Inter County - no place for self employed men

LMK

Students, Teachers and Soldiers made up 20 of the 30 starters in the AI hurling Final on Sunday.
It must now be bordering on the impossible to work full-time and be on the panel of the top 3-4 county teams Hurling and Football?
Farmers, Electricians, Plumbers, Doctors all basically eliminated from participating.
So should we bring in a quota system at congress next year:)?

seamus

Ultimately when you have an amateur sport, those aiming to compete at the top level will be drawn to professions which are most suited to top-level training - very regular, predictable and usually short hours. Very little stress at work, little to no chance of incurring an injury, basically minimal impact on your training.

Banking is also very popular for top-level footballers - the bank basically wheels them into meetings to make businesspeople excited to have met <insert football star here>, and the most fundamental financial qualifications aren't hard to get.

Once they're done with their sporting, they often go off and do something else.

It shouldn't really be any surprise that jobs which require effort to make a steady income or have unpredictable hours will be unpopular with those looking to make the senior team.

Prop Joe

LMK wrote: »

It must now be bordering on the impossible to work full-time and be on the panel of the top 3-4 county teams Hurling and Football?

Don't really agree with these,The Kerry panel that togged out v Dublin consisted of
Engineers x 3
Bank Reps x 4
Publican x 2
Teacher x 4
Sales Rep X 2
Accountant x 2
Physio
Delivery Man
Scientist
Garda
Office Admin
QS
Student
Pharmacist

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seamus wrote: »

Ultimately when you have an amateur sport, those aiming to compete at the top level will be drawn to professions which are most suited to top-level training - very regular, predictable and usually short hours. Very little stress at work, little to no chance of incurring an injury, basically minimal impact on your training.

Banking is also very popular for top-level footballers - the bank basically wheels them into meetings to make businesspeople excited to have met <insert football star here>, and the most fundamental financial qualifications aren't hard to get.

Once they're done with their sporting, they often go off and do something else.

It shouldn't really be any surprise that jobs which require effort to make a steady income or have unpredictable hours will be unpopular with those looking to make the senior team.

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