If Galway had put out their minor team last night they would have beaten us
We are doing all our juvenile players a disservice sending them out with little or no preparation to face underage powerhouses like galway.
We are light years behind the top 10 hurling counties at underage level in just physical development and conditioning alone never mind any other facet of the game
We had lads going down with cramp at the 50 minute mark,which tells its own tale.
I’m not having a pop at any of the players,I’d know a good few of them lads and they would die for their county.
We are failing them
Have to agree with above.
Granted it is an excellent Galway team who will be probable favourites for U20 All Ireland but they have a conveyer belt of talent for years and have the physically to match as well as skill. You can have all the skill you want but if you can’t win your own ball we’re going nowhere. Our skill set needs to be much better as well.
Galway have recruited Lukasz Kirszenstein as Head of Athletic Development for Hurling in Galway for past 3 years. Highly regarded in Strength and Conditioning in Ireland and paying dividends and Galway will be back in a year or 2 with another senior All Ireland.
I hope there’s some form of cohesion from Cheddar with 20s and Senior can be integrated better. A head of Athletic Development in the county might at least put a plan in place to plug a gap. Otherwise we’ll keep sending lambs to the slaughterhouse every year and have the same discussion next year.