Certainly no problem with merging with Sligo.
I am much more tolerable towards the Rossies these days as well.
[quote=“farmerinthecity, post: 842561, member: 24”]Certainly no problem with merging with Sligo.
I am much more tolerable towards the Rossies these days as well.[/quote]
Is there something in the water? First the shit eater decides to marry one of them and now this revelation.
It would offer serious opportunities for the likes of you to patronise the likes of farmer too.
There are divisional sides and amalgamation in club hurling . Don’t see why you couldn’t have them at intercounty. They are also seen in Colleges hurling and by all accounts were great for hurling in Dublin and Waterford.
Either that or let talented hurlers in non- trad hurling counties line out for the closest top tier hurling county.
I remember reading about 10 years ago of some young lad in Tubbercurry in Sligo who was supposedly a cracking good hurler. I wonder what became of him?
[quote=“His Holiness Da Dalai Lama, post: 842632, member: 1503”]There are divisional sides and amalgamation in club hurling . Don’t see why you couldn’t have them at intercounty. They are also seen in Colleges hurling and by all accounts were great for hurling in Dublin and Waterford.
Either that or let talented hurlers in non- trad hurling counties line out for the closest top tier hurling county.
I remember reading about 10 years ago of some young lad in Tubbercurry in Sligo who was supposedly a cracking good hurler. I wonder what became of him?[/quote]
Look at poor Hyland in Laois, a fantastic player, as good as anything around a couple of years ago but never got to play on a decent stage.
[quote=“His Holiness Da Dalai Lama, post: 842632, member: 1503”]There are divisional sides and amalgamation in club hurling . Don’t see why you couldn’t have them at intercounty. They are also seen in Colleges hurling and by all accounts were great for hurling in Dublin and Waterford.
Either that or let talented hurlers in non- trad hurling counties line out for the closest top tier hurling county.
I remember reading about 10 years ago of some young lad in Tubbercurry in Sligo who was supposedly a cracking good hurler. I wonder what became of him?[/quote]
Who would get the poor misfortunes from Tipp?
Was there not supposed to be some partnership between top counties and lower counties a few years back? Each was paired off with another or something. Whatever came of that?
Still going on in some places. Doesn’t really extend beyond a few training sessions afaik.
You could spend millions promoting hurling in Longford and the ignorant cunts would still play football. The GAA are better off spending the money in places where people are actually interested in the game and making sure the game survives and not spreading the money too thinly.
Well that’s what we are on about really. A Leinster team-Carlow/Laois/W.Meath/Kildare team, an Ulster team etc etc Poor old Kerry tho, don’t know who you could lump them in with.
Here thats two now, fuck off.
You attitude is the typical problem.
All you really have to do is put coaches in and work hard.
There is hurling in South Kerry now and football strongholds in Cork. It can grow anywhere. You just need patience.
If the logistical issues could be overcome, it probably would make sense to go the amalgamation route alright. Getting buy-in wouldn’t be easy though as the likes of Antrim would be essential to its success and they probably still hold out hope of some day being a force in their own right. Same as Laois in Leinster.
As Fagan suggests it would require a nice chunk of cash to get it running as you would need high profile management and top notch support to keep the players interested. It’s not unreasonable to suggest that pumping that money into places with strong hurling heartlands like Antrim and Laois would be a more promising course of action.
[quote=“caoimhaoin, post: 842703, member: 273”]You attitude is the typical problem.
All you really have to do is put coaches in and work hard.
There is hurling in South Kerry now and football strongholds in Cork. It can grow anywhere. You just need patience.[/quote]
Dublin is best example of this. Money and coaches leads to kids playing and in ten years you have nucleus of a team.
You’d swear there was never hurling in Dublin before.
Antrim and Laois don’t have to opt in, in fact you probably wouldn’t want Antrim in an Ulster team as they would totally dominate all the spots. Would also give you a ready made rivalry, Antrim vs rest of Ulster and make them up their game.
To preserve some the prestige for the championship, why not try something like this in the league? And split Dublin or other large counties out. If cost wasn’t an issue, KK could have fielded 2 teams for years. Build the league around
Clare
Cork
Limerick
Dublin North
Dublin South
Kilkenny
Tipp
Waterford
Galway
Offaly
Wexford
Leinster selection
Munster / Ulster / Connacht selection
Some other random combination of players on the fringe of other county panels or in colleges or something. Or Laois or Antrim.
2 groups of 7, with teams playing each other once, or 2 groups of 4 with home and away games, and 1 group of 6 with each playing each other once.
[quote=“caoimhaoin, post: 842703, member: 273”]You attitude is the typical problem.
All you really have to do is put coaches in and work hard.
There is hurling in South Kerry now and football strongholds in Cork. It can grow anywhere. You just need patience.[/quote]
You can start a hurling club anywhere. There’s hurling clubs in New Hampshire and Minnesota. And New Hampshire and Minnesota have as much chance of competing in the same grade as Kilkenny in the next 100 years as Longford or South Kerry.
Mark - you are familiar with the roaring success that is the Railway Cup?
Croke Park currently has a great opportunity at the moment to harness the plan that is already in place in Laois. For relatively small money and no strategy planning they simply have to row in behind the work Critchley has done with the Setanta programme over the past 10 years and fund the coaches already in place to continue and add to this plan. Look at recent Laois underage results and progress, its working in its current guise, all that is needed is extra financial assistance. If they pass up this opportunity you can take it as a given they don’t give a flying fuck about counties such as Laois, Antrim etc.