Blarney are not in the confined county championship, but will be playing in Muskerry later in the year, they’re not the only ones doing this (Kilworth, Ballyhea, Killeagh/Glenbower off the top of my head, probably missing some).
I know some clubs are tight on numbers, fair enough, but also some clubs are wanting to be portrayed as dual clubs while putting in the bare minimum in terms of effort in one code (Kilworth forfeited all their Junior A football games last year for example).
Blarney not having 15 footballers to fulfil 2 games last year was ridiculous given the size of the place, I’m sure there’s enough lads there, even away from the hurling panel, to get a team together and I’m sure there’s genuine football people in Blarney annoyed about it, and rightly so.
Makes a bit of a mockery of the system, they won the Junior B county in 22 and had Shane Barrett playing in a county final that day, fair play to them, but I’m sure a club like that could get some genuinely interested footballers together if they actually wanted to.
You see Inniscarra just over the road by comparison who have a much bigger buy in in terms of football while simultaneously getting a strong hurling team out, or even Aghabullogue further out the road, makes no sense to me.
