Big fuckers alright, theyâre even missing a few gone travelling. I donât know about them though, last year they looked a cut above everyone else in the West but Rathkeale beat them twice. Theyâd probably be the most likely of the West sides alright.
How are Ashkatin shaping up this year? A Limerick senior in the ranks now too
Struggling for 15 at the minute but weâll be grand once we get closer to champo.
Thereâs a decent chance NCW will beat G/B on Saturday.
I would say more than decent judging on what Iâve been hearing from their side but you know how townies carry on 
Finals on a Wednesday night 
New fixture calendar is working like a charm
Tbf 21 club championship is absolutely pointless these days. A drain on clubs finances is all it is.
Itâs still a county final at the end of the day.
To play it two days after an intercounty championship match involving players from both clubs is insulting and demeaning to all concerned.
It needs to be scraped dodgey. Itâs impossible for smaller clubs to field teams and itâs so tricky with county players. Itâs run itâs course.
It needs to be run like a proper competition rather than as a glorified blitz . It was always a great completion that kept lads involved that might well have drifted . That said it is now another casualty of the increasing elitism in the GAA .
I get that but we canât just afford to ditch competitions and give young lads even less games. Itâs terrible that games are shoe horned in midweek at a bad time of the year but itâs better than no games.
Itâll be a nice boost for whoever wins it after the strangle hold Na P have had over it for the last few years.
Play it some Saturday night on a fine summers evening and youâd get a fine crowd, a Wednesday night to just play it off as quickly as possible will barely attract people from the clubs in question, never mind neutrals.
seriously mate, did you ever play? Thereâs plenty of lads for whom that is the biggest competition theyâll ever play in.
Whatever about the hurling, theyâll be playing u21 football on Saturday afternoons in November. Outside of premier itâs an absolute disaster.
Nobody has any interest in it anymore. 21s for most clubs is now 4 or 5 games played at ridiculous times and dates. Nobody gives hurling one more year to play 21s. The mass drop out is minor. At 21s between part time jobs, drink and college itâs gone to shite and a massive expense for clubs. Small clubs canât get a team together where the likes of nap, doon or the well have so many intercounty players at that age group itâs impsosibble to play games. Junior b is run brilliantly and youâve actually 11 or 12 games over the course of a few months.
Minor is far far bigger than 21s now. Itâs farcical. In fact minor a games are probably of higher standard than under 21 games. Youâve that silly rule where a 17 year old canât play now as well. So many walkovers in it and teams pulling lads in from soccer or rugby to play.
December even. Itâs a completele joke. If a young lad isnât in or around the adult team at 17 or 18 in the main they wonât give a fuck about 21s.
Biggest issue that time of year is lads are back in college and a share of them will have to work Saturdays.
I remember winning a city/east 21 a couple of seasons back and the lad presenting the cup was in a rush to thomond to catch a rugby game while most of the lads on the team either had work or wanted to watch a game. Simple facts thereâs a dirth of young lads nowadays and nobody has fuck all interest in playing a game at 11 inside rathbane on a Saturday. It just isnât attractive to lads at that age.
I managed a team to an u21 B county final, we got a walkover in the county semi
You still led them to that final, donât let anybody down play that achievement.