Tis only an aul winter blitz 
This weekend; Sunday I think?
Itâs at 3pm in the Gaelic Grounds anyway, either Saturday or Sunday.
Thatâs mad. Obviously Na Piarsaighâs dominance at the grade has come at a time when theyâve had a fair few seniors too. Kilmallock also won a few seniors with the teams that would have won 21s titles.
Surely Doonâs time is coming. The Well are probably the outlier but have been in a lot of finals too.
Would have been nice for someone like the Bouncers to win it this year, couldnât translate that underage dominance to U-21. Suppose they donât have Adam English.
With the numbers Mungret and Monaleen have itâs a fright they donât do better
They said similar of Na P for 2 decades
True. Still, fair enough at senior level but underage the numbers should always be the factor. Like Fr Caseyâs and NCW cleaning up in the big ball
NCWâs strength in underage football has more or less evaporated. Contrast that with their rise in fortunes at underage level in the Premier grade of hurling and their promotion to Premier Intermediate.
When the current NCW Senior Football side starts to break up, thatâll be that. Youâll be looking at a hurling club then with a football problem instead of the other way around.
Caseys on the other hand⌠fuckin joke. Win all round them at underage and wonât be winning anything at Senior any time soon. I suppose itâs hardly a surprise they have such underage football success. Are they the only town in the county that are solely a football only club? And letâs not go into how much easier it is to win titles in football than it is in hurling (far easier)
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I dunno, they were in the minor final this year again. I see them as a strong dual club rather than one over the other, even if hurling continues to strengthen I canât imagine a traditional football stronghold like that just fading.
Caseys should most definitely be winning more. Whatever about senior level, they havenât even won an u21 title in donkeys years despite many successful minor groups
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Caseys did something like 4 in a row 21s titles around 2008 - 2011 I think and did fuck all at Senior
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Last time they were in the senior final was 09 I think. They probably have 7/8 minors won since then.
do lads move out of abbeyfeale after school and never go back?
that is the bottom line, whole thing had to be changed because no one had the balls to stand up to the inter county manager
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Theyâre a mess. The potential theyâve had to dominate for years and itâs always fucked away. Monaleen could be the rising team, they seemed second best this year. I do agree about NCW having a golden generation however. Likes of Sheehan, Corbett, O Keeffe, Hurleyâs, AJ O Connor. They wonât have a side like that again no matter what comes through
I think the issue is that there is far too much store put in Minor titles. Letâs call a spade a spade, some incredibly mediocre sides win Minor Football titles in Limerick. The standard is poor. Caseys have had some recent Minor winning teams that were very very ordinary. They are feted as stars in the town then and itâs a case of rinse and repeat. Iâm not sure if any of those recent Minor sides had much outstanding talent at all in them.
Thatâs true. It doesnât take a whole pile to go far or win one. 21s has been high-ish standard in more recent years in comparison to long ago, but still nothing special.
Sunday at 3, TUS Gaelic grounds.
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Almost missed this one.
A great man entirely.
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Big win for NCW. Mountcollins got expectedly hammered
Big win? They struggled to get over the line at home against the Waterford champions who were down 5 players in an absolutely dire affairâŚa win yes, but a âbig winâ?
The Nire have been in a few munster finals in the last 10 years
Limerick clubs have a shocking record in munster
Any win is a big win
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