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Christy Ring semi-finals

  • 26-07-2008 3:46pm
    #1
    Myxomatosis
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    Carlow have just beaten Mayo in the Christy Ring Cup semi-final with a last minute goal and then a point to secure it.

    Sounded very exciting on the radio, pity it was all the way up in bloody Castlebar and I'm too lazy to drive up.

    Whatever happened to a neutral venue for a semi-final?

    Westmeath and Derry throw in at 5. I'm hoping for a Derry win in that one.


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  • #2
    techdiver
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    Easy enough win for Westmeath in the end.

    Westmeath 1 - 19 Derry 0 - 12.

    Westmeath will probably be favourites for the final.


  • #3
    Pride Fighter
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    Its no good having Westmeath win 3 of the 4 Christy Ring Cups, they should be in the McCarthy cup IMO.


  • #4
    techdiver
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    Pride Fighter wrote: »
    Its no good having Westmeath win 3 of the 4 Christy Ring Cups, they should be in the McCarthy cup IMO.

    Agreed, but unfortunately there seems to be a few teams such as Westmeath, Laois and maybe Antrim that are perhaps too good for Christy Ring and not good enough for the Liam McCarty... Hard one to solve really without a 4th tier.


  • #5
    Agus
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    techdiver wrote: »
    Agreed, but unfortunately there seems to be a few teams such as Westmeath, Laois and maybe Antrim that are perhaps too good for Christy Ring and not good enough for the Liam McCarty... Hard one to solve really without a 4th tier.

    The problem might be that there arent' enough of those teams really to form a tier of their own. Wicklow did beat Westmeath in the group stages I think this year, and Meath did it last year, so they haven't been unbeatable. Perhaps Antrim, Laois and Westmeath should have a round robin in the McCarthy cup with the top team progressing to the later stages and the bottom team into a relegation play-off.


  • #6
    Stevecw
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    When i heard earlier that the Christy Ring final is to be played on Friday night at Croke Park i was so p!ssed off.
    The idea of this competition was to give the lower tier teams a chance to play on the big stage in front of a bit of a crowd.
    I know that often the games started in front of only a few, but the promise from the gaa when this competition was introduced a few years ago was that it would be on live tv & before an All Ire hurling semi. So in 2nd half the lads would be playing in front of a near packed Croker & on live tv too.

    Instead only a few years later what do the poor hurlers of Carlow & Westmeath get as a reward for battling their way to the final. A friday evening game in croke park, not even on tv.
    Croke Park will be like a morgue on Friday night, there will be about 250 people there with 82,000 empty spaces. It will be like a training session for the players.
    What are the gaa trying to do, picking the hardest night to even try get into Dublin (a friday on a bank holiday wkend!) for people from Carlow & Westmeath.
    Its not as if its a nothing game, the winners of this will fancy their chances of beating Laois in play off & then are in the All Ireland proper & qualifiers etc despite the GAAs best efforts to hold us back.
    I really hope whether its Carlow or even if Westmeath beat us, the winner can get the promotion & stay up next year. Would be worth anything & well deserved after the treatment we're getting for this game.


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  • #7
    Flukey
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    techdiver wrote: »
    Agreed, but unfortunately there seems to be a few teams such as Westmeath, Laois and maybe Antrim that are perhaps too good for Christy Ring and not good enough for the Liam McCarty... Hard one to solve really without a 4th tier.

    What they should do is retain the Rackard, Ring and McCarthy Cups, but let the teams themselves decide which they want to enter. That way if Westmeath, Antrim or whoever won the Ring Cup but thought they'd benefit from being in it again for a year, they could stay in it. If they did bad in the McCarthy but still felt they could try again instead of returning to the Ring Cup, they would have that option too. If teams declare which they want to go into in time, the GAA could easily arrange the fixtures. Most teams would opt for their own levels. The Cavan hurlers aren't going to want to enter the McCarthy Cup for example.


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