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I was listening to the up roar about the Wicklow champions being forced to play 2 games in 24 hours. The Wicklow county board seemed to blame the delay on facilitating dual players in previous rounds. Mayonman (Galway) - Posts: 1826 - 31/10/2018 12:26:20 2148854 Link 1 |
The onus has to be on the county board to facilitate its clubs/players in meaningful competition. Clubs/players are not governed by two separate sporting bodies they are one and the same body. If the county board cannot organise competitions to accommodate the games they are responsible for then the problem is the county board. Time for a change of personnel who are better organised and with people who have a better understanding of the county boards responsibilities. arock (Dublin) - Posts: 4895 - 31/10/2018 13:12:36 2148861 Link 0 |
In a county like Wexford they are not the minority. StoreysTash (Wexford) - Posts: 1732 - 31/10/2018 13:57:39 2148873 Link 0 |
Dual players at club level would be a large proportion in many counties. From my own club's point of view, our football and hurling teams are almost the exact same lads.
WanPintWin (Galway) - Posts: 2037 - 31/10/2018 14:09:44 2148879 Link 0 |
same for us
perfect10 (Wexford) - Posts: 3929 - 31/10/2018 16:11:31 2148906 Link 0 |
Fair point. I presume in some areas the hurlers and footballers also make up the local rugby or soccer teams also. For these small parishes they don't have much choice but to use the same players to keep the club alive. To be honest I hadn't thought of this before posting. That's a bigger question for the GAA to address and out of my pay grade! Mayonman (Galway) - Posts: 1826 - 01/11/2018 10:38:41 2148993 Link 0 |
Yeah, down here it's not dual players it's dual clubs. Dublin and the example of kilmacud or ballyboden where they have very few crossover players is very much the exception....the majority of clubs would have football and hurling teams made up from the same players and singular code players would be more of a minority
tipp11 (Tipperary) - Posts: 353 - 01/11/2018 11:48:39 2149019 Link 0 |
Do Kilmacud Crokes players have to choose hurling or football? StoreysTash (Wexford) - Posts: 1732 - 01/11/2018 16:29:03 2149123 Link 0 |
No....It's just there pick of players is so huge that they are pretty much 2 seperate club or at least that's how I take it. I'm sure players would play both but not with the 1st teams, 1st team hurlers might play football with 2nd or 3rd teams but I'm only guessing that
tipp11 (Tipperary) - Posts: 353 - 02/11/2018 10:28:04 2149229 Link 0 |
Most GAA Players do not try to play both hurling and football at a serious level. There are some places as in wexford and offaly where they do and there are exceptions everywhere. Ashrules (Dublin) - Posts: 518 - 02/11/2018 11:09:58 2149240 Link 0 |
In Wexford there are 12 teams in senior in both hurling and football. 890202 (Wexford) - Posts: 1278 - 02/11/2018 12:09:43 2149251 Link 0 |