It doesnât really, the likes of Joyce, Ryan, the Fennellys, Hogan, Buckley and whoever else they pick up on the way will ensure KK are on top for anther decade.
[quote=âkerry1891, post: 762020, member: 1379â]Hurling is saved? I didnât realise that it was in that much danger because of a league format. Hurling is no more danger now than it was in the past. You seem to be of a school of thought that the present league format is going to kill hurling? Linking the league format debate to some greater cause of saving the game of hurling is a bit ott.
And the fact of the matter is if these counties who believe they should be in the top tier but are not would be where they want to be if they had a few better players. You donât see Kilkenny having a civil war over who should be minor hurling manager or senior hurling manager like Limerick and Cork have done. No strikes either. Is it any surprise Limerick and Cork are where they are bearing in mind what happened within those counties. Maybe avoiding this shite is why Kilkenny produce the likes of Fennelly and are in division 1A. My Fennelly analogy isnât as hilarious as you make it out to be.
Limerick got a raw deal when the format was changed a few years back but there are always going to be victims when people are constantly calling for change to the league format. The constant tinkering leads to this. They had two opportunities to get back up and couldnât so hankering back to the year they lost out when the format changed is getting a bit pointless.[/quote]
In fairness, Limerick and Cork are also partly where they are because the top tier of the hurling league is now half the size of what it had been for about a decade when 1a and 1b actually meant two equal divisions, which fuels some of the entitlement feeling. Iâd agree with Dalyâs 8 team proposal - a lot of the complaints about the 8 team format before stemmed again from the 1 up/1 down system and getting stuck in a lower division for a long time, which would have been rectified by upping it to a 2 up/2 down system.
Agree. 8 teams, 2 up 2 down seems to be the obvious solution
Boring! Anyone have an opinion on todayâs games, as opposed to moaning like cunts? Tipp & Galway wins for me.
Taking off the moaning cunt hat for a moment, yup, Tipp and Galway wins for me too. KK without Cody is an unknowable: win it and theyâve gone out and won it for him, lose it and theyâre damaged without him. Thats how it will be painted anyways.
there isnt a solution as the game is dead . it never took off in most of the country despite being giving all the advantageous by a corrupt church and corrupt politicians
knock it on the head is the best thing to do with it or merge it with shinty
Been saying it for years, this could be the year Iâm right.
Dublin and Kilkenny to cement Leinster as the strong hold of hurling.
Game over.
Dublin are in for an absolute stuffing here.
1B is a farce
Brian Gavin had blown his whisltle there before the ball had been finished to the net - that goal should not have stood.
And next year they want the 4th placed team in 1B in the quarter finalsâŚ
A trimming for Dublin here will no doubt start a debate about the current structure of the league. The sensible thing would be for an 8 team top league, 2 up, 2 down.
Fuck, but Cummins is a fat bastard these daysâŚ
Are Dublin playing a man or two down?
Dublin not trying an inch today horrible cunts.
Fuck ref, call it over at HT⌠mercy rule.
Iâd like to see a 9 division league.
Divisions 1 to 6 would be composed of two teams each, playing in a home and away round robin format
Divsions 7-9 would consist of two seven team divisions and a six team division.
So youâd have something like the following:
D1: Kilkenny, Tipperary
D2: Galway, Cork
D3: Clare, Waterford
D4, Dublin, Limerick
D5: Wexford, Offaly
D6: Antrim, Laois
D7-9: the rest
After the end of the âleagueâ phase, the top two teams in each division would play off to decide promotion and relegation.
Looks like he had a big winter. Conal Keaney on the other hand looks like a pale shadow of the man he was.
Tipp look good. Level of organisation is hugely improved from last year.