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Is there still Interprovincial hurling I did search but found nothing Goodstrike (Dublin) - Posts: 9 - 19/10/2024 19:11:45 2575858 Link 0 |
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Nah the railway cup was discontinued a few years back over player welfare. Although football is happening this year to test rules. The hurling is kind of a mismatch anyway. Unfortunately the levels in the north and the west are nowhere near Leinster or Munster which is a shame. Doylerwex (Wexford) - Posts: 3118 - 20/10/2024 06:48:52 2575903 Link 0 |
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Used to be a great chance for the odd hurler from a weaker county to get some recognition liam500 (Wicklow) - Posts: 185 - 20/10/2024 12:36:36 2575948 Link 2 |
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Absolutely, Derry, down, Carlow, laois etc. Would always produce a few hurlers and that was a big stage for them. I said it before it was important for Wexford lads when things weren't going well that they'd get in the starting 15 full of hotys from Kilkenny. Doylerwex (Wexford) - Posts: 3118 - 21/10/2024 09:05:25 2576089 Link 0 |
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This plus the original All-Star selection system helped promote the sport in areas of less prominence. An All-Star used to be a player who displayed excellence in a given position over the whole year in all competitions. Now it is selected from performances in finals only and trophy winners. Talking from both sides of the mouth about promotion of our games in weaker counties. Recently Pierce Whyte for his club Killrosanty gave a display of fielding,kicking and scoring but while doing the same at inter county never even got a nomination. The same is true for great hurlers from the lesser counties. The best fullback is the best fullback and not the one who plays corner back but given the position on the All-Star team to fit him in. It is a charade anymore. Canuck (Waterford) - Posts: 2866 - 27/10/2024 16:01:05 2577163 Link 1 |
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The railway cup final use to be bigger than the All Ireland in terms of popularity as it was almost impossible to see the star players of the day before television............it might make a comeback considering the sport on TV now!! WEX98 (Wexford) - Posts: 473 - 28/10/2024 19:04:58 2577376 Link 0 |
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it should be brought back and promoted, now that theirs no intercounty from july until january why not!!!it was a great thing to see and prove some players from weaker counties get to play with the best and show that they able to hold their own. A leinster team now would be interesting to one compared of around 20 years ago when by far most were kilkenny. you could possibly have 7 or more counties in leinster with players now capable of getting on it. as far as i know brendan murtagh has two railway medals and jobber mcgrath in the 50s also from westmeath has two so it something to be proud of for a smaller county to have. preddan (Kildare) - Posts: 757 - 07/11/2024 20:04:54 2578854 Link 1 |
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The All-Stars are just an imitation of the Oscars. And - an All-star award is either the icing on the cake for a player if they have won the All-Ireland, or simply a consolation prize for those who haven't. At the end of the day the only award that really matters is an All-Ireland medal. End of story. bruffgael (Limerick) - Posts: 200 - 12/11/2024 22:21:46 2579434 Link 0 |
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Ammm.....the reason why not is that there are club championships from July to January instead. Only way you could run an inter-provincial competition during that time would be by picking teams made up of players whose clubs had already gone out of their championships. That wouldn't leave you a huge pool until at least October. And how attractive do you think inter-provincials in November would be to spectators, or to top inter-county players during the only thing that currently passes as any sort of a few weeks off in the entire year? Pikeman96 (Wexford) - Posts: 2605 - 13/11/2024 00:45:09 2579445 Link 0 |