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I'm going for a 2-2 draw. With both defences poor enough and the frenzy of the home crowd there'll be goals.

[The reality is you can write down the names of one quarter of the counties of Ireland, and you can make a very sizeable guess that it is from those eight counties that the next 50 All-Ireland hurling championship winners will come from.]

https://www.rte.ie/eile/brainstorm/2018/0724/980751-the-roots-of-the-greatest-sport-on-earth/

The idea that the remaking of hurling in the 1880s is a rural thing, something that flowed outwards from Thurles, a kind of a gift bestowed by the people of Tipperary to the rest of humanity, is just wrong.

What the GAA has done is create a framework in particular counties, dependent on local tradition and individuals, to drive the development of the game. There are stories from various parts of the country which are not traditionally considered hurling heartlands where the game prospered, because of the actions of a particular guard or a teacher, or a small group of people within a particular area who made a hurling club and made hurling a beloved game in a particular place.
The singular failure of the Gaelic Athletic Association when it comes to hurling is a failure to broaden the base. The reality is you can write down the names of one quarter of the counties of Ireland, and you can make a very sizeable guess that it is from those eight counties that the next 50 All-Ireland hurling championship winners will come from.

You look at the Offaly players who won the All-Irelands in the 1980s and they came from the great schools teams of the 1970s, and from a very solid competitive local club culture. All the teams from the 1990s had underage medals won with Offaly and with their schools.
No county has ever made a breakthrough without having two basic things. Number one, a proper underage and schools development system. Number two, a significant number of clubs playing the game to a reasonable level. Without those two things, it is impossible. If you look at any county that has made the breakthrough in modern times, it is dependent on those things.

There is a further factor. Probably the greatest factor impeding the spread and growth of hurling is not rugby or soccer or video games. It's not anything except Gaelic football. In GAA clubs where Gaelic football is strong, there is an understandable but real reticence to allow hurling be promoted to a level at which excellence can be developed to an extent to make that club or that county truly competitive on a national scale.

The bit about the 8 winners of the hurling championship could be the same for football also, maybe even less the way things are going.

But I agree with what you're saying: 1. the Gaa has, over the past 100 years, failed to spread hurling as they should and 2. it's down , to a large extent, of football people in clubs not embracing the duality/benefits of a dual club.

You need double the number of coaches to have a proper dual club
You also need more players
hurling is  much more expensive sport to play than football

Cost shouldn't be an issue - most lads I know buy their own hurls and helmets. At underage, 1 hurl will do them quite a while.  People use money as an excuse.  I look to examples of Cratloe in Clare, Slaughtneil in Derry, St. Galls in Antrim and Ballyboden in Dublin etc. etc. Strong dual clubs who play codes.  Their players are better for playing the 2 sports in my opinion.

ok
get hurling going in a football school with lets say, 80 children in the school.
at least 30 helmets - €1000 at least
at least 50 hurleys - €600 (from U8 up to U12) at least
each year you will need to replace 20 of the sticks as they are broken and go missing, so thats a recurring cost of €240
6 dozen sliotars - 2 dozen for U8, U10, U12 which will need to be replaced each year as they get weathered and go missing

you can offer discounted helmets for sale through the club and school scheme (some county boards don't offer it to schools), but the maximum number of helmets is generally 30. the hurleys aren't usually of a great quality

Two things here I think - hurling will start with club first, then introduce to school.  If it starts in school, it will only be played in school.

A better way would be to put a message out asking for unused/unwanted or helmets that are too small for family members etc.  They'd get about a dozen helmets this way without a doubt.  People/parents know it going to a good cause and are willing to give.  This is the same story with the hurls.  How many small hurls are in people's houses or stuck in a corner of a garage?

More importantly, any new hurling club starting nowadays will only work on a regional basis : i.e. 3 or 4 football clubs but the new club is under the name of the old regional name.  This is the way it is going now - Ulster council approved!

In regards of football, how much is an O'Neills size 4? £25 or £30 but loads about at an underage football training session.

fair enough, but kids don't want to be given an old helmet that was last worn in 1995
you can get gaelic footballs for €5 a pop if you order enough of them from the correct place...
same with sliotars

if you don't get the hurling going in the schools along with the club, it will never take off.
you need the kids looking forward to a coach coming into do training with them

Point I was making football clubs use the 'expense' issue to justify not being a dual club or starting a hurling club.  As alluded to, clubs can start with old hurls and helmets - borrowed or otherwise.  Kids at that age are not that fashion conscious.

If football clubs diverted the big amounts alledgely given to their senior football managers, there wouldn't be a problem! In a lot of cases it could fund a juvenile hurling club for 3 years!!!

[The reality is you can write down the names of one quarter of the counties of Ireland, and you can make a very sizeable guess that it is from those eight counties that the next 50 All-Ireland hurling championship winners will come from.]

https://www.rte.ie/eile/brainstorm/2018/0724/980751-the-roots-of-the-greatest-sport-on-earth/

The idea that the remaking of hurling in the 1880s is a rural thing, something that flowed outwards from Thurles, a kind of a gift bestowed by the people of Tipperary to the rest of humanity, is just wrong.

What the GAA has done is create a framework in particular counties, dependent on local tradition and individuals, to drive the development of the game. There are stories from various parts of the country which are not traditionally considered hurling heartlands where the game prospered, because of the actions of a particular guard or a teacher, or a small group of people within a particular area who made a hurling club and made hurling a beloved game in a particular place.
The singular failure of the Gaelic Athletic Association when it comes to hurling is a failure to broaden the base. The reality is you can write down the names of one quarter of the counties of Ireland, and you can make a very sizeable guess that it is from those eight counties that the next 50 All-Ireland hurling championship winners will come from.

You look at the Offaly players who won the All-Irelands in the 1980s and they came from the great schools teams of the 1970s, and from a very solid competitive local club culture. All the teams from the 1990s had underage medals won with Offaly and with their schools.
No county has ever made a breakthrough without having two basic things. Number one, a proper underage and schools development system. Number two, a significant number of clubs playing the game to a reasonable level. Without those two things, it is impossible. If you look at any county that has made the breakthrough in modern times, it is dependent on those things.

There is a further factor. Probably the greatest factor impeding the spread and growth of hurling is not rugby or soccer or video games. It's not anything except Gaelic football. In GAA clubs where Gaelic football is strong, there is an understandable but real reticence to allow hurling be promoted to a level at which excellence can be developed to an extent to make that club or that county truly competitive on a national scale.

The bit about the 8 winners of the hurling championship could be the same for football also, maybe even less the way things are going.

But I agree with what you're saying: 1. the Gaa has, over the past 100 years, failed to spread hurling as they should and 2. it's down , to a large extent, of football people in clubs not embracing the duality/benefits of a dual club.

You need double the number of coaches to have a proper dual club
You also need more players
hurling is  much more expensive sport to play than football

Cost shouldn't be an issue - most lads I know buy their own hurls and helmets. At underage, 1 hurl will do them quite a while.  People use money as an excuse.  I look to examples of Cratloe in Clare, Slaughtneil in Derry, St. Galls in Antrim and Ballyboden in Dublin etc. etc. Strong dual clubs who play codes.  Their players are better for playing the 2 sports in my opinion.

ok
get hurling going in a football school with lets say, 80 children in the school.
at least 30 helmets - €1000 at least
at least 50 hurleys - €600 (from U8 up to U12) at least
each year you will need to replace 20 of the sticks as they are broken and go missing, so thats a recurring cost of €240
6 dozen sliotars - 2 dozen for U8, U10, U12 which will need to be replaced each year as they get weathered and go missing

you can offer discounted helmets for sale through the club and school scheme (some county boards don't offer it to schools), but the maximum number of helmets is generally 30. the hurleys aren't usually of a great quality

Two things here I think - hurling will start with club first, then introduce to school.  If it starts in school, it will only be played in school.

A better way would be to put a message out asking for unused/unwanted or helmets that are too small for family members etc.  They'd get about a dozen helmets this way without a doubt.  People/parents know it going to a good cause and are willing to give.  This is the same story with the hurls.  How many small hurls are in people's houses or stuck in a corner of a garage?

More importantly, any new hurling club starting nowadays will only work on a regional basis : i.e. 3 or 4 football clubs but the new club is under the name of the old regional name.  This is the way it is going now - Ulster council approved!

In regards of football, how much is an O'Neills size 4? £25 or £30 but loads about at an underage football training session.

Without being specific to the model......Your first stop would normally be the thermostat
If the engine is heating up normally on the gauge and its only the heater blowing cool air you likely have an airlock, your coolant system may also be blocked

Yeah, seems cool all the time. No heat at all...ever after 30mins of driving.

If engine is not heating on the gauge it's most likely your thermostat.
Btw unlikely anything to do with air con. Not impossible that the cabin thermostat might be wonky but fairly unlikely

I've a 2006 Audi A4 doing the same thing, bit frosty the odd time, but no biggie.

Thermostat is a pig to get ot although the engine temperature gauge looks fine, so might have to wait till it's in for a service to get it looked at.

A lot of online forums believe the heat exchanger into the bulk head may need flushed out....

Yeah, hard to know. A few different ideas on here too. I'll get mechanic to check it out when I drop it in to him in the New Year.

[The reality is you can write down the names of one quarter of the counties of Ireland, and you can make a very sizeable guess that it is from those eight counties that the next 50 All-Ireland hurling championship winners will come from.]

https://www.rte.ie/eile/brainstorm/2018/0724/980751-the-roots-of-the-greatest-sport-on-earth/

The idea that the remaking of hurling in the 1880s is a rural thing, something that flowed outwards from Thurles, a kind of a gift bestowed by the people of Tipperary to the rest of humanity, is just wrong.

What the GAA has done is create a framework in particular counties, dependent on local tradition and individuals, to drive the development of the game. There are stories from various parts of the country which are not traditionally considered hurling heartlands where the game prospered, because of the actions of a particular guard or a teacher, or a small group of people within a particular area who made a hurling club and made hurling a beloved game in a particular place.
The singular failure of the Gaelic Athletic Association when it comes to hurling is a failure to broaden the base. The reality is you can write down the names of one quarter of the counties of Ireland, and you can make a very sizeable guess that it is from those eight counties that the next 50 All-Ireland hurling championship winners will come from.

You look at the Offaly players who won the All-Irelands in the 1980s and they came from the great schools teams of the 1970s, and from a very solid competitive local club culture. All the teams from the 1990s had underage medals won with Offaly and with their schools.
No county has ever made a breakthrough without having two basic things. Number one, a proper underage and schools development system. Number two, a significant number of clubs playing the game to a reasonable level. Without those two things, it is impossible. If you look at any county that has made the breakthrough in modern times, it is dependent on those things.

There is a further factor. Probably the greatest factor impeding the spread and growth of hurling is not rugby or soccer or video games. It's not anything except Gaelic football. In GAA clubs where Gaelic football is strong, there is an understandable but real reticence to allow hurling be promoted to a level at which excellence can be developed to an extent to make that club or that county truly competitive on a national scale.

The bit about the 8 winners of the hurling championship could be the same for football also, maybe even less the way things are going.

But I agree with what you're saying: 1. the Gaa has, over the past 100 years, failed to spread hurling as they should and 2. it's down , to a large extent, of football people in clubs not embracing the duality/benefits of a dual club.

You need double the number of coaches to have a proper dual club
You also need more players
hurling is  much more expensive sport to play than football

Cost shouldn't be an issue - most lads I know buy their own hurls and helmets. At underage, 1 hurl will do them quite a while.  People use money as an excuse.  I look to examples of Cratloe in Clare, Slaughtneil in Derry, St. Galls in Antrim and Ballyboden in Dublin etc. etc. Strong dual clubs who play codes.  Their players are better for playing the 2 sports in my opinion.

Izaguirre is a liability - he's a 2nd rate left back at this stage. Only came back to Celtic as a cover player and is poor enough. 

Kieran Tierney is a big miss.  I'd be hoping he's back for the Old Firm in a few days.  BR mustn't have wanted to take a chance on him today.

[The reality is you can write down the names of one quarter of the counties of Ireland, and you can make a very sizeable guess that it is from those eight counties that the next 50 All-Ireland hurling championship winners will come from.]

https://www.rte.ie/eile/brainstorm/2018/0724/980751-the-roots-of-the-greatest-sport-on-earth/

The idea that the remaking of hurling in the 1880s is a rural thing, something that flowed outwards from Thurles, a kind of a gift bestowed by the people of Tipperary to the rest of humanity, is just wrong.

What the GAA has done is create a framework in particular counties, dependent on local tradition and individuals, to drive the development of the game. There are stories from various parts of the country which are not traditionally considered hurling heartlands where the game prospered, because of the actions of a particular guard or a teacher, or a small group of people within a particular area who made a hurling club and made hurling a beloved game in a particular place.
The singular failure of the Gaelic Athletic Association when it comes to hurling is a failure to broaden the base. The reality is you can write down the names of one quarter of the counties of Ireland, and you can make a very sizeable guess that it is from those eight counties that the next 50 All-Ireland hurling championship winners will come from.

You look at the Offaly players who won the All-Irelands in the 1980s and they came from the great schools teams of the 1970s, and from a very solid competitive local club culture. All the teams from the 1990s had underage medals won with Offaly and with their schools.
No county has ever made a breakthrough without having two basic things. Number one, a proper underage and schools development system. Number two, a significant number of clubs playing the game to a reasonable level. Without those two things, it is impossible. If you look at any county that has made the breakthrough in modern times, it is dependent on those things.

There is a further factor. Probably the greatest factor impeding the spread and growth of hurling is not rugby or soccer or video games. It's not anything except Gaelic football. In GAA clubs where Gaelic football is strong, there is an understandable but real reticence to allow hurling be promoted to a level at which excellence can be developed to an extent to make that club or that county truly competitive on a national scale.

The bit about the 8 winners of the hurling championship could be the same for football also, maybe even less the way things are going.

But I agree with what you're saying: 1. the Gaa has, over the past 100 years, failed to spread hurling as they should and 2. it's down , to a large extent, of football people in clubs not embracing the duality/benefits of a dual club.

Now we know why there was an increase in the ticket for the county hurling final in mid-October: €20 up to €25 with a crowd of just over 10, 000 in attendence.

Without being specific to the model......Your first stop would normally be the thermostat
If the engine is heating up normally on the gauge and its only the heater blowing cool air you likely have an airlock, your coolant system may also be blocked

Yeah, seems cool all the time. No heat at all...ever after 30mins of driving.

10 year old Audi A4 - this past few weeks it never seems to heat up i.e. even after an hour. Seems to just be blowing cold air.  No difference between the cold and hot hair. Anybody have any sutions?

Would changing/cleaning the air con help?

Usually an electric actuator flap in behind the dash. Sometimes it comes up with a diagnostic scan with VCDS to find out which one. A fair bit of stripping to get at the culprit.

Thanks NAH - harding worth fixing if there's a bit of work involved.  Need mechanic to look at it.  If I get through the winter months, I'll survive for the year!

So changing air-con will make no difference then.

10 year old Audi A4 - this past few weeks it never seems to heat up i.e. even after an hour. Seems to just be blowing cold air.  No difference between the cold and hot hair. Anybody have any sutions?

Would changing/cleaning the air con help?

Hi. Just a question from someone with no knowledge of tv technology etc.

I have a good tv but without Sky or BT Sports, is there any way I could get them without spending the huge amount of cash every month? I see the 'sticks' advertised but how do they work?

I 'd like it for the GAA season starting in Jan - football and hurling national leagues.

Any help, much appreciated!

If it's a smart TV and you're not techie, go down the IPTV route. They'll send the feed to your TV for £11 odd / month or £30/£40 for 12 months. Has all the channels you'll need Inc Eir. I'll pm you links if needed.

JoG2, could you drop me them links please? Thanks. 

Have a read of the Android boxes thread it'll have come up several times in the last few months how the sticks work. Anything you don't understand ask on there, u will get a couple of us nerds that'll give you a hand.

Will do Boycey. Thanks.

Where are you?

In the north.

Hi. Just a question from someone with no knowledge of tv technology etc.

I have a good tv but without Sky or BT Sports, is there any way I could get them without spending the huge amount of cash every month? I see the 'sticks' advertised but how do they work?

I 'd like it for the GAA season starting in Jan - football and hurling national leagues.

Any help, much appreciated!