Limerick GAA, Still Getting Knocked Down

balbec · August 25, 2015, 3:20pm

Ye beat them in the county league didn’t ye?

glasagusban · August 25, 2015, 3:29pm

Referring to city champ, they beat our second string. Dunno what kind of team they had out.

Esso_Oil · August 25, 2015, 4:12pm

Will ye use the second string again this week?

Ahane v South Libs - by 3
Killmallock v P’well - by 1
Murroe Boher v Effin - by 3
Doon v Ballybrown - by 6
Adare v Bruff - draw
Na Piarsaig v Croom - by 12

balbec · August 25, 2015, 4:21pm

A handy site for results

anon25556527 · August 25, 2015, 4:36pm

Doon and ballybrown will be a cracker.

dodgy_keeper · August 25, 2015, 4:53pm

It’ll be a hell of an achievement for the Ballybrown lads to beat an intercounty team.

ciarancareyshurlingarmy · August 25, 2015, 4:59pm

Esso_Oil:

WTF
I wouldn’t like anything bad to happen to Aidan Walsh .

Just to note this is Gearoid Hegarty’s last year at this level. He didn’t make the team last year.
He is playing with a club that plays Senior Football and Junior Hurling (This is the 4th Grade in Limerick)
There are passionate hurling people in St Pats – Just not enough interest. They hardly train for hurling.
Hegarty is in UL and played football with them but wasn’t on the Fitzgibbon cup team (I don’t know if he tried out for them but its nearly a disadvantage to be from Limerick with that shower)

If he is to progress as a hurler he will probably come to making a decision of one over the other. I would love if he sided with hurling BUT if he doesn’t make the senior panel where does he go to improve/train. With the 7/8 guys that turn up the week of a Junior club match? This has happened to a lot of guys before. Young lads that come from Junior clubs that make the minor panels through playing with schools and once their finished there they are gone.

If we are to improve as a hurling county we have to change. The academy system is great and producing hurlers up to minor level. After that its Colleges and clubs. If your club isn’t interested then where do you go.

Between Senior (12), Prem intermediate (8) and Intermediate(12) clubs there is enough scope to allow one designated player to join them from a Junior club. FFS Hegarty would have played with the Claughan boys at under age - to be not allowed to play with that team is a joke.

You need to check your facts again. You are very wrong re UL

Esso_Oil · August 25, 2015, 5:13pm

Fair enough. Give me a clue?
If its the point that its a disadvantage to be from Limerick, I’d just browse through their team sheets over the last few years and count the Limerick players on them.

anon25556527 · August 25, 2015, 5:13pm

You have not been reading their notes they have already beaten strong Mayo and Meath outfits this year.

Bad_Winner · August 25, 2015, 5:39pm

Eh, who went there that should have got on the team from Limerick?

Bad_Winner · August 25, 2015, 5:40pm

You sure about that?
How about Damien Calahane?

ciarancareyshurlingarmy · August 25, 2015, 7:18pm

He was a key player on their Fitzgibbon side this year

anon25556527 · August 25, 2015, 7:21pm

The reason why not many Limerick lads are on the ul team is not because of some ul agenda it is because the lads living in Limerick tend to train with the seniors to enhance their chances ie tom rya dan morrissey tom o brien instead of playing with the college.

carryharry · August 25, 2015, 7:56pm

FFS

corner_back · August 25, 2015, 8:25pm

Fairly sure. I presume Castlehaven don’t have a hurling team. Cork have their own rules anyway. Certainly the case here in the midlands

Esso_Oil · August 25, 2015, 8:52pm

OK. I bow to my learned colleague. I take your word on it. I didn’t see him listed on any of the team sheets on the papers or on did I notice him on TG4’s coverage of the final.

However if its the case that he Limerick lads train with the county, Is it the case that the Clare and Tipp lads don’t? Sounds Farcical.

anon25556527 · August 25, 2015, 9:10pm

A lot of lads are on scholarships so they are obliged. I can’t think of any Limerick hurler good enough to be on the Ul that isn’t can you?

Esso_Oil · August 25, 2015, 9:19pm

Are any of the limerick lads not on scholarships? Any idea where a list of the scholarships are going?

anon25556527 · August 25, 2015, 9:20pm

In Ul not that I know of but would you give any of them money to hurl

iron_mike · August 25, 2015, 9:23pm

Dunno youd want to be asking a few prominemy South Liberties men that one😉