All-Ireland Hurling Championship 2019***

[anon70480284]

@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

Do any of these fellas get audited by the tax man or how are they working the system

[Malarkey]

@Perez2017

Senior club championships could be cut in number. In limerick 4 teams have a chance, Waterford is a 1 way street, tipp 4 maybe, cork standard gone way back, 8 teams maybe considering the size of the county, Clare probably most competitive club Championship in munster. 8 should be the maximum of any senior club championship. 2 groups of 4.

Utter rubbish…

[Sidney]

@the_man_himself

That’s my point

Indeed and the point made earlier about clubs not taking leagues seriously in most counties, well whose fault is that

The clubs and the players themselves, obviously

There’s ample scope for club players to have an extensive programme of good matches during the summer, but it’s the clubs and players involved who are the biggest impediment to that

[Lazarus]

@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 figures would actually boggle you. Even at club level.

[anon78624367]

Nobody is talking about underage here. This is senior hurling. The goal will always be to play for the county

[the_man_himself]

@anon78624367

The goal will always be to play for the county

You’re badly out of touch with club players

[Malarkey]

@anon78624367

Nobody is talking about underage here. This is senior hurling. The goal will always be to play for the county

Bullshine. You are basically saying rain arises from the ground.

[Lazarus]

@anon70480284

Do any of these fellas get audited by the tax man or how are they working the system

All about the system, jast ask Davy

[anon32894817]

@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

In correct. Give July as a break for club games and play qualifiers/ provincial finals and once August comes around you’ve only four teams playing inter county hurling so a very small portion of countries are left. 2 by the first Sunday of September.

[anon61878697]

Hurling is quicker now than it’s ever been. I think in the 90s the average a player was in possession was 3 seconds, now it’s .5 of a second. That’s some change in 20 years.

I’m not sure where Gaelic football is at but games are more attrition than speed. You can’t compare the two really, vastly different games that just share the one organisation.

[Sidney]

@Malarkey

Bullshine. You are basically saying rain arises from the ground.

In the same way that young lads playing association football dream of playing for Liverpool, not Wayside Celtic, young lads growing up dream of playing for Dublin, not Lucan Sarsfields

[Bisto]

Hard to know…I’d say some are cleaning up but a lot get mileage at civil service rates … And then there’s a lot of bullshitters who claim their getting a fortune when they aren’t…

[the_man_himself]

He was talking about senior hurling, not underage. If he thinks that the goal for every senior club hurler is to play intercounty hurling he hasn’t a clue

[Sidney]

@anon61878697

Hurling is quicker now than it’s ever been. I think in the 90s the average a player was in possession was 3 seconds, now it’s .5 of a second. That’s some change in 20 years.

I’m not sure where Gaelic football is at but games are more attrition than speed. You can’t compare the two really, vastly different games that just share the one organisation.

Gaelic football depends on both speed and endurance

Scores in Gaelic football are rivalling those in hurling now despite the ball being much bigger and heavier and despite the lack of a stick to drive it 100 yards

Dublin routinely post well over 20 scores per game and Donegal got 1-24 in the Ulster final

In the two hurling semi-finals last year, all four teams were absolutely spent in extra-time

The standard of fitness in hurling is a level below that of Gaelic football, simply because Gaelic football is a more demanding game fitness wise

[Malarkey]

@Sidney

@Malarkey

Bullshine. You are basically saying rain arises from the ground.

In the same way that young lads playing association football dream of playing for Liverpool, not Wayside Celtic, young lads growing up dream of playing for Dublin, not Lucan Sarsfields

Bullshine. Young lads are young lads and must be nurtured as same before they can play for anyone. How many youngsters of any sort played for their county before prior excellence with their club. Rain comes from the sky, not the other way round.

Your intellect is coarse with regard to important distinctions. The situation with soccer, for obvious reasons, is not equivalent, as you imply, to the situation with Gaelic games. For the progress of tyros in sport, the concept ‘dreaming of playing intercounty’ is neither a necessary nor a sufficient cause.

[anon32894817]

Limerick were absolutely mootoring in extra time.

[Sidney]

@anon32894817

Limerick were absolutely mootoring in extra time.

Limerick won because they had much more depth in their panel than Cork, that’s why they came back in the last 10 minutes and why they outlasted them in extra time

It was a similar situation to Dublin and Mayo in 2016 and 2017

[the_man_himself]

@Sidney

There’s ample scope for club players to have an extensive programme of good matches during the summer, but it’s the clubs and players involved who are the biggest impediment to that

Even county leagues and how well they are run is dependent on the county team though. Tipp’s county league finals are on this weekend coming. Most teams have already played their last league game, 7 weeks before their next championship game probably. That’s no good to anyone

[iron_mike]

@Lazarus

@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 figures would actually boggle you. Even at club level.

And in real terms what have they actually achieved. Bar Cregan in 94 and Bond in 98, I struggle to remember any other outside manager who has landed the holy grail.
Ok fast Eddie might be a little different but in real terms Davys track record is the best of the lot but he still hasn’t landed the big one outside of Clare.

[anon61878697]

a completely different type of fitness because they are completely different games…