Missed getting to any game with work. Were you at any game? able to talk about any games and players? What happened and who played well?Midleton given the nod by most if a Cork team are to challenge for the Harty Cup. However I think it's interesting that Colman's seem to be a more mature and physically stronger outfit. At least 4 of the Midleton team today are under 16 but not one of the Colman's outfit. More from the Cork minors especially Jack Leahy that won the AI play with Midleton which seems to sway the minds of people.
No. Some divisions organised there own Hurling & football u21 championship but there ain't going to be any county championship.Not harty related, but does anyone know is there a county section in the u21 club hurling cships after the divisional finals?
The William Buckley and ben o Connor side and what went before could be as good as it gets for some time. There is no consistency in the conveyor belt at most big clubs across the city and county. How can a club of Kilcormac killoughney in Offaly produce 7 county minors on the 2022 panel and our big clubs can’t develop 1 player each year good enough for the county set ups. It is mind boggling how poor some of our underage coaching set ups are in clubs. It’s always one crop comes along together in a club and all eggs in that basket and everything else is forgotten about. If clubs want to be serious long term the answer is surely in hiring a coaching officer for the entire underage structure and development of the club for the future. Coaches doing there own things looking after there own sides isn’t bringing any real consistency to a clubs set up. Poor set ups produce poor coaches. Poor coaches produce poor players. Poor players produce poor results. Poor results lead to poor club standards.Not one barrs man on any of the 4 teams names.
It always comes back to the same old "sur' we have no money for that" crap.The William Buckley and ben o Connor side and what went before could be as good as it gets for some time. There is no consistency in the conveyor belt at most big clubs across the city and county. How can a club of Kilcormac killoughney in Offaly produce 7 county minors on the 2022 panel and our big clubs can’t develop 1 player each year good enough for the county set ups. It is mind boggling how poor some of our underage coaching set ups are in clubs. It’s always one crop comes along together in a club and all eggs in that basket and everything else is forgotten about. If clubs want to be serious long term the answer is surely in hiring a coaching officer for the entire underage structure and development of the club for the future. Coaches doing there own things looking after there own sides isn’t bringing any real consistency to a clubs set up. Poor set ups produce poor coaches. Poor coaches produce poor players. Poor players produce poor results. Poor results lead to poor club standards.
