Provincial championships should go and i believe they will in time. Leinster championship is laughably uncompetitive at present.
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Agree, Id nearly replace the league with the provincials. The problem is that the munster round robin in particular is good for the coffers.
I hope the time you spent playing actual sports doesnāt take away from your time being a top, top poster on TFK.
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@Big_Dan_Campbell are you in any way responsible for this upturn in Barrogs fortunes? Itās remarkable what they are becoming. They used to be the consummate Dublin gurrier club. The only time they made headlines was when a 19st fella playing full forward broke a corner backs jaw one Sunday and did time for it.
A small wheel - itās a hurling first club now and a very young senior team built of a few relatively decent underage teams.
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They seem to have a good thing going with St Fintanās High School.
Fintans has been a boon for all the clubs in the catchment area - Greg Bennett doing a lot of good work there despite them making strides in rugby around 5 years ago.
A good winter pitch
Yeah we used to play challenges on it in winter.
It does not make sense that 2 top teams go out and Dublin or Wexford go through.
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Itās total bullshit and makes a mockery of the round robin.
Neither team would win a game in Munster.
Iām all for a total revamp of the intercounty championship towards a league format of two evenly matched groups of 5/6 AFTER the club championship has been completed.
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It will meet huge resistance for a number of different reasons. The umbilical chord that connects the provincials to the all ireland series is arguably stronger now then it has been since straight knock out.
Teams like wexford and dublin will fight tooth and nail against it as it can be currently argued that if change was to come, it could be years before they reach a knock out game given the current state of the game in those counties.
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Limerick lads should know better than to be looking down their noses at Dublin and Wexford. It wasnāt that long ago that limerick were at the same level and when the golden generation depart you could well be slumming it with the proletariat again.
And Cork have been shit for years too. Win a couple of league games and their tut tutting about the standard in leinster. Very Cork behaviour.
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Weāll never lose again Iād say.
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Cathal OāNeill, Adam English and Shane OāBrien should keep Limerick competitive. Looks to be 3 marquee forwards there.
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Thereās only one Gillane though. Well thereās not, but you know what I mean.
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Daly worked wonders with Dublin all the sameā¦ He had ye fairly close to the top. The game needs him back in to rise up another county.
They were great days alright. Listening to him on the podcast Iād say his inter county management days are over.
Agree completely, they need to sort it. Heās the main man.
Donāt worry. The wheel will turn. The view from the top of the mountain is lovely though
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We were looking down our noses at the likes of Wexford and Dublin for decades though and will continue to do so regardless.
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