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should croke park not instruct counties to make equel amounts of funding available to both hurling and football in evey county , say donegal must offer hirling the same funding as their football team, same in every county , Stmunnsriver (Wexford) - Posts: 2842 - 22/04/2019 11:51:59 2179809 Link
Replying To Stmunnsriver: "should croke park not instruct counties to make equel amounts of funding available to both hurling and football in evey county , say donegal must offer hirling the same funding as their football team, same in every county ," Omg. Kilkenny spending as much on a handful of footballers as on thousands of hurlers!! Probably the right sentiments behind your post but sorry to say zero amount of reality. ponga (Mayo) - Posts: 649 - 22/04/2019 13:09:17 2179814 Link
Replying To Stmunnsriver: "should croke park not instruct counties to make equel amounts of funding available to both hurling and football in evey county , say donegal must offer hirling the same funding as their football team, same in every county ," The likes of Kilkenny, ur own Wexford Waterford even Clare treat hurling with contempt , was sitting beside a guy in ennis this year and he was giving me details of how hard it is for footballers in county, dual players are told to pick hurling only and no matter how good a footballer is he is always told to give it up and concentrate on hurling even if he is not great at it. Not saying it's any difference the other way around with football counties. But I have said before there should be two separate organizations for football and hurling, it won't happen but I think it should. royaldunne (Meath) - Posts: 19449 - 22/04/2019 14:43:05 2179820 Link
Replying To royaldunne: "The likes of Kilkenny, ur own Wexford Waterford even Clare treat hurling with contempt , was sitting beside a guy in ennis this year and he was giving me details of how hard it is for footballers in county, dual players are told to pick hurling only and no matter how good a footballer is he is always told to give it up and concentrate on hurling even if he is not great at it. Not saying it's any difference the other way around with football counties. But I have said before there should be two separate organizations for football and hurling, it won't happen but I think it should." Sorry obviously meant to say football not hurling. My auld brain is fissled royaldunne (Meath) - Posts: 19449 - 22/04/2019 16:22:49 2179825 Link
Replying To royaldunne: "The likes of Kilkenny, ur own Wexford Waterford even Clare treat hurling with contempt , was sitting beside a guy in ennis this year and he was giving me details of how hard it is for footballers in county, dual players are told to pick hurling only and no matter how good a footballer is he is always told to give it up and concentrate on hurling even if he is not great at it. Not saying it's any difference the other way around with football counties. But I have said before there should be two separate organizations for football and hurling, it won't happen but I think it should." u are correct but both games are funded 50/50 by co board, its private money thats driving hurling on now, its been funded by a couple of wealthy backes Stmunnsriver (Wexford) - Posts: 2842 - 22/04/2019 19:02:47 2179829 Link
Replying To Stmunnsriver: "should croke park not instruct counties to make equel amounts of funding available to both hurling and football in evey county , say donegal must offer hirling the same funding as their football team, same in every county ," GAA should be doing that, for instance how the GAA can tolerate say a GFC or a GHC is beyond their own rules and aspirations. Then for some to suggest we should have a separate GAA for Hurling and Football is utter madness. How could it even begin to work in duel counties and clubs - absolute silly suggestion. arock (Dublin) - Posts: 4896 - 22/04/2019 21:30:52 2179841 Link
Replying To Stmunnsriver: "u are correct but both games are funded 50/50 by co board, its private money thats driving hurling on now, its been funded by a couple of wealthy backes" Apart from McManus I didn't know there were more. royaldunne (Meath) - Posts: 19449 - 22/04/2019 21:31:16 2179842 Link
Replying To ponga: "Omg. Kilkenny spending as much on a handful of footballers as on thousands of hurlers!! Probably the right sentiments behind your post but sorry to say zero amount of reality." Ur probably reading it a bit too literally. Certainly the money spent on coaching and grass roots stuff should be 50/50. Eventually it would be 50/50 all the way through but in most counties one sport is dominating with loads of teams and the other has only a few teams so on an overall basis it would be hard to justify 50/50. But for example an U16 hurling team and football team in the same county should get the same funding/opportunity. That would not be too hard to implement. Anyway most county boards can hardly manage a fixture list never mind this kind if complicated stuff!! Mayonman (Galway) - Posts: 1829 - 23/04/2019 11:35:31 2179890 Link
Replying To royaldunne: "The likes of Kilkenny, ur own Wexford Waterford even Clare treat hurling with contempt , was sitting beside a guy in ennis this year and he was giving me details of how hard it is for footballers in county, dual players are told to pick hurling only and no matter how good a footballer is he is always told to give it up and concentrate on hurling even if he is not great at it. Not saying it's any difference the other way around with football counties. But I have said before there should be two separate organizations for football and hurling, it won't happen but I think it should." Complete rubbish!. ZUL10 (Clare) - Posts: 693 - 23/04/2019 21:57:45 2179997 Link
Replying To ZUL10: "Complete rubbish!." What exactly?? Elaborate. royaldunne (Meath) - Posts: 19449 - 23/04/2019 23:01:43 2180007 Link