All Ireland Senior Hurling Championships Lower Tier 2022 (JM,CR,NR, LM Cups)

Competitive with one other team for the relegation spot. Wow

My solution is to completely stop thinking about championship and league structures as a quick fix to bring "weak" teams on. We are forever messing around with formats in hurling and as for making weak teams strong it does sweet fk all.

Money and expertise will make those teams better. Targeted "professional" help at school and underage level from HQ and taken out of the hands of CBs.

We are forever jumping from "need to play own level to progress" to "need to play big boys " and back again but it's all just pssing into the wind.

In the short term Munster and Leinster are technically an equal billing and Leinster isn't a step between JoeMcD and Munster so ya they should play in Munster.

I always laugh at the "logic" of adding ever more teams to the upper tier to "make it competitive".

When Leinster was 5 teams, 1 team was always going to be weaker than Dublin, Wexford, Kilkenny and Galway. The "solution" to this was to add a 6th team. This meant that the 5th team could then beat the 6th and people could then claim they are "making progress" and "competing at the higher level". Totally ignoring the fact that their "achievement" was to beat a team whose sole reason for being in the division was to ensure someone won a game.

6 teams in Leinster gives a team outside of the Top 9 an opportunity to establish themselves in the Leinster Championship. Antrim are targeting promotion this year and Westmeath's perch next year. The challenge then is to use that platform to close the gap on those above.

Surely if Kerry were to win the joe mac ,the leinster championship would be the springboard for them for further progession .The jump to the munster championship just is too big .Surely if Antrim and Galway compete in Lenster what should stop Kerry from playing lenster championship if they win saturday

It is frustrating for the local journalist to be fair. A player then has been able to speak with the national media.

The Antrim perspective as they target a return to the Leinster Championship.

Kerry have been down this road before. We won Division 2A and then lost to Offaly,who had finished bottom of 1B, in a play-off. After some negative media scrutiny, those playoff were eventually scrapped. This relegation playoff to the Munster Championship is a relic from that era of protectionism.

The journalist in question failed to acknowledge that the Kerry hurlers have trained at each of the hurling clubs during the year and been available to the kids after each training session. He also said that the Eric Leen had traveled up to Dublin just for the event, when in fact he is a Dublin based teacher.

The management made themselves available for media and didn't want the players distracted.

Don't know what his agenda is writing an article like that.

Would be a terrible idea not to give them any away days they can be the most fun ones. Also if they get 3 years everyone will want it and the whole JoeMcD falls apart. On top of all that there is little to suggest any scalp will be taken.

3 years is too generous. If Kerry ever win the McDonagh Cup, being permitted to join the Munster Championship as the 6th for 1 year would be a fair reward. Whoever finishes 6th at the end of that year should be relegated. If not, the provincial round robin isn't fit for purpose and should be replaced by an All-Ireland group stage that can agree on relegation.