Replying To Viking66:  "Canuck the motion isn't about what way the Kilkenny CB are like at promoting adult football. It's about young lads getting the opportunity to play hurling even if they are from Louth for example.
A few posters who are ignorant of the truth have tried to argue that there isn't the opportunity for young lads to play football in Kilkenny, so I just pointed out only 4 clubs out of 41 there don't have underage football, 2 of those are in the same parish as football clubs, and the other 2 are less than 5 miles from clubs who do provide football for kids.
The bottom line is that there are vast swathes of a large number of counties where a lad wouldn't be able to take up hurling if he wanted to. That's what this Motion is trying to tackle."

Replying To Canuck:  "I hear you Viking but many things go into making kids wanting to participate in a sport. Opportunity to do so for sure but also kids are influenced by the stars of the sport or what the inter county player brings back to the community about the merits of that honour. I am sure in Kilkenny hoards of kids picked up a hurley because of idolizing Eddie Keher, D.J. Carey, Henry Sheflin, T.G. Reid and many others. A player told the manager on a Tuesday night that he would not make Thursday training because he had a football game with his club . He was told if not there he need not come back. How do I know that ? A relative. So using Kilkenny as any form of example in promoting football is a bad one. There are probably the best county ever to play hurling while making sure football stays in its lane. The lane they created for it and want to keep."

Replying To Viking66:  "I'm not using Kilkenny as an example of a Football county promoting adult Football, or a Football county offering underage Football to all its young people. The reason I was using Kilkenny as an example is because they are a definite hurling county, yet they still provide football games for every young lad in Kilkenny who wants to play Football.
If they can do that then why can't any Football county do the same to provide hurling for kids?"

Replying To Doylerwex:  "Does football really need more attention nationally? The crown jewel of the GAA needs support or it will die. Anybody can pick up a football."

Replying To oneoff:  "If anyone can pick up a football what's Wexford excuse been for the last 10 years?"

Replying To FootballRising:  "There is a serious issue with football in the South East of the country. Wexford, Wicklow, Carlow, Waterford and Tipperary all based in division 4. Kilkenny don't field a football team. Wexford county board for the last few years have tried their damndest to run football into the ground. The motion should be coupled with a taskforce for the regeneration of football in the South East of ireland. Lots of provisions for hurling and the promotion of hurling but very little for football. The likes of Griffin and Co. run down football any chance they get in the belief that there is no other game than hurling. Pure snobbery. The people doing the most damage to hurling are hurling people themselves. The analysis offered on the Sunday game is wojus. Donal Og is always whinging and never offering anything constructive. Wexford county board offered a player of the week award for hurling during the championship and nothing for football. They only started offering one after a few ex county footballers started promoting one. Mr. Griffin and Mr. Fenlon should make sure their is equal treatment of both codes in their own county before pontificating to anyone else about the promotion of hurling."

Replying To Pikeman96:  "Have only read through this whole thread now. There's a lot of misunderstanding and misinformation about the "Griffin Motion", but probably no point dwelling on it now that Congress has been and gone. But there are still a few points in your post here that warrant a reply, all relating specifically to ourselves in Wexford. In order -

1. Please give some examples of how Wexford County Board "have tried their damndest to run football into the ground".

2. If Griffin's motion should be a coupled with one calling for a taskforce for regeneration of football in the South East (or indeed, anywhere else), well then, it's open to anybody - even yourself - to bring such a motion through their club. You might like to start working on one for next year.

3. The "Player of the Week" award here during club championship season has been offered for football as well as hurling for all the time since it was introduced. At one point last year, as part of a bigger picture of certain issues at the time, the committee which picks it neglected to do so for football one week. They'd also neglected to do it for hurling a couple of weeks before that. The hurling omission passed off without any great comment or controversy, but a certain football figure took the football omission as a sleight on the entire sport, and went off to do his own thing. The official award returned the following week anyway.

4. Griffin and Fenlon are on the Hurling Advisory Committee. Their remit is proposals etc. for the betterment of hurling in the county. To say they should first focus on equal treatment of both codes just shows a complete misunderstanding on your behalf of what their role actually is.

5. There's a corresponding Football Committee in the county, made up of people who would be well recognised as "Wexford Football People". They're equally entitled to be equally as active in making proposals, bringing motions, etc. Unfortunately, they don't tend to be nearly as active as their hurling counterparts.

And to finish, something that happened re. that Football Committee a few months ago -

They were due to meet one night, and one of its members - who tends to be vocal on social media - sent a message to say something had come up, and he couldn't make it.

He then spent the night tweeting about how Aston Villa were doing in their Champions League match."