Reid expects League to have 'more of an edge'
February 01, 2024
Limerick hurler Diarmaid Byrnes, Kilkenny hurler Richie Reid, Galway footballer Damien Comer and Mayo footballer Cillian O'Connor at the launch of the 2024 Allianz Football & Hurling Leagues. ©INPHO/Dan Sheridan.
Richie Reid expects this year’s Allianz Hurling League to be more competitive than usual owing to the fact that it will decide placings for next year’s revamped competition.
The top three from this year’s Division 1A and 1B will qualify for Division 1A in 2025 along with the winners of a play-off between the two fourth-placed teams. In 2025, the two teams that finish bottom of Division 1A will be replaced by the top two teams in Division 1B, which will also feature seven teams.
“Certainly, there will be more of an edge,” the Ballyhale Shamrocks clubman said at the 2024 Allianz Hurling League launch.
“Derek (Lyng) has said to us that we are taking the league very seriously. Throughout the training we were without Tullogher lads and Thomastown lads, so it has been hard training wise.
“You are waiting for those lads to come back. I think we were waiting on 12 lads to come. In the past week we've only got the numbers back, lads are coming in and out of the panel when you have the Fitzgibbon on too.
“So, it has been hard, but we have plenty of numbers in training, and we are just looking forward to the league, to try to get some of the new faces, who have come in, to get a position on the team.”
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