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I lived with 2 Aussies and brought them to the park some evenings with 3 hurls. By the end of it, 1 of them was hitting the ball really well on one side out of his hand. He never held a hurl although he did play cricket. My father asked a Polish family who moved to our village and their boy was 9-10 and somebody in the village told him to go play soccer because it was "too late" for him to start hurling. Where do we get these numpties. StoreysTash (Wexford) - Posts: 1977 - 20/03/2026 14:38:42 2661941 Link 0 |
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Interesting that certain teams seem to target goals more than others. Cork certainly, Dublin in the lower division. Cats were always great men for the goals but only four in five games so far! Limerick have since Kiely taken the % view that point taking is the optimum strategy and they have the capability of running up huge totals, Goals certainly add to the game and would be very dull if trend continues. BarneyGrant (Dublin) - Posts: 4086 - 20/03/2026 15:41:34 2661949 Link 0 |
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If that ever happens then leinster should be stripped of one of their all ireland series places. Only the leinster finalists qualifying for the quarter finals or something like that. The reason for the introduction of the christy ring, Nicky Rackard and Lory Meagher cup championships and later the Joe McDonagh is to ensure merit based competition. I get that you dont like it that Kerry are now in the Christy Ring cup but if your proposition ever sees the light of day then the Bob O Keefe cup will become the Joe McDonagh and will have to be treated accordingly. Tadhg2020 (Limerick) - Posts: 89 - 20/03/2026 16:13:33 2661962 Link 1 |
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There's plenty of them around sadly. We have a couple of Ukrainians and a Nigerian on our u14 panel who only started hurling last year. One of them made the county u14 Football squad this year, a brilliant achievement after only playing football for a year. If they keep improving at the rate they have over the last year they will be better than half the lads who are with us since u8. They are better than some of them already, but thats because they pay close attention in training, and practice what they are shown at home.
Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 18799 - 20/03/2026 16:34:11 2661966 Link 0 |
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Or would that just result in teams setting up even more defensively to prevent goals?
Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 18799 - 20/03/2026 16:35:19 2661967 Link 0 |
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The following was based on no changes to the Munster and Leinster championships. Joe Mac (1 single group of 8 teams over 7 rounds) 1. Antrim home semi final v Westmeath 2. Carlow home semi final v Laois 3. Laois 4. Westmeath -------- 5. Down 6. Kerry 7. Meath -------- 8. London relegated to Ring. Joe Mac winner promoted to their provincial championship. Kerry in the Ring is like Wexford relegated from Leinster. We'll get on with it but are the tiered structures overly tiered.. legendzxix (Kerry) - Posts: 9551 - 20/03/2026 16:59:12 2661970 Link 0 |
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Interesting article on GAA.ie yesterday about Mount Sion CBS. Its one of the pillars of waterford hurling traditionally but competed in the All Ireland D final today against Ballyhale. Thats a strange line up for a D Final tbh but anyway. There are 480 boys in the school and only about 10% hurl. Thats a frightening statistic. The Mount Sion Gaa catchment area is now an older area population wise but , clearly, the city clubs are not getting the young people in. The school traditionally had players from Mount Sion, Roanmore, Erin's Own and St Saviours but now those that hurl are almost exclusively Mount Sion players. No wonder Ballygunner are so dominant. Waterford need a strong Mount Sion and hurling needs a competitive Waterford. Tadhg2020 (Limerick) - Posts: 89 - 20/03/2026 17:45:03 2661974 Link 0 |
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Sean og o halpin only started at under 14
Doylerwex (Wexford) - Posts: 4331 - 20/03/2026 19:33:52 2661985 Link 0 |
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What has Munster ever done to benefit hurling? Nothing. You banished one of your own counties. Leinster always doing all the heavy lifting to our own detriment. Doylerwex (Wexford) - Posts: 4331 - 20/03/2026 19:35:35 2661986 Link 1 |
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No the tiered structures aren't overly tiered. Its actually quite accurate. Yes kerry will probably win the ring but they also were deservedly relegated. 6 is the right number in each of those championships. The only thing I would consider is where the 5th game is played. In the interest of fairness they should probably look at 2 home, 2 away and 1 neutral format. I know that it would affect attendance potentially at the neutral game but it would be more fair to all concerned. Thats part of what makes the munster championship so great in this format. Each team gets 2 home and 2 away games. Noone can blame anyone but themselves as its the same conditions for everyone. If anything this probably favours waterford and Clare as they have limited capacity so can turn their home grounds into a fortress atmosphere wise. Pretty much every away fan that wants to attend can in Limerick, thurles or cork. Tadhg2020 (Limerick) - Posts: 89 - 20/03/2026 19:39:04 2661987 Link 0 |
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Don't think so.
Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 18799 - 20/03/2026 20:32:43 2661994 Link 0 |
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In the last five or six games Limerick and Cork have played, the Shannonsiders have scored twice more goals than Cork.
Oldtourman (Limerick) - Posts: 4540 - 20/03/2026 22:43:18 2662005 Link 0 |
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Especially at the expense of Westmeath at a time when they were going well enough. They would certainly have benefitted from being part of Leinster at a time they were basically dumped out. And to add to that wasn't there some messing about with the league that had denied them promotion? When they applied to enter the Ulster championship given that Antrim had displaced them, they got no hearing. BarneyGrant (Dublin) - Posts: 4086 - 21/03/2026 11:05:10 2662037 Link 0 |
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What should Munster do? Weaken its product? Drop its standards? Its the top competition in hurling because it hasn't dropped those standards and weakened its product. It averages 29.9k with one stadiums capacity under 15k and another at 20k. Thats phenomenal. You cant even find numbers for the Bob O Keeffe to compare with. Kerry will be welcome in the Munster championship when they are as good as or better than the weakest team in it. Thats where they have to get to and that is up to them. Its wont be good for the championship, kerry or the other teams until then. Noone wants to have to hammer kerry to match the score difference of the others. Thats not good for anyone. Their reality is that they are far closer to the weakest team in the Bob o Keeffe than they are to Munster at this time. Geography doesnt come into it. For the record, I believe that leinster made a mistake when they extended the Bob to 6 teams. It eliminated any jeopardy that existed and destroyed the round robin as a product. Its reflected in the attendance. Tadhg2020 (Limerick) - Posts: 89 - 21/03/2026 11:58:18 2662050 Link 0 |
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If Leinster reduced to 5, it should mean the 5th placed Munster or Leinster team being automatically relegated depending on the Tier 2 winner. The current format at least means the tier 2 winner is determining which province has 6 teams. Could see the powers that be tempted to have 3rd v 4th preliminary quarter finals. The Munster CEO is against it but wouldn't be surprised to see it ushered in on a 3 year trial basis. legendzxix (Kerry) - Posts: 9551 - 21/03/2026 12:16:55 2662052 Link 0 |
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Traditionally counties don't get much support when they arent going well. Ive very good friends since the 90s who are or were involved in Limerick hurling and they told me that support for intercounty hurling in the county died away to nearly nothing as the 80s went on into the early 90s after 2 Munsters at the start of the decade and not even a final for years after that, and it did again in the teens. Well thats where Offaly, Dublin and Wexford are, while Kilkenny lads are too careful with their money to waste it on anything as frivolous as paying to go see a game ;-) Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 18799 - 21/03/2026 12:21:09 2662054 Link 1 |
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Carlow for a few years were arguing that home preliminary quarter quarter finals were important for promotion of the game. The aim should be Tier 2 home semi finals for promotion of the game. Tier 2 needs at least 8 teams for 2 semi finals to be practical. legendzxix (Kerry) - Posts: 9551 - 21/03/2026 12:56:45 2662059 Link 0 |
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... legendzxix (Kerry) - Posts: 9551 - 21/03/2026 15:16:05 2662076 Link 0 |
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Im sorry but I lived through the 80s and 90s and that's just not true. It wasn't at its current height. That is true but it never fell to anything like whats currently attending Bob o Keeffe games these days. I remember my first game and the crowds were huge. I was hooked immediately. That was in late 70s and I was 6 or 7. I remember we had nearly as many out on the street as inside croke park in 94. We went into that season with no real hope and there was a huge crowd for first round. We live for it of course there are bandwagoners but I cant recall ever being at a Munster match with attendence of 4k like what happens regularly in the Bob. Thats for the competing teams to sort out though. Either way, that wasn't my point. My point remains that the Munster championship is the biggest show in town and the attendances support that. It is that because of the quality of the games on offer. Any team wanting to come into the championship need to be up to , at least, the level of the weakest team in it. Tadhg2020 (Limerick) - Posts: 89 - 21/03/2026 18:40:51 2662106 Link 0 |
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Sure ye only have yourselves to blame for that.
Tadhg2020 (Limerick) - Posts: 89 - 21/03/2026 18:41:55 2662107 Link 0 |