timber wrote:Tacmot will you relax. There was no jibe at your club. Offalysorry had made the following point which I was querying.tacmot wrote:Timber , where are you getting your "coolderry not really intrested in developing young players " line from. Can you inform me with some evidence to back this up, or are you just spouting rubbish to get a jibe in at a certain club?
To me anyway it would be ridiculous to keep back hurlers to play junior just because they have a better chance of winning it. Is it not better to bring on these lads and get them a years experience of intermediate hurling and hopefully prepare them for senior hurling. I work with a few Coolderry lads and they reckon that 4 of the u21 team are on the junior and they are better hurlers than a few on the intermediate. Young Connolly and O' Connor would be well capable of playing at a higher grade. Look at the Ballinamere gaels u21 team. The large majority of them are playing for their intermediate teams in Ballinamere, Brosna gaels, and Clara.OffalySorry wrote:Coolderry players wont play intermediate because of the junior. They think they have a better chance of winning that.
Its not a jibe, its just stating the obvious. These lads wont learn anything from walking a junior B.
I cant think of one player that Coolderry are really holding back junior, at the last intermediate game i think there was 2 subs..and neither wanted to come on as they would lose out on playing for the rest of the year. Andy Connolly is a fairly good hurler, far too soon to say what difference he could make to the intermediates. There is a jump between junior b and intermediate especially at the earlier stages of the junior b when some of the players arent exactly fit, this gives a great advantage to younger players. Seamus OConnor again is a good young hurler but is unproven at intermediate and to be frank its hard to say whether either is strong enough physically to compete at this level against the likes of Brosna Gaels & Ballinamere. Seamus was a little bit young for under 21 level this year and i think another year or so at junior will shape him into a better hurler. I dont think they would make enough of an impact to warrant them coming up this year. Far better for them to get a full year at junior level to develop physically and challenge for the intermediate places next year.
I would argue that Coolderry have a proven track record of bringing through younger players, some of the current crop of senior players hurled senior at 16 & 17, Coolderry are lucky enough to have 22-23 at senior grade, 17-18 at intermediate and about 23-24 at junior so there is plenty of competition for places which has meant the younger guys have to work a little bit harder which will hopefully be a good thing in the long run.