Re: 2014 WALSH Cup
Posted: Thu Jan 30, 2014 5:00 pm
A couple of point about Lone Shark post.
(1). You said in an early post that Birr would need "Second statue" do you know the what need to be done to get this?
(2). They may be one or two but honestly no Championship game is going to be played outside Tullamore. OCP is a great Facility and any Big championship should be there. the debate about SBP is not about where All Offaly Hurling should be in SBP, The question is should any hurling be in SBP. So the Question become If SBP can hold or should hold big game and by big games we mean knockout Club games and League games?? That is what most senior players and hurling clubs want to play.
So this is 2 Questions.
Should Birr have any Major Games????
And should the county board ignore the senior players and hurling clubs request to play some game in Birr?
(3). There is no Onus on Birr to Prove that an extra 1000 people would turn up to a game. I can't understand why this has being involved in this debate by the pro-OCP or The pro-SBP. The point is that for as long as hurling has being played in Offaly it basic in the stronghold of Birr.
More to the point is that People around Birr up until 10 years ago when to Birr to watch Offaly Play. Where did the idea that Birr would have to have Bigger crowds to get game come from???
(6) you both have dismiss tradition as a valid reason for playing in SBP. LS Dismiss SBP as a bit noisier on account of the lower roof. So What wrong with tradition and what make OCP in Tullamore a better for a few league game and walsh cup games than Birr. apart from the pitch being a little longer?? Last year i ended up in Blackwater in Wexford for a Walsh Cup game.
(7). I was in Carlow on 18 march last year and went to Blackwater, Belfast and parnell park. If a fan want to get to a game they get to a game.
Lone Shark from your reply your under the impression that Birr are look for all Offaly hurling matches to be played in birr. They not. They looking for league game to be played in birr.
At the moment South Offaly has being Cut out of the Inter county and Knock Club fixtures.
The Question is Why should Tullamore get every game at the expense of the other town, pitch and clubs???
If Kinnitty got a league game i have no problem with that.
But Birr would still be the traditional home of Offaly Hurling.
If my home club drumcullen got a league match i have not problem with that.
But Birr would still be the traditional home of Offaly Hurling.
If edenderry got a league game i have not problem with that.
But Birr would still be the traditional home of Offaly Hurling.
So why not play a few game in the traditional home of Offaly Hurling?????
(1). You said in an early post that Birr would need "Second statue" do you know the what need to be done to get this?
(2). They may be one or two but honestly no Championship game is going to be played outside Tullamore. OCP is a great Facility and any Big championship should be there. the debate about SBP is not about where All Offaly Hurling should be in SBP, The question is should any hurling be in SBP. So the Question become If SBP can hold or should hold big game and by big games we mean knockout Club games and League games?? That is what most senior players and hurling clubs want to play.
So this is 2 Questions.
Should Birr have any Major Games????
And should the county board ignore the senior players and hurling clubs request to play some game in Birr?
(3). There is no Onus on Birr to Prove that an extra 1000 people would turn up to a game. I can't understand why this has being involved in this debate by the pro-OCP or The pro-SBP. The point is that for as long as hurling has being played in Offaly it basic in the stronghold of Birr.
More to the point is that People around Birr up until 10 years ago when to Birr to watch Offaly Play. Where did the idea that Birr would have to have Bigger crowds to get game come from???
(6) you both have dismiss tradition as a valid reason for playing in SBP. LS Dismiss SBP as a bit noisier on account of the lower roof. So What wrong with tradition and what make OCP in Tullamore a better for a few league game and walsh cup games than Birr. apart from the pitch being a little longer?? Last year i ended up in Blackwater in Wexford for a Walsh Cup game.
(7). I was in Carlow on 18 march last year and went to Blackwater, Belfast and parnell park. If a fan want to get to a game they get to a game.
Lone Shark from your reply your under the impression that Birr are look for all Offaly hurling matches to be played in birr. They not. They looking for league game to be played in birr.
At the moment South Offaly has being Cut out of the Inter county and Knock Club fixtures.
The Question is Why should Tullamore get every game at the expense of the other town, pitch and clubs???
If Kinnitty got a league game i have no problem with that.
But Birr would still be the traditional home of Offaly Hurling.
If my home club drumcullen got a league match i have not problem with that.
But Birr would still be the traditional home of Offaly Hurling.
If edenderry got a league game i have not problem with that.
But Birr would still be the traditional home of Offaly Hurling.
So why not play a few game in the traditional home of Offaly Hurling?????