I would point to the fact that teams without big name county players are much more equipped to train together and develop their game plan.
When it comes to what these players have achieved at county level, UUJ have the most impressive squad.
McBrearty and Nolan are All Ireland winners.
Ryan McHugh a former young player of the year.
McNamee, Clarke and Beggan are All Star nominees.
OâBoyle, McKeever and Mooney are former AFL recruits.
UCC would have advantages over other universities as they donât have a sizeable chunk of their squad made up of established county players who:
a) may not give that much of a bollocks about a Sigerson as they have bigger fish to fry
b) as a team have less time to train collectively together and develop tactically as they are with their counties
But this is not true. UUJ have prepared extensively.
And anyway has completely nothing to do with what i said.
Its gas the way you go on, you sound like Clive Woodward âEngland are a better team than Irelandâ just after Ireland wallop them. And you put in these excuses about county players.
But at tge end of the day UUj are hunting these lads down. And just because someone else puts more effort in (which is what you seem to think with absolutely no knowledge) why does that detract from their excellence?
No have no logic.
For what its worth, UCC have a minimalistic approach and keep their get-togethers as short and consise as possible. They donât pull at their players and they enjoy good relationships with county managements.
Also, they wonât win this Sigerson based on what i saw. Its a particularly young team with very large numbers of County U21âs (note to totti, Cork and Kerry donât put 21âs on senior panels for the league).
A couple of real prospects in David Harrington from Adrigole, Sean Kiely from Ballincollig, Jordan Kiely from Dr. Croke (looks like an unbelievable player in the making) and Jack McGuire from Listowel.
They are all serious prospects but quite young. If they lived up north theyâd be getting ridden by managers all over the shop.
You know nothing about how extensively UUJ have or have not prepared, you are in the far south West of Ireland and they are in the far north east. You havenât a notion about then so donât pretend to.
You said UCC have 13 or 14 senior county panelists. Name them.
The bottom line is UUJ have a team of established intercounty players most of whom have appeared in All Ireland qfs and beyond, some who have won it, some who have been in the mix for all stars.
UCC tend to be successful as they have players who take the Sigerson very seriously and that is where their top priority is at that particular time. To suggest they have better players than UUJ is quite frankly risible.
You on the other hand just have one huge chip on your shoulder.
A handful of these aging âcollegeâ players played at 1/4 stage. Not âmanyâ. UCC have only one player over 23. They are a real college. Thats really what the issue is here. Jealousy.
UUJ have far better players with far better career records to date but many of them donât really give a bollocks about Sigerson because for established county players it is a novelty competition.
That is the crux of the matter and you havenât a fucking notion about UUJ, not a single iota do you know about them. You are a pathological liar and possess a severely low IQ.
UCD beat NUIG 0-11 to 1-6 in the Sigerson Cup. NUIG should have won. Kept dropping shots short or ballooning them wide in the last quarter when the game was on a knife edge. They were definitely the better team, played far more as a unit and destroyed UCD at midfield for most of the match. UCD had a load of inter-county players including McCaffrey, Mannion, Fitzsimons and David Byrne from Dublin, Ryan Wylie and John Heslin but some of them looked like they didnât really fancy it, though Heslin was the difference at the end with his frees. NUIG got a smashing goal in the first half when they ripped the UCD defence apart with three quick handpasses and let by three at half-time. UCD turned it around in the third quarter with that bit of extra class they had but they were hanging on at the end and should have been taken to extra-time at the very least. NUIG had a chap called Enda Tierney who played very well but was particularly guilty of spurning scoring chances.
How did Eoin Keogh go in the UCD goals, and Eoin Lowry in the forwards? Lowry seems to be tearing it up (albeit only at Sigerson level) but that clown Lillis wont call him up to the Laois panel.
I bet a lot of those big names werenât all that bothered about the Sigerson. To the big names it is little more than an ancillary competition in their free ride through third level education.
Eoghan Nolan from Laois was the name of the goalkeeper. Had no chance with the goal. Wasnât really that involved otherwise. Was forced to kick long most of the time.
I donât remember seeing Lowry very much if at all. Missed the first quarter. There was another Laois player Paul Kingston named at number 15 but I donât remember seeing him either. Niall Kelly from Kildare and Padraic Harnan of Meath were also named at 10 and 11 for UCD but werenât on the pitch. UCD had three or four subs on in the forwards for most of the second half.
