That’s not really something to be laughed at to be fair.
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I was only answering them 
When nobody turns up at all Ireland semi finals and finals it tells you exactly what people think of the game.
I’d say most people can’t even see most of the scores the ball travels so quick and so high.
It’s an utterly shite product.
It’s also telling the one decent game last
In the whole of the year was between Limerick and Clare when it pissed rain and made it difficult for the players and there was plenty of mistakes. There’s something in that.
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Very much so.
Rain makes for all the really great hurling games. 2009/2010 All Ireland finals were wet and the 2014 All Ireland Semi Final between Kilkenny and Limerick was a classic of this genre.
The best overall hurling game of the past 5 years was the 2019 Munster Club Final played in a deluge in Pairc Ui Rinn.
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Limericks recent trip to Portugal cost just shy of two hundred thousand euro all in. Many of their owns fans can’t even afford to head to the game on Sunday. They are the Man City of hurling.
Hopefully they get 1st class flights and accommodation next year… They deserve more.
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Most of that cost was insurance
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I wouldn’t sweat about it lads. Limerick will be shite again in 5 years. An absolute freak generation. This too will pass
I don’t think Limerick will be shite anytime soon as long as they keep the academy in place and keep appointing the correct people in key positions but they won’t be as dominant as they are know. You dont produce freaks like lynch or Kyle too often but it’ll be similar to Dublin in football who’s whole team moved on and they were still pretty close to winning an all Ireland.
Only 8 or 9 counties play hurling so it’s easier to be competitive as well.
I think if the gaa went back to the same old system it would be much more beneficial to the greater good.
I think Clare are a good team. Probably short at least 3 or 4 players compared to Limerick but on any given day they could catch Limerick out.
In this current format they have to do it twice if not three times to knock Limerick out and that just isn’t going to happen. It’s like what made the fa cup magic back in the day. Everyone had a chance.
Not only is the current format a dead duck it’s made the league utterly redundant because a countys like Clare can’t raise a Gallop in the league and have to solely focus on timing their run in Munster other wise their legs will go like Waterford last year.
Then the question needs to be asked why if the league is so redundant do we need to take up 3 months of the calendar with it when the club championship is ran off in blitz format in a couple of weeks. If the authorities are going to keep this round robin format surely to god the league should be done away it and give the time to the clubs, the underage comps and various other competitions.
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This is absolutely true.
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Don’t see that happening. There won’t be a 45 year famine again. At most, a decade.
Once I read “use of the hurl” , I downed tools
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Just look at rugby in wales and rugby in Ireland. The Welsh couldn’t compete financially and once Leinster got their processes right it was game over. The game is utterly fucked in wales while Leinster turn into the biggest juggernaut we’ve seen.
The money you need to compete in the gaa is obscene and not sustainable for many areas. It has to change.
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I’ve been preaching this since they did away with knockout. There are only two national titles in hurling each year. The league, as you said has been totally diminished in status.
The new format was always going to suit the stronger counties as they have the depth of squad to manage injuries. Any hope of beating Limerick twice under new format is slim. As a result, the championship is less exciting.
If you went back to knockout, clubs in most counties would start earlier. Intercounty players would get refreshed, if knocked out earlier at senior intercounty.
The argument at time was why have intercounty players train all year round for one match? Reality was they weren’t. They had league and then went back to club.
Money was at the root of the change and like most things sports related, money destroys the romance.
Limerick are a great team, but they would not be as dominant under a knockout format imho.
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Spot on fenners and it’ll sicken a lot of the spoofers that you agree with me.
You could have a recession next year and i know exactly which counties will be hit and that directly impacts their development of players.
Even look at Lowry putting money in Offaly. That isn’t the road we should be going down with people just fucking money at it to compete. That’s what happened in soccer and it spiralled out of all control.
It’s obvious Limerick won’t be impacted as much and possibly counties like cork who have a city to back bone them can ride it out.
Imo gaa should be moving heaven and earth to give every county some sort of chance or otherwise you’ll end up in a situation like Welsh rugby in many counties.
Limerick have won all Irelands in three different formats tbf. They’ll beat you any way you like but the game is bigger than Limerick. Outside of the 3 or 4 counties it’s going to become impossible to compete for the rest if we keep going down this direction.
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Even a nationwide academy scheme where if you want to donate you are donating to an overall pool which is divided up between all counties with coaches moving from county to county would redress the balance and help the weaker counties.
Good point but at the end of the day , money will do the talking here. In financial terms at least, the round robin has been a complete success .
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