That a society issue, the days of the male teacher looking after the hurling team are few and far between.
Parents do their best, bringing kids to training/ matches. Not always easy with life so busy. Some also volunteer, but know very little, hence the holding of hurleys wrong etc.
I see it with my two little ones. They are not being coached the basics correctly.
I would scrap all development squads and get those involved back coaching at schools/clubs that need support.
Its all well and good have coaching seminars but some clubs/schools need the regular interaction of qualified coaching.
Stone deaf. O Neills were joined with St Colmans this year. We would not have been able to field a team, not even close. Without that amalgamation, lads would have had no minor hurling and potentially walked away.
From the outside looking in it appears they are only using a fraction of their resources. Still very much reliant on the old City Clubs and Midleton.
West Cork has never been a hotbed so that’s fair enough but is Hurling even a thing in large population zones just outside the City like Ballincollig and Carrigaline?
Hurling is a thing in Douglas but they are massive underachievers. Very little happening in Fermoy/Mitchelstown.
The club and school just does not have the same pull anymore. Kids have loads of options/distractions that we never had. It is partly the reason that the standout individuals are not as common nowadays. They have drifted to other things
My in laws only eat fish on Fridays - and my Mother as well for that mother - and they are Singaporean, so that is a bizarre definition of not being cosmopolitan.
Everything you hear about that lad makes it sound like he should have been a Tory. He’s managed to turn labour into the Tories instead. He’s some operator.
