Waterford Hurling (now incorporating intermediate football) 2013 and subsequent years

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5673

I am.

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Not surprised, fair play :ok_hand:t2: it would have been easier for ya to head from the peninsula, but I was always thinking you’d go with your aul mates from the sion.

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25 + 26 :heart_eyes:

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Austin after tearing the hamstring and won’t see game time in Munster by sounds of it.

5677

Hard stepping on and off the IC treadmill

5678

He is not the only one.
Conor Prunty gone for 4 to 5 weeks with a quad injury,
Kevin Mahony also out for 4 to 5 weeks with a hamstring injury
Must have been some session they did in training.

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The naming rights for Cappoquin Logistics Fraher Field were sold for €10k per annum. 4 year deal with an option to renew for a further 2 years.

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is that a good bit of business Fagan by the Board?

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It is for the absolute state of it. Wexford gaa got €110,000 over 4 years off Chadwicks. To be fair they put every single penny into it. You’d hope for the good people of Waterford, County board does the same.

5682

No. Laughably bad.

5683

Two sets of jerseys would neatly cost you the same

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Its not really about the state of the stadium. Cappaquin Logistics will have their name mentioned regularly on national media for a pittance.

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Wexford Park is a county ground. Fraher Field is not. I’d imagine naming rights for such a ground are a buyer’s market.

Who has the naming rights for Bellefield?

5686

Cappoquin Chickens were about to offer €10,001 per year for the next four years but true to their name they chickened out.

5687

The county footballers play there. It’s a county ground. The hurlers also play there.

Sam McCauley’s. Only naming rights on that because the family is funding the big community project.

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Eniscorthy’s Carnegie Hall.

Well fair enough, but the Waterford footballers, no disrespect to them, are barely a county team.

Obviously when you say “no disrespect to so and so”, disrespect is the entire point of what you’re saying.

I recall Waterford winning a Junior Football All-Ireland some year. I’d guess 1999. I think they beat Meath in the final by one point. It created a minor stir. My impression was that the best players in the county were playing for the junior team rather than the senior team.

The category of secondary county grounds is an interesting (uninteresting) category.

Do we have a POWER RANKINGS list of secondary county grounds (ie. not county grounds but places which are thrown an odd inter-county bone) @peddlerscross?

I’d imagine Austin Stack Park Tralee would be towards the top of this list.

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FÓGRA

Cappoquin Logistics Fraher Field is a county ground. Waterford have two county grounds. We were due to play one of our three home league games there this year but it got moved to Walsh Park. We would always play at least one league game there. It’s a great way to inconvenience other counties.
Fraher Field also has floodlights which Walsh Park hasn’t and never will because of its situation in the middle of a residential area.
The footballers play in the SETU Arena in the city as often as they would play in Dungarvan.
There is a bye law on the books in the county that the county hurling final is played in Fraher Field and Walsh Park in alternate years unless both finalists opt for the other ground, which they would do if both teams were from the East or from the West. In 1992 when Ballygunner won their first county championship of the modern era they refused to invoke the bye law and take the final to Walsh Park because they considered Walsh Park to be effectively a home venue for their opponents Mount Sion. Mount Sion would normally tog out in their own ground and walk down to Walsh Park when playing there. It caused a bit of a stir.
The 1909 All Ireland Hurling Final between Cork and Kilkenny was played in Fraher Field.

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Local Enniscorthy boy done good, entrepreneur & pharmacy/chemist shop magnate Sam McCauley.

McCauley Bellefield.

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So what is the precise meaning of the phrase “county ground”?

The phrase “the county ground” has a much different implication than “a county ground”.

Or is a county ground somewhere which merely gets the odd bone thrown to it?

I always had it down that it was like county town, that there could really only be one COUNTY GROUND. With maybe with the following exception: where the power centres of football and hurling in a county are different (ie. Offaly, Galway, Clare, Kerry). But even in all of those, it’s obvious what the COUNTY GROUND is. Tuam was Galway’s football county ground and could be argued was Galway’s main county ground overall, but you’d never have a major hurling match there. It’s very much a secondary county ground now though it would traditionally have been a frequent host of Connacht finals up to the end of the 1990s.

Tyrone played Kerry at Pomeroy. Pomeroy is not Tyrone’s county ground. It’s a ground that occasionally hosts an inter-county fixture. You could argue it’s “a county ground”.

Clonturk Park hosted several All-Ireland finals but I wouldn’t have it down as a county ground these days.

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Hard to compare across the country.

Munster:

  1. Austin Stack Park
  2. Pairc Ui Rinn
  3. Fraher Field
  4. Nenagh
  5. Killmallock
  6. Sixmilebridge

Connacht

  1. Tuam Stadium
  2. Ballina
  3. Kiltoom
  4. Ballinamore
  5. Sligo ???

Ulster

  1. Crossmaglen
  2. Iniskeen
  3. Ballyshannon
  4. Ownebeg
  5. Pomeroy
  6. Ballycastle
  7. Down???
  8. Cavan???
  9. Fermanagh ???

Leinster seems to be poorly served by boutique secondary County grounds compared to the rest of the country. John Locke Park in Callan is probably as good as it gets.