fourth-placed team would be finished, and so clubs of course wouldn't vote for something that would lessen their own chances of making it out of the group. Pikeman96 (Wexford) - Posts: 2525 - 25/09/2023 13:52:31 2505620 Link 0 |
Yeah I was just paraphrasing to be honest but the point I'm making all this talk of rest weekends is silly as they really never existed, free weekends would arise for individual players if they only played 1 code or if management decided to rest a player for 1 code or another at a particular weekend or if a club was knocked out early of 1 code it would free up there schedule, take Cork and Tipp 2 counties similar to Wexford in that they've a substantial championships in both codes, they've games on every weekend at the moment but as it hurling 1 weekend football the next alot of players in those counties are only out every 2nd week, the thing unique to Wexford is single code players are the large minority.
TerribleFootwork (Wexford) - Posts: 1760 - 25/09/2023 13:58:44 2505622 Link 0 |
Dual code?
Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 13522 - 25/09/2023 15:06:07 2505637 Link 0 |
Interesting reading the Galway thread where the point is made there aren't many dual players up there relatively either
Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 13522 - 25/09/2023 15:08:34 2505643 Link 0 |
The main issue with the games yesterday was the time of day. Other than that, the co board have little choice but to have games on every weekend. If they ran alternative hurling and football, we'd still have the same problem. But it will suit the very few one code players, and it will then revert back to suiting to one code clubs and will further reduce numbers of players playing both codes to the highest club level and having more choice of players. Our weakest hurling county team in years was when Oulart were completely unchallenged in hurling. We now have clubs who were junior at that time playing senior and have players who would never have been considered in our county set ups. the week on week off will just reduce the amount of time devoted to each code and we'll be worse off for it. james2011 (Wexford) - Posts: 608 - 25/09/2023 15:11:16 2505646 Link 0 |
Yeah, you're 100% right, and I'm agreeing with you. Was just pointing out the only slight difference was that it used to be that you first wouldn't have had a free weekend in the April "Club Month", and then wouldn't have a free weekend when things resumed later in the year. And for as long as clubs continue to vote for two groups of six, that's the way it'll continue to be. Incidentally, I was thinking again about how there'll be midweek replays rather than penalty shoot-outs if any knock-out matches finish level after extra time. Of course nobody would like to lose in a shoot-out, but while it might have seemed like a good idea when the vote was taken last November to find a way to try avoid them, I daresay every player who lined out in a hurling quarter-final onwards was thinking "I hope we don't end up with a replay on Tuesday or Wednesday night". And everybody who'll go out to play a football quarter-final onwards will be thinking the same. Will be interesting to see if that one remains on the books for next year, or if we'll go back to penalties and "proper" winner-on-the-day. Pikeman96 (Wexford) - Posts: 2525 - 25/09/2023 15:14:25 2505648 Link 0 |
Also i think to be fair to who i think was tweeting he isnt saying that they shouldnt be playing football in September! tearintom (Wexford) - Posts: 1414 - 25/09/2023 15:22:08 2505653 Link 0 |
Yeah, but the stormclouds emojis at the end definitely suggest that he in turn in suggesting that playing in July & August would mean they wouldn't have to line out in conditions like yesterday. And as already pointed out, even if the championships had been run this year as alternate weeks or alternate blocks of two weeks, yesterday would have been a football day anyway. Incidentally, I see he later asked if somebody could explain 'Sex Education' on Netflix to him. For anybody's who seen it, that's a fair enough ask too! Pikeman96 (Wexford) - Posts: 2525 - 25/09/2023 16:01:15 2505668 Link 0 |
Realistically could hurling have been played yesterday anyone at any match morning afternoon or evening. Knows there is no way hurling could have went ahead. Formertownie (Wexford) - Posts: 287 - 25/09/2023 21:03:49 2505721 Link 0 |
I'd be in favour of going back to alternate weekends myself but in fairness July and August aren't immune from bad weather, off the top of my head I was at Annes Harriers, Oilgate Glynn, Oulart Rathnure in late July all in miserable weather.
TerribleFootwork (Wexford) - Posts: 1760 - 25/09/2023 22:00:07 2505728 Link 0 |
Short memories on one of the wettest Julys we have had in years.
zinny (Wexford) - Posts: 1885 - 26/09/2023 03:42:16 2505736 Link 0 |
If you all knew the poster in question, he would be delighted that ye are all talking about his tweet. hunting (Wexford) - Posts: 1017 - 26/09/2023 09:34:06 2505744 Link 0 |
Hurling played in other counties over the weekend
Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 13522 - 26/09/2023 10:07:11 2505750 Link 0 |
To free up more time and weekends the way things are at present, either have to go back to groups of 3 or 4 or one group of 12 and play 4 rounds only lefty (Wexford) - Posts: 212 - 26/09/2023 10:21:27 2505753 Link 0 |
Maybe some shouldn't have, listening to the weekend reviews Eire Og and Clonlara on TG4 defiantly shouldn't have anyway.
TerribleFootwork (Wexford) - Posts: 1760 - 26/09/2023 11:16:02 2505768 Link 0 |
You got me thinking. Conditions were atrocious on Sunday evening, particularly for the second games. But if they'd been postponed, then they would have had to be played midweek sometime this week. Presume that rightly or wrongly, they decided that going ahead with them on Sunday was the lesser of two evils. As for the videos on social media - usually they just post clips of goals being scored. There was only one goal scored in the two matches they streamed on Sunday. Maybe you're right, and they're deliberately not putting it up, so as not to draw attention to the conditions. Or maybe whoever normally puts up the clips just didn't get to it yet, or maybe it just wasn't a good goal in the first place - maybe a scramble or a goalkeeper error or something? I don't know as I wasn't there myself. Don't mind admitting I was at home watching rugby at that time on Sunday, instead of going to Wexford Park as a neutral. Pikeman96 (Wexford) - Posts: 2525 - 26/09/2023 11:18:50 2505769 Link 0 |
Bad hurling played you mean.
ExiledInWex (Dublin) - Posts: 1253 - 26/09/2023 12:57:40 2505812 Link 0 |