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Hi can anybody tell me whats the best best place to watch All Ireland Huring/Football in birmingham/wolverhampton area? tried a few pubs but can anyone tell me the best?

Vaughans in Hall Green Birmingham is a good place to watch the matches. I would say the Emerald club in Wolverhampton would be your best bet although I haven't watched a game there. The atmosphere would be good in Vaughans with a good few Cork people in there including the owner.

Collins Cup John Mitchel's (Birmingham) 2-7 Fr Murphy's (London) 2-5. A great win for Mitchel's hurlers in Ruislip today.

how the f*ck can we hope to develop hurling in the county if we can't even cover the costs of entering the Kehoe cup?

Mayo hurlers have done (relatively) well in the past few seasons, it's a disgrace that the CB won't give them any support.

We played Mayo in an All Ireland 1/4 final in 2003. They beat us handy enough but in fairness we were a club side with 14 players from 1 club. In the few years since Mayo have stepped a whole level from a good junior county to a good intermediate one. If the board don't back you they deserve every bit of bad luck the footballers get.

Div 1
Napier 0-11 Liverpool Hope 1-5
Neither team had won before so Championship goes North for first time since 2001. Napier were 0-10 to 0-1 up at half time but there wasn't really a big breeze I was told. Held out for the win after a serious bit of pressure at the end of the game.

No the wind wasn't a factor it was just combination of Hope improving in the 2nd half and Napier getting nervous towards the end I thought.

Well done to John Mitchells hurlers Birmingham on retaining the All Britain hurling title with a one point win over Granuaille of London at a wind swept Ruislip. This earns mitchells a crack at the Leinster junior club champions in the All-Ireland 1/4 final. 3 in a row is a great achievement.

Maddog its Black and Whites Kilkenny on the 9th january at a k/k venue. B&W have agreed to a Saturday fixture fair play to them

The "corner" booked the flights this morning. Looking forward to it.

It is fixed for Nowlan Park on the 9th .We will be stopping at the Springhill Court Hotel in Kilkenny City.

This match has been postponed due to the weather. We will try again on the 23rd

Well done to John Mitchells hurlers Birmingham on retaining the All Britain hurling title with a one point win over Granuaille of London at a wind swept Ruislip. This earns mitchells a crack at the Leinster junior club champions in the All-Ireland 1/4 final. 3 in a row is a great achievement.

Maddog its Black and Whites Kilkenny on the 9th january at a k/k venue. B&W have agreed to a Saturday fixture fair play to them

The "corner" booked the flights this morning. Looking forward to it.

It is fixed for Nowlan Park on the 9th .We will be stopping at the Springhill Court Hotel in Kilkenny City.

Well done to John Mitchells hurlers Birmingham on retaining the All Britain hurling title with a one point win over Granuaille of London at a wind swept Ruislip. This earns mitchells a crack at the Leinster junior club champions in the All-Ireland 1/4 final. 3 in a row is a great achievement.

Maddog its Black and Whites Kilkenny on the 9th january at a k/k venue. B&W have agreed to a Saturday fixture fair play to them

Do the Mitchells still have the social club in Sparkhill?  I used to use it 30 years ago.

No thats gone about 12 years ago. There is no Irish in Sparkhill now even the Antelope is a curry house.

Ulster 1-14 Leinster 1-10

(Good news for maddog)

Oh yes maddog will like this and Its got to be good for the final because Ulster would have way more support over here than Leinster

Fixtures on Sunday 1st November 2009; Junior Club Hurling final Granuale (Lon) v John Mitchel's(Warw) venue Ruislip @ 2.00pm; Junior Club Football Semi-final St Kiernans(Lon) v John Mitchel's (Lancs) venue Pairc na hEireann @ 2.30pm.


Should be a cracker in Birmingham but I'll miss it as we'll be down in Ruislip trying to pull off 3 in a row. It will be a big ask with all the players coming into London. Hopefully we'll bring the usual fantastic support to help the lads along.

Well done to John Mitchells hurlers yesterday on lifting the county title, beating Fullen Gaels in the process.

Where we giong this year plastic Paddy ?

Down to London on the 1 Nov v Granuaille or Clann Na Gael

County hurling final this weekend ?

Yes Maddog 4pm. Should be well up for it but so will they after last years mugging

was at the games yesterday and playing in the first, you are right in what you say about the starters but Sean said to me at the end of the game that they wanted to try something new so thats why they went with that first 15 so chances are it might be a different starting 15 in the final. Yorkshire were up for it yesterday, they seemed to have a bit of hunger about them. Would I be right in guessing they played a few practice matches together?? We didn't underestimate Yorkshire going into the game we have a very healthy respect for the Yorkshire team and yesterday just proved that there wasn't much between us. 6 points in the end was a bit flattering to us as it was a bit tighter than that. The ref has to be commended on a great game. It is the first time in a long time I have played a game over here and come away saying that.
The London V Scotland game was a good tight contest with Scotland getting the better of the ball throughout the game but a number of errors allowed London to keep up with them and a controversial point at the end sealed the win for London. If I am honest it's London I would prefer to be facing next weekend because the Scottish team were well oiled and disciplined and they all knew what the other players were doing, it helps that they are all from the same club I suppose. The London number 7 looked dangerous on the run but in fairness his end ball was brutal and always resulted in a turnover so if we just let him run into corners next week it should be grand.
So the game next weekend should be interesting any ideas on how it's going to go. Will London be getting in more lads for this match or will they be sticking with the same squad??

Who was the Ref?

Warwickshire' Leinster Junior Hurling League match today is at 3pm not 5pm as advertised. Best of luck to the lads, preperation for this season has been top class.

Warwickshire 5-18 Leitrim 1-11

Warwickshire superb in the 1st half.Some serious hurlers all over the pitch especially in the forwards

Warwickshire beat Wicklow 3 11 to 2 11 in the Leinster Shield to progress to the final this Saturday in Dundalk v Louth.Big strides been made lets hope it continues

Warwickshire lost by 9 points v Louth after leading by 6 at half time with a strong wind.A poor second half by Warks and even poorer by the ref.

Warwickshire' Leinster Junior Hurling League match today is at 3pm not 5pm as advertised. Best of luck to the lads, preperation for this season has been top class.

Warwickshire 5-18 Leitrim 1-11

Warwickshire superb in the 1st half.Some serious hurlers all over the pitch especially in the forwards

Warwickshire beat Wicklow 3 11 to 2 11 in the Leinster Shield to progress to the final this Saturday in Dundalk v Louth.Big strides been made lets hope it continues