Itâs only the league.
Where will Adare be come county final day? In Lenaâs watching a soccer match on the tellyâŚ
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No, theyâll be canvassing neighbouring intermediate and junior clubs trying to poach their best young players.
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Lads could anybody get me prices on junior a hurling and football and intermediate hurling and football from local bookies please?
I heard Feenagh were 6/1 to win the Junior A thatâs all I know 
Killeedy, Monagea and Tournafulla all look strong in the West. Havenât seen Feenagh/Kilmeedy yet, but Iâd imagine theyâre decent too.
Pats in the City probably? Doon in the East, Kilmallock & Castletown in the South; maybe the Stakers but apparently thereâs trouble in the camp there. Same with Caherline apparently, lost two matches already, but on paper, theyâre one of the strongest teams there.
I fancy Killeedy, theyâve got a few nice scoring forwards.
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Kilmallock will walk it
Pats will win it this year.
Hegarty will lord it at that level.
The junior championship and hurling are ill served by the second intermediate championship .
The club game in Limerick is structurally flawed .
How do you mean?
2/3 teams in the lower intermediate would never get out of the Junior A championship.
Fair point.
There is no need for a second intermediate championship in Limerick . We donât have enough clubs . Cork is a huge county and can sustain that . In Limerick it is utter bonkers but I know it wonât change .
There are too many senior clubs too fwiw . The club game is in utter crisis in the county.
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But does it really matter what you call it? If you regrade those 12 teams to junior, theyâd still be playing the same teams & worse. Calling it junior rather than intermediate doesnât fix the problem.
And you canât have a senior Championship with less than 12 teams really⌠if you cut it to 10, what would you do- two groups of 5? It would just mean that the bottom two teams would get hammered in almost every game. Whereas now, at least the weaker teams all have someone to fight against. And the likes of Monaleen definitely have scope to improve, and playing at that level will be good for them.
The real problem with our Championship is the divisional boards. Scrap them. Junior should be played on an all-county basis.
Other than that, teams get 5/7 matches at least⌠thatâs what players want.
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They need to get rid of the divisonal championships at Junior A for starters.
I donât think there are too many senior clubs at 12. To reduce it any further would make it even more boring than it already is. The solutionâŚI think if junior/ intermediate players were allowed play with their own clubs and a nearby senior club. Raise the standard of their game and also of the championship.
I donât think that works.
Most counties have 3 tiers and that is plenty. Kildimo and say G//B canât qualify to represent Limerick in club championship .
So youâd proposeâŚ
less teams in senior? Weâll say 10.
Then 10-12? at Intermediate? Maybe 16?
And then the other 60 or so teams at junior? Presumably at Junior A, B and potentially C level?
I donât see how that makes it any better, itâs just rebranding. Whatever you call the current intermediate Championship- call it intermediate, call it junior, it doesnât matter, itâs the same thing.
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