Yes.
You’d swear GAA clubs had matches every week. You could be waiting weeks or even months for a championship to start. Lots of time for training then. With the condensed nature of club championships nowadays you spend most of the week on recovery anyway. We only had one training a week between championship games this year. Would work reasonably well for 17/18 year old minors. In any case, the junior games with the second team would bring them on in leaps and bounds too and they wouldn’t need to train for that. If anything it’s the second teams who need these young players more quickly.
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Some great videos on this channel for coaches of younger players
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@peddlerscross can you come up with a name for those in favour of stopping lads who can legally drink, vote and drive from playing adult sport.
Similar to your “split season zealots” moniker
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Is the ‘Mollycoddling Mary’s’ any use to you?
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GAA Performance Analysis Guide. Launched yesterday
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The Gaastapo?
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The minor inconvenience
Every club has about two young lads in danger of burnout. The rest they are in danger of losing. If clubs minded their own players there would be no issue. We used to often play two matches a day soccer and gah, and sure you would only be loving life. Matches are all you want really
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We need to get rid of soccer and rugby and we’ll be the finest
At club level, that’s a cost teams can’t really afford.
Wexford must be only county in the world then that minors playing adult caused long delays with the underage fixture programs.
I don’t see too many arguing that u18s are too soft for adult. That’s ridiculous.
It’s the endless postponement of underage games because there’s an adult game at the weekends is the issue.
Mid week isn’t an option for minor games at this time of year because of schools games.
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I’ve modified my stance here.
Wexford to keep underage and adult separate.
Everyone else do whatever they like.
It must be.
So play them in the summer?
Never thought of that.
Yeah let’s start and finish the minor championship in July and August. That will work well.
Well lads, I’ve to source a set of jerseys for an u13 boys hurling and football team. Would anyone have any recommendations? Where to start etc. I’ve a sponsor on board already.
Surely your Club Secretary has an O’Neills/lesser supplier rep’s contact details? Most clubs will only allow these things be done through one contact, ie club Sec.
The O’Neills kit builder might be useful if you want to create your own.
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