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Post by Mickmack on Apr 24, 2019 19:46:58 GMT
the County board should dictate that no more clubs than is necessary to form a panel of 25 should come together.
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Post by glengael on Apr 29, 2019 21:18:25 GMT
Watched the new GAA documentary this evening. For once I have to be less than effusive about a programme involving our esteemed 2004 captain. I found it comprised a half an hour of people repeatedly stating the obvious. Hope the next few episodes are a little more meaty than this.
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Post by kerrygold on Apr 29, 2019 23:07:04 GMT
How do people think the club April thing is working? The majority of players in Kerry have their championship football played by the end of April for 2019. Good or bad?
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Post by ballhopper34 on Apr 30, 2019 1:37:49 GMT
Watched the new GAA documentary this evening. For once I have to be less than effusive about a programme involving our esteemed 2004 captain. I found it comprised a half an hour of people repeatedly stating the obvious. Hope the next few episodes are a little more meaty than this. Any chance of a link to the GAA Eile documentary?
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Post by Deleted on Apr 30, 2019 4:26:56 GMT
Watched the new GAA documentary this evening. For once I have to be less than effusive about a programme involving our esteemed 2004 captain. I found it comprised a half an hour of people repeatedly stating the obvious. Hope the next few episodes are a little more meaty than this. Same here. Things like the GAA means a lot to Irish people abroad is fairly stating the obvious.
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Post by onlykerry on Apr 30, 2019 9:18:14 GMT
Watched the new GAA documentary this evening. For once I have to be less than effusive about a programme involving our esteemed 2004 captain. I found it comprised a half an hour of people repeatedly stating the obvious. Hope the next few episodes are a little more meaty than this. Same here. Things like the GAA means a lot to Irish people abroad is fairly stating the obvious. I find many of these "documentaries" have five minutes (at best) of information/analysis stretched out over 30 minutes by repitition and filler sequences. Won't be waiting on the follow on episodes with any anticipation.
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Post by glengael on Apr 30, 2019 9:26:15 GMT
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Post by Mickmack on Apr 30, 2019 9:59:12 GMT
Watched the new GAA documentary this evening. For once I have to be less than effusive about a programme involving our esteemed 2004 captain. I found it comprised a half an hour of people repeatedly stating the obvious. Hope the next few episodes are a little more meaty than this. Same here. Things like the GAA means a lot to Irish people abroad is fairly stating the obvious. Peoples lives are interesting, their background and what shaped them. Thats why the one on Micko was good. Far more interesting than listening to peoples opinions on such documentaries.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 30, 2019 11:05:47 GMT
Plenty of reality TV out there if that is what excites you
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Post by Mickmack on Apr 30, 2019 11:49:36 GMT
Plenty of reality TV out there if that is what excites you I have never watched any reality TV to my knowledge anyhow.
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Post by greengold35 on Apr 30, 2019 13:08:34 GMT
How do people think the club April thing is working? The majority of players in Kerry have their championship football played by the end of April for 2019. Good or bad? I am not sure there are many, if any benefits to playing your championships off this early. If you take the senior club championship for instance - this is now almost solely a relegation decider as the bottom teams, Rathmore and Kilcummin will face off to see who is relegated this year unless either contest a county senior final later in the year. The 8 senior clubs provide about 20 members of the Kerry senior panel and these players would have put in a big effort with the county panel for past few months - add in the 8 games played in the national league and a heavy workload has already been shipped - probably the last thing these players need is 3 consecutive games against top opposition in a condensed period with little time to recover from knocks etc - of the panellists with Kerry, David Moran, Mikey Geaney & Kevin McCarthy saw no game time with their clubs while others such as Tommy Walsh, Gavin O'Brien, Paul Murphy, Gavin White had limited participation; equally from a Kerry management perspective, I would assume that they would have preferred to have players at their disposal to carry on with their training plans. All of the other championships provide good competition as there are county titles at stake with the added bonus of a possible trip to Croke Park should you progress to the finals - however, for those not at the business end of proceedings it could spell further disaster should relegation to a lower tier be your lot. This has a knock on effect long term but also for a clubs future in their respective leagues - take Desmonds for example - they are now in a relegation play off to retain their intermediate status and have one point from two games played in the county league ( division 2) - should they lose to Brosna next weekend, its likely that some of their players will take the opportunity to travel on J1s this year thus further weakening their starting line ups - Desmonds are not alone in this, a similar story could apply to many other clubs. By playing off our championships so early in the year, we are leaving the summer months free for players to travel to USA etc, and return in time for the county championship - I believe many clubs will suffer in the leagues due to this with a decline in standards inevitable as our best players will be playing abroad.
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Post by givehimaball on Apr 30, 2019 18:10:05 GMT
All of the other championships provide good competition as there are county titles at stake with the added bonus of a possible trip to Croke Park should you progress to the finals - however, for those not at the business end of proceedings it could spell further disaster should relegation to a lower tier be your lot. This has a knock on effect long term but also for a clubs future in their respective leagues - take Desmonds for example - they are now in a relegation play off to retain their intermediate status and have one point from two games played in the county league ( division 2) - should they lose to Brosna next weekend, its likely that some of their players will take the opportunity to travel on J1s this year thus further weakening their starting line ups - Desmonds are not alone in this, a similar story could apply to many other clubs. By playing off our championships so early in the year, we are leaving the summer months free for players to travel to USA etc, and return in time for the county championship - I believe many clubs will suffer in the leagues due to this with a decline in standards inevitable as our best players will be playing abroad. There were 28 players from Kerry who got sanctions to go playing in America in 2018 and 4 who went to Canada. You can see it on here www.gaa.ie/the-gaa/rules-regulations/overseas-sanctionsThere's probably about 2% of all the club players in Kerry or to put it another way, there's more than that on the Kerry senior panel. In 2016 (the furthest back these spreadsheets go) the number going to the States was 39 and Canada was 4. I really don't think April club month and lads going west for a few months, is all that big an issue.
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Post by kerrygold on Apr 30, 2019 21:03:17 GMT
28 players is a small number. The majority of students must not be club footballers...................
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