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Post by givehimaball on Dec 3, 2015 11:00:18 GMT
It would be an interesting research project for the county board to survey the St. Marys players for their opinions next March regarding the training to games ratio and collect their experiences of that 3-4 month window of games. Sure Bryan Sheehan said last week he was enjoying all the games and I'd imagine that the other lads are too - which is not that surprising especially when you are on sides that keep winning. He did make specific reference to the ratio of training to games being far more preferable at the moment than the periods of time when it would be 6-8 or more training sessions to every game. I think it was in the Examiner but might have been in the Indo. Should the county board look to be setting up more casual summer games for clubs in the summer for those periods when intercounty players are out of action for the lads who are around when the weather is fine and the pitches decent - not massively serious competitions but maybe a small step up from challenge matches - It would at least give lads who are around a chance to play a bit more ball when the weather is supposed to be decent? Seems like one of those things that could/should/might be feasible with a small bit of organisation ( maybe have provisions/rules in place for 13 or 11 a side if numbers are short) Maybe arrange amalgamations if needed ?
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Post by lár na páirce on Dec 3, 2015 11:47:25 GMT
Should the county board look to be setting up more casual summer games for clubs in the summer for those periods when intercounty players are out of action for the lads who are around when the weather is fine and the pitches decent - not massively serious competitions but maybe a small step up from challenge matches - It would at least give lads who are around a chance to play a bit more ball when the weather is supposed to be decent? We really need a reality check in regards to this,Why are we stopping all competetions in the summer to accomadate a handful of students who go abroad? I think we should run the county league off during the summer without county players ( Clubs would have access for 1st few games as usual) and start championship after the All Ireland
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Post by thesquareball on Dec 3, 2015 13:17:55 GMT
finuge went from senior ch ship status to potential novice next year,looking at the team programe for last night seemed to be more over 30 than under playing not a great sign for the future.
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Post by mossie on Dec 3, 2015 21:07:50 GMT
finuge went from senior ch ship status to potential novice next year,looking at the team programe for last night seemed to be more over 30 than under playing not a great sign for the future. Well they are in good company heading down to junior. A few of the stronger players you would have associated with Finuge are now either retired or the wrong side of 30 as you say.
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Post by Premier on Dec 3, 2015 22:27:10 GMT
finuge went from senior ch ship status to potential novice next year,looking at the team programe for last night seemed to be more over 30 than under playing not a great sign for the future. Well they are in good company heading down to junior. A few of the stronger players you would have associated with Finuge are now either retired or the wrong side of 30 as you say. Anyone at the game?
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Post by givehimaball on Dec 4, 2015 0:36:34 GMT
Should the county board look to be setting up more casual summer games for clubs in the summer for those periods when intercounty players are out of action for the lads who are around when the weather is fine and the pitches decent - not massively serious competitions but maybe a small step up from challenge matches - It would at least give lads who are around a chance to play a bit more ball when the weather is supposed to be decent? We really need a reality check in regards to this,Why are we stopping all competetions in the summer to accomadate a handful of students who go abroad? I think we should run the county league off during the summer without county players ( Clubs would have access for 1st few games as usual) and start championship after the All Ireland The problem is I don't the county board is going to make such a change [county league without county players]. What I'm proposing what have some chance of being accepted - if you asked 99% of club players I'm sure they would they prefer a couple more games in any sort of competition in the middle of summer even if they were little more than challenges as opposed to yet more training. It would be the best outcome but would at least improve things some bit. Organising challenge games can be a bit of nuisance and can be very-hit-or-miss depending on what kind of manager is running things. Some can be good others can be utterly awful. If the county board stepped in and got a bit more proactive in this and sorted out refs and pushed the clubs to provide the lads who weren't in with Kerry at some level and who stayed around in the summer with a few more games - basically if they went to clubs and said the county players are in training and ye have some lads away in the States/on holidays but how about playing team X on such a date - if the county boards arranged even one token challenge game for every club in the county in those summer periods it would be better than nothing. Or if all the county board did was have a central list of clubs looking for challenges on specific dates in the summer it would make things better for clubs - As it is I'd say a serious chunk of the challenge matches arranged are when one club manager bumps into another manager he knows at a wedding/pub/funeral/match.
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Post by shaggy04 on Dec 4, 2015 11:26:19 GMT
Should the county board look to be setting up more casual summer games for clubs in the summer for those periods when intercounty players are out of action for the lads who are around when the weather is fine and the pitches decent - not massively serious competitions but maybe a small step up from challenge matches - It would at least give lads who are around a chance to play a bit more ball when the weather is supposed to be decent? We really need a reality check in regards to this,Why are we stopping all competetions in the summer to accomadate a handful of students who go abroad? I think we should run the county league off during the summer without county players ( Clubs would have access for 1st few games as usual) and start championship after the All Ireland A few years ago there was junior shield and intermediate shield but these were discontinued due to walkovers and lack of interest, you need meaningful games not Mickey mouse games, the county board will say clubs want co players for the last two rounds, then st Mary's go and play without 7 players.
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Post by lár na páirce on Dec 8, 2015 13:01:36 GMT
We really need a reality check in regards to this,Why are we stopping all competetions in the summer to accomadate a handful of students who go abroad? I think we should run the county league off during the summer without county players ( Clubs would have access for 1st few games as usual) and start championship after the All Ireland A few years ago there was junior shield and intermediate shield but these were discontinued due to walkovers and lack of interest, you need meaningful games not Mickey mouse games, the county board will say clubs want co players for the last two rounds, then st Mary's go and play without 7 players.This is exactly the point,Clubs would be far better off if they had access to their county players for the first 4 co.lge games than the last 2 which could end up as dead rubbers
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Post by 1955 on Jan 25, 2016 0:27:24 GMT
After today's superb performance St Mary's will surely go down as 1 of the best club sides to represent Kerry in Croke Park.The movement of all six forwards is the Maurice Fitzgerald signature on this team.Without doubt a future senior Kerry manager
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Post by Premier on Jan 25, 2016 9:37:51 GMT
Is the draw for this tonight?
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Post by kerrygold on Jan 25, 2016 10:31:28 GMT
After today's superb performance St Mary's will surely go down as 1 of the best club sides to represent Kerry in Croke Park.The movement of all six forwards is the Maurice Fitzgerald signature on this team.Without doubt a future senior Kerry manager An exceptionally dangerous mindset going into an All-Ireland final after beating a Meath club team at this level!
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Post by inforthebreaks on Jan 25, 2016 11:46:55 GMT
Is the draw for this tonight? yep
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Post by Premier on Jan 25, 2016 19:33:25 GMT
Is the draw for this tonight? yep Anyone know a time for the draw?
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Post by bishop on Jan 25, 2016 21:14:11 GMT
Intermediate draw - St Michaels v Skellig - John Mitchels v Spa - Brosna v Desmond's - Currow v Waterville - Gneeveguilla v Kenmare, Laune Rangers v An Ghaeltacht - Ardfert v St Mary's - Glenflesk v Templenoe
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Post by Premier on Jan 25, 2016 22:02:22 GMT
Intermediate draw - St Michaels v Skellig - John Mitchels v Spa - Brosna v Desmond's - Currow v Waterville - Gneeveguilla v Kenmare, Laune Rangers v An Ghaeltacht - Ardfert v St Mary's - Glenflesk v Templenoe Discuss!! Bally Spa Desmond's Waterville Kenmare An Ghaeltacht Mary's Templenoe Would be highly shocked if these predictions came off as one could argue that from the CastleIsland game down, all the away teams would be favourites at a neutral venue. We'll see how much home advantage would count for
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Post by mojo on Jan 25, 2016 22:25:33 GMT
Some quality games! What's the draw of the round??
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Post by mossie on Jan 25, 2016 22:33:51 GMT
Intermediate draw - St Michaels v Skellig - John Mitchels v Spa - Brosna v Desmond's - Currow v Waterville - Gneeveguilla v Kenmare, Laune Rangers v An Ghaeltacht - Ardfert v St Mary's - Glenflesk v Templenoe Discuss!! Bally Spa Desmond's Waterville Kenmare An Ghaeltacht Mary's Templenoe Would be highly shocked if these predictions came off as one could argue that from the CastleIsland game down, all the away teams would be favourites at a neutral venue. We'll see how much home advantage would count for Ardfert v St Marys - hopefully a clash between the 2015 and 2016 All Ireland intermediate champions! Would write Ardfert off in this one. St Marys will be at the end of an exhausting campaign with south Kerry at senior, district board championship and all Ireland intermediate. Ardfert will be at home in Ardfert or may choose Lerrig. Either way a home game for them.
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Post by givehimaball on Jan 26, 2016 16:30:19 GMT
Some quality games! What's the draw of the round?? If Mitchells v Spa is anything like the 2 promotion decider games, it should be a fair hum dinger. Heard from a neutral who was at the replay of the promotion play-off game on Sunday that it was a quality game for this time of year.
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Post by 1955 on Feb 9, 2016 22:44:10 GMT
Kerrygold gave little credit to Maurice & St mary's to suggest that they would go into an All Ireland ill prepared for a battle
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Post by kerrygold on Feb 12, 2016 9:09:40 GMT
Kerrygold gave little credit to Maurice & St mary's to suggest that they would go into an All Ireland ill prepared for a battle My comment was in reference to the average nature of club football in Meath. Nothing got to do with Maurice. I doubt they approached the game with your subjective hubris in any case. an 25, 2016 at 12:27am 1955 said:After today's superb performance St Mary's will surely go down as 1 of the best club sides to represent Kerry in Croke Park.The movement of all six forwards is the Maurice Fitzgerald signature on this team.Without doubt a future senior Kerry manager "An exceptionally dangerous mindset going into an All-Ireland final after beating a Meath club team at this level!" Read more: kerrygaa.proboards.com/thread/5655/intermediate-championship-2015?page=6#ixzz3zwXaOcAG
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