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16 teams in senior hurling is far too many and would lead to a lot of very one sided games. More of an argument for it for football. Onfor15 (Wexford) - Posts: 516 - 05/12/2023 16:09:35 2515629 Link 0 |
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Seen the team of club championship released, I posted a team myself after the championship and 10 I named picked in the official team, changes I included Mike Kelly,Niall Murphy, Aodhan Doyle, Jack Reck and Rory O'Connor and didn't include Paidi Casey, Eoin Molloy, Chin, Podge Doran and Padraig Doyle. Think particularly Kelly and O'Connor are unlucky while Niall Murphy was defiant for Ferns when they lost to Oilgate in the quarter final. TerribleFootwork (Wexford) - Posts: 1287 - 05/12/2023 17:42:41 2515641 Link 0 |
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12 is OK as I said. But this year in Intermediate there was nothing between the 4 semifinalists. Cloughbawn were lucky to beat Fethard who most people around me thought were the better team on the day, and Jimmys were unlucky not to beat them in normal time in the final, while Jimmys probably used their luck up in the semifinal when beating Taghmon after extra time. When you bear in mind that Cloughbawn were unlucky to be in a Senior relegation final at all last year having got 4 points in their group, you would have to wonder just how big is the gap between some of the weaker Senior teams and the better Intermediate ones.
Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 10245 - 05/12/2023 20:31:20 2515658 Link 0 |
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The main reason I'd be for 16 teams would be it would mean 80 or 100 players would get the chance to play directly on better opponents, which should improve their standard of hurling. As regards football there seemed a fair gap between the top 3 or 4 teams and the rest tbh. Castletown and Shels were nearly everybody's favourites to win it before the Football championship started, with a few thinking Kilanerin might win it. In Intermediate Gorey seemed a good bit better than everyone else, though Adamstown and the Martins also had their moments. The hurling was far more competitive. Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 10245 - 05/12/2023 20:35:46 2515659 Link 0 |
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I'd leave it at 12 myself. Think it would leave the intermediate championship very poor otherwise. Keeps everything more competitive and meaningful at both levels. Could create a bigger gap between teams coming up and those already in senior. Could end up with a few more clubs up senior adding nothing and probably not developing too much by just trying to do enough to stay up and stagnating a bit. Nearly getting a false sense of where they're at. Instead having the 12 team championship where there's more competition and teams are better equipped going up. 8 teams being suggested is definitely way too low. I think where the standard of our club game is, 12 is probably fair enough. We definitely don't have enough to have 16 and still have a good standard intermediate championship that'll prepare teams for going up and will only create bigger gap between the two grades. It's good having maybe 3 or 4 teams next year that could've done OK in senior, if we put those teams like Fethard, Taghmon etc up senior as well, it's a slack enough standard for the rest playing each other in intermediate and doesn't really bring up standard putting anyone half decent up senior. End up with some kind of junior and a half level Championship.
Throughthemidfieldhewasstormin (Wexford) - Posts: 224 - 07/12/2023 20:47:57 2515923 Link 0 |