Gaa split season,killing Meath football since 2011

[Julio_Geordio]

@Fagan_ODowd

Back in early 1997 when Gerald McCarthy took over the Waterford team they went down to the Gold Coast Hotel in Clonea for a weekend training/bonding session. On the Saturday night the team had their dinner and were told to go up to their rooms. Laylay Barry, Growler Daly and Dan Shanahan came back down and drank the night away in the residents bar. Gerald needless to say got wind of it. He ran the shit out of the three of them the next morning and after training told Laylay and Growler that they were gone off the panel. Dan got off with a reprimand on the grounds that he was a youngster who was led astray by Growler his clubman.

He literally ran them

[binkybarnes]

Growler is a great nickname.

[Fagan_ODowd]

@Julio_Geordio

@Fagan_ODowd

Back in early 1997 when Gerald McCarthy took over the Waterford team they went down to the Gold Coast Hotel in Clonea for a weekend training/bonding session. On the Saturday night the team had their dinner and were told to go up to their rooms. Laylay Barry, Growler Daly and Dan Shanahan came back down and drank the night away in the residents bar. Gerald needless to say got wind of it. He ran the shit out of the three of them the next morning and after training told Laylay and Growler that they were gone off the panel. Dan got off with a reprimand on the grounds that he was a youngster who was led astray by Growler his clubman.

He literally ran them

Laylay was a big loss. He would have been the goalie for the next 10 years and instead we were left with a succession of duds, starting with Ray Whitty

[balbec]

And Laylay

[Fagan_ODowd]

@balbec

And Laylay

The Barry’s had great nicknames. The brother Paul who played for Mount Sion (the rest of them played with Passage) was Gubby Barry.

[myboyblue]

@binkybarnes

Growler is a great nickname.

I played with a growler once (stop it), he was of course a corner who spent the game growling at windy corner forwards

[peddlerscross]

A Munster U20 match between Cork and Clare had a tea time throw in of 6.15pm this evening.

I’d say there’s around 300 people at it.

Talk about a box ticking exercise in Fixture fulfilment.

[myboyblue]

It’s only U20 mate, relax

[PhattPike]

You’d wonder, if nothing else, whether the money men might start looking at it. Even the early rounds of the old U21 championship would have drawn decent crowds. Be interesting to see revenue for 2022/23 vs, say, 2014.

[Bandage]

@peddlerscross

A Munster U20 match between Cork and Clare had a tea time throw in of 6.15pm this evening.

I’d say there’s around 300 people at it.

Talk about a box ticking exercise in Fixture fulfilment.

I listened to the Wexford Hurling Podcast for the first time this year on my run this morning to see if I could muster any enthusiasm for the split season championship. Former Wexford manager Cyril Farrell & Wexford legend & media favourite Tom Dempsey were previewing Galway-Wexford & chatting about the general hurling world. Cyril said he can’t believe the Leinster U20 hurling structure - a round robin that eliminates nobody. He said “there’s nobody going to the games only parents & uncles.”

[peddlerscross]

I’m very happy to see my own county Tipperary’s commitment to not giving a fuck about these round robins has filtered down to the underage grades this year.

Our Under 17’s are done and dusted for the season already having 0 wins from 3 and our Under 20’s will likely follow suit on Friday when the Limerick’s ensure we are 0 wins from 3 there too.

I think Waterford are in a similar position and have effectively downed tools in both grades already.

[Aertel220]

@Bandage

Former Wexford manager Cyril Farrell

How did Cyril do as Wexford manager? He was manager in 1992 was it? Must have been viewed as a real coup at the time to acquire a former All-Ireland winning manager.

[Ralphie]

For those of us who can remember it was painful, confidence was at a sky high level.

Needless to say Kilkenny put a stop to things

[anon67715551]

Unlike Wexford to lose the run of themselves in such a fashion.

[Aertel220]

Unusual that he only stayed the one year. Even in 2023 you’d give a manager with that CV a 2nd season to implement their style of play and “follow the process”.

[Cheasty]

Are you sure Cyril Farrell was the manager of Wexford? My recollection is he was brought in as a high profile assistant, possibly with quasi-managerial powers but without the title of manager, maybe a bit like Pat Gilroy now with Dublin or Kieran McGeeney when he first got involved in the Armagh management team under Paul Grimley.

[Bandage]

Yeah, I think you’re right. Christy Keogh/Kehoe was probably still manager. @Ralphie? You know the way you remember completely random stuff from childhood? I remember being at some Wexford game with my auld lad back then & he struck up conversation with the man beside us. I vividly recall yer man telling my auld lad that Cyril was working Wexford so hard in training that all the players were constantly vomiting during and after training sessions.

[Cheasty]

Martin Quigley I think. Christy Keogh was manager in 1993 alright.

[Ralphie]

Christy was 93 alright

[Fagan_ODowd]

I got the all clear to head up to Thurles on Sunday. Was looking doubtful for a bit but someone did me a turn and I’m off. Hope in my heart yet again. I’ll never learn.