All down to the split season.
Next year we’ll have a better club team abroad than at home.
Looking at the KK team announced, I’d say that’s his thoughts as his ideal central positions 3, 6 & maybe 11.
Wouldn’t be taking as absolute gold but was told Lawlor is gone for 2 years, think him and the other half both work in health care so could be a factor, she’s a nurse and he’s a nutrionist or dietitian, she pushed for the move more out of the 2 of them. Ryan is a primary teacher so probably just taking the career break.
You really are a fool of the highest order.
The blood is on the hands of pro split season people like you.
The split season can now be added alongside the likes of the famine and the recessions of the 1980s and late 2000s/early 2010s as a reason for large emigration numbers of people in their mid to late 20s.
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Why did you post factually incorrect information after the Dingle Boden game last week and didn’t have the backbone to respond when you were pulled up on it?
They get so aggressive when it’s called out.
Im not so sure we’re on the same page on this one.
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10 years ago we had 6 of our starting team in Australia. No split season at that stage.
The split season has turned Inter County commitment into a full time job from November to July. Its become five or six nights a week which is unsustainable.
I was making the point on the Galway thread that back in 2017, Donoghue and co could prepare their team like a slowly cooked roast dinner.
That no longer cuts it. They were training at 9am on Stephens Day this year in Oranmore.
Its no wonder more and more are walking away.
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Senior intercountry is a game for college students now
Cost of living and inability to save for a house are alien concepts for a few of the lads here.
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The people in the arena are happy and ultimately that’s what’s most important.
September all Irelands were jump leads for the soul.
The club sessions in January were iconic as well.
Broke up an insufferable month.
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That was more so the case back around 2013-2017 when most inter-county hurling teams seemed to be emerging with young teams (Waterford, Limerick, Clare, Wexford). Nowadays you have lads like TJ and Pat Horgan playing until their late 30’s.
They’re dead right, i don’t know how so many commit year on year for 10 years. Some kind of Stockholm Syndrome going on
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Clare could have 11 lads in their 30s starting for them this year in championship, Limerick could have 13 in the lads in their 30s making the matchday panel.
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Some of the UL Fitzgibbon teams around those times were ridiculous. Lads who went onto be some of the best hurlers in the country on the bench
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Pretty sure Darren Mullen never started a championship game, poor fella is riddled with injuries.