All-Ireland Hurling Championship 2019***

[iron_mike]

My point still stands

[Aristotle]

I would agree with this. It’s tough on the players who are around but between holidays, the Leaving Cert, J1s, weddings, stags not to mention various intercounty teams, we’d seriously struggle for Championship games in summer and I don’t believe fellas are too bothered as long as they’re not playing in the freezing cold or the shit and mud.

[feck_it]

Wow

[Perez2017]

Totally agree, if every county were made to play club games it would finish the power of inter county managers. Will the gaa do it? No chance I’d imagine.

[Aristotle]

Maybe that’s what should happen but it won’t because they do have the power because the intercounty game is the biggest revenue earner, plain and simple.

You’re the one complaining that there’s only a handful of intercounty games left. The intercounty managers will say they need the players, no county board will stop them if they think they’re going to win and Croke Park won’t for fear of harming the product. Lip service only, and it’s not so bad now.

[Appendage]

The fixtures mess will never, ever be resolved because county boards, provincial councils, central council, the higher education authority, the primary school leagues, the local districts/regional boards all have power and they will not cede to anyone.

[Sidney]

@kerry1891

I don’t get the whinge about no summer games for club players. There are club leagues right through the summer in nearly every county just not any championship matches. So plenty of matches for club players. The reality is most clubs don’t want to hear about championship during the summer. Players will head away for the summer, J1s, concerts , holidays etc leaving a decimated club team. They are heading to all these places irrespective. very few want to admit the above is the reality , easier to whine about scheduling

Clubs are to blame for clubs’ woes

[Appendage]

Eddie Brennan reckons he knew by what was said at the meeting that Laois were going to win.

Did they say that Dublin would be casual AF and miss a hape of handy point chances?

Meetings are by and large gash,

[Ashman]

All fine and dandy & their is no bigger advocate of getting the club game played than me .

Picture the notional scene . The well play ballybrown 2 weeks before we meet cork in semi final . Game get a bit spicy . gillane has the closed pole of a Hurley worn off his ankle a few minutes later Cian Lynch is looking for three digits on claughaun field . Nah , ain’t gonna happen

[Appendage]

No no no. That’s like saying people should take responsibility for their actions. And that kind of thinking just isn’t on.

[anon32894817]

@Aristotle

Maybe that’s what should happen but it won’t because they do have the power because the intercounty game is the biggest revenue earner, plain and simple.

You’re the one complaining that there’s only a handful of intercounty games left. The intercounty managers will say they need the players, no county board will stop them if they think they’re going to win and Croke Park won’t for fear of harming the product. Lip service only, and it’s not so bad now.

I’m complaining the games are too tightly packed. There’s no reason club games can’t run along with inter county games. It literally happened until 2 years ago and now we’ve this ridiculous club break for no reason and there’s actually less club games taking place over the summer months than before and come the 8th of July all we have left is 5 inter county games. You’ve a situation where the vast majority of inter county gaa players are sitting important exams and playing their 4 championship games. It’s a nuts system. If the club games were organized properly you could have a months for holidays etc in July or whatever. Also If the club games were evenly spaced out what’s the problem with a player missing ome game because of a holiday. The gaa in its current format will go to pieces.

[anon32894817]

@Ashman

All fine and dandy & their is no bigger advocate of getting the club game played than me .

Picture the notional scene . The well play ballybrown 2 weeks before we meet cork in semi final . Game get a bit spicy . gillane has the closed pole of a Hurley worn off his ankle a few minutes later Cian Lynch is looking for three digits on claughaun field . Nah , ain’t gonna happen

Sure aren’t we always hearing about these infamous behind doors 15 on 15 challenge games played. It’s no different. A player can get injured in a warm up game.

[Aristotle]

In Limerick, the club system is better now than before.

[the_man_himself]

Agreed on that point. It was much worse when lads didn’t have a clue when they’d be playing

[Ashman]

They is little or no dirt in modern inter county hurling . All about movement etc. Club game far more riskier and easier see if players mind themselves .

[the_man_himself]

I’d like to see that hypothesis backed up by some facts. I’d say there’s a higher proportion of injuries in inter county games than club games

[anon32894817]

@Aristotle

In Limerick, the club system is better now than before.

It really really isn’t it was much better before. Players are getting more and more disenchanted with the system. Training for many months in the spring to play two games in a short window and then another long spell of no championship game. You’ll start to see more and more walk away. At least with soccer and rugby you know your playing every weekend or every second weekend and you go out for a few pints as a team. In the gaa it’s a mystery to know when games are even being played.

[Ashman]

you are right but there is little of it related to dirt .

[Perez2017]

We’ll see how important the laois meeting is this Friday when they are destroyed by tipp on Sunday. All these mythical meetings in the gaa are turning off players.

[GeoffreyBoycott]

I always felt the ‘backdoor system’ 2002-17 was a very good system. The top 8-9 teams were pretty much guaranteed minimum of 3 matches and there were much more cross provincial match ups than what you get now. There was typically 3 weeks between matches so in better run counties like Kilkenny and Cork (where they played their club championships over summer), round of club fixtures week after inter-county match but two weeks before the next inter-county match.