Were Dublin usually represented at Intermediate Provincial level in recent years by the Senior 3 champions or was it always the intermdiate champions and they tried to change it this year?
There has been a playoff between the Sen 3 winners and inter winners to see who would represent Dublin.
If Dublin just named their grades right it would give teams a chance at provincial level.
Sen B should be called premier intermediate like Tipp. Naomh Barrog the winners there would rattle Leinster.
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Agreed. its just clubs want to be able to say they are a ‘senior’ hurling club when in reality they are intermediate or junior. Absolute nonsense
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Kilkenny have their system perfect where they have their senior and intermediate grade and then leave their junior grades stretch on down along.
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Castletown and Lomans called off they’ll have some job to find a way of playing it now
Is it an ego thing with clubs? Senior, intermediate, junior should be implemented across the board. This craic of “Senior B” or “Intermediate A” is unnecessary and usually used as a bargaining tool when championship restructuring takes place.
Castletown would have been nearly up when twas postponed. At least their hurlers will be fresher for next weekend
The Moorefield game hardly took much out of them anyway. They’ll surely account for the Longford senior hurling champions at the weekend too.
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From what I heard, it sounded like a right stitch up job on Fethard.
yeah it was. Mainly because of the ref and his (alleged cc @count_of_monte_crist ) lies where he made a mistake and instead of owning it, doubled down. Anyway, it is what it is. Once it happened it was never going to change.
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Unfortunately this is it, very hard to fight city hall and the GAA rules protect the referees at every turn.
It was handled extremely poorly from the Co. Baord from the off.
The refereeing has been especially poor this year which is really saying something.
I was taking to a Fethard clubman about it. He gave me a very detailed account of it all. Seemingly Fethard had pretty compelling video evidence of each of the scores they got in extra time. The referees tally was one short. Original Wexford hearing committee by the sound of things, got it right and awarded the match to Fethard. It was after that, the real sh*t show started.
He actually even fucked that up. His report had the fethard score correct, but yet he claims he waved one wide. But his score for bunclody had them one extra. So he couldnt get his own story to add up. Interestingly, his final score was the same as the incorrect scoreboard at the ground, where they gave bunclody one point in error. But he said he didnt go by the scoreboard yet his report had it that way. A fuck up and had he admitted as much, it would have got sorted. Or at least sorted so the team who scored the most on the day didnt get eliminated by a ref fucking up.
Some Ne’er-do-well, im sure
If the ref had owned it there would have been no issue.
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correct assessment, on both points.
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The debate between Woolie & Christy about the Wexford club champions was fair funny 
Worth a listen.
What was the synopsis? Arguing about the merits of the Martin’s? A pity it’s behind a paywall. Very few club GAA podcasts out there.
It was in fairness, both sort of had point in my opinion.
Links won’t share for me but all of Wexfords provisional national league fixtures are on that Wexford Weekly website for both codes.