The Hurling Thread

[tank]

A lot more solvable problems in rebel og than cooperation with local soccer clubs!

It’s not coordination between clubs that’s the issue. That’s fine, we can coordinate between ourselves to not clash on training and friendly/challenge matches, which works great. It’s the coordination between the organisations is the issue that’s affecting retention of players.

 

[North Cork Star]

Another small observation having attended a Minor Championship Final tonight. No scoreboard working. No Amhrán na bhFiann played on a tannoy. They ran out of programmes 15 minutes before throw in. In years gone by, a minor final or any underage final in fact would have been treated the same as an adult final. Also, attendances at underage games has significantly decreased over the last 25 years in my opinion. Has Rebel Óg taken the shine off underage hurling and football in our county?

 

[Crankycorner]

Another small observation having attended a Minor Championship Final tonight. No scoreboard working. No Amhrán na bhFiann played on a tannoy. They ran out of programmes 15 minutes before throw in. In years gone by, a minor final or any underage final in fact would have been treated the same as an adult final. Also, attendances at underage games has significantly decreased over the last 25 years in my opinion. Has Rebel Óg taken the shine off underage hurling and football in our county?

I agree. In my opinion a minor final should be played on a Saturday or Sunday evening.

 

[imigrant]

Dublin Juvenile fixtures are run really well. I think the lack of distance to travel is a big help. Mind you some will still object to the trip to Rolestown or Garristown from the heartlands and superclubs of South County Dublin. Every second weekend hurling and football. Referees appointed . Finals in Parnell Park etc .

 

[hurley68]

Could be trouble ahead...Coolmore getting involved with Tipp.

 

[TheOutdoorThreadmill]

Could be trouble ahead...Coolmore getting involved with Tipp.

Name sponsor on training ground and app, and Magnier a Cork and all.

 

[red&blue]

100%, Cork have not won a Senior All Ireland Hurling since rebel og was formed

That’s unfair on Rebel Og to be fair to them. Firstly Rebel Og is a competition orientated body, the squads are run by Cork GAA through the GDAs. And they have transformed the underage inter county system in the last decade.

The first real signs of improvement came with the group of Mark Coleman, Darragh Fitz, Shane Kingston etc who had a proper coaching structure from 14 to 18. In the last few years the programme has switched to a broader approach especially up to u16 which in my opinion will benefit the clubs hugely once they can keep these players playing through to adult.

But that is exactly the problem we have, retaining players mostly through lack of games. That is a rebel og problem and one they don’t seem to want to, or unable to, solve.

The answer is as simple now as it was back then. One game every week for every team a club enter from under 12 to under 18 with a minimum of 15 games a year in each code

And get rid of this stupidity of calling every 2nd age group a priority grade or whatever the fuck they are calling them



The weekly calendar could (and from the start should have) look something like this

Saturdays
Go Games
Under 12 to 15 1st Team games

Sundays
Under 12-15 2nd team games

Mondays
Minor 1st Team games

Tuesdays
Under 16 1st team games

Wednesdays


Thursdays
Under 16 2nd team games

Fridays
Minor 2nd team games

 

[red&blue]

Another small observation having attended a Minor Championship Final tonight. No scoreboard working. No Amhrán na bhFiann played on a tannoy. They ran out of programmes 15 minutes before throw in. In years gone by, a minor final or any underage final in fact would have been treated the same as an adult final. Also, attendances at underage games has significantly decreased over the last 25 years in my opinion. Has Rebel Óg taken the shine off underage hurling and football in our county?

Before underage county finals used to be massive occasions played between 2 good teams that would only play each other once or twice a year. Now they are playing each other regularly and there doesn’t seem to be the same athmosphere

 

[jimmym]

Read up about the Tony Keady situation in 1989, IMO him and Galway were hard done by,

 

[red&blue]

Read up about the Tony Keady situation in 1989, IMO him and Galway were hard done by,

In what way jim?