Cork Minor Hurlers 2025

[Field1]

The issue with fluidity in county squads is the undue pressure it puts on players, maybe that's what people want from these children. You could have a lad training all year, travelling 3-4 times a week to Cork, their parent finishing work early to get to to Cork for a gym session every week, then 2 weeks before championship they are dropped for a lad who played well in a school game? Or a young lad has a niggle or is sick, and feels they have to train or else they get dropped. Or a lad dropped because the soccer season is finished and a good lad is now available. Awful pressure and situations to put on children.
Pick the panel February, ride it out for the 4 months after that. Let the panel be the panel. If a lad isn't good enough to make the 36 man panel in February, he isn't going to pass out 20 of them in the next 2 or 3 months.
And if he is good enough, then he will make it at U20 level and we can all give out about the minor manager here.
But fluid panels in season are not nice for those involved.

Top post and totally agree.

 

[Corkonian1]

Reservedcitizen

That's grand if managements finalise the panel end of February as they will have 4/5 weeks to prepare for championship once the managements have attended the Minor and U-16 club championship games from the previous autumn and showed good judgement in selecting the panel. A poster on here highlighted that a selector mentioned to him they wouldn't be selecting from form in the club championships which tells us the minor team/panel is selected from the U-16 tournaments in August the previous year, this is where the problems lie as well as poor judgement in assessing talent and players. This doesn't allow for changes in development and the variations in the growth of juvenile players which you reffered to earlier.

 

[hurley68]

Is there a rule that a lad cannot play minor,inter county,for 3 years.?

 

[Corkonian1]

Is there a rule that a lad cannot play minor,inter county,for 3 years.?

I never heard there was such a rule but if it exists there isn't any sense when an U-15 can play Harty Cup which is a competition for U-19's.

 

[Henrys Fonda]

Is there a rule that a lad cannot play minor,inter county,for 3 years.?

To play in an under-17 intercounty hurling competition, a player must be under the age of 17 and over the age of 13.

 

[Reservedcitizen]

To play in an under-17 intercounty hurling competition, a player must be under the age of 17 and over the age of 13.

That's the rule at club level. Inter county minors can only be selected from u16 and u17 that year. Only a 2 year gap for players.

 

[Field1]

I never heard there was such a rule but if it exists there isn't any sense when an U-15 can play Harty Cup which is a competition for U-19's.

St Colemans Fermoy played 2 u16s and an u15 in their starting full forward line in Harty yesterday.

 

[hurley68]

That's the rule at club level. Inter county minors can only be selected from u16 and u17 that year. Only a 2 year gap for players.

That is what I heard...is it a new rule.?

 

[Corkonian1]

St Colemans Fermoy played 2 u16s and an u15 in their starting full forward line in Harty yesterday.

Cheers but I mentioned the U-15 in my above post.

 

[Field1]

Cheers but I mentioned the U-15 in my above post.

I wasn't disagreeing with but actually illustrating your point. Think it's mad to be honest.