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DJ Hurling Coordinator for Wicklow

  • 30-09-2008 7:21am
    #1
    future_plans
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    I heard that DJ Carey is due to be announced as the new hurling coordinator for Wicklow. He has his work cut out, but it would be great for a county at Wicklows level. The will is certainly there....so the "coordination" would be a nice addition! I wonder what does this role entail?


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  • #2
    Flukey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,001 ✭✭✭✭Flukey


    This is the kind of initiative that we should be seeing more of. It will do far more for Leinster Hurling than the crazy idea of bringing in Antrim and Galway. The Galway county board, Connacht council, Antrim county board and Ulster council should be looking at ways of getting hurling going stronger in their own provinces. Bringing Galway into Leinster is going to do nothing for the likes of Mayo's hurlers. Of all the counties in Connacht Galway is the one that doesn't have a problem in Hurling, yet all the attention is put on them. At least Ulster had a provincial championship with all nine counties this year, even if the structure of it was flawed. Galway and Antrim aren't the problem, so let's concentrate on the things that are. Getting someone like DJ Carey into Wicklow is addressing a problem. That is the way forward.


  • #3
    smashey
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    Isn't there a pairing system in Hurling at the moment where the stronger counties are helping out the weaker ones?

    I know Donegal got shafted and ended up with some mob called Kilkenny. :D A few of their players have been up here already.


  • #4
    Flukey
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    Yes, the GPA are doing that scheme. Again another simple, but positive scheme. There are lots of things they could do. Obviously Donegal v Kilkenny in Hurling is not going to do much for Donegal Hurling, but getting the Donegal team to play some average club side from some of the stronger counties could be useful. We're not talking county champions clubs, but a club with a reasonable team that might be closer to intercounty teams from weaker counties. Again it is another simple idea, that could prove beneficial.

    The Hurling Development Committee sometimes look more like the Hurling Destruction Committee with some of the ideas they come out with. Adding Galway and Antrim to Leinster only strengthens the group of strong counties and leaves the ones outside the loop even more isolated. They should be working on getting the other Ulster and Connacht counties up towards Galway and Antrim's levels, not turning their backs on them.

    If they do move Galway into Leinster well then the first logical thing to do after that would be to get the 4 other Connacht counties and New York and London to have a Connacht Championship. I've heard nothing like that in the proposal being put before congress on Saturday. Instead we'll have a vote to support the Hurling Destruction Committee's latest initiative for driving a nail into Hurling's coffin.


  • #5
    The Chessplayer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,318 ✭✭✭The Chessplayer


    future_plans wrote: »
    I heard that DJ Carey is due to be announced as the new hurling coordinator for Wicklow. He has his work cut out, but it would be great for a county at Wicklows level. The will is certainly there....so the "coordination" would be a nice addition! I wonder what does this role entail?

    This is true, and WW are ripe for the picking. Hell of a lot of hurling played in de garden, you'd be very surprised.


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