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How Do We Take Hurling On From Here

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Replying To BarneyGrant:  "You are either good enough or not. Sport should not be like quotas for "disadvantaged."

Whoever gets relegated is not good enough to even compete on same level as the champions of our greatest sport.

No way to remedy that outside of what teams do ro improve."
Yes fair but lets say Kildare stayed up and Wexford or Dublin or Offaly went down, what does that do for the promotion of the game?
We want hurling to thrive and grow, not remain some insular boys club where no outsiders need apply. Its that attitude that has the gap getting bigger, rather than helping these counties to thrive, grow and improve.

StoreysTash (Wexford) - Posts: 1998 - 20/04/2026 14:44:01    2667519

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Replying To StoreysTash:  "Yes fair but lets say Kildare stayed up and Wexford or Dublin or Offaly went down, what does that do for the promotion of the game?
We want hurling to thrive and grow, not remain some insular boys club where no outsiders need apply. Its that attitude that has the gap getting bigger, rather than helping these counties to thrive, grow and improve."
But sure if that happened it would mean that Wexford weren't putting the work in and Kildare are. It would mean that hurling isnt thriving in Wexford just as it wasn't in Offaly. Relegation actually got the hurling people of Offaly up off their backsides and back to promoting the game. It worked. There is still a lot to do but they are on the right track. As an elderly Offaly lady said triumphantly in O Connor Park last Saturday night( true story)" its a great day. The strait of Horuz is open and Offaly are Back!

Tadhg2020 (Limerick) - Posts: 224 - 20/04/2026 17:49:25    2667564

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Maybe we should ask Kildare. Seems Naas spearheaded the recent successes of hurling there by developing the game at underage level. I seem to recall them participating in Kilkenny competions as well. Dublin raised their standards by entering combined colleges teams into Leinster school competitions back in the 90s if memory serves me right. Kildare now have the demographic so good on them getting a lot of the kids interested. Places like North Wickow have the schools populations now. Could be doing a Naas and getting schools & colleges along the east coast to compete together regularly might work. Dublin/Wicklow/Wexford etc

Maroonatic (Galway) - Posts: 1074 - 24/04/2026 11:08:07    2668309

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Replying To Tadhg2020:  "But sure if that happened it would mean that Wexford weren't putting the work in and Kildare are. It would mean that hurling isnt thriving in Wexford just as it wasn't in Offaly. Relegation actually got the hurling people of Offaly up off their backsides and back to promoting the game. It worked. There is still a lot to do but they are on the right track. As an elderly Offaly lady said triumphantly in O Connor Park last Saturday night( true story)" its a great day. The strait of Horuz is open and Offaly are Back!"
And why should those same questions not be asked of Waterford for example? Why is relegation OK for Kildare or Offaly or whoever?
Its not beyond the living memory of nearly every poster on here a time when Limerick, Clare and Waterford were laughing stocks at various stages. Why do they deserve special treatment? ]

ExiledInWex (Dublin) - Posts: 1628 - 24/04/2026 11:18:38    2668312

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