mossie
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Post by mossie on Nov 16, 2024 17:47:03 GMT
I was in favour of the board's proposal Remember clubs have ditrict board leagues as well and if the county league went to a 9 game league, maybe the district board leagues would have got more of a focus and also better dates on the calendar also, dual clubs can struggle with the amount of county leagues matches in both codes. dual clubs should have been in support of the motion in my view You’ve just outlined there some of the good reasons why I believe it would have been a good move. Also the Development leagues this year were a shambles and not enough games played (which keeps players interested) as they were squeezed into the heavy schedule but there just isn’t room for them. I think 9 county league games would have been enough. I’m surprised clubs were so overwhelmingly against it. On the minor age change I’m definitely happy. Minor at u18 was always better and makes even more sense now with most schools having transition year so therefore the majority do leaving cert year they turn 19. It made no sense having minor at u17 and it was a bit sickening to hear the county board coaching officer parrot the Croke park line about “elite player burnout”. Nonsense if you ask me. I trust clubs to look after their own far more than I trust county managers. If there’s any burnout it’s because of inter county managers thinking they are god and ridiculous scheduling of competitions BY THE GAA. Case in point - putting U20 championship on right in the middle of when every single third level college has end of year exams. This ridiculous scheduling led to a group of Kerry and Cork u20 players sitting an exam in a hotel in Tralee just before they went out to play a Munster u20 final. The reality is they don’t care about burnout - they wheel it out as an excuse when it’s convenient. They wanted minor at u17 to make it handier for fixtures. But it doesn’t work and I’m glad county’s are throwing it back in their faces. Hopefully at some point inter county will go back to u18 and we get to see Minor games played before Senior again. We got rid of something that was positive with all that in my view. to be honest, I think clubs like to moan about a problem but are never interested in a solution Recently I heard an official of a dual club go on about how difficult it is for a dual club from early March to early June with 11 county football league matches and 9 county hurling league fixtures in that period and that it is well near impossible for a dual club to cope with that schedule . A few minutes later as part of the discussion he he was asked if he was in favour of the county league football motion which see 9 matches rather than 11 and he replied that he was not in favour of it !!! So really and truly, what can you say after that other than clubs will never be pleased. You will have the same club coming along next year saying how they had to play county league football in and around the county senior hurling championship and not being too happy about it |
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Post by shannonsider on Nov 16, 2024 18:18:11 GMT
You’ve just outlined there some of the good reasons why I believe it would have been a good move. Also the Development leagues this year were a shambles and not enough games played (which keeps players interested) as they were squeezed into the heavy schedule but there just isn’t room for them. I think 9 county league games would have been enough. I’m surprised clubs were so overwhelmingly against it. On the minor age change I’m definitely happy. Minor at u18 was always better and makes even more sense now with most schools having transition year so therefore the majority do leaving cert year they turn 19. It made no sense having minor at u17 and it was a bit sickening to hear the county board coaching officer parrot the Croke park line about “elite player burnout”. Nonsense if you ask me. I trust clubs to look after their own far more than I trust county managers. If there’s any burnout it’s because of inter county managers thinking they are god and ridiculous scheduling of competitions BY THE GAA. Case in point - putting U20 championship on right in the middle of when every single third level college has end of year exams. This ridiculous scheduling led to a group of Kerry and Cork u20 players sitting an exam in a hotel in Tralee just before they went out to play a Munster u20 final. The reality is they don’t care about burnout - they wheel it out as an excuse when it’s convenient. They wanted minor at u17 to make it handier for fixtures. But it doesn’t work and I’m glad county’s are throwing it back in their faces. Hopefully at some point inter county will go back to u18 and we get to see Minor games played before Senior again. We got rid of something that was positive with all that in my view. to be honest, I think clubs like to moan about a problem but are never interested in a solution Recently I heard an official of a dual club go on about how difficult it is for a dual club from early March to early June with 11 county football league matches and 9 county hurling league fixtures in that period and that it is well near impossible for a dual club to cope with that schedule . A few minutes later as part of the discussion he he was asked if he was in favour of the county league football motion which see 9 matches rather than 11 and he replied that he was not in favour in it !!! So really and truly, what can you say after that other than clubs will never be pleased. You will have the same club coming along next year saying how they had to play county league football in and around the county senior hurling championship and not being too happy about it There you go Mossie, that’s the crux of the issue! We love to moan but afraid of change then and the inate Irish conservativisn gets in the way of meaningful progress. |
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