Even the once mighty Oulart the Ballagh were beaten fair and square by some Dublin club Iâd barely even heard of in the Leinster Club Intermediate Championship.
Youâd have to say the clay court style season has seen one beneficiary and thatâs Sharkyâs Chipper.
The 2-week blocks of football/hurling in Limerick have worked very well to be honest.
Obviously itâs week-on-week for dual players but it allows you get the balance of momentum in one sport but also a bit of a break to recuperate for injuries & re-focus if things go to shit.
Gets a bit tight if you have clubs succeeding in both, but hard to do much about that tbh.
Thats Oulart The Ballaghs fault mate. Struggling well before split season.
Please keep using this phrase. It makes me think of Wexford club hurlers as aahhh-euugghh sluggers who dive around Roland Garros or some court in Barcelona or Florence or somewhere in Switzerland every year with great success. And then get knocked out in straight sets in the first round at Wimbledon. A Sergi Brugera or Thomas Muster or Carlos Costa.
This option is already available to the GAA and always has been, they choose not to take it.
You can see even the lads sitting on the fence enjoy the âClay Court Style Seasonâ jibes and give us a few breaks here and there as they love the entertainment of seeing the zealots seething.
Lads lying to back up their point of view. Pubs in Monaghan were not showing the Monaghan game on Sunday. Total bull.
This is shaping up to the greatest season of gaelic football in aeons. When Laois trounce Dublin on Sunday it will really go off.
A pity no one will even know its on.
Theyâll know when we blow the fucking doors off the Championship.
At least Man City should have the league wrapped up before the final day this year, so itâs not competing with the last day of the round robin in Munster again
Or care. itâs only football after all.
I was in The Shirley Arms on Sunday & all focus was on the TV screens showing Arsenalâs travails at West Ham & how they didnât look likely to score after The Hammers made it 2-2. It was nearly half time in Omagh at that stage. Do you have information to suggest otherwise?
To be fair pal, I watched both those games on Sunday.
Arsenal vs WH kicked off at 2pm, whereas Tyrone vs Monaghan was on RTE at 4. It clashed with Forest vs Man Utd, not Arsenal vs West Ham.
I hold my hands up & acknowledge discrepancies in my timings. I thought the GGA was on at 3.45pm. Sky Sports remained onscreen after full time in London & so it remained when we made our excuses & left at around 4.20pm.
An eye witness account from @Bandage from a pub in Monaghan on Sunday. Would somebody pick the split season zealots up off the floor.
In fairness @peddlerscross is a dual club player Iâd imagine and @BruidheanChaorthainn was secretary or fulfilled some post of responsibility for his club as far as I know. Iâd say they are immersed in their clubs.
Itâs possible to play club (never mind attending a few games) and still be out of sync with this new inter-county calendar.
Sure Perez doesnât care as long itâs suits him.
Facts are clubs are decimated between June, July and august.
Thereâs little or nothing done in feb and march skills wise.
Many have exams in may/june
Anybody have any idea what impact thatâll have?
Whoâs that now? Seamus Casey is playing for Ferns in the Premier Division but I donât think heâs on the hurling panel anymore.
The huge hammerings part isnât actually factual but the split season senior hurling champions have been beaten by Laois and Carlow opponents which is almost as bad or perhaps worse.
They sauntered through the Wexford Intermediate championship. Nobody layed a glove on them really apart from the last group game when they were already 4/4. I donât think that constitutes struggling. Not the dominant team of 10 years ago but you donât really need to be to make an impact in a provincial intermediate championship. Particularly when the Dublin representatives were from the 3rd tier.