All-Ireland Hurling Championship 2019***

[anon32894817]

@the_man_himself

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

Yes they just take a four month break as I’ve said. Get rid of the league and it’s simple to have 3 weeks between championship games. Give clubs a mini break in July or August and lay out their championship fixtures alongside the inter county games. It is very easy to get right.

[Lazarus]

They should just scrap the link with club altogether and make Intercounty professional. Lads good enough to be hurling for their county wouldn’t need to be worrying about the club then and vice versa. That’s the only end game in all of this and we all know it

[Sidney]

@iron_mike

Eamon Cregan started an AIF at 35 years of ages. Tommy Walsh was barely 30 when he retired.
The structure is still based around lads breaking into county teams in their early 20s and getting 10/15 years out of it. Nowadays it’s a young mans game with lads barely out of teens breaking in and having to retire before they hit 30. Point being you need to change the mindset at them top before you try and do anything.

Andy Moran was Footballer of the Year in 2017 at almost 34 years of age and is still going strong at not far off 36

Keith Higgins and Colm Boyle aren’t far behind him

Brian Dooher was still a key man for Tyrone at 36

Stephen Cluxton is 38 in December

Bernard Brogan is still on the Dublin panel

Denid Bastick went on into his mid 30s

The Kerry team of the 2000s had a load of players who went on into their mid 30s - Marc and Tomas O’Se, Kieran Donaghy, Aidan O’Mahony, Eoin Brosnan, Paul Galvin, Donncha Walsh etc.

[iron_mike]

I presume you mean 2002 until 2007 Geoff

[anon32894817]

@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.

I like the new round robin system but it makes the league defunct. In limerick they take this crazy break from club hurling for many months for no reason. In Kilkenny they work alongside the inter county fixtures which is the way it should be.

[iron_mike]

Read the title of the thread

[Lazarus]

@Sidney

Andy Moran was Footballer of the Year in 2017 at almost 34 years of age and is still going strong at not far off 36

Keith Higgins and Colm Boyle aren’t far behind him

Brian Dooher was still a key man for Tyrone at 36

Stephen Cluxton is 38 in December

Bernard Brogan is still on the Dublin panel

Denid Bastick went on into his mid 30s

The Kerry team of the 2000s had a load of players who went on into their mid 30s - Marc and Tomas O’Se, Kieran Donaghy, Aidan O’Mahony, Eoin Brosnan, Paul Galvin, Donncha Walsh etc.

Wrong thread bro

[Aristotle]

I completely disagree with that. I can only speak from my experience but lads are actually happier with the current format.

It’s far from perfect but it’s so much better than before when you’d have 4 matches in 10 days if you were a dual club.

[the_man_himself]

Very few serious injuries related to dirt anyway

[Sidney]

@iron_mike

Read the title of the thread

Gaelic football requires a higher standard of fitness than hurling

Your point was just a cliche

There has never been a time when people weren’t spouting the cliche that “it’s a young man’s game now”

Yet they never produce evidence for this

[iron_mike]

As I said. Read the title of the thread. I’m not going to be drawn into an argument between football and hurling.

[the_man_himself]

@anon32894817

lay out their championship fixtures alongside the inter county games. It is very easy to get right.

How would you lay out their championship fixtures alongside the intercounty games in a way that doesn’t depend on how the county team do?

I’ve already said this April thing is a joke

[Sidney]

No rebuttal I see, cheers

[anon61878697]

There’s no argument. Two completely different games.

[iron_mike]

The fact that you posted on the wrong thread means no rebuttal is needed

[Sidney]

@the_man_himself

How would you lay out their championship fixtures alongside the intercounty games in a way that doesn’t depend on how the county team do?

You can’t unless there’s absolute certainty that a county team will be playing on known dates and those known dates only

That’s impossible unless you run the championship as a pure league

[Sidney]

Deary me

[the_man_himself]

Outside managers must be getting some money. Start training in January, and even if you’re shite you’ll have 9 months of trainings to fill your bank account

[the_man_himself]

@Sidney

You can’t unless there’s absolute certainty that a county team will be playing on known dates and those known dates only

That’s impossible unless you run the championship as a pure league

That’s my point

[Malarkey]

@anon78624367

Lads don’t seem to understand that club games don’t generate revenue.

Yes, but they do generate new young players.