Limerick GAA 2023-2024

Pudgie started.

The game looked over but Pallasgreen scored 3 goals in stoppage time and almost stole it. Pudgie got the last one.

No red cards though, although it was a close-run thing, Pudgie was a little loose with his hurley on a yellow.

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Because of the H2H rule, Kierans now need at least a win and a draw from their final two games or are in relegation. And hope Pallas get nothing from their last game.

While that is not ideal, it’s at least partly a freak of scheduling.

For me, I don’t like that the promoted team have to play Ahane first every single year. If you are going to set it up; for me, it should be the last game as then at least you’d have a situation like Liberties vs Adare in the B group.

In reality, I think it should be a random schedule each year and you just take it as it comes but if you’re going to fix it, at least fix it properly.

As for the overall format, I think that, until some of the weaker sides who go up to the A group start winning, I don’t know if you can change it up. I would have said the gap was closing a little bit but then Mungret went and got obliterated in their last two games after having gone so close to Kilmallock.

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As far as I know it actually IS random but it’s just thrown up that fixture for the last few years.

It’s done off a matrix on the Servasport system where you enter the teams and the computer gives you the schedule of games. I’ve used it before and it’s actually easier to calculate the championship fixtures as all venues are neutral. For the league you have to take a home/away split into account.

It actually is a freak of scheduling.

A glitch in the matrix maybe.

If they have been producing a random schedule I’d say there is a good chance of human error / system error given the probability of it happening three years in a row.

I dunno. There are only three possible pairings and a team can only play one of another 5 so maybe the odds of it happening aren’t as long as we’d think?

I am liable to human error myself but I make it 20% probability for a given year and 0.8% probability it happens three years in a row (0.2 * 0.2 * 0.2).

1 in 5. 20%.

3 years in a row is very long odds at less than 1% probability.

There must not be many older than him left playing outfield for their club’s first team?

Even Kirby has gone into goals. I think Lucey is finally done. Dodge hasn’t played this year, I don’t think James Vincent O’Brien has. Maurice O’Brien is gone.

There might be one or two others down the grades but I can’t think of them off the top of my head.

Is Lorcan o Leary gone travelling Again?

Working in London. He’ll be back the next day.

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A huge addition

Where would you even start to investigate this I wonder

https://hoganstand.com/article/index/333494

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Can imagine the culprits all ā€˜come together’ in unison for things like this.

Grim, but it’s a harsh lesson learned moreso than an investigation into who did it.

Heads should probably now turn to ā€˜how can we prevent this ever happening again?’

Heard there is Solicitor’s involved in Bruff club. Must be some mess.

It’s almost impossible to eliminate completely. If you are really bothered to put in the effort to do it, there’s no real way to stop it.

Like, that fence has been there for years.

True - I get that alright

Maybe I should’ve said - ā€˜what is the best thing we can do to make this as hard as possible to do again’

Slowing the culprit down getting in and out… floodlit motion sensors… motion alarms on certain hotspots etc

Might as well overdo it if there’s a serious potential cost to it happening

https://www.rte.ie/news/courts/2024/0910/1469341-kyle-hayes/

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It’s gone beyond a witch hunt point at this stage.

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Two years is tasty enough for speeding…

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