THE PAIRINGS ARE now known for the semi-final stages in the Allianz football and hurling league.
Today’s last round of action in the football league and the weekend quarter-final ties in the hurling league have made the fixtures programme clearer over the next month.
Reigning league champions Dublin and Waterford are still on course to retain their respective titles.
Here’s what’s in store:
Allianz Football League
Division 1 semi-finals – April 9th/10th
Dublin v Donegal
Kerry v Roscommon
Division 2 final – April 24th
Tyrone v Cavan
Division 3 final – April 23rd
Kildare v Clare
Division 4 final – April 23rd
Antrim v Louth
Allianz Hurling League
Division 1 semi-finals – April 17th
Kilkenny v Clare
Waterford v Limerick
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Dual Players, make 2 all Irelands, sounds to me like the experiment is a resounding success?
Dual players has been going on at minor level for years, it just so happens this year both teams were successful and went all the way to the final, which i would say was helped by a momentum gained from having dual players.
They were both successful in reaching the final and minor has 2 purposes, yes winning is one ,preparing seniors is another and having experience in a final will surely help .
Also why have so many only have those that will figure on team or used subs , have only hurlers after that this will reduce disturbance of squad.
Ger Loughlane point is much more important, with the size of the “home of hurling” and the amount of clubs not promoting football , why are these clubs not able to supply a minor team with only a few gems making the cross over.
Is the dual player an effort to promote hurling or demote football, Mr McKeever did not have to raid the issue the week of the final,
What Liam is actually saying is that the players are good enough there but with all the commitments they have at that age that it’s impossible to get a full panel together for enough sessions to understand how their teammates play, the more they play together the better they work as a unit, but they are missing that time to get the best out of the unit and that’s possibly why they fell at the final hurdle as it was impossible to get the right preparation done for it, it’s the age old saying “fail to prepare, prepare to fail”, it’s not the players fault, not the managements fault or the county boards fault, it’s the results of having a good underage structure, it certainly has to be looked at but it’s certainly a good complaint to have, I’d much prefer it than to been mediocre at one and non existent at the other
I’m saying it ages! Make a choice u either play hurling or football
making two All Irelands and winning none of them so where is the success there? Am I missing something!
I totally agree with Liam Cahill Tipperary is a hurling county always was and always will be
no point in sending a football team out against Kerry or Dublin and getting whipped by 20 points and being a laughing stock and then being too tired and lethargic to compete in the minor hurling final which is our priority sport
the County Board needs to have a good look at itself and decide if it wants Tipperary to win hurling All Irelands again or not
Bloody hell yet have more football all Ireland’s than Mayo! :(
I m fully behind the dual mandate. Well.done to tipp. Why make an 18 yr old choose for the sake of a medal? How is loosing a final, a single game, hindering their development? Wonderful achievement getting to both. Would they have won either if they had concentrated on one code? I dont think so.