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Replying To Gearoid1998ffowaed: "When are the Senior Relegation Semi Finals on?" Saturday and Sunday respectively katser (Galway) - Posts: 2430 - 17/09/2024 19:18:21 2570461 Link
Replying To Alwaysencourage: "Honestly most clubs are looking just to win a county final and not beyond that.The more hurling and games teams get the better.Most of these lads have been training since early in the year and at least preliminary Q/F give them an extra game.We don't have provincial club like football clubs so we afford to have extra weekend playing hurling in Galway." But honestly my point is the Preliminary Quarter Finals are a waste of time because whoever finishes 3rd in their group most certainly isn't going to win the County Final. So they get the extra game of a Preliminary Quarter Final where the success rate of a 3rd group placed team winning is almost 0%. katser (Galway) - Posts: 2430 - 17/09/2024 19:27:29 2570463 Link
Replying To katser: "Ok so the famous Preliminary Quarter Finals are on this weekend in both Senior and Intermediate. Cappataggle v Killimordaly...................Cappy Clarinbridge v Ardrahan.......................'Bridge St.Thomas' v Craughwell.......................Thomas' Castlegar v Kilconieron..........................Cashel Senior Relegation Semi Finals Mullagh v Moycullen.........................Mullagh Gort v Oranmore-Maree...................Gort Intermediate Preliminary Quarter Finals Apart from Killimor all the other games is anybodies guess because none of them will go further than Quarter Final!! Killimor v Craughwell.......................Killimor 20pts Ballygar v Turloughmore.....? Clarinbridge v Rahoon-Newcastle? Sylane v Abbeyknockmoy?" Preliminary Quarter Finals: Cappataggle v Killimordaly...................Cappy Clarinbridge v Ardrahan.......................'Bridge St.Thomas' v Craughwell.......................Thomas' Castlegar v Kilconieron..........................Cashel Senior Relegation Semi Finals: Mullagh v Moycullen.........................Mullagh Gort v Oranmore-Maree...................Gort Intermediate Preliminary Quarter Finals Apart from Killimor all the other games is anybodies guess because none of them will go further than Quarter Final!! Killimor v Craughwell..................….....Killimor Ballygar v Turloughmore...…………….Ballygar Clarinbridge v Rahoon-Newcastle….Rahoon Sylane v Abbeyknockmoy………………Sylane ***I agreed with all your picks above but the Gort match is very iffy. Will Johnathan Glynn be back for Ardrahan? Trump2020 (Galway)** - Posts: 2218 - 18/09/2024 17:32:02 2570615 Link
Replying To Trump2020: "Preliminary Quarter Finals: Cappataggle v Killimordaly...................Cappy Clarinbridge v Ardrahan.......................'Bridge St.Thomas' v Craughwell.......................Thomas' Castlegar v Kilconieron..........................Cashel Senior Relegation Semi Finals: Mullagh v Moycullen.........................Mullagh Gort v Oranmore-Maree...................Gort Intermediate Preliminary Quarter Finals Apart from Killimor all the other games is anybodies guess because none of them will go further than Quarter Final!! Killimor v Craughwell..................….....Killimor Ballygar v Turloughmore...…………….Ballygar Clarinbridge v Rahoon-Newcastle….Rahoon Sylane v Abbeyknockmoy………………Sylane ***I agreed with all your picks above but the Gort match is very iffy. Will Johnathan Glynn be back for Ardrahan?" "Preliminary Quarter Finals: Cappataggle v Killimordaly...................Killimorday Clarinbridge v Ardrahan.......................'Bridge St.Thomas' v Craughwell.......................Thomas' Castlegar v Kilconieron..........................Cashel Senior Relegation Semi Finals: Mullagh v Moycullen.........................Muoycullen Gort v Oranmore-Maree...................Oranmore Intermediate Preliminary Quarter Finals Killimor v Craughwell..................….....Killimor Ballygar v Turloughmore...…………….Ballygar Clarinbridge v Rahoon-Newcastle….Bridge Sylane v Abbeyknockmoy………………Sylane Green&Gold2013 (Galway)** - Posts: 2 - 19/09/2024 02:25:55 2570653 Link
Replying To katser: "Killimor finished 2nd in their group. They will be in the Quarter Final. In the Quarter Finals Meelick-Eyrecourt, Tynagh-Abbey/Duniry, Kinvara and Carnmore are all seeded (Group winners) I wouldn't fancy Killimor v Meelick-Eyrecourt or TAD but I would give them a 50/50 chance v Kinvara or Carnmore." For a few different reasons I'd like to see Kinvara win it out, but wouldn't be unhappy to see TAD win it either. Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 13342 - 19/09/2024 07:14:59 2570658 Link
I expect Clarinbridge to come through Ardrahan but they are under awful pressure in this game. Would be a disaster for them to go out in a preliminary quarter final. Didn't get going at all against Loughrea. They really need Shane Ryan and Aaron Niland in soon. Ardrahan will give them plenty with Glynn and Kennedy back. Thomas' haven't played a stitch of hurling yet in the championship and I'm not a believer that they will just turn it on. Disciplinary issues in every game for them so far. They will beat a poor Craughwell side but a quarter final is likely as far as they will go considering they will play either Turlough, Sarsfields or Loughrea. The other two are hard to call. Cappy have looked decent in spurts but they are very reliant on Niall Collins. I'll back them to beat Kilimordaly just about. Cashel haven't played well since the Oranmore game and shouldn't have got through really. I think Kilconieron can take them out here. They are strong enough in the backs to hold up Farragher, Thomas and Connolly and keep it a low scoring game. Whoever wins this is probably the weakest quarter finalist. I'd be very surprised if Oranmore don't beat Gort. Too much quality on the field. Moycullen Mullagh is a toss up. Conor Dolphin might be good enough to swing it towards Mullagh. Kilimor are the only dangerous team in those intermediate games this weekend although I suspect it's inevitable that TAD are going to finally win it this year and probably win it fairly comfortably. galway19 (Galway) - Posts: 764 - 19/09/2024 10:05:44 2570688 Link
Replying To katser: "But honestly my point is the Preliminary Quarter Finals are a waste of time because whoever finishes 3rd in their group most certainly isn't going to win the County Final. So they get the extra game of a Preliminary Quarter Final where the success rate of a 3rd group placed team winning is almost 0%." Same as saying the new style champions league is a waste of time, because 36 sides don't have a chance of winning it, nor do 16 or more of the 24 qualifiers. You'll still have 4 full houses in Celtic Park in the coming months, and at many other venues as well, and 3 or 4 TV channels discussing Celtic's qualification odds for the next three months. It's a silly point you make, that teams who won't win the county final are wasting their time playing games in the competition. The vast majority of teams, in all sports worldwide, play their games without winning the competitions they're competing in. Pope_Benedict (Galway) - Posts: 3830 - 19/09/2024 13:48:37 2570752 Link