Schools GAA 2017/2018

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Originally Posted by redrocky

Agree with pretty much everything here - hopefully a good cut off of Harty this year for our schools
A rising tide .........
Best of luck to 17s out next week - how do we rate our chances ?

17s chances are good Id say Rocky - its Galway isn't it ?
With 5 or 6 lads having seen game time with the minors their confidence is bound to be high. Connery should really dominate at this level as will O Callaghan - great to have such an overlap

[Monkman]

With the all ireland minor coming to an end, harty cup will soon be back up again

For the cork minor hurling panel, 14 players still eligible to play harty cup this coming september with 5 players playing with non harty schools

Non harty playing schools
Ger collins ( col spiroid naomh)
Conor o callaghan ( dromtariffe col treasa)
James keating (mitcheltown cbs)
Ronan sheehan (davis college)
Colin o brien (hazelwood college)

Players eligible
Sean o leary hayes (midleton cbs)
Eoin roche (st colmans)
Arron walsh barry (midleton cbs)
Ger mellerick (midleton cbs)
Daire conroy (ag mon)
Liam o shea (midleton cbs)
Brian roche (st colmans)
Rob downey (cbc)
Declan hanlon (cbc)

Not eligible
Ross howell (pres)
Diarmuid linehan (st colmans)
Craig hanifin (ag mon)
Evan sheehan (ag mon)
Brian turnbull (rochestown)
Barry murphy (st colmans)
David jones (charleville cbs)
Brian buckley (hazelwood college)

With the u17s panel included too bar the ones playing cork minor

Players eligible
Eoin davis (st colmans)
Tommy o connel (cbc)
Blake murphy (Ag mon)
Joe stack (midleton cbs)
Luke o donovan (Agmon)
Sean o sullivan (midleton cbs)
Liam ryan (Ag mon)
Owen mccarthy (cbc)
Shane barret (cbc)
Shane o regan (Ag mon)
Sean mccarthy (st colmans)
Denis mcbarron (cbc)
Kian farmer (midleton cbs)
Kevin finn (cbc)
Eoin carey (st colmans)
Conleith ryan (st colmans)

Midleton cbs - 7 players
St colmans - 6 players
Cbc - 7 players
Ag mon - 5 players

Ard scoil ris very strong also with 6 limerick minor hurlers and 2 clare minor hurlers

Thurles cbs also have strong team

My top 4 harty semi finalists
Ard scoil ris
St colmans
Thurles cbs
Midketon cbs

Fellas i taught that were unlucky to make the minor panel and still eligible to play harty are

Liam gosnell (midleton cbs)
Eoin wallace (st colmans)
Greg healy (Ag mon)
Jamie morrissey (Ag mon)
Ross o regan (supposedly gone to Midleton cbs)
Eoin o sullivan (midleton cbs)
Ciaran o flynn (cbc)
Daithi heffernan (cbc) limerick minor goalie

What do people make of cork chances in the harty this yr ?

[Franno]

Midleton should win it, but we've all said that many times before...

[Monkman]

Originally Posted by Franno

Midleton should win it, but we've all said that many times before...

For me its ard scoils to lose, they beat midleton cbs in the dean ryan semi final that year with playing 2 sweepers in that game against cbs
Since then ard scoil got david woulfe limerick minor

Jerome boylan - centre back limerick minor
Ronan connolly - full forward limerick minor
David woulfe - wing forward limerick minor
Rory duff - midfield limerick minor
Jason gillane - sub goalie limerick minor
Paul o brien - centre forward limerick minor
Diarmuid ryan - wing back clare minor
Rian considine - centre forward clare minor


Thats more than half an intercounty minor team
Ard scoils to lose

[HartyCupAbu]

Originally Posted by Monkman

For me its ard scoils to lose, they beat midleton cbs in the dean ryan semi final that year with playing 2 sweepers in that game against cbs
Since then ard scoil got david woulfe limerick minor

Jerome boylan - centre back limerick minor
Ronan connolly - full forward limerick minor
David woulfe - wing forward limerick minor
Rory duff - midfield limerick minor
Jason gillane - sub goalie limerick minor
Paul o brien - centre forward limerick minor
Diarmuid ryan - wing back clare minor
Rian considine - centre forward clare minor


Thats more than half an intercounty minor team
Ard scoils to lose

Colmans nearly beat a ardscoil outfit two years ago which had 12 inter county minors on it.
Midleton have a very good team on paper
Cbc will have there work to get out of the group not to mind challenging.
The AG are no great shakes
Colmans will be in the mix just like midleton cbs Ardsxoil nenagh thurles and Doon.
Hospital winners of the b Munster and All Ireland last year are one to watch out for

[indenetprovider]

Originally Posted by HartyCupAbu

Colmans nearly beat a ardscoil outfit two years ago which had 12 inter county minors on it.
Midleton have a very good team on paper
Cbc will have there work to get out of the group not to mind challenging.
The AG are no great shakes
Colmans will be in the mix just like midleton cbs Ardsxoil nenagh thurles and Doon.
Hospital winners of the b Munster and All Ireland last year are one to watch out for

Narrow it down why dont you

[HartyCupAbu]

Originally Posted by indenetprovider

Narrow it down why dont you

Ardscoil Colmans Midleton in that order

Thurles then nenagh

Hospital and Doon

Flannans cbc

[RightHalfBack]

I think CBC will be very strong this year and I heard they have Seamus Harvey now involved with them along side Donal O Mahony who was part of Kieran Kingston's backroom team and Tony Wall who coached the Glen to recent minor win. I saw their game v Colmans this year in the quarter final and I think tactically they blew it - they had the players to make it to the Harty final but Colmans played the wind much better and Christians left themselves with too much to do in the second half. Along with Downey, Hanlon, O Connell, O Flynn, Murphy, Cronin they also have Iarlaith Daly from Lismore - the best of this years Waterford minors plus a handful of Cork U17s U16s from this year. Flannans are meant to be good in their group but I would expect CBC to seriously challenge for Harty next year if they can keep their players injury free

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Originally Posted by RightHalfBack

I think CBC will be very strong this year and I heard they have Seamus Harvey now involved with them along side Donal O Mahony who was part of Kieran Kingston's backroom team and Tony Wall who coached the Glen to recent minor win. I saw their game v Colmans this year in the quarter final and I think tactically they blew it - they had the players to make it to the Harty final but Colmans played the wind much better and Christians left themselves with too much to do in the second half. Along with Downey, Hanlon, O Connell, O Flynn, Murphy, Cronin they also have Iarlaith Daly from Lismore - the best of this years Waterford minors plus a handful of Cork U17s U16s from this year. Flannans are meant to be good in their group but I would expect CBC to seriously challenge for Harty next year if they can keep their players injury free

Harvey=Harnedy of course - bloody predictive text

[RightHalfBack]

Originally Posted by Monkman

Fellas i taught that were unlucky to make the minor panel and still eligible to play harty are

Liam gosnell (midleton cbs)
Eoin wallace (st colmans)
Greg healy (Ag mon)
Jamie morrissey (Ag mon)
Ross o regan (supposedly gone to Midleton cbs)
Eoin o sullivan (midleton cbs)
Ciaran o flynn (cbc)

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I am very impressed with your level of player knowledge Monkman and based on games I have seen I would agree 100% with you on each of those Harty-eligible lads above being unlucky to not make the Cork minor panel and I would also add in :-

Conor Bowen(Mon AG)
Blake Murphy ( MonnAG)
Tommy O Connell ( CBC)

I know both Murphy and O Connell were both with the U17s but I still think they were better than some of the bench options the minors had. It augurs well for the Cork Harty hopes and it would be fantastic to see a Cork school win it. I would put Midleton slightly ahead of CBC and MonAG and Colmans but they should all be competitive. The one thing that will change things completely is the weather - Harty hurling is much different to summer hurling