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is the withdrawl of louth and kildare the death keel of the byrne cup? the gaa had propossed doing away with it , is this their excuse? Stmunnsriver (Wexford) - Posts: 2842 - 10/01/2023 19:57:08 2451959 Link 0 |
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No. The preseason competitions serve a purpose.
legendzxix (Kerry) - Posts: 7843 - 10/01/2023 20:36:20 2451961 Link 3 |
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Kildare and Louth should be expelled from it
Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 11848 - 10/01/2023 20:41:53 2451963 Link 3 |
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Bit of an overreaction, plenty of times an all Ireland finalist from the previous year has either pulled out or fielded a development team due to team holiday in pre season competitions, it will all forgotten about by the weekend when some other controversy has people talking.
TerribleFootwork (Wexford) - Posts: 1716 - 10/01/2023 20:43:40 2451964 Link 1 |
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Get rid of these competitions and start the league in mid January. This way it will give an additional 2 weekends for County football and keep Spillane happy Jack L (None) - Posts: 3099 - 11/01/2023 08:27:06 2451972 Link 2 |
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Could be alright. The decision by both Louth and Kildare flies in the face of what this competition is all about. It was meant to allow counties to try out new players in an Inter County level competition. I think it is very disrespectful of both the competition and the opposing counties who may have welcomed the game to try out new players at that level. To say that a team cannot field is just ridiculous. Play your U21 team or your Junior team if you have to but fulfil your obligation to the competition and the opposition.
Meridian (Westmeath) - Posts: 601 - 11/01/2023 09:25:32 2451977 Link 4 |
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- - - - I'm all right Jack and all that, the decision to pull out of the competition shows there is little respect and no honour for the counties that use it to team build etc. supersub15 (Carlow) - Posts: 2907 - 11/01/2023 09:51:12 2451988 Link 2 |
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Louth are in the final!!!!
Magpie2 (Wexford) - Posts: 271 - 11/01/2023 10:01:37 2451990 Link 0 |
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Louth are through to a semi-final, not the final. If there was the threat of expulsion for giving a walkover, they'd surely have sent down some sort of a team. Kildare were already out of the competition anyway. Expulsion would make no difference to them, unless it was carried over so that they weren't allowed to enter next year. Pikeman96 (Wexford) - Posts: 2247 - 11/01/2023 11:01:06 2452003 Link 1 |
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Yes they are taking the xxxx. They should be thrown out.
Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 11848 - 11/01/2023 11:06:16 2452004 Link 2 |
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Get rid of the competitors but don't move League start. Counties will play Friendlies sin this rime anyway
KillingFields (Limerick) - Posts: 3510 - 11/01/2023 11:50:22 2452016 Link 0 |
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Maybe you'll actually explain this one this time? What's the difference?
oneoff (UK) - Posts: 1380 - 11/01/2023 12:27:28 2452020 Link 0 |
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A nice juice fine would sort that out... Square_B (Leitrim) - Posts: 844 - 11/01/2023 12:52:57 2452025 Link 2 |
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O'Byrne cup is effectively a set of centralised pre-season friendlies with just enough competition history and credibility to ensure that a good chunk of those involved take it seriously enough to want to win it. Most stars of today in Leinster got their start in an experimental line-out in an O'Byrne Cup game. It serves a purpose. Dismantling it and throwing the playing of friendlies to the county boards to manage arbitrarily, is not progress, certainly not for my county! I don't think we should declare an existential crisis just yet. Leinster council need to sit a couple of counties down and do some hard talking about responsibility, even for dead-rubber games!
LongfordgaaAbú (Longford) - Posts: 471 - 11/01/2023 13:01:17 2452028 Link 3 |
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agreed. don't enter if you don't want to play. but if you enter you should show the respect to the competition organisers to play your games even if they are dead rubbers. at the end of the day they are decent pre season friendlies Mayonman (Galway) - Posts: 1829 - 11/01/2023 13:23:24 2452036 Link 3 |
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It's a pre-season competition and if you enter in it, you're should be obliged to fulfill all fixtures except of course in exceptional circumstances. I get it that it's windy and wet and you might have nothing to play for, but surely it's a great opportunity to try out players. Teams pulling out goes against the ethos of what the GAA stands for. Participation is a key part of what the GAA is, so it's not a great look that teams are coming up with petty excuses. hyperache (Meath) - Posts: 200 - 11/01/2023 14:05:28 2452045 Link 3 |
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Maybe it should change to a straight open draw knock out competition where all teams get a game and then depending on the luck of the draw maybe get a few games.At the moment as doon as teams lose they withdraw citing all sorts of excuses.As the late Great Paudi O'Shea (RIP) called the O Byrne cup "a chance to blow out the dirty petrol"!!-maybe it should be kept going but teams have to respect it whatever form it takes. Bruno@1 (Westmeath) - Posts: 165 - 11/01/2023 14:17:47 2452047 Link 1 |
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It was run as a straight knock-out up to about ten years ago. The group format where everybody gets (or is supposed to get!) two or three games makes it more useful for preparing for the League and giving new faces or fringe players a run out. Like somebody else above, it's far preferable to me than just leaving it up to counties to arrange challenge matches between themselves. Pikeman96 (Wexford) - Posts: 2247 - 11/01/2023 14:24:30 2452048 Link 1 |
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These are friendlies. A meaningless cup doesn't change that.
TheFlaker (Mayo) - Posts: 7893 - 11/01/2023 14:27:42 2452053 Link 0 |
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Mismatches and withdrawals are common for pre season competitions this time of year. Every team is in a different phase of training in preparation for peaking at different points in the season. MrPBoylan (Monaghan) - Posts: 111 - 11/01/2023 14:35:46 2452058 Link 0 |