Club Championships 2023/24

PTH2009

This weekends senior fixtures

https://www.gaa.ie/news/this-week-s-senior-club-championship-fixtures-x1271/

Out of interest what way does the Kilkenny championship work. Do they incorporate a league into it ?

TheRiverman

Offaly County Final Ferbane v Tullamore is some load of shite. I know it's a very wet day but it is a dreadful game. Tullamore leading 1-4 to 0-4 in added on time at the end is disgraceful.

Final score Tullamore 1-5, Ferbane 0-6.

PTH2009

Did Ballyea get knocked out in the Clare SHC ?

supernova5

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121155451#Comment_121155451

didn't make it out of their group

PTH2009

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121155477#Comment_121155477

Surprised with that

Ballygunner would feel confident doing 3 in a row in Munster if 'New champions' come out of the other county's

supernova5

new champions or not so new champions I think its Ballygunner's to lose anyway

C4000

State of play in the various hurling Championships;

Limerick

Quarter Finals 01/10/23 Gaelic Grounds:

Doon v Mungret St Pauls (2pm)

Patrickswell v Ballybrown (4pm)

Winners to meet Kilmallock and Na Piarsaigh in Semi finals.

Cork

Semi finals 01/10/23 Pairc Ui Chaoimh:

Sarsfields v Imokilly (2pm)

Midleton v St Finbarrs (4pm)

Tipperary

Semi Finals

30/09/23 Semple Stadium:

Thurles Sarsfields v Loughmore Castleiney (7.15)

01/10/23 Semple stadium:

Kiladangan v Toomevara (3.30)

Clare

Semi Finals

07/10/23 Cusack Park:

Crusheen v Scariff (4pm)

08/10/23 Cusack Park:

Clonlara v Feakle (1pm)

Waterford

Ballygunner Champions

Kerry

Crotta O'Neills Champions

Dublin

Quarter Finals 01/10/23 Parnell Park:

Ballyboden St Endas v Cuala (2pm)

Kilmacud Crokes v Na Fianna (4pm)

Winners to play Lucan Sarsfields and St Vincent's in Semi finals.

Kilkenny

Quarter Finals

30/09/23:

Mullinavat v O"Loughlin Gaels (Thomas Town 2pm)

Glenmore v Bennettsbridge (Clara 3.45)

01/10/23 Nowlan Park:

James Stephens v Graigue Ballycallan (1.45)

Ballyhale Shamrocks v Dicksboro (4.15)

Offaly

Semi Finals

30/09/23 Tullamore:

Ballinamere v Shinrone (4pm)

01/10/23 Tullamore:

St Rynaghs v Kilcormac Killoughey (4pm)

Laois

Final

08/10/23 O'Moore Park:

Abbeyleix St Lazarians v Camross

Westmeath

Final 08/10/23 Mullingar:

Raharney v Lough Lene Gaels

Wexford

Naomh Eanna Champions

Carlow

Mount Leinster Rangers Champions

Antrim

Semi Finals

30/09/23:

Ruairi Og Cushendall v McQuillans Ballycastle (Fr Healy Park)

01/10/23:

Dunloy v Loughgeil Shamrocks (Pairc Mac Uilin)

Derry

Slaughtneil Champions

Down

Semi Finals

08/10/23:

Portaferry v Ballygalget

Ballycran v Liatroim Fontenoys

Galway

Quarter Finals

30/09/23 Pearse Stadium:

Castlegar v Turloughmore (2.30)

St Thomas' v Cappataggle (4.15)

01/10/23 Pearse Stadium:

Loughrea v Clarinbridge (2.00)

Oranmore Maree v Sarsfields (3.45)

supernova5

Great job C4000

C4000

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058315082/club-championships-2023-24

In Kilkenny they play a league which basically just determines whether teams start the knock out championship in a quarter final (top 4 in the league) or a preliminary quarter final (bottom 8 in the league). The losers of the preliminary qfs are in danger of relegation.

There is also a league final which Dicksboro won last weekend.

PTH2009

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121160946#Comment_121160946

Good system

Would the leagues be still played when the Intercounty is on ?

C4000

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121160957#Comment_121160957

No, they start it at the beginning of August and run it off over 6 weeks or so...... 2 groups of 6. There was a mad game in the last round where Ballyhale were 10 points down to James Stephens with about five minutes left and it ended a draw....

Billy Ocean

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121160224#Comment_121160224

Fair play 👏👏

Billy Ocean

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121160224#Comment_121160224

Just adding Kildare who are competing in Leinster Senior too, semi finals this weekend.

Celbridge v Coill Dubh Saturday and Naas v Maynooth Sunday.

C4000

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121161775#Comment_121161775

Thanks, forgot about Kildare, Naas acquitted themselves very well last year in Leinster.

Speak Now

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121160946#Comment_121160946

Preliminary q.f (first round) - 3rd versus 4th from the each group are safe. Loser of the 5th v 6th games from 2 groups are in relegation final.

Billy Ocean

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121161862#Comment_121161862

Kilkenny system works well overall but 2 flaws are League and Shield finals are glorified practice games especially as there now 1 week before the QF, with the preliminary QF set up you mentioned a 5th or 6th place team could make the last 8 while a stronger team finishing 3rd or 4th in a group won't, Tullaroan who lost to Bennettsbridge last weekend are probably stronger than at least 2 of the QF teams.

Uncle Pierre

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121160957#Comment_121160957

Back before the split county/club season, they used to play it during the inter-county campaign all right, and it was these matches that people were referring to when they asked "how come Kilkenny can play club championship while the county team is still involved, but other counties can't?".

The answer is that these are not "real" championship matches, in that there's no jeopardy involved - everybody goes through anyway. Sometimes clubs would have played with their inter-county players, and sometimes without, because it didn't make a massive difference at the end of the day anyway. Very telling how they don't even refer to it themselves as championship - the actual title of the competition is the St. Canice's Credit Union Senior Hurling League.

The Kilkenny championship is basically a straight knock-out, with your starting position determined by where you finish in a different competition. It's a little bit like how qualification or otherwise for the Tailteann Cup depends on your position in a different competition altogether (i.e. the National Football League).

Speak Now

I wouldn't quite say no jeopardy as if you finish bottom 2 in the league and lose your first round match then you are starring down the barrel of a relegation final.

Uncle Pierre

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121165077#Comment_121165077

Accepted, but you still wouldn't be relegated by virtue of a result in the league. It would be by virtue of results in a couple of championship matches.

Also, I meant 'no jepoardy' more in the sense of there being no danger of league results putting you out of the championship, no matter how badly you performed in the league. You're still guaranteed at least one championship match anyway.

Billy Ocean

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121164931#Comment_121164931

The reason they played these games was the 6 week gap between the Leinster final and All Ireland semi final.

Uncle Pierre

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121166584#Comment_121166584

Yeah, I know.

Was often the case that the county players might play a club game if it was say four weeks out from the All-Ireland semi-final, but wouldn't be as likely to play if it was within a week or two of the semi-final. As stated, results of those club games made no huge difference to the club championship anyway, since everybody was going through no matter what.

TheRiverman

If the rivalry between Loughmore- Castleiney and Thurles Sarsfields in the Tipperary Senior Hurling Championship is so great, why is there such a paltry crowd at their semi-final in Thurles this evening ? RTE hyping it up.

Billy Ocean

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121178137#Comment_121178137

I'm guessing the **** weather was a factor

Uncle Pierre

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121179301#Comment_121179301

Also the fact that even 5,000 would be a good crowd at a club match, but 5,000 would look "lost" in a place like Thurles, that holds about 45,000. Particularly if only roughly half the crowd were in the stand that the cameras were pointing towards, with the other half in the stand that the cameras themselves were in, and therefore not visible on TV.

PTH2009

Current All Ireland Senior Champions Ballyhale getting a huge test atm and down by 3 with 14 men

PTH2009

The sign of greatness

some heart by Ballyhale, some bad decision making by Boro

Gael85

Dicksboro stopped playing after the red card.

Billy Ocean

Naomh Eanna going for a double of sorts this weekend in the Intermediate football final in Wexford after winning Senior hurling.

PTH2009

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121221809#Comment_121221809

As a matter of intrest many dual players ?

Nugget89

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121222614#Comment_121222614

They're on for a treble. Won the intermediate like you said, but are also in the Senior B final on Saturday before the Senior final on Sunday.

Nugget89

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121222763#Comment_121222763

They've done it before. Before the restructure they won all 3 adult grades Kildare had at the time, and I'm pretty sure they also won the minor and U16 that year. They are a goliath of a club and I can't see their domination stopping any time soon.