To answer the digging a hole question @caoimhaoin the winner would be @anon32894817. The cunt is some man for digging himself into them on here
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If I put 1 foot into water at 0 degrees Celsius and the other into water at 100 degrees Celsius the average temperature of my feet would be 50 degrees Celsius.
So it would.
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Back on the topic of Waterford. In 15, 16 and 17 they clearly took the league very seriously and this reflected very well on their championship performance. Losing two all Ireland semi finals and losing a final. Why o why would McGrath decide to completely right off the league this season? Itâs a massive change from what clearly worked for his team.
Id say he left it off.
Now you have it.
We have this wonderful advantage internationally thatâs largely untapped yet soccer especially has decided to fight it and take it on.
Our unique sporting culture should be a help but all we do is fight with each other. Itâs pathetic
Uneducated dumb cunts
They didnât try a leg in the league last year.
Iâve never understood this obsession with comparisons between professional soccer players and IC GAA players, itâs ridiculous.
Btw what soccer player play 3 games a week?
Junior lads do when the fixtures clog up after a shit winter and the evenings get longer. You could play Sunday,Tuesday,Sunday,Tuesday,Sunday having not played a game in weeks
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Yeah pure proud. Ray cummins hand passing the ball over the bar
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Same thing occurred to me having seeing the highlights from the weekend. Itâs a theory that will get a sterner test this weekend with Cork and Tipp both out for the third weekend in a row. Tipp have a pretty raw deal in that they have Clare as their final game after four on the trot, whereas Clare now have an ideal break between two sets of two matches.
Cork havenât been going heavy on the substitutions either. They seem to have a fairly settled team and dont seem to be keen on making too many changes. Youâd have to imagine Limerick will have an edge if this is to be close going down the stretch.
Having played at a bad level of hurling, soccer, rugby and football, personally I found football the hardest. Soccer is the opposite of hurling though. Hurling looks ferocious to watch, but itâs not bad at all to play. Soccer looks almost non contact to watch, but you can get well battered.
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Iâve explained this already.
Its a big deal for Waterford if you started the year with realistic ambitions of winning the All Ireland after losing last yearâs final and you have to face Tipperary on Sunday probably missing 10 of the 15 players that started last yearâs All Ireland Final. If there was proper and correct period of time of three weeks between these games, Austin Gleeson (best player), Noel Connors (best defender), Pauric Mahony (free taker) and Maurice Shanahan would all probably make the next game.
It has turned the hurling championship into a war of attrition and not a test of hurling skill. Thereâs a few reasons why Kilkenny, Cork and Tipperary have won 93 of the 130 All Ireland titles and the likes of Waterford have won just 2. One of the reasons is that Kilkenny, Cork and Tipperary have strength in depth - most clubs, most players. Waterford has the smallest population in Munster and by extension fewest hurling clubs and smallest playing pool.
The system will disproportionately affect the smaller counties, the likes of Offaly and Waterford with the smallest playing pools. Offaly and Waterford along with Tipperary and Wexford are the only 4 of the 10 who have to play four weeks in a row. Everyone else gets a rest week. Offaly were out on their feet in Game 3 against Wexford last Saturday and are on again this weekend against Dublin.
So gga players arenât fit?
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I think I alluded to this point a number of months back - it wonât necessarily be the best hurling team that comes through, itâll probably be the team who have less amount of injuries and suspensions through the four games and whoâs âweekendâ off falls at the right time - itâll take teams a year or two to adjust and peak their run in / use of the league correctly
Unfortunately for us it seems that Waterford have fallen down in all of the above and will now most likely have to call this year a write off after this weekend
Youâre right.
All have different demands. Serious fitness needed for football. level depending.
soccer can be a tough slog if you are lacking fitness as it is constant.
a bar stool is the best place for fellas like us now.
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Correct. The league should be scrapped. It serves no purpose now as the Championship is effectively a glorified league.
You have a schedule now with Munster League/Walsh Cup in January. League primarily in late January/February. Thatâs two competitions largely played off in the depths of winter, a time of the year when hurling is all but unplayable as a sport.
You had a farce in the football league this year when they lost a few weekends to bad weather, that they didnât even play most of the final rounds of fixtures in Round 7 of the league as Carlow and Laois had already secured promotion and they didnât have the time to schedule the rest of the games.
After this five week blitz which will end on 17 June, there will be 5 free weekends before the All Ireland Hurling Final is played on 19 August, two weeks before its traditional date on the first Sunday in September. If they wanted to go with this âChampions Leagueâ system, they could have started it a week earlier on 6 May, left the final on its traditional date of 2 September and there would have been a minimum of two weeks for every county between every game.
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You are some windbag.
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The clubs have games mate.
If the league is scrapped, thereâs March and April to play club games in. September and October are grand months for club games as well. Plenty of counties continue to play their club championships during the summer months, Kilkenny a prime example.
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