Stick hurling: Parental Guidance advised

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What’s your point jeff?

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The variety of winners in the 1990’s was actually
better than this decade, contrary to what you have claimed.

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So what 6 year period in the 1990’s contained 5 different winners jeff?

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1990 to 1996 contined six different winners.

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Correct jeff didn’t even have to go across 2 decades if he had read wiki properly.

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6 different winners in the 1990’s with no county winning it more than twice.

This decade so far has seen Kilkenny win 4 of the 9 that have been decided so far and there has been 5 different winners.

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We need hurling games to start back fast. I can’t take many more yarn based articles

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They need to bring back the NURI sliotar, that would sort it out.

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I only remember two instances of teams scoring 30 points plus pre 2005. Both were in games that were brutal mismatches and both were in 1982. Cork 5-31 Waterford 3-6 and Kilkenny 7-31 Westmeath 0-9. The other high profile one was Kilkenny 3-30 Waterford 1-13 in 2008. Even as late as 08 30 points was an outlier.

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That ball is a sucker for absorbing water.

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Does anyone else think the bigger difference rather than the weight of the ball is that hurleys have improved so much? I remember looking at old games over lockdown and from time to time lads would hit the ball as far as lads could hit it now but it was just harder to hit the sweet spot with the hurleys back in those days

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Gearoid Hegarty is the Kareem Abdul-Jabbar of hurling. They’ll have to change the rules to curb his dominance

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Bamboo Hurleys are a new thing it seems. They’re about 50 quid.

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Game as changed to a possession style game. Less goals are created as ball is not moved quickly as teams are scared to turnover the ball. It has become a game driven by statistics and influence of other sports.

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The club game is a better spectacle tbh

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“Was” I suppose. I have only one here in the house. Signed by The King himself. It’s been indoors now for so long it’s bone dry and as light as a feather. I took it down off the top shelf to compare it with the modern ball, but there is no great size difference. So it must have been the water absorption.

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They changed the centre of gravity in javelins when lads started throwing them too far. They could do the same to the sliotar.

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That light Cork forward, Seanie, 99 team, training teams now. He used to use old camogie sticks as they were light but they looked more like hockey sticks. Hurls must be an issue alright.

First ones I remember really different were the O’Connor Newtown ones, light but with a big bas. With the suitability for the Cork style of the time, think they were the game changer. I think you’d see more goals with a heavier ball now, but lads would still exert serious control and short passing would reign, just fewer distance points.

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It’s the sliotar. Not just the size but what it’s made of. It’s much lighter. Ribs are much smaller so easier to strike it accurately. Fresh ball every puckout not one for the whole match like it used be in my day.