Replying To Viking66:  "Don't think the Offaly game will be on tv.

We have loads of issues in our secondary schools. Lack of coaching contacts being the primary one outside of GCC. Lack of 15 on 15 in school games being another. Our 2nd best school currently, St Mary's CBS Enniscorthy dont even have any pitches of their own. Only have a smallish Astro. St Peters Board of Governors are totally disinterested in GAA, and the management there keep putting their younger teams in the B Championships, hardly good for development. They actually do no full length training sessions in schooltime, which is shocking when you consider its dark after school for half the school year. As regards us putting work into the schools the big problem is they dont want outside "interference ". The fact that one of the main GAA schools has a pathetic record in GAA in recent years doesn't seem to bother them at all. You'd feel sorry for Rory Jacob and others putting in all the time recruiting good young hurlers from national school when hes not allowed to coach them in schooltime, as happens in Counsel, or as happens in the Kilkenny, Tipp, Cork, Limerick, Clare, Galway etc schools. And you'd also feel sorry for the boys themselves, they've been sold a pup really.

As regards Saturday there were very few moments in the first 3/4s to get the crowd going. No impressive scores, no big catches, no big hits, no big defensive moments, a complete lack of intensity. It was so so disappointing that way."

Replying To Tadhg2020:  "I dont know the rules but Dublin have a north and south team so there is no reason why a county like Wexford cant have a North and South team too. It would probably be better given the amount of hurlers in the county."

Replying To Viking66:  "Don't think the Offaly game will be on tv.

We have loads of issues in our secondary schools. Lack of coaching contacts being the primary one outside of GCC. Lack of 15 on 15 in school games being another. Our 2nd best school currently, St Mary's CBS Enniscorthy dont even have any pitches of their own. Only have a smallish Astro. St Peters Board of Governors are totally disinterested in GAA, and the management there keep putting their younger teams in the B Championships, hardly good for development. They actually do no full length training sessions in schooltime, which is shocking when you consider its dark after school for half the school year. As regards us putting work into the schools the big problem is they dont want outside "interference ". The fact that one of the main GAA schools has a pathetic record in GAA in recent years doesn't seem to bother them at all. You'd feel sorry for Rory Jacob and others putting in all the time recruiting good young hurlers from national school when hes not allowed to coach them in schooltime, as happens in Counsel, or as happens in the Kilkenny, Tipp, Cork, Limerick, Clare, Galway etc schools. And you'd also feel sorry for the boys themselves, they've been sold a pup really.

As regards Saturday there were very few moments in the first 3/4s to get the crowd going. No impressive scores, no big catches, no big hits, no big defensive moments, a complete lack of intensity. It was so so disappointing that way."

Replying To Tadhg2020:  "I dont know the rules but Dublin have a north and south team so there is no reason why a county like Wexford cant have a North and South team too. It would probably be better given the amount of hurlers in the county."

Replying To ElGranSenor:  "I had heard a while back that Good Counsel do full training sessions at lunch and the teachers then stay back after school to teach those who might have missed out on a class when they were training, is that true?"

Replying To Viking66:  "Thats true, but Im not sure we would have the numbers for 2 teams, based on our development squads. Approximately 2/3rds of our hurling development squads attend the 3 schools who hurl in Leinster A anyway."

Replying To Viking66:  "Thats true, but Im not sure we would have the numbers for 2 teams, based on our development squads. Approximately 2/3rds of our hurling development squads attend the 3 schools who hurl in Leinster A anyway."