Will Hurling separate from the GAA to form its own body sooner rather than later?

But a third of this thread is your posts alone and the majority of the rest is people disagreeing with you.

The very fact you think that views and replies mean there's support for your idea is baffling. Some of the most active threads on boards are full of people telling the OP their idea is crap.

There was a busy thread lately where the OP suggested abolishing bank holidays. By your logic the universal disdain shown for the idea was actually support because the thread got plenty of views and replies.

Not a hope that hurling will go it's own way.

Hurling people neither have no vision, no honesty and no real community beyond "sure isn't hurling the greatest game ever". The Ross O'Carroll Kelly of sports, it's own self-importance due it's undeniably savage and thrilling entertainment blinding itself to the rot eating it from within. Any sport that exists in this way is doomed to failure, the traditions associated with the GAA are just about keeping hurling together. Leave the sport on it's own and it'd eat itself live.

It can't even own up to the fact that rampant cheating is required to simply play the game. 80-100 throws a game between teams to the point that the sport is now built around the throw to get out of danger and build attacks.

The steps rule broken any time a lad puts the ball in his hand, every tackle of a player running seems to involve a pull of the arm, refs don't enforce the rules and when they do are "fussy", "clueless" or "ruining the game" leading them to ignore 100-150 fouls a game, lads putting the head down and diving for frees, some lads feigning injury or diving to get lads sent off. And no-one plays with a regulation hurl, we can't even get something as basic as equipment right. An inter-county match is now as festival of cheating and entertainment.

Competition structures are a joke. The league is about to be changed yet again. The championship is lob-sided, and has the impractical situation of throwing in the second tier team into the competition to be slaughtered, and has 5 total pure competitive knockout games (I wouldn't count the massacres that are the preliminary).

Beyond Munster is disappointment, between development structure and investment in the game. With Kilkenny on the decline, I could conceivably see no Leinster team (including Galway) winning the AI for the 20 years.

As for the media side of things, its' a ****!ng joke. Sunday Game panellists reduce everything to puckout strategy or playing the percentages, gloss over various major incidents and have twice as much talking than highlights of a game shown earlier in the day when games no-one has seen are given 30 seconds of viewing. Commentary team calling blatant throws great passing and not knowing the rules. And forget about promoting the game, the same lads bitching about GAAgo, has any of them mentioned the lack of promotion of games, media bans, etc? Course they haven't.

Hurling needs the GAA to survive, it doesn't have the character, smarts or self-honesty to survive on it's own.