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The Kerry Minor hurlers ran out convincing winners over Meath in the All Ireland Minor B Hurling Final.

They won 1-19 to 3-8.

Kerry got the opening score in the first half but the Meath responded with a goal. The slitor coming all the way from midfield.

Fionan O Sullivan got Kerry's only goal in the first half.

On 18 minutes of the second half Meath got a penalty and it was scored by Jack Regan

Then two minutes later Jack Regan got another goal for Meath.

Kerry played controlled hurling and always managed to find a man over the field.

Final score Kerry 1-19 Meath 3-8

Congrats to the Kerry minors on their All-Ireland win yesterday. Our U21 hurlers contest the U21 B All-Ireland final next week against Kildare.

In a year in which Kerry contested the Christy Ring final, the county is consistently competitive at B level.

legendzxix (Kerry) - Posts: 8867 - 08/09/2013 18:01:45    1477650

Well done it would be great to see kerry re-enter the Munster championship.

slayer (Limerick) - Posts: 6480 - 08/09/2013 18:20:24    1477667

Well done Kerry :)

Would be interesting to see a Cork v Kerry game in the hurling championship in Munster.

waynoI (Dublin) - Posts: 13654 - 08/09/2013 18:33:20    1477687

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Well done it would be great to see kerry re-enter the Munster championship.

Well thankfully from next year on there is a mechanism on the field of play for them to gauge if they are good enough.
Antrim, Laois, Carlow, Westmeath and London will enter a provincial qualifier group next year. The top 2 in the group will advance to the Leinster Championship. The bottom team will be relegated to Christy Ring while the team second bottom will take on the Christy Ring winner in a promotion/relegation play-off. On form, if Kerry could recover from this year's loss to win next year, they'd most likely take on Westmeath in a play-off. We've had good battles with them in the league. While it'll be difficult, it's not such a long shot for Kerry to be in the provincial qualifier group in 2016. If they do make it, a top 2 place would see them return to the Munster championship, if even just for a year.

legendzxix (Kerry) - Posts: 8867 - 08/09/2013 18:38:36    1477689

They used to play each other waynoI.

I remember us beating Kerry in Munster 6-14 to 1-9 in 88 and in 89 Kerry gave us a massive scare before 3 late goals saved us 6-11 to 3-10. We also played Kerry in a 2003 qualifier where if they had just shown more composure would have taken us. We ran out 0-24 to 1-14 winners. Clare also began their march to the 1997 title with a 3-24 to 1-6 win over the Kingdom.

Kerry's finest hour in recent Munster championship clashes was the 1992 win over Waterford. But there was one game around 2000/2001 where Cork beat Kerry 2-32 to 0-4 and at that point dropping a level came into consideration.

They have done some great work as have other counties and surely we must all want a 20 team Liam McCarthy cup in the near future. If Kerry get back there it would be good for the game and would be proof the current system is giving sides competitions where they can improve.

slayer (Limerick) - Posts: 6480 - 08/09/2013 18:45:50    1477697

Thanks legend

I didn't know that, good to see that system in place.

slayer (Limerick) - Posts: 6480 - 08/09/2013 18:55:42    1477712

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They used to play each other waynoI.

I remember us beating Kerry in Munster 6-14 to 1-9 in 88 and in 89 Kerry gave us a massive scare before 3 late goals saved us 6-11 to 3-10. We also played Kerry in a 2003 qualifier where if they had just shown more composure would have taken us. We ran out 0-24 to 1-14 winners. Clare also began their march to the 1997 title with a 3-24 to 1-6 win over the Kingdom.

Kerry's finest hour in recent Munster championship clashes was the 1992 win over Waterford. But there was one game around 2000/2001 where Cork beat Kerry 2-32 to 0-4 and at that point dropping a level came into consideration.

They have done some great work as have other counties and surely we must all want a 20 team Liam McCarthy cup in the near future. If Kerry get back there it would be good for the game and would be proof the current system is giving sides competitions where they can improve.

The win over Waterford was in 1993. Kerry had a few close losses in Munster before that win and had just got to the Q/F of Div 1 of the national league

moomoo (Kerry) - Posts: 4023 - 08/09/2013 20:52:16    1477822

Kerry's progress in the summer of '03 was a thing of beauty for me. It worked out as follows:
Kerry lost to Waterford 1-12 to 2-26 in a Munster quarter-final.

We then set upon a qualifier route where we took on Leinster's lesser lights and the Ulster runnerr-up:
Kerry beat Westmeath 3-15 to 0-13 in a preliminary qualifier round 1.
Kerry beat Carlow 3-15 to 3-7 in a preliminary round 2.
Kerry beat Derry 2-15 to 1-16 in a preliminary round 3.

Each game Kerry advanced in gave them a game against a more difficult opponent and they passed each test.

This landed Kerry into Qualifier Round 1 proper. Kerry showed the progress of being able to play tougher games in and around their level.
Limerick won the game 0-24 to 1-14 after been given a good game by the Kingdom. The Kerry hurling team that year played more championship games than their football counterparts!

legendzxix (Kerry) - Posts: 8867 - 08/09/2013 21:31:41    1477850

Kerry's progress in the summer of '03 was a thing of beauty for me. It worked out as follows:
Kerry lost to Waterford 1-12 to 2-26 in a Munster quarter-final.

We then set upon a qualifier route where we took on Leinster's lesser lights and the Ulster runnerr-up:
Kerry beat Westmeath 3-15 to 0-13 in a preliminary qualifier round 1.
Kerry beat Carlow 3-15 to 3-7 in a preliminary round 2.
Kerry beat Derry 2-15 to 1-16 in a preliminary round 3.

Each game Kerry advanced in gave them a game against a more difficult opponent and they passed each test.

This landed Kerry into Qualifier Round 1 proper. Kerry showed the progress of being able to play tougher games in and around their level.
Limerick won the game 0-24 to 1-14 after been given a good game by the Kingdom. The Kerry hurling team that year played more championship games than their football counterparts!

legendzxix (Kerry) - Posts: 8867 - 08/09/2013 21:32:45    1477853

I remember 2003 Legendzix, was an exciting year for Kerry Hurling playing Limerick one of the pre championship favourites in front of over 9000 and running them close.they also played on the Div. 2 Final live on tnag against Antrim and put up a good fight, afterall Antrim were pretty good that year. Its a pity you didn't build on the progress of `03 and managed to keep the likes of o Connell and shane brick involved

preddan (Kildare) - Posts: 803 - 09/09/2013 10:08:37    1477949

I think our under21 hurler s are in the B final as well.

KingdomBoy1 (Kerry) - Posts: 14092 - 09/09/2013 10:20:36    1477958

Limerick won the game 0-24 to 1-14 after been given a good game by the Kingdom. The Kerry hurling team that year played more championship games than their football counterparts!

Kerry were applauded off at the end of the game. The atmosphere was fantastic. We marched on to the next qualifier where Offaly beat us 1-18 to 0-14.

slayer (Limerick) - Posts: 6480 - 09/09/2013 10:34:21    1477967

The win over Waterford was in 1993. Kerry had a few close losses in Munster before that win and had just got to the Q/F of Div 1 of the national league

It was indeed moomoo. After Waterford's impressive years of underage success a lot was expected of them but Kerry knocked them out.

slayer (Limerick) - Posts: 6480 - 09/09/2013 10:39:11    1477975

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The win over Waterford was in 1993. Kerry had a few close losses in Munster before that win and had just got to the Q/F of Div 1 of the national league

It was indeed moomoo. After Waterford's impressive years of underage success a lot was expected of them but Kerry knocked them out.

Paul Flynn played his first championship game that day scored 3-02 i think, things went down hill a bit after that till 2003. In the early 90's Kerry had quite a strong team and were playing Div 1 and getting results off the likes of kilkenny and Clare. Clares first game after winning the All Ireland in 95 they lost to Kerry in a league game and they got a draw against Kilkenny in Tralee and held DJ scoreless in that same game. There were huge crowds also at the games back then 2500 3000 at most and had lots of double headers with the footballers

moomoo (Kerry) - Posts: 4023 - 09/09/2013 14:06:26    1478275

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In the early 90's Kerry had quite a strong team and were playing Div 1 and getting results off the likes of kilkenny and Clare. Clares first game after winning the All Ireland in 95 they lost to Kerry in a league game and they got a draw against Kilkenny in Tralee and held DJ scoreless in that same game. There were huge crowds also at the games back then 2500 3000 at most and had lots of double headers with the footballers

It was a good time for Kerry hurling. Hurling went well enough at the time until about '97, which happened to coincide with the end of the football famine. We had good battles with Offaly in the league around '92.

legendzxix (Kerry) - Posts: 8867 - 09/09/2013 21:12:53    1478827

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In the early 90's Kerry had quite a strong team and were playing Div 1 and getting results off the likes of kilkenny and Clare. Clares first game after winning the All Ireland in 95 they lost to Kerry in a league game and they got a draw against Kilkenny in Tralee and held DJ scoreless in that same game. There were huge crowds also at the games back then 2500 3000 at most and had lots of double headers with the footballers

It was a good time for Kerry hurling. Hurling went well enough at the time until about '97, which happened to coincide with the end of the football famine. We had good battles with Offaly in the league around '92.

A key thing at the time was there was a number of key players on the team from South Kerry something that hasnt been the case in quite a wile. Its only been in resent years underage development has happened there. Stacks won a minor championship in 85 or 86 and a lot of that team made up quite a strong senior Stacks team in the 90's but nothing was done at underage in the club after and went down hill, the new Tralee Parnells club are doing well and thats whats needed if hurling is to push on to have strong taams in the towns

moomoo (Kerry) - Posts: 4023 - 09/09/2013 21:45:14    1478866

It is hard to believe that Dublin and Kerry contested the Division II final in 2005. Trajectories of two counties have by and large gone in opposite ways since. Clear difference is that while Kerry can field decent enough senior teams that there appears to be massive gap at underage although didn't a Kerry school (Causeway?) beat a Kilkenny school earlier in the year in vocational competition?

hurlingdub (Dublin) - Posts: 6978 - 10/09/2013 11:07:36    1479005

I wouldn't say Kerry hurling has gone backwards since then but it might only appear that way when you compare it to where Dublin hurling is now.

keeper7 (Longford) - Posts: 4088 - 10/09/2013 13:33:51    1479152

I mean in terms that Dublin and Kerry were both in the second divison at that time. Kerry have dropped but they have done well in CR and hopefully get promoted next year. They beat Dublin a few times in league over the years.

hurlingdub (Dublin) - Posts: 6978 - 10/09/2013 13:48:33    1479166

Kerry are more or less in the same situation now as they were then. Not good enough to compete with the top 10 hurling counties but one of the top teams thereafter.

keeper7 (Longford) - Posts: 4088 - 10/09/2013 14:07:07    1479185