Cork Footballers

[random2404]

I suspect that the vulnerability to injury starts earlier with our most promising young players being over-conditioned, over-trained, and over-played at multiple levels too young.

Apart from having some insight into this with a young athlete of my acquaintance, I note the incidence of chronic injuries suffered by players who didn't make it at minor, or even u20/21, but who ultimately made it to play senior intercounty (in multiple counties - not just Cork). I can't quote the stats, but my impression is that those players seem to on average suffer less chronic injuries, at the same age, relative to other senior intercounty players.

It's often referred to as the "miles on the clock" syndrome. I think we need to examine that in more depth - I suspect too many hard miles are put on the clock before the car is ready to be driven that hard.

Shur it says enough when players “inter county” journey starts at the age of 12, that’s 10 hard years of training (say if the player dosent play senior until his 22) before he even kicks a football at senior level, not to mind the pressure that came with that 10 years

 

[The Highway Man]

12 months from now we will be saying the same thing
1. Relegation/Tailteann Cup dogfight
2. Injury table Queue
3.State of Cork Football underage structures.

 

[Cork99]

Its been this way for the past 10 years. Almost always 10+ lads out injured.
Really need to be asking questions of the training programs and coaching.
This is THE reason we have not been able to push on the the next level, in my opinion.

Never seen a team like it every year half the team with serious injuries

 

[The Highway Man]

Never seen a team like it every year half the team with serious injuries

They come out of mickey mouse underage set ups where the body isn't properly conditioned to Senior Football . That's the reason. Look at the poor ol Minor team last year. We are hammering lads.

 

[peopleluas]

Take the 2010 All-Ireland team. Pearse and Donnacha suffered much less from chronic injuries than their counterparts. This is shown too by how long they remained able to play at a very high level for their clubs (and divisions). And these were the two players on that team who never were intercounty minors or u21s.

And then I think of Dublin's Brian Fenton, and Michael Fitzsimons, who I think didn't play minor or u21 intercounty - and I don't recall them suffering much from chronic injuries.

None of those 4 suffered (injury-wise) from not being conditioned in underage setups to be ready for Senior Football - their injury profile benefited from not being there at all! Well it's only a theory of mine until proven or disproven - I'd love to see a statistical analysis to see if there's aggregate evidence to support or discount the theory.

 

[JimmyBarrySmurph]

I also think the sheer physical size of the county and the mind boggling distances that children have to travel with the county underage set ups, even just to training is crazy, compared to everywhere else.
With the amalgamations of the divisions into regions at Rebel Og it often means that rural clubs are travelling massive distances for their games.. 2 or 3 hours driving for a mid week U14 match.. its nuts.

 

[The Dagda]

I also think the sheer physical size of the county and the mind boggling distances that children have to travel with the county underage set ups, even just to training is crazy, compared to everywhere else.
With the amalgamations of the divisions into regions at Rebel Og it often means that rural clubs are travelling massive distances for their games.. 2 or 3 hours driving for a mid week U14 match.. its nuts.

What teams are travelling 3 hours to a U14 game?
An hour + small change each way I'd say is close to the max. It is in the West Division anyway which I presume is one of the biggest.

 

[yellowsliotar]

What teams are travelling 3 hours to a U14 game?
An hour + small change each way I'd say is close to the max. It is in the West Division anyway which I presume is one of the biggest.

Bantry to Youchal would be very close to 2 hrs

Rebllog getting rid of divisions was a terrible idea

 

[peopleluas]

What teams are travelling 3 hours to a U14 game?
An hour + small change each way I'd say is close to the max. It is in the West Division anyway which I presume is one of the biggest.

We're in Mid-Cork and we've been in the same groups under age as Castletownbere (over 4 hours round trip on a week night) and Rockchapel (2.5 hours round trip on a week night).

 

[JimmyBarrySmurph]

What teams are travelling 3 hours to a U14 game?
An hour + small change each way I'd say is close to the max. It is in the West Division anyway which I presume is one of the biggest.

It’s common enough a 1 hr- 90 min each way for some clubs at some grades. The chap that first made me very aware of it and gave loads of examples abd said his young lad had to be taken to Newmarket (I think) from Passage for a 5:30pm throw in on a Friday evening. 2 cars got lost on the way too!
For the inter county, football mainly the travel requirement stories are almost legendary status for decades. Fellas from Beara, West Cork and Duhallow..
Was it Ruairi Deane/Alan O Connor that was travelling from Bantry to Fermoy for training?
The O Sullivan Bearas almost 3 hour one way trip to train in Mitchelstown/Mallow even 25 years ago.