Highest score ever?

nlgbbbblth

Christy Ring Cup today.

Antrim 9-39
Roscommon 0-5

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61 point winning margin. Antrim were very poor against Down last time out and I didn't think Roscommon were that bad.

Sadly no television cameras were present.

KdjaCL

nlgbbbblth wrote:

Christy Ring Cup today.

Antrim 9-39
I didn't think Roscommon were that bad.

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kdjac

nlgbbbblth

Hang on a second.

In 1981, when I was in 4th class, my team, The Saints and Scholars, were beaten by The Celts on a scoreline of 21-1 to 0-0.

whassupp2

As a Roscommon person, I am disaapointed to here that score. Roscommon will probably be relagated this year to the Nicky Rackard cup where they can possibly contest matches. Roscommon is not a hurling county, yet the club championships are keenly contested each year. I just hope Ros beat Galway in the football tomorrow.

Mushy

Thats just...crazy.

Imposter

And I thought our Fitzgibbon cup result of 6-31 0-2 back in the days was bad! Roscommon weren't this bad a few years ago, were they? (Back when they'd play Galway in the Connaught final)

thirdmantackle

its all gone to fcuk

time for county officers to resign, cause they've been there for decades more or less with the standard of hurling getting worse

the players have to take majority of blame cause they havn't put in any effort for training

bluemoon21

Antrim must have been on fire, or the roscommon goalkeeper must have been having a bad day.

Danno

Galway 7-18 Laois 2-12 wasn't much better.

mchurl

Shocking results and it really shows the difference between some teams in hurling. Antrim wouldnt even be close to being a top side, so i shudder to think how bad Roscommon are.

Bogger77

Performances like that by Antrim are one of the main reasons Kilkenny and other teams hammer them everytime. It'd be impossible to imagine one of the super powers of hurling doing this to any team, even an ould rival. Take Kilkenny vs Westmeath the week before, no offence to Westmeath, but Kilkenny could have easily done a job like this to them. But they don't, as they know that it does no one any good. I've seen Kilkenny, Offaly and Wexford all literally stop trying to score after doint enough to win the match.

Bad form on Antrim, the county board has decided that some silver ware, the Ring cup, is worth more than Ulster championship and all Ireland series.

May they reap what they sow, the next time they meet Kilkenny or Cork.

Waylander

Bogger77 wrote:

Performances like that by Antrim are one of the main reasons Kilkenny and other teams hammer them everytime. It'd be impossible to imagine one of the super powers of hurling doing this to any team, even an ould rival. Take Kilkenny vs Westmeath the week before, no offence to Westmeath, but Kilkenny could have easily done a job like this to them. But they don't, as they know that it does no one any good. I've seen Kilkenny, Offaly and Wexford all literally stop trying to score after doint enough to win the match.

Bad form on Antrim, the county board has decided that some silver ware, the Ring cup, is worth more than Ulster championship and all Ireland series.

May they reap what they sow, the next time they meet Kilkenny or Cork.

I think this is being a bit ridiculous. Antrim went out to play a match, and win. They did that. The fact that it is so much of a mismatch is not their fault. Bad form on Antrim for not stopping when they were a couple of goals up?

solskjaer20

HOw dare Antrim try to score more than neccessary to win.

Kojak

This kind of beating shows some of the inadequacies of the hurling championship. After all, Galway were beaten by Antrim earlier in the league and this is now the team that is considered at the same level as Roscommon. :eek:

I know Roscommon's hurling 'heartland' isn't the biggest in the world but these kind of defeats will kill hurling in counties like Ross.

Bogger77

Waylander wrote:

I think this is being a bit ridiculous. Antrim went out to play a match, and win. They did that. The fact that it is so much of a mismatch is not their fault. Bad form on Antrim for not stopping when they were a couple of goals up?

Yes, very bad form on them.

Look at Leinster, where Westmeath and Meath have played Kilkenny, show me a result as one sided as this.

This win does nothing for Antrim, and could kill Hurling in Rosscommon. Roll on next year, and Antrim meeting a Big team.

Waylander

Bogger you are displaying a stupid attitude here. What would you have had Antrim do? They were told to play a match, and in the Championship you play matches to win. I agree this result does noone any good, but blaming Antrim for winning by too much is a nonsense.

Bogger77

Waylander wrote:

Bogger you are displaying a stupid attitude here. What would you have had Antrim do? They were told to play a match, and in the Championship you play matches to win. I agree this result does noone any good, but blaming Antrim for winning by too much is a nonsense.

They had to play the match, they didn't have to do that.

They will reap what they sow when they play Kilkenny /Cork/Clare next year.

Hitman Actual

Bogger77 wrote:

Performances like that by Antrim are one of the main reasons Kilkenny and other teams hammer them everytime. It'd be impossible to imagine one of the super powers of hurling doing this to any team, even an ould rival. Take Kilkenny vs Westmeath the week before, no offence to Westmeath, but Kilkenny could have easily done a job like this to them. But they don't, as they know that it does no one any good. I've seen Kilkenny, Offaly and Wexford all literally stop trying to score after doint enough to win the match.

Bad form on Antrim, the county board has decided that some silver ware, the Ring cup, is worth more than Ulster championship and all Ireland series.

May they reap what they sow, the next time they meet Kilkenny or Cork.

I agree with Waylander here, this is crazy talk. None of the "superpowers" deliberately slow down for the good of the game. They might experiment with a few subs, or just drop down a gear with the job done, but they're not doing it in the interest of the weaker county.

Anyway, regarding the Westmeath games, both Kilkenny and Waterford had full strength teams out for the majority of both matches. Both teams were made to fight tooth and nail for every score they got; in fact the score line yesterday doesn't really do justice to the Westmeath (second half) performance. (Also, how Waterfords square-ball goal stood up, but Westmeaths identical one was disallowed, is a mystery).

Edit: It's a shame to see Roscommon go down so badly, but I'm not sure that Antrim should have been allowed to drop down to the Christy Ring in the first place. They're far too strong and should win it at a canter, which is very unfair on the likes of Down, etc, who would have been favourites.

mchurl

How can people blame Antrim fo hammering the Rossies? Antimr were playing in a championship match and went out to win the game which they duly did. If i were in charge of a team in any sort of a match i would never ever tell them to stop scoring, that is just being ridiculous.

As for the likes of Kilkenny and Wexford "stop scoring", i also think that is ridiculous. Im sure they dont just decide, oh we've scored enough now, lets not score anymore.

solskjaer20

They had to play the match, they didn't have to do that.

They will reap what they sow when they play Kilkenny /Cork/Clare next year.

I'm sorry but I think thats one of the most ridiculous things I've ever heard.

Antrim beat the team they were out to beat.
Why WOULD they stop scoring?

Sure the result doesn't do either team any good....but would it do Antrim any good to stop trying?

There is men on the team fighting for places, so why would they give anything less than 100%?

The other issue here is....you say Antrim should have slowed down when they're out of sight, but when ARE you out of sight?
Twenty points? Thirty points? Ok for the ake if arguments sake say 20...... So lets say you slow down and settle for 20, even though you're capable of winning by 61. EXTREMLY unlikely but what if Roscommon come back into it, what if they hit three or four quick goals? hat if they come back and win? What do you do? The media will murder you, the fans will demand the sack for the manager and all sorts of sanctions cme even come down upon you.

SonOfPerdition

Bogger77 wrote:

Performances like that by Antrim are one of the main reasons Kilkenny and other teams hammer them everytime. It'd be impossible to imagine one of the super powers of hurling doing this to any team, even an ould rival. Take Kilkenny vs Westmeath the week before, no offence to Westmeath, but Kilkenny could have easily done a job like this to them. But they don't, as they know that it does no one any good. I've seen Kilkenny, Offaly and Wexford all literally stop trying to score after doint enough to win the match.

Bad form on Antrim, the county board has decided that some silver ware, the Ring cup, is worth more than Ulster championship and all Ireland series.

May they reap what they sow, the next time they meet Kilkenny or Cork.

Nonesense. To even suggest that a team would "Ease up" on a weaker team is insulting and degrading to the weaker team.

smashey

I didn't see Kilkenny easing up against Offaly last year. Offaly took a hammering, which relatively speaking, would be on a par with what Antrim did to Roscommon.

Danno

National League April 17th 2005. Kilkenny 3-26 Wexford 0-05

MisterAnarchy

In all honesty if you had 15 fit and any way decent men you could keep the score down some bit.
48 scores Antrim managed.
If you just pucked the ball up to the other end of the pitch you wouldnt get a beating like that.

nlgbbbblth

Roscommon lost to Down yesterday 3-21 to 0-12.

nlgbbbblth

1984 Centenary Cup hurling

Roscommon 3-6 Wexford 2-8.

Humiliating defeat for us in Athleague. A couple of months later Wexford went onto beat Kilkenny (who were going for three All Irelands in a row) in the Leinster semi final. A glorious goal from the 38 year old Tony Doran.

netwhizkid

Kerry beat Clare in Football in 1979 in Miltown Malbay on July 1st by a score of 9-21 to 1-9 by a margin of 36 points. Whatever about Hurling this has to be one of the biggest margins in football ever. Isn't there a museum in Croke Park or somewhere a person could find all these facts and figures.

I got this result out of Pat Spillanes Book "Shooting from the Hip - The Pat Spillane Story" by Pat Spillane and Sean McGoldrick.

Come on the Kingdom!!

Couldn't resist!! :rolleyes:

Stoner

I agree with Bogger77. I think usual point of no return is 23-24 points up after this the winning team usually make an effort to relax the scoring. Such hammerings do nothing for the game, it hurts support levels, player pools etc. I think there is some sort of unwritten rule that most counties apply. I don't know if this is used to motivate stronger counties to hammer Antrim but I'm fairly sure that unless there is a real history between the two counties that the stronger county reduce their scores.

thirdmantackle

Co. Roscommon has 8 hurling clubs, thats right - 8! Many of these clubs are dual clubs, with football being number 1

7 of the clubs are senior, some of them don't/can't even field a junior team, or a minor team

1 of the clubs is only going for 6-7 years at juvenile level, while one of the senior teams doesn't have any juvenile teams at all

so Roscommon are doing well to compete at any sort of level

patmac

The same old codgers are running Roscommon Hurling for years, and because of that they are practically impossible to shift. The chairman was changed a few years back after a desperate power struggle and the new one promised this that and the other, but met a young one and his interest has wavered since. The county ground is a joke no net behind the goal to stop the slithers from getting lost, windows broken in dressing room bird crap and rubbish all over the press box. According to sources the night before the Antrim match there was a lot of ringing around begging lads to play but to no avail so a shadow team took the field, Antrim were winning comfortably so decided to put on subs who couldn't wait to impress, it is rumoured that some of the better hurlers won't play for the county team, and few seem to care. There was 3 county championship matches yesterday and maybe 200 spectators at all 3 games. The word apathy springs to mind.

whassupp2

There is also the problem of dual players. Many of the Ros Gaels ,Padraig Pearses, Four Roads players also play football.

thirdmantackle

What about football in St Dominics, Oran, Athleague & Tremane (Fuerty), Castlerea at underage

jdj009

this was the highest score kerry put up that year on way 2 wininng sam but also the highest they conceded the kerry right corners back was dropped for the rest of the campaign after conceding 1 goal and 4 points to his opponent. i was actually at the game and still have all the kerry autographs

ShamoBuc

03-07-2006 ...... to ........ 05-04-2011 .... That must be a record in itself:D

Psychedelic

Waterford County Senior Club Hurling Semi Final
21/08/1949

Mount Sion 22-12
Erin's Own 0-0

baalthor

The Cavan Hurling team once conceded 10-14 against Louth I think.
It was known as "the Battle of Clontarf"

I wouldn't be surprised if they have let more in since