Allianz-Hurling-league 1B

[ryot]

See Tommy Byrne is also on about "League restructuring"

Of course its that all the so-called hurling counties (or some of their CB Officers & former "stars") seem to think they have a right to be in & stay in Div 1.

They all seem to forget that they have to be good enough. Win enough games & its not an issue !!!!


The one thing I agree with in Tommy's comments is that the County Delegates to Central Council should be the Chair & Sec. At least one of them should always be there. Too often a County Delegate is some old boy being rewarded for past service and who is not up to speed on CB policy. Then that's easy solved, at County Convention.

[Plain of the Herbs]

I'm only seeing this now. Link to article here
http://www.irishexaminer.com/sport/gaa/ ... 27951.html
Note to the Limerick Board - you are never going to bridge an annual €150k deficit through home League matches. Try tailoring your expenditure.

Query for Tommy - how would you like the League restructured to your taste?
Note to Tommy - if you think a 'restructured' league is going to pay for OCP on its own, you are in dreamland, sir (see note to Limerick, above).

Ryot hits a mahoosive nail on the head. If Offaly were good enough they (and not Dublin) would have been hurling Limerick last Saturday evening. They weren't.

See Tommy Byrne is also on about "League restructuring"

Of course its that all the so-called hurling counties (or some of their CB Officers & former "stars") seem to think they have a right to be in & stay in Div 1.

They all seem to forget that they have to be good enough. Win enough games & its not an issue !!!!


The one thing I agree with in Tommy's comments is that the County Delegates to Central Council should be the Chair & Sec. At least one of them should always be there. Too often a County Delegate is some old boy being rewarded for past service and who is not up to speed on CB policy. Then that's easy solved, at County Convention.

[Plain of the Herbs]

The ever-brilliant Enda McEvoy sums up the impossibility of attaining a League format that suits everybody in yesterday's 'Daily Cork'.
http://www.irishexaminer.com/sport/gaa/ ... 28278.html

Really like this piece -

While he’s (Davy Fitzgerald) at it he’ll have ample grounds for another complaint should he require one. Over the past few years the league has created the phenomenon of the yo-yo team — a side good enough for an eight-team top flight but not quite good enough for a six-team top flight and thus condemned to oscillate between the two indefinitely. A team like a Clare or a Dublin. Think Reading FC, except without the parachute payments from Sky.

Fine lines indeed. But where does one draw the red line? How broad should the league church be made? So broad as to include Wexford and Offaly in a 10-team Division 1 and thereby condemn them to cop the regular/occasional serious beating from Tipperary, Kilkenny or — on their good days — Galway? Scarcely.

Competitive sport by its nature entails disappointment, even if in the end you usually get what you deserve. A league is by its very definition a meritocracy. The strong will swim, the weak will sink and no amount of gerrymandering with the structure will alter this inconvenient truth.

[townman]

well the Blood and bandages are gone down wonder will we see a change in next year league

[Heshs Umpire]

well the Blood and bandages are gone down wonder will we see a change in next year league

It's quite possible Frank won't want Cork having to endure hurling the likes of Laois and Antrim so, as they say, watch this space.