Leinster Championships

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The Leinster Championships are on this Sunday in Kilkenny. Thankfully Laois avoided most of the big guns in the group stages like all Ireland champs Kilkenny and Dublin

Anyone going??

ratinakeg

Can anybody enter?
Do you know who Wicklow got?

Evolution Enter

County registered and selected players only, not an open tournament, inter county

Giant Reed

Do you know what the draw was??

Carrickman

From www.donegaldarts.com/forum:

The draws for the Men's and Ladies' competitions in the 2009 Leinster Inter-Counties Championships were made in O'Shea's Hotel, Tramore, on Saturday, January 10th.

Men:
Section {1}: Offaly, Louth, Kildare, Kilkenny.
Section {2}: Longford, Meath, Wexford, Dublin.
Section {3}: Laois, Westmeath, Carlow, Wicklow.

Matches to be played on a Round Robin basis with the top two teams from each section plus the two best losers to qualify for the quarter-finals.

Ladies:
Section {1}: Kildare, Meath, Westmeath, Dublin.
Section {2}: Laois Carlow, Wexford, Kilkenny.

Matches to be played on a Round Robin basis with the top two teams from each section to qualify for the semi-finals.

Youths:
A separate Youths' competition will also be organised and the draw for that will be made on the day.

shiibata

ratinakeg wrote: »

Can anybody enter?
Do you know who Wicklow got?

cripes, must start checking aertel, that bottom tourney is only six miles away from me and knew nothing about it:eek:

Carrickman

Meath beat Kilkenny in the final of this.

Evolution Enter

Really?? All I heard from the lads was that Laois got hammered. Kilkenny are defending All-Ireland champs. Didn't realise Meath was that strong

bulldog0906

yes meath had a very strong team i tought the way kilkenny beat us kildare and louth that they would have won it

Kingp35

bulldog0906 wrote: »

yes meath had a very strong team i tought the way kilkenny beat us kildare and louth that they would have won it

What county do you throw for bulldog?

bulldog0906

kingp35

I play for Co.Offaly

Kingp35

Good stuff, you must be a very good thrower to play at county level. Keep it up.

whaaames

how did the dublin team get on, a mate of mine throws for dublin n he was playin but he was i foul form sunday night n i daren't ask him how it went...? ha

Carrickman

how did the dublin team get on, a mate of mine throws for dublin n he was playin but he was i foul form sunday night n i daren't ask him how it went...? ha

Meath beat them in the quater finals.

bulldog0906

carrickman will you be heading to castlebar to the All-Irelands on the 7thfeb

shiibata

Carrickman, are the 2 lads from your neck of the woods still playing for Meath?

Carrickman

Yeah John and Dermot are still playing for them alright (seeing as they cant get a match in their own county:rolleyes:).

Carrickman

bulldog0906 wrote: »

carrickman will you be heading to castlebar to the All-Irelands on the 7thfeb

No, until the Donegal county team give players from our area a chance I have no intrest, players from our league play for Sligo and Meath there hasen't been a trial match in the county since the early 90's (in fact Sligo offered us a trial match!!), I'm not saying that I'm good enough to play for any county far from it, but there are players in our league that deserve a chance.

Ronan|Raven

Seems very bad form and a real closed shop on Donegals behalf.

Evolution Enter

That the SWDL??

I think Offaly has a similar problem, Banagher and Tullamore leagues, with from what I'm told, the county team being picked from the weaker Tullamore league

Too much politics in inter-county darts

whaaames

how does the county system operate..?

how is the team selected..? is it nearly always a closed shop..?

Carrickman

Evolution Enter wrote: »

Too much politics in inter-county darts

Agreed!

Evolution Enter

Well, we've the All Irelands this weekend....c'mon Laois

passinginterest

whaaames wrote: »

how does the county system operate..?

how is the team selected..? is it nearly always a closed shop..?

In Wexford they run open ranking tournaments weekly or fortnightly and the team is picked on that. I think maybe they have one or two wildcards, but basically it's open to anyone to qualify for the team.

DFD

amn't sure what way the dublin team is picked but i do know the winner of the dun laoghaire singles (monday) is entitled to a place on the squad,whether they take it up or not is up to them.

Evolution Enter

Anyone know what the draw for the all irelands is??

Carrickman

Evolution Enter wrote: »

Anyone know what the draw for the all irelands is??

Looking for that myself, top secret I suppose:rolleyes: the INDO PR is terrible very hard to get info of them.

Evolution Enter

It's not on aertel, or the SWDL forum, PR needs a kick up the ass

MBC

There is some info about the INDO here but dont think its the official INDO site

http://www.darts.ie/indo.htm

And yeah agree the PR is v.bad.

Evolution Enter

That's not even up to date!! Pity, I'm dying to know what group Laois got, had a bad Leinsters and with their national seeding I'm not holding my breathe for a good showing at the all irelands, hopefully they'll avoid Kilkenny and Donegal

Carrickman

Evolution Enter wrote: »

It's not on aertel, or the SWDL forum, PR needs a kick up the ass

Even Michael O'Sullivan can't get the fixtures for our forum/dartsinireland site, but noting will ever change with the INDO stuck in their old ways the intercountys should be promoted as the best of Irish darts not this way I will hopfuly have fixtures somtime over the next 24 hours.

Evolution Enter

They haven't even done the draw yet!! First thing in the morning

Carrickman

Oh, well I look foward to hearing it then so!!

Ronan|Raven

Going to a match in Westport later but might pop in for a look on the way back.

Carrickman

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