The future of laois hurling

[clonadmad]

sign of the times....once upon a time rathdowney secondary were one of the big guns in "A" vocational schools....C grade is for the also rans.

as for no one from portlaoise being on the cumann na b panel...a shame....but perhaps Clonadmad rather than continually drilling away at hurling in Portlaoise GAA, a look closer to homemay be relevant.  If you are from Clonad, a once proud senior hurling club in this county, can you answer why the same Clonad has not produced one county panel standard senior player in the 21st century? is the raw material that bad, or is it the coaching?, because ye have all the facilties(fair play).

I wasn't having a pop at Portlaoise GAA

I was pointing out the fact that no child from the Parish was deemed good enough to make a 38 man development panel.

[Ogie]

Where is this panel published / to be viewed?

I'm all for coaching & development of players but a primary school development squad may be pushing it a bit too early

[Clubber Lang]

At that age group where selectors etc are from has huge influence on who/who doesn't make these panels. Is there no portlaoise input mentor wise into hese squads.

[Don Draper]

At that age group where selectors etc are from has huge influence on who/who doesn't make these panels. Is there no portlaoise input mentor wise into hese squads.

Ah howld on, you reckon club bias is in existence at f**king cuman na mbunscol? And Portlaoise struggle to even get into the schools in Portlaoise, you reckon they're volunteering to mentor these squads?

[Don Draper]

Pity Clonadmad is not actually from Clonad. It seems his real face is the former Laois gda from Kilkenny.

Does this mean you're not Batman?

[merman]

Like Ogie, I'm torn on this.
When it was introduced a couple of years ago, there was a lot of positivity around it. It seemed to fill a vacuum after the Setanta (and O' Moore Og) programmes had stagnated. I think it came from Tipperary where they have a 'Primary Game' which seems a similar initiative.

On the one hand, I can't help but feel primary school is simply too early for such panels. I hate the idea of maybe losing players. Maybe I'm being naieve on this.

On the other hand, these are probably all 12-13 years old, depending on country/town schools, and with minor falling down to U17, you could consider this the equivalent of U14 up until a few years ago. A lot of players from rural clubs probably can't get the opportunity to train at a high enough level as there simply won't be enough players 'up to the age' to train and develop alongside.
I know other counties do it but then, they likely have bigger playing numbers than we do.

This is very much part of the Coaching and Games Committee's plan at present. I suppose it does give the GDAs access to the players on a regular basis at a crucial age. I'm sure they've considered this and see it as a positive. I just hope the panels are kept big, open and that dual players are encouraged.

There's certainly merits to it but it's fair to have some reservations.

[clonadmad]

Pity Clonadmad is not actually from Clonad. It seems his real face is the former Laois gda from Kilkenny.

Does this mean you're not Batman?

Poor Batman

Wrong again

[clonadmad]

At that age group where selectors etc are from has huge influence on who/who doesn't make these panels. Is there no portlaoise input mentor wise into hese squads.

Laughable comment in fairness

Just shows how little you actually know about the process

[clonadmad]

Tipp,Kk and Galway have this in place

But Shur what would they know about bringing  talent through?

[merman]

Tipp,Kk and Galway have this in place

But Shur what would they know about bringing  talent through?

Is it the exact same process?
I genuinely don't know.
I presume those counties would have at least 2 teams at U14 grade? So a minimum of 50 hurlers?
How many do they carry as part of their primary school panel?

I love that we are engaging in this process. It has definite positives. I'm not knocking this; especially if we believe a driving force is teachers from outside Laois who know what might be considered better practice than has previously been the case.
It's the '38' that I'm wary of. Maybe there are valid reasons; maybe not all schools engage or they want to focus on players who meet a certain standard.

[clonadmad]

In relation to Tipp

I've been told by a teacher

It's 4 Cumann na mBun School Squads,1 in each of the divisions

Schools send in only 1 player (unlike Laois where there's no limit)

They train for 6/8 weeks and play games in that period also

Tipp would have 2 teams at u14/15 level

[merman]

In relation to Tipp

I've been told by a teacher

It's 4 Cumann na mBun School Squads,1 in each of the divisions

Schools send in only 1 player (unlike Laois where there's no limit)

They train for 6/8 weeks and play games in that period also

Tipp would have 2 teams at u14/15 level

Fair enough.
Thanks for the info.

[Zooming around]

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Tipperary launch a commercial board to help raise funds for the running of the county HURLING team. When Cheddar had a plan for Laois hurling it was knocked because it didn't include football.

Now I know one is commercial and the other coaching but are we the only ones who can't back an exclusive plan or is it simply because football runs Laois?

[burdizzo]

Imagine what would have happened for an equivalent football plan, and you have your answer.

[finbar o tool]

Anyone ever see, or get their hands on, a copy of the plan purposed by cheddar??