Club Championships 2018

maroonandwhite · February 11, 2019, 5:11pm

Fake news

balbec · February 11, 2019, 5:12pm

Possibly. Depends how many decent teams they have underage.

maroonandwhite · February 11, 2019, 5:12pm

Finals or just bog standard games, when did you see them. You are trying to weasel your way out here

the_man_himself · February 11, 2019, 5:14pm

How am I trying to weasel out of it? I’ve seen county semi finals and Connacht intermediate finals in recent years

maroonandwhite · February 11, 2019, 5:15pm

So you are just a terrible pundit. Lucky you aren’t on betfair. Fair enough.

the_man_himself · February 11, 2019, 5:16pm

The facts back me up and show that the Galway intermediate championship is terrible. This year is an aberration

maroonandwhite · February 11, 2019, 5:26pm

7 all ireland finalists in 14 years is terrible? List the counties with better ones, kk, cork… any more?

the_man_himself · February 11, 2019, 5:31pm

Ridiculous unfair advantage over other teams. Some years the Galway team only has to beat a Mayo team followed by an Ulster team to get to the All Ireland

anon78624367 · February 11, 2019, 5:31pm

Bingo.

maroonandwhite · February 11, 2019, 5:34pm

So youve gone completely from saying its terrible, as theres no way you can make that argument, and are now talking about unfair advantages. Which galway can’t do anything about really, tried to go into leinster but wexford were too frightened.

Funny in senior, if you are to take performance on the level playing field of semis and finals, the galway senior championship has proven to be way harder to win than the munster club since 2000. Why do the ridiculously weak munster and ulster clubs get a bye straight into the semis, they dont deserve it

maroonandwhite · February 11, 2019, 5:37pm

Still waiting for an answer here

the_man_himself · February 11, 2019, 5:37pm

No its still terrible. One swallow doesn’t make a summer. How is it not an unfair advantage to only have to beat two teams from non hurling counties to get to an All Ireland Final?

the_man_himself · February 11, 2019, 5:38pm

Flesh that out a bit there

flattythehurdler · February 11, 2019, 5:39pm

maroonandwhite:

London, Westmeath

The senior champions of both places, the 25th best team in Galway making oranmores achievement all the more remarkable.

Gman:

No Galway team has ever got to a Junior final.

Galway don’t send the junior A champions, they send the junior 1 champions, which is basically the best team of junior only clubs, in reality football clubs hurling teams as every hurling club is senior or intermediate in Galway, they’res 36 teams in either of those grades. The actual junior a championship is very strong, and would be of a far higher standard than the wexford senior championship for example

To further discredit your terrible argument, in the junior b all Ireland club championship, which kileedy in Limerick host but which all Galway junior b teams are eligible for, galway have three wins in its lifetime, joint topmof the roll of honour with tipp and Kilkenny. Wexford, of course, have none

Ouch

maroonandwhite · February 11, 2019, 5:39pm

The galway champions have been far more successful than the munster champions on the level playing field of semis and all irelands. Thats not complicated.

the_man_himself · February 11, 2019, 5:41pm

Not a level playing field. The Munster team had to win their county championship and the provincial championship to get that far

maroonandwhite · February 11, 2019, 5:41pm

Not as strong as cork and kk (and ive already proven why in kks case) but its terrible compared to what other counties exactly? Its terrible in comparison to what??

the_man_himself · February 11, 2019, 5:42pm

All of the other hurling counties

maroonandwhite · February 11, 2019, 5:43pm

Terrible comprehension again by you. The munster champions, im treating them as one entity here, even though they are the pick of five hurling counties, enter the all ireland series on a level playing field, same rest time (months) same draw as the 4 Provincial winners evenly can draw each other, yet the galway champions fully out perform them.

Im not interested how they got there, irrelevant. im interested in what they do when they get there.

maroonandwhite · February 11, 2019, 5:44pm

Oh ok so wexford, limerick, clare, offaly, dublin, waterford, all of whom have never had a finalist or winner of the intermediate championship, have better championship than galway who have a winner and six finalists. Riiiiight.