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I know that inter county Minor competitions next year will be U-17. But is it true that the under age CLUB competitions are going over to U-13,U-15 & U-17? Anyone on here able to fill us in? Moyle (Tipperary) - Posts: 86 - 13/09/2017 09:27:10 2045522 Link
Each county can change or not, depends on if its voted in at the county convention or not. I'd hope that every county would adopt under 17, 15,13 it's the way forward 890202 (Wexford) - Posts: 1278 - 13/09/2017 09:33:19 2045526 Link
As far as I know Kilkenny have adopted same as county thus their minor grade for club will be under 17 , but in Dublin no change that Im aware of club minor staying at under 18. Damothedub (Dublin) - Posts: 5193 - 13/09/2017 13:39:01 2045628 Link
The word is that nearly all Leinster and Connacht counties are going 11,13,15,17. Groundball (Wexford) - Posts: 122 - 13/09/2017 14:42:13 2045647 Link
Replying To Damothedub: "As far as I know Kilkenny have adopted same as county thus their minor grade for club will be under 17 , but in Dublin no change that Im aware of club minor staying at under 18." Ya,someone told me KK were changing to U-17 alright. Moyle (Tipperary) - Posts: 86 - 13/09/2017 14:45:54 2045650 Link
Replying To Moyle: "Ya,someone told me KK were changing to U-17 alright." I wonder are Kilkenny also changing to U17 in football? lilywhite1 (Kildare) - Posts: 2987 - 13/09/2017 17:26:38 2045719 Link
Heard motion to change under age groups was at deferred at Special Congress on Saturday with individual counties to do their own thing in the interim? Anyone have any news on this? Moyle (Tipperary) - Posts: 86 - 02/10/2017 10:32:49 2052308 Link
Replying To Moyle: "Heard motion to change under age groups was at deferred at Special Congress on Saturday with individual counties to do their own thing in the interim? Anyone have any news on this?" The motion for the Special Congress was deferred, and wouldn't have come into effect until 2019 anyway. One of the issues with the motion that came up with Galway clubs is that the lower age limit for u17, u15, u13 was the same as in the old lower limits for u18,, u16, u14 - that is that club u18 at present you could play u15 players, but the proposed limit for u17 was also u15s (rather than dropping a year also to allow u14s play) and so on, so it would have reduced the number of players eligible to play each grade which could really affect clubs that are already struggling for numbers. game.on.now.ger (Galway) - Posts: 423 - 02/10/2017 15:09:04 2052434 Link
Replying To game.on.now.ger: "The motion for the Special Congress was deferred, and wouldn't have come into effect until 2019 anyway. One of the issues with the motion that came up with Galway clubs is that the lower age limit for u17, u15, u13 was the same as in the old lower limits for u18,, u16, u14 - that is that club u18 at present you could play u15 players, but the proposed limit for u17 was also u15s (rather than dropping a year also to allow u14s play) and so on, so it would have reduced the number of players eligible to play each grade which could really affect clubs that are already struggling for numbers." Not really a good argument though. U14 probably shouldn't be playing U17. Physically there is a huge difference. Mayonman (Galway) - Posts: 1826 - 02/10/2017 15:34:31 2052447 Link
When is motion deferred to? Moyle (Tipperary) - Posts: 86 - 02/10/2017 18:11:49 2052519 Link