"Next year, there will be five hurling Championship games in July and August, but 19 in football. so hurling will really be under pressure of course some on this site are more interested in dissing rugby rather than hurling

http://www.independent.ie/sport/gaelic-games/hurling/hurling-will-be-consigned-to-the-shadows-ger-loughnane-concerned-by-super-eight-ramifications-35486153.html

as explained in other threads the problem gaa has down here compared to rugby is that there are more big musnter games and big club games than gaa, so the kids see more murray earls kilcoyne than neville cian lynch dempsey ,

is a super 8 or maybe better still a super 10 worth a look for hurling - coz next year july and august will be football football football with the majority of us looking in from the outside - i think myself the super 8 is great idea -but am i right to be concerned that hurling could be left behind a bit?

janesboro (Limerick) - Posts: 1502 - 03/03/2017 12:02:55    1963126

Hurling will have to be looked at now in terms of the structures.

There will be top class football games throughout July and August. 12 in the super 8s and then the semi-finals and final. In comparison hurling will only have 2 quarters, 2 semis and the final around the same time. Not sure when the Munster/Leinster Finals will be played with the condensed season.

MesAmis (Dublin) - Posts: 13707 - 03/03/2017 12:34:59    1963144

Will it survive Yes , will it thrive No , will it grow No
Does HQ give a shi7 No

Damothedub (Dublin) - Posts: 5193 - 03/03/2017 13:08:51    1963153

tearintom (Wexford) - Posts: 1337 - 03/03/2017 14:05:28    1963172

See Dick Clerkins tweet during the week, telling the "arrogant holier than thou Hurling brigade to stop their whinging" !!!!

A boy Dick!

Liamwalkinstown (Dublin) - Posts: 8166 - 03/03/2017 14:13:26    1963174

It is one of histories ironies that a game like hurling, which is most associated with our history and culture, often plays second fiddle to a game invented in 1885 by Davin and Cusack.

TheHermit (Kerry) - Posts: 6354 - 03/03/2017 14:15:04    1963177

Hurling is our national sport - not that mickey mouse football. It is treated disgracefully by the GAA.

bad.monkey (USA) - Posts: 4624 - 03/03/2017 14:39:14    1963189

Hurling's problem isn't football. It is hurling. The game has, at intercounty level, descended into a farce. The skills that made the game great (pulling on the ground and over head, the clash of the ash at the start, blocking) have been replaced with constant rucks, arm-pulling, uncontested puck-out strategies, basketball rate scoring etc). This is of course evolution. Football has evolved tactically too. To me, football is now the better spectacle. I don't like super 8 but would rather watch more football than hurling. I think the current intercounty championship in hurling should have less games. A personal opinion of course. I won't attend or go to any more games anyway. I still love club hurling in Cork (regardless of our standard) and I get my fix there.

bennybunny (Cork) - Posts: 3917 - 03/03/2017 14:53:11    1963192

I'm a football man, only ever played it. Have watched next to no hurling live in my life.

Even I appreciate it's the better sport and it is a shame the lack of regard the powers that be give it.

The hurling championship needs a proper revamp and it's probably 30 years overdue.

There's great potential in hurling to get good crowds out to a proper hurling league that is the All Ireland championship.

It would have made the integration of Antrim and Galway hurling all the easier. Who knows that may have helped the spread of the game into the rest of Ulster and Connacht.

Instead the pissed around and tinkered at the seams so that now there's a bloody Frankenstein's monster of a Leinster championship which could have teams from every province and London playing in it.

Hurling has way more potential to be promoted outside Ireland than football. It won't be with the current system in place.

Whammo86 (Antrim) - Posts: 4225 - 03/03/2017 15:01:51    1963196

janesboro (Limerick) - Posts: 1502 - 03/03/2017 15:09:20    1963203

What qualifies Hurling over football to be our "national game"?

The figures playing/attending the respective games do not atall back this up.
In fact nothing actually backs this up except for Marty and Liam Griffin ramming down our throats every first Sunday in September
People say its been played for hundreds of years etc etc....as it has. In totally different guises!
As has football. The stories of two different parishes meeting up at a half way point and basically kicking a "football" of sorts are just as ancient and storied.

I am not anti hurling, far from it. I love a good game of hurling.
I do however, hate the attitude of "hurling people" towards football and this snobbish down their nose BS they go on with when it comes to the game of Gaelic Football.

They have nothing to back it up (especially in recent years) other than their own OTT inflated egos and opinions of themselves.

Liamwalkinstown (Dublin) - Posts: 8166 - 03/03/2017 15:14:18    1963206

Damothedub (Dublin) - Posts: 5193 - 03/03/2017 16:15:16    1963225

Our National Game
A pointless title , empty chalice
Who actually gives a fuc7 , when your sitting in HQ for either game tomorrow or both how far from your mind is that title ,
Feel free to argue over it

Damothedub (Dublin) - Posts: 5193 - 03/03/2017 16:17:30    1963228

They could put on 500 football matches a year and I'd still rather watch a Junior B hurling match!
I watch about 3 football matches a year,semi finals and final. Beyond that, I have little or no interest.

Pinkie (Wexford) - Posts: 4100 - 03/03/2017 16:26:15    1963234

Please dont turn this thread into another which is better?...hurling or football. Hurling of course..kidding.

I have heard some rather interesting comments during the week from GAA heads, saying things like ' if hurling people think there is need for change then come to the table with suggestions'. This reference to hurling people is a bit condescending IMO. Its seems as if the GAA now stands for everything that can possibly be done to make Football (a few counties) centre stage and then refer to hurling people as if they are some type of subclass to the superclass that is football. There wont be time in the middle of July and August for a super 8 in hurling. It will add even more pressure and chaos to the fixture list. So summing up, the GAA heads did not consider for a second what impact the super 8 would have on hurling and have little appetite for having something similar for hurling. The whole thing is a farce ran by dicks n clerks' and the likes.

ZUL10 (Clare) - Posts: 693 - 03/03/2017 16:34:20    1963235

Zulu the contradictions and hypocrisy in your post are gas

The sheer use of the phrase "hurling people" does exactly what u claim to rail against ffs!!

Liamwalkinstown (Dublin) - Posts: 8166 - 03/03/2017 16:54:06    1963241

Im a GAA person Liam. Not one of the 'hurling people' as you referred to earlier. I come from a dual county that loves both codes.

ZUL10 (Clare) - Posts: 693 - 03/03/2017 17:09:44    1963246

Marlon_JD (Tipperary) - Posts: 1823 - 03/03/2017 18:08:40    1963260

Love football , love hurling , can't stand those that claim the same just before launching a tirade on one of the codes , there are people who have a code inferiority complex , there easy to spot they will tell you how much they like a code before tearing it to pieces , up the real dualers

Damothedub (Dublin) - Posts: 5193 - 03/03/2017 18:09:58    1963261

PoolSturgeon (Galway) - Posts: 1903 - 03/03/2017 18:46:17    1963267