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Great to hear Cavan have tabled a motion to Saturdays Central Council meeting requesting to reverse the decision to drop all pre season competitions, surely all players and management would be delighted with this as it would be ideal to adjust to any rule changes before NFL begins germac (Down) - Posts: 547 - 22/10/2024 22:14:43 2576470 Link 2 |
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Mckenna and O'Byrne and even Walsh got decent crowds. Lots of money for injured players fund. I used to love them. Dublin beating KK in Walsh final was biggest win in generation. BarneyGrant (Dublin) - Posts: 3040 - 22/10/2024 23:05:25 2576474 Link 0 |
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Connacht GAA said they will back that motion and if pre-season are to return the Connacht GAA should show a bit of common sense by moving all games out of 2,000 capacity air dome and play matches in county grounds that would attract 5 to 7,000 people plus they can continue to stream the games.
Drax_the_destroyer (UK) - Posts: 224 - 23/10/2024 00:01:38 2576479 Link 1 |
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Sensible proposal to reinstate the competitions. Not least due to teams not having to enter the league 'cold'in terms of new rules , players etc Bainisteoir (National) - Posts: 557 - 23/10/2024 07:33:39 2576488 Link 0 |
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Agree 100%. And it was great to get to grounds like Mountrath, Callan etc that you'd likely never go to otherwise. There have even been Byrne Cup games fixed for our grounds. Biggest crowd in Wexford Park the last couple of years was a Walsh Cup semi final against Kilkenny also. Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 13606 - 23/10/2024 08:05:09 2576494 Link 0 |
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Always loved it as well. We managed to win loads of them and it was a great opportunity to develop fringe players since the league became more competitive
Doylerwex (Wexford) - Posts: 3080 - 23/10/2024 08:23:31 2576497 Link 0 |
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o byrne cup should be retained
mickcunningham (Westmeath) - Posts: 1865 - 23/10/2024 10:50:12 2576518 Link 1 |
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If they are restored and they go on in the Dome again then Prenty is hypocrite of the year!
Seanfanbocht (Roscommon) - Posts: 1895 - 23/10/2024 10:53:36 2576519 Link 0 |
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The teams wouldn't be entering league cold they still play plenty of friendlies on top of these so called competitions
KillingFields (Limerick) - Posts: 3660 - 23/10/2024 12:22:00 2576534 Link 0 |
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2003 was year we beat Cats in final. First time Dublin had won it in 40 years! Shows you how bad things were but Parnell was jammed and great excitement. Cody even pretended afterwards that he was wary of us for the championship :-) Loved going as you say to Gorey and Enniscorthy and Abbeyleix and elsewhere. BarneyGrant (Dublin) - Posts: 3040 - 23/10/2024 13:10:25 2576545 Link 0 |