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Given it is almost unheard of now to have dual players on county teams su h is the commitment . I wonder what counties people think are in the top 10 of dual counties Blackbog (Carlow) - Posts: 713 - 17/04/2019 13:27:32 2179282 Link 0 |
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A good thread. I'm not sure if I'd have Offaly above Westmeath going on the league? You're very generous to your own Carlow also. 1) Galway 2) Dublin 3) Clare 4) Cork 5) Tipp 6) Wexford 7/8) Westmeath/Laois (at a very similar level) 9) Kerry 10) Offaly Very sad seeing Offaly at 10 but they will rise again. Matthew (None) - Posts: 1036 - 17/04/2019 14:24:08 2179287 Link 0 |
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Well, if you use the most recent Hoganstand provided rankings and add the hurling and football rankings together as a measure you get the following overall ranking: Dublin Galway Kerry Clare Cork Meath Mayo Westmeath Laois Tipp Tyrone Roscommon Waterford Kildare Limerick Donegal Armagh Monaghan Wexford Carlow Offaly Derry Down Antrim Cavan Fermanagh Wicklow Louth Longford Sligo Leitrim London This is an unsatisfactory way of determining overall rank due to i) the original rankings being subjective and ii) not taking into account big drop offs between slots (e.g. Tipp are ranked 9th in hurling (somehow) and Laois are 10th etc.). I'd say its more like: Galway Dublin Clare Cork Tipp Kerry Westmeath Laois Wexford Carlow Offaly ... Kurt_Angle (Dublin) - Posts: 567 - 17/04/2019 16:05:15 2179308 Link 1 |
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Well done young man and fair play to you for coming up with that system for working it out. It's a comprehensive way of sorting it out I can't imagine anyone can argue with your formula. Themall1916 (Kerry) - Posts: 98 - 17/04/2019 18:01:02 2179337 Link 2 |
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Pity used to be great to see players compete at both levels but practically impossible 4 players to give that commitment to both Drums4Inter (Meath) - Posts: 9 - 18/04/2019 22:04:20 2179508 Link 0 |
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Per head of population in 2019 1 Laois 2 Westmeath 3 Carlow 4 Offaly 5 Clare 6Kerry 7Galway 8 Tipperary 9Wexford 10Roscommom jobber (Westmeath) - Posts: 1603 - 20/04/2019 09:22:14 2179638 Link 1 |
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Its Limerick number 1 all day long. bloodyban (Limerick) - Posts: 1710 - 20/04/2019 22:35:19 2179692 Link 0 |
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Dublin not better in this stupid made up dual comparison with gaa and thugby? Best football team there's been arguably and undoubtedly the best rugby team the islands had, constantly handing Munster their arses and obviously much more successful in terms of trophies won. (obviously apart from that friendly match Munster won years ago against new zealand)
tipp11 (Tipperary) - Posts: 353 - 21/04/2019 13:08:23 2179735 Link 1 |
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From memory 19 counties won all Ireland football and 13 have won the hurling cup. The follow have won both: Cork Tipp Limerick Kerry (yes Kerry) Galway Dublin Wexford Offaly In ulster we played a different brand of hurling so when the hurling rules were adopted by the gaa the southern rules prevailed Bernardo (Monaghan) - Posts: 600 - 29/04/2019 21:51:33 2180928 Link 0 |
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With a population of 190,000 we provided 5 out of 42 B and I Lions, about ten years ago, a panel drawn from a population of almost 70 million. Limerick had one in every 420 people in Ireland and Britain and had just shy of 1 in 8 players in that trip. There was 12 from the entire island that year. Dublin have won six Hurling All Irelands, but not a single Dublin born player was on any of those teams.
Oldtourman (Limerick) - Posts: 4467 - 29/04/2019 22:09:44 2180931 Link 0 |
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It is difficult, but some players are willing to make the commitment until usually the manager of the dominant sport in the county make them choose. Also i believe some county boards are making lads choose one sport or the other at minor level now. county man (Limerick) - Posts: 1117 - 06/05/2019 23:32:22 2182208 Link 0 |