People Kev knows

[myboyblue]

@johnnysachs

You’d have to say we are pound for pound the worst football county in the country when you look at all grades. County board dont give a shite. Its not enough to throw money at something at this day and age. I’ll go back to when they started mass relegation of teams a few years ago. Redrawing club championships. They went consecutive years whittling away senior teams. 3 or 4 relegated each year. Because it was deemed “uncompetitive”. If you really analysed it though it was uncompetitive because Commercials were hammering the shite out of teams. Interrupted occasionally by Loughmore. Those 2 have ruled the roost and the rest are just cannon fodder.

You’d actually have a good senior championship if you took Commericals out of it but no one can compete with them in terms of size and scope. They have been even more dominant underage hoovering up minor and U20 titles. Similar in many ways to Ballygunners dominance in Waterford. An apathy sets in and clubs aims are merely about survival. Players themselves dont buy in to same extent. So you still have the monopoly or duopoly at senior level doling out the hammerings but less players exposed to higher standards and the highest level.

Theyve shrunk an already small playing pool. Many of these ex senior clubs now prioritise a hurling title without the existential threat of losing senior football status knowing they can plod away in an intermediate football championship. Theres really no way back in the short to medium term.

That’s a very good summation - thanks for taking the time to make the effort explain. The county board stand indicted again it seems.

Thurles senior football will be fascinating to watch this year, I suspect it will play out as both of us know

[the_man_himself]

Really since they changed the structures to eliminate dual players at underage any chance of Tipp going anywhere in football has gone

[Declan_Moffat]

Tipp have history in outside men taking the minors.
Keith Ricken was minor manager back in the 90s and the great Dermot Early did a stint too.

[myboyblue]

@Declan_Moffat

Tipp have history in outside men taking the minors.
Keith Ricken was minor manager back in the 90s and the great Dermot Early did a stint too.

Distinguished Company. Maybe football is dead in Tipp.

[peddlerscross]

The County Board made a mess of their management appointments at underage last Autumn. In the end nobody would take the U17 gig so were left with Kev.

The previous Minor Management should have been allowed step up to U20 after three decent years but were shafted.

The bigger issue is that as @the_man_himself alluded to, the best footballers in Tipp are also the best hurlers and Hurling is the only show in town.

Tipperary’s success in Football was built on the 2011/2012 minors who were nearly all dual. Bill Maher, Seamus Kennedy, Steven O’Brien, John Meagher, John McGrath, Liam McGrath, Colin O’Riordan etc all outstanding dual players.

Thanks to the split season zealots who insist upon round robins at underage, Football in Tipperary has effectively been ended as a pastime.

[myboyblue]

@peddlerscross

Thanks to the split season zealots who insist upon round robins at underage,

Should it be all knock out?

[peddlerscross]

A backdoor format would be grand for Minor.

U20 should be straight knockout.

[Appendage]

But but but

Who are they?

This kind of them interests me.

They are us. That’s all. The county board is a body comprised of a representative of each club

The exec is of them. Elected from them or by them.

If they don’t give a fuck it’s because that’s what the people want. Or don’t want as the case may be.

[RunningBelowXg]

Didn’t Drom & Inch pull out of the Senior Championship a couple of years ago? What was the story behind that? They were no-hopers in the Hurling so it can’t have been to focus on that purely?

[myboyblue]

@peddlerscross

A backdoor format would be grand for Minor.

U20 should be straight knockout.

You know there’s more grades than just minor and u20, right?