Fella, they are getting Teddy Mac in to do the cultivating. I can absolutely guarantee you there will be no sipping of late summer wine with him around. Gone by June and probably relegated too
Mul and Mac 
No apparently Ted has been playing both sides. JBM stays and brings Ted in as coach!!!
Do these two not go hand in hand? I would have thought they were firm friends.
Ah ya friends alright, but Cusack is a non-runner with CB.
Somebody is pulling your leg. Although JBM is having second thoughts about walking away.
Not at all. Sure he got a journalist to make a play for him last night.
And Tom Mul clearly got a wrap over the knuckles and completely withdrew this morning. Obvious he was told in no uncertain terms to cop the fuck on. He came out and backed JBM to the last and suggested getting a Eugene Cloonan type person in. Ffs they are so reactionary. Would Cloonan be any less of a coach had Tipp held out the last day? Of course not.
This is typical of not understanding what’s required and reacting to what others are perceived to be doing.
And this is all being played out in the press. Whatever inside info I may get its fairly obvious to all.
Cork City has a shit ton of schools, very few of which care about hurling. The ones that do draw from a handful of teams. AG draw almost entirely from Na Piarsaigh with a couple from the Glen for example. They are flying right now because Na Piarsaigh are strong underage but if Na Piarsaigh dip the school will be back playing C grade or whatever again.
Basically all the city hurlers go to a load of different schools, some hurling, a lot not. Blackrock GAA’s players would be split across Roco, CCR, CBC, Pres, Douglas CS and a load of other smaller secondary schools. Similar scenario with Douglas and the Barrs.
The situation isn’t as bad in East Cork, but you still have three different schools in Midleton, two in Glanmire, another in Youghal etc.
(a) there are no amalgamations in the Harty anymore and (b) whoever is in charge of Cork schools said a few years back they were focusing on individual schools, not amalgamations, which is why we have 8 teams in this year’s Harty.
Look Cork is big but it has far too many schools, with all the hurlers going to a load of different schools. Charleville, Colmans and Midleton are the only ones with any kind of semi-decent pick, and they are the ones likely to compete A grade every year.
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I specifically asked, what size are the schools. I presume they’re all an equivalent size to ASR in Limerick. If that’s the case then your argument about “greater pick” is bullshit.
ASR only recently became a successful hurling school, mainly by the coincidence of a few factors coming together at the same time. They got a bit lucky and then built on that.
Same as cbc. I think they have 7-800 boys in CBC.
But no dual players and Rugby is still definitely no.1
Problem in fermoy, Midleton etc is the schools don’t go down the KK route if hunting hurlers into the Harty schools. The techs take 3/4 top players every year. Bandon has 3 schools for instance which is a bit mental. And even with that both hurling schools have done ok as they are surrounded by outstanding clubs
The problem is in the schools themselves and the drip off of teachers interested in gah. That’s why cbc are going well, donal o mahoney. It’s that simple. What the CB should be doing is employing GDA’S to work with the schools.
But they won’t cos they are too tight and don’t understand what’s needed.
The head of Corks development squads is now part time. That says it all
ASR was always a rugby school, hurling never got a look in until by coincidence they got a decent crop of players all of a sudden (in large part from Na P) and Moran joined the teaching staff around the same time. Until then there were a couple of teachers fighting the good fight but marginalised in favour of rugby and they were going nowhere. Now they’ve managed to get a bit of success and maintain it a little but @turenne’s talk of cork schools not having the same pick is rubbish. They have the same number of students in the school so the same opportunity to put together a hurling team.
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How do you not understand that its hurling pick and what/how many clubs they pick from that matters, not the size of the school? Its like you didn’t even go to a hurling school/play schools hurling.
AG and Midleton have similar sized schools population wise. One picks from Na Piarsaigh, and a handful from the Glen and Vincents. The other picks from Midleton, Carrigtwohill, Kiltha Og, Russell Rovers, Aghada, Lisgoold, some from Killeagh, some Fr O’Neills and an odd one or two from elsewhere.
Now who do you think year in year out is more likely to put out a stronger hurling team?
Denis Ring will continue as Minor manager.
Cork posters whinging about the pick schools in Cork have. 
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Yes. Your point?
Good news
I didn’t go to a hurling school. I went to ASR. When I went there it was a rugby school. Have you any idea of the geography of limerick and the location of ASR in relation to other schools or clubs?
How many clubs do ASR pick from.
Schools don’t cherry pick students, students pick schools. What don’t you get about that?
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