Club Championships 2023/24

No.

They beat a Limerick team that has 1 dead cert intercounty player and Caseys who have been in and out. Other than that they have a lot of "almost" county players.

The great success of the Limerick academy is to pick the best players in the county and not the best players from the best teams.

Pretty sure it'll be Leinster v Ulster.

Dunloy played St. Thomas's (so Ulster v Connacht) last year, and the year before, Ballygunner played Slaughtneil (so Ulster v Munster). The rotation then would surely be for Leinster to play Ulster this time.

Naas game is moved to Portlaoise for the extra capacity.

Is Newbridge out of action at the minute ?

Leinster senior final Kilmacud Crokes 1-14 Naas 0-10. Score line harsh as it was a decent effort by Naas and had their chances to at least bring that game into extra time but by the end of it all Kilmacud Crokes win three Leinster titles in a row and move onto 7 titles overall tied at the top with Portlaoise, St Vincents. The addition of Shane Walsh as expected has made a big difference, scored 1-8 of their 1-14 points today.

Loughlins scraped by na fianna yesterday and their normally dominant back lines were put under a lot of pressure and started to make some bad mistakes, only for deegan settling the ship. I think they'll beat cushendall but they'll need to up it big time if they're going to put it up to ballygunner down the road. Can't see anyone beating them if they're on the form they were today.

As an aside, I didn't realise they have done ten in a row now in Waterford. That can't be good for the state of the game in the county regardless of the quality of the club.

Never understood why they didn't ever go with that in the last few years once it was moved from Paddy's day.

It makes sense, not least one weekend being a festival of hurling, the next being a festival of football, football fans are more likely to stick around for football matches and hurling fans for hurling matches than either walking out at half time of the other code once their game is done.

And it also make sense in the event a club has managed to do a double and are making an attempt at both codes.

No. Its good stuff though or at least the 10 mins I have seen of the first half on TG4 was good football.

Semi finals

Kilmacud Crokes v Glen

St Brigid's v Castlehaven

Scotstown passed up too many chances.

You would wonder how Waterford are so bad the last few years given that they have those lads playing.

Players more motivated to play for their club perhaps. A different sense of purpose or team ethos.

Ballygunner are well coached. Waterford on the other hand...