Underage squads 2024

[The real town]

I know in Kilkenny there gone back to 18. If it's your last year of 18 you are able to play senior hurling for your club.a young lad that played for Thomastown this year in the country final also played minor in the same year.that could be the way to do it. Also it must be harder for clubs to get challenge games outside the county because the amount of county's that are gone back

[Voice of tReason]

I know in Kilkenny there gone back to 18. If it's your last year of 18 you are able to play senior hurling for your club.a young lad that played for Thomastown this year in the country final also played minor in the same year.that could be the way to do it. Also it must be harder for clubs to get challenge games outside the county because the amount of county's that are gone back

Is that actually better than the current set-up we have?
I'd like to have minor back to 18 for romantic reasons but I think the simplicity of having separate minor and adult fixtures is helpful.

[Downtheroad]

I know in Kilkenny there gone back to 18. If it's your last year of 18 you are able to play senior hurling for your club.a young lad that played for Thomastown this year in the country final also played minor in the same year.that could be the way to do it. Also it must be harder for clubs to get challenge games outside the county because the amount of county's that are gone back

The problem is that it is almost impossible to run minor competitions unless
Is that actually better than the current set-up we have?
I'd like to have minor back to 18 for romantic reasons but I think the simplicity of having separate minor and adult fixtures is helpful.

I know in Kilkenny there gone back to 18. If it's your last year of 18 you are able to play senior hurling for your club.a young lad that played for Thomastown this year in the country final also played minor in the same year.that could be the way to do it. Also it must be harder for clubs to get challenge games outside the county because the amount of county's that are gone back

Is that actually better than the current set-up we have?
I'd like to have minor back to 18 for romantic reasons but I think the simplicity of having separate minor and adult fixtures is helpful.

The problem is that in a dual county like Laois it would be almost impossible to run minor competitions unless it is fully decoupled from Adult. Clubs will want the lads up to the age to play every grade from Junior C upwards. The Offaly vote to go back to under 18 was won by 1 and there was strong opposition from smaller clubs. Personally, I'm in favour of under 18 but we can't have it both ways.

[Verbal]

I think having a full independent set of fixtures for minor is more important than moving it to U18.

Or

If moving minor to U18, move the adult eligibility to there too. Clubs wouldn't be happy, but they'd actually survive.
I know it would be hard to swallow for smaller clubs.

When you look at the number of ACHL Divisions that the likes of Camross are involved in, how in the name of God will you squeeze in a decent number of minor games also?

[Blueforever]

Reading on Kilkenny live that Kilkenny Gaa and St Kierans college are going in joint venture to provide a full size astro turf pitch on the college ground we cannot get young lads in Portlaoise schools to take up the game it's no wonder hurling is at such a low ebb in the county

[ottoman]

Has the Tony Forristal taken place yet? If so, how did we get on?

[Ogie]

Unfortunately the Munster Council have decided to keep the Forristal Tournament to Munster teams only from this year on, big disappointment and break from tradition.

Leinster have set up their own Tournament in response, Finals day this Saturday
We have one team qualified into Division 1 Semi Finals in Portlaoise and one team in Division 3 Semi Finals in Kildare (I think)