carlow

wheres me jumpa

dont be on here much, but just thought it had to be mentioned. what a result for carlow hurlers at the weekend. unbeaten in the league, garvery is doing a great job, especially when you consider what he had to work with.

Danno

Well done to Carlow hurlers, nice to see you progress. Sick of the state of hurling at the moment in Ireland, hard to see beyond Kilkenny and Cork. Like the Scottish Soccer League the hurling with two kingpins.

thirdmantackle

And it'll stay that way as long as the stronger counties have their way. They want to maintain the status quo

if the GAA had the balls to do it they'd set up a hurling development authority to oversee expansion of the game in tier two and three counties

Flukey

It proves the potential is there. As in other cases, some of this is down to the underage success of some of these players in recent years. That is the way to go. All the big counties in both Hurling and Football have good underage programmes and have got success. Even the Kilkenny minor footballers won a game last weekend, beating Longford. That could and should be built upon. Unfortunately though, they may not even get another game. They lost another game in the round-robin system they are in and depending on results to come, it may be academic.

wheres me jumpa

well i know there is a huge gap between the top two or three but a home truth has to be mentioned.

the carlow team was a joke in both football and hurling, players werent turning up for training and when they did the training was not up to standard.

changes have been made and the improvement can be seen already, both the hurlers and the footballers have fresh faces in there now. were still along way off but it takes time. if the players and selectors have the right attitudes changes can be made. laois are a fine example. admittedly hurling seems to be harder to break into but there are some teams trying at least.

Flukey

That is what the game needs. Up to 1980 Offaly were also-rans but they have been at or near the top of the game ever since. In the same period Galway and Clare have made major breakthroughs. It can be done. Look at football, where a lot of the successful teams of the last few years are all new. All of them had underage success in the preceding decade. That is how to do it.