You should have just left out hurlers, thats where you left the door open. You were so close. But you had to just drag it back to hurling. It was an unnecessary flourish and it cost you.
That makes no sense.
You are comparing renting in the west of irelabd to buying a country estate in italy?
Are you slightly retarded?
Iād say there are plenty pros who started late.
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Not in a skills based gameā¦ Iād say the return is extremely lowā¦In a game with very little skill, athleticism is all you need.
"The club scene was in a vibrant state. But youāre never going to go back to that. Letās take a look at OāConnellās story. The values that he has and has to this day were bred into him via Young Munster, the appreciation of physicality, that was bred into him by his teammates, old hard cases in Young Munster. That connection with the club game has been lost. How much it is to blame for whatās happening now, it is hard to quantify that. But itās got to be one of the factors in there.
But the finance of other clubs. Munster are losing games to moneyed opposition. Theyāre losing to big clubs with big budgets. And Munster donāt have the same budget. They certainly donāt have the same players as they had. Theyāre losing players and theyāre not able to replace them.
So, I think itās several different factors but the diminished relevance of clubs is a problem for Irish rugby. If you look at the great players, their values came from their clubs. And that connection has been lost."
Tom English - author of No Borders Playing Rugby for Ireland
It makes perfect sense, mate.
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Tim Duncan - Basketball, switched from swimming at 14/15
Michael Oher - American Football, started at 14
Alex Morgan - US Womans soccer, started at 13
Nate Quarry - MMA, started at 24!!! Never played organised sport
Ditembe Mutombo - Started Basketball in college. Played NBA
Jimmy Graham - Played Basketball in Uni of Miami for 3 years. Then moved to football. Played NFL
HAKEEM OLAJUWON - Started at 15. Ibe of the greateat NBA players EVER!!!
I could go on
Cc @Tim_Riggins
Blackrock have 245 members.
Crokes have 6400 members.
26 times more.
This is GAA country.
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FFS. One of the old stooges holding the fucking game back.
The club game was thrown under a bus.
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Ah stop will youā¦ American sportsā¦ Basketball generally has one or two really skillful players and the rest are big oafsā¦ American football has a load of non skills positionā¦ and @myboyblue, Sean og was 11, not 13ā¦ Thatās two whole years.
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playing members?
I cannot help you if you cannot see the skill in those sports. Hakeem was a ridiculously skillful player ffs. There are plenty lads as big as them and as fast. They excelled for skill based reasons.
And there was a soccer player there, and i know there is more.
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Listen, you were like Fr Ted, Panel beating the car. You nearly had it, but you couldnāt put down the hammer
Of course not but there are 130 teams in Crokes.
didnāt know anything about hurling. Hurling was a novelty sport for me and Iām asked to pick it up, but not alone that Dad is expecting me to master it (laughs nervously). And any hurling people know itās the most technical sport going, and I was on the back foot as an 11-year-old kid. Many kids, even in my own local GAA club, started at five, six years of age. And as I try and pick up the game and develop and move on, he gets frustrated; I get frustrated because Iām just not grasping the game, itās a struggle. And it is a struggle until my mid-20s. Truth be known, it wasnāt until I was 26/27 that I felt comfortable as a hurler.
Paul OāConnell says same thing
āProfessional rugby has had an impact on club rugby and thatās had a knock-on effect. Leinster get players from schools, we got our players from the AILā¦ the status of the AIL has gone and itās affected Munster and they need to rethink about how we produce players.ā
how many adult teams?
Heās lying