Club Championships Jan-Mar 2019

[BennyCake]

Let's ban Kerry teams till the Ulster bucks say they can come back in!

Yes, let's.

[JoG2]

In regards Kerry this year:

Beaufort who are in the All Ireland JFC final this year. They played division 1 league football in Kerry last year.
Kilcummin who are in the All Ireland IFC final this year. They played in division 2 league football in Kerry last year.
Completely skewed.

You obviously don't understand that County League tables mean nothing for club championship football in Kerry.

And therein lies the problem. Look, let Kerry do whatever the wish within the confines of their championship (most people praise their internal setup), but Div 1 Kerry teams should not be playing junior for example in the AI series. It's like Magherafelt, Ballinascreen etc playing the likes of Red Hughs from Donegal in Ulster, which would be completely unfair.

What is unfair? 

I tend to agree that Kerry have somewhat of an advantage with their structure

agreed

[Ball Hopper]

Jog2...can you accept that the County League counts for nothing in Kerry?  They were put in place to give players games in an attempt to curb lads playing soccer over the summer when the GAA rules allowed members to play soccer.  Has been that way since 1970, the year the ban was lifted.

You have it backwards in one sense...it is not that Kerry allow Div 1 teams to be junior, it is more that junior teams can be promoted to Div 1 without winning the junior championship...as the two are completely separate, independent competitions.

My understanding in some other counties is that the end of season league table dictates what your grade is for the following season...Div 1 will be senior, Div 2 will be intermediate, etc.  Nothing wrong with that.  Up to each county to decide how many in each grade and how many in each division of their league.

No county panellist plays in the Kerry county league, so the tables are considered unfair...a club with good, but not great, players will climb the league.  Beaufort are such an example.  Miltown/Castlemaine were consistently the second best team in Div 1 until a few years ago, as they too had no county men.  The leagues are spiced up a bit by having three promoted and three relegated each year - out of 12 teams that start a season in a lower division, that means half will be somewhere else next year (except Div 1 obviously as you cannot be promoted upward)

The advantage Kerry have is their intermediate champion is the 9th best in the county and the junior is 25th best, with the grade a team plays in being based on last year's championships, not league table.  Win and move up, don't win and stay put, lose all championship games and you will be relegated.  I'll bet all other county intermediate champs rank much lower than 9th.

[Ball Hopper]

Finals in both codes for junior and intermediate clubs this coming weekend, plus senior hurling semi-finals on Saturday as well.


Senior Football

16 Feb: Corofin (Galway) v Gaoth Dobhair (Donegal) in Carrick-on-Shannon 1:30pm
16 Feb: Dr. Crokes (Kerry) v Mullinalaghta (Longford) in Thurles 3:30pm

March 17: Final in Croke Park

Intermediate Football

20 Jan: St. Enda's (Antrim) 3-9 An Spidéal (Galway) 0-11
20 Jan: Kilcummin (Kerry) 0-11 Two Mile House (Kildare) 0-10

Feb 9: Final St. Enda's (Antrim) v Kilcummin (Kerry) in Croke Park 4:45pm

Junior Football

20 Jan: Easkey (Sligo) 1-8 Red Hugh's (Donegal) 0-9
20 Jan: Beaufort (Kerry) 0-12 Young Ireland's (Louth) 0-10

Feb 9: Final Easkey (Sligo) v Beaufort (Kerry) in Croke Park 3pm

Senior Hurling

9 Feb: Ruairí Óg, Cushendall (Antrim) v St. Thomas's (Galway) in Parnell Park 3pm
9 Feb: Ballygunner (Waterford) v Ballyhale Shamrocks (Kilkenny) in Thurles 5pm

March 17: Final in Croke Park

Intermediate Hurling

19 Jan: Charleville (Cork) 1-15 Graigue-Ballycallan (Kilkenny) 1-13
20 Jan: Oramor-Marree (Galway) 1-13 St. Galls (Antrim) 2-4

Feb 10: Final Charleville (Cork) v Oramor-Marree (Galway) in Croke Park 3:15pm

Junior Hurling

20 Jan: Castleblayney Faughs (Monaghan) 1-8 St. Mary's Kiltoghert (Leitrim) 0-10
20 Jan: Dunnamaggin (Kilkenny) 0-23 Cloughduv (Cork) 2-16

Feb 10: Final Dunnamaggin (Kilkenny) v Castleblayney Faughs (Monaghan) in Croke Park 1:30pm

[magpie seanie]

Good luck to Easkey.

[Farrandeelin]

Good luck to Easkey.

Massive plus one from me.

[BennyCake]

Is the St Enda's Match being shown live anywhere?

[Gael85]

Is the St Enda's Match being shown live anywhere?

Read somewhere it on TG4 you tube channel.

[Cunny Funt]

Just switched on the AI junior final 35 mins played and Easkey 0-1 Beaufort 3-10 

[TheMaster]

Congrats to Beaufort and Kilcummin. Both should win handy today. Expect Dr Crokes to win senior championship easy enough too.

[BennyCake]

Just switched on the AI junior final 35 mins played and Easkey 0-1 Beaufort 3-10 

Beaufort playing with a force 9 wind it seemed

[Sandy Hill]

St Enda's beaten.  5.13 to 2.09.

[Wildweasel74]

I see on the twitter feed for our Kerry friends they call themselves a Kerry Senior club. Oh the irony! The set up is skewered as the Kerry teams are not the same level as their junior and inter opponents. Kerry barely register at senior level on the club scene as they dont have this advantage.

[TheMaster]

Have Beaufort, Kilcummin, Ballyhale, St Thomas backed and need Mayo and Kerry to win me €10k

[Milltown Row2]

Have Beaufort, Kilcummin, Ballyhale, St Thomas backed and need Mayo and Kerry to win me €10k

Best of luck... one difficult game to get you over the line