Limerick didnāt play Wexford this year.
Ok.
Carry on.
The fucking league
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will you let him have it for fuck sake and stop driving him mad. Games in February are huge.
In fairness, it wasnāt so long ago we were that soldierā¦we have to make hay for the few years that we can as weāll be back there in no time.
All pre season friendlies, in every sport, are discussed on here.
yeah hopefully soā¦
it meant so much
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I donāt even remember the Superbowl a week later due to the celebrations.
Youre on the clock bud.
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Thereās a reason why the hurling POWER RANKINGS are looked at in March. The league starts in February (Iām told) so āmeaningfulā games will take place. They lead into the POWER RANKINGS. Obviously, we know that the league is a joke of a competition so the weighting of the performances arenāt as much as the round robin series and ultimately, the quarters finals onward in the championship.
For example, Waterford winning the league, yes, you sit up and take note - theyāve won a national competition and some silverware. They would get say 5 pts. Tipp losing all of their round robin games, they would lose say 5 pts. Clare getting over the line v Wexford in the quarters - they get their 10 pts but if they had beaten them well, they would qualify for a few more bonus points. The fact that they lost to KK so badly means at the semi final stage means that they would loose 15 pts but another 5 pts for being so shite on the day.
Going into the AI final, even if KK won the AI Limerick would still be #1. The fact that KK got so close to them meant that they squeeked into the #2 slot - for me, Galway are the second placed team, I had considered putting Galway and KK as joint second but that would have upset too many more than they are now, cc. @buffers_alley
Thereās a bit to this POWER RANKINGS lads, let there be no doubt. Seeding and ranking spots arenāt just plucked out of the air. Lads would want to remember that when giving out to the unpaid administrator of this threadā¦
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Itās not an easy job. Keep up the good work.
You donāt need to justify yourself to those cunts
Wexford and those other no mark counties are where they deserve to be.
Carry on , the system works
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Thanks Pulp. Ah in fairness, itās an emotive subject. But come 2023 weāll go again and sure, weāll see how it all pans out.
Theres no doubt you do a great job @Locke and fair play to you for putting the time into it. I was querying one positioning in the ranking and the only reason why i did it was because i was at that Galway v Cork game and thought the hurling was below standard and was surprised Cork were ahead of Wexford in your ranking. I accept your ranking and happy to move on, didnt think me querying one position would cause such upset with our Munster posters.
But what i dont get is lads jumping in and having a go for no reason at all. Galway and Limerick lads in particular getting upset, one fella calling us cunts and another bringing up an under 21 defeat v Antrim when all this had absolutely nothing to do with the topic at hand.
Thereās lads on here who would argue with their shadow and as for the use of the ācā word, itās so liberal at this stage every cunt is at it.
I loved the way that Griffin tapped into the potential that Wexford had back in the 90ās and delivered an AI. The Leinster final in '04 was one of the best matches I was ever at and, even though when I went to congratulate the exuberant Wexford lad directly behind me in the Hogan stand and he told me to āgo fuck myself, ya Kilkenny bollixā* after having no cross words between us during the game. I still say that the Wexford supporter are the most loyal and engaged that there is and always come out to support their county, at every level and code.
*That actually happened, Mrs Locke Mk 1 got an awful shock at the time.
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Leinster semi final 2004 maybe?
Iād only have a couple of games ahead of. Leinster final 93 (drawn game) and Leinster final 96 ahead of it.
I was in Oz for the Cork drawn semi final in 2003.
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Donāt release too much info on your proprietary algorithm or youāll have copycat power rankers popping up everywhere with an inferior product. Like Chris Simmsā poor imitation of @Lazarus QB rankings.
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