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Wexford Club Hurling Championship.

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Replying To Viking66:  "Do the same 15 odd lads play 1st team Football and Hurling for your club? And are your 1st teams at the same grade, or at least within a grade of eachother?"
Mostly the same players but like most smaller clubs like yourselves they pick hurling over football or one grade over the other. As Pikeman said, with smaller number unfortunately we are never going to be able to fully compete at football and hurling so hurling is given preference 75% of the time which is fine. Players like playing both but at the end of the day to be competitive you have to prioritize one over the other. Unless you are like the Shels etc with massive numbers.

While in theory it is great playing it in one block, if someone gets injured thats it, they wont be back in time. The competition is over just too quick, I really cant see much support for returning.

Regarding yourselves next year. If you get half the players back next year that were missing, you would be well able to bounce back up after seeing a few games in inter a this year. Teams that come up are able to compete but do struggle to stay up.

alwaysasub (Wexford) - Posts: 448 - 04/12/2024 13:30:25    2582334

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Replying To alwaysasub:  "Mostly the same players but like most smaller clubs like yourselves they pick hurling over football or one grade over the other. As Pikeman said, with smaller number unfortunately we are never going to be able to fully compete at football and hurling so hurling is given preference 75% of the time which is fine. Players like playing both but at the end of the day to be competitive you have to prioritize one over the other. Unless you are like the Shels etc with massive numbers.

While in theory it is great playing it in one block, if someone gets injured thats it, they wont be back in time. The competition is over just too quick, I really cant see much support for returning.

Regarding yourselves next year. If you get half the players back next year that were missing, you would be well able to bounce back up after seeing a few games in inter a this year. Teams that come up are able to compete but do struggle to stay up."
Most importantly we need a good outside manager. Secondly we need to have even average luck with injuries. I think some of the lads travelling will be back, but probably not all of them. If we have near enough a full panel our level is probably Intermediate Semifinal/Final, as we were the last 2 years before this one. But at the same time I know Intermediate A is a dogfight. We could end up staying there, it's one of the real issues I've always had with 1 up 1 down, there are teams just staying up and just staying up every year, and others reaching numerous finals but losing them and not getting promoted to where they perhaps should be based on the players they have, but that's an argument for another day. I think in general in Wexford the top 4 in each grade are of a pretty similar standard to the bottom 4 in the grade above them.
As regards Intermediate none of the teams who have come up in recent years have been relegated, and none of the teams that have won it in recent have come back down until Cloughbawn did this year.

Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 14048 - 04/12/2024 14:13:58    2582351

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Replying To alwaysasub:  "Mostly the same players but like most smaller clubs like yourselves they pick hurling over football or one grade over the other. As Pikeman said, with smaller number unfortunately we are never going to be able to fully compete at football and hurling so hurling is given preference 75% of the time which is fine. Players like playing both but at the end of the day to be competitive you have to prioritize one over the other. Unless you are like the Shels etc with massive numbers.

While in theory it is great playing it in one block, if someone gets injured thats it, they wont be back in time. The competition is over just too quick, I really cant see much support for returning.

Regarding yourselves next year. If you get half the players back next year that were missing, you would be well able to bounce back up after seeing a few games in inter a this year. Teams that come up are able to compete but do struggle to stay up."
Most importantly we need a good outside manager. Secondly we need to have even average luck with injuries. I think some of the lads travelling will be back, but probably not all of them. If we have near enough a full panel our level is probably Intermediate Semifinal/Final, as we were the last 2 years before this one. But at the same time I know Intermediate A is a dogfight. We could end up staying there, it's one of the real issues I've always had with 1 up 1 down, there are teams just staying up and just staying up every year, and others reaching numerous finals but losing them and not getting promoted to where they perhaps should be based on the players they have, but that's an argument for another day. I think in general in Wexford the top 4 in each grade are of a pretty similar standard to the bottom 4 in the grade above them.
As regards Intermediate none of the teams who have come up in recent years have been relegated, and none of the teams that have won it in recent years have come back down until Cloughbawn did this year.

Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 14048 - 04/12/2024 14:16:48    2582354

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Many clubs changing managements for next year or on the look out ?

BacksAndForwards (Wexford) - Posts: 36 - 09/12/2024 13:00:52    2582882

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