Hurling- what’s gone wrong and where do we go from here.

This already happens though. Over the years in Meath we've had several players from Limerick, Tipp, Dublin etc. playing with us. We had 2010 Tipperary All Ireland winner Timmy Hammersley playing for us at one stage.

One of our best players this year is a Tipperary man, though he recently transferred to a Meath club.

i dont see why you need to get rid of the provincial competitions. you can retain them even if you had a league based championship. you could play it in between the league rounds. would only take 3 weekends. no replays. counties could if knocked out play club championship potentially. give a decent reward to ensure counties dont dismiss them or treat them like a secondary tournament.

Totally agree with remvoing pre season competitions. teams are playing loads of friendlies anyway

You easily could different meaningful competitions in hurling.

Say you had a 12 team round robin Championship, top two of the round robin go to AISF's and the next 4 teams go to the AIQF's, with bottom team relegated. Simple format, and would work for the lower tiers (12 team Intermediate, 11 team Junior) as well, including promotion/relegation of course. Roughly the same amount of games as we currently have, but all of them meaningful.

And then you could have a Cup competition based on the traditional Provincial setup. The provinces always worked better as a knockout competition anyway. The Cup could work out that the provincial winners go to the SF, the Ulster champions play Galway in one QF and the two provincial losers play in the other QF. If all games finish on the day then you'd have no more than 6 rounds from start to finish. Or Galway and Antrim into Leinster and have straight knockout, so there's no more than 5 rounds in total (which I'd prefer as it would be real knockout).

Run the cup on alternating weekends throughout the round robin phase and finish before the championship knockout begins, and you'd have a championship that matters and knockout games from pretty much the start of the season to keep the fans engaged.

A weeks break every 5 weeks during the round robin/cup phase, having the AI final on the last week of July and work backwards, you'd be starting towards the end of February, which gives plenty of time at the start of the year for the colleges/pre-season, as well as a proper Christmas break.

Kilkenny were wining just as much as this limerick team over a decade ago and nobody was saying it was boring, the style of play limerick have introduced is reminiscent of football tactics. Outside of limerick, id wager most people consider hurling to be a lot less attractive to watch with rugby/football style tactics on show and lads with acres of space after getting a throwball from a ruck pointing from the halfway line. BTW tipp were last team other than limerick to win all ireland in 2019 so hardly a famine to be crying about.

Where did i say there was a decline in attendances or viewership, appreciate if you didn't put words in my mouth like you see posters on current affairs threads. I don't expect you to acknowledge the lack of entertainment value in intercounty hurling at the moment, doubt i would see it either if tipp were winning so much. I work wit a few kilkenny lads and most agree this is a great limerick team but the style of play is just not appealing to those outside of limerick. BTW unless fans are confrontational, they are not going to go up to opposition fans and say " ah yere winning but ye are shite to watch".

There is no decline in entertainment.

Just old men shouting at clouds.

The game has never been more skilful that it is now but probably just a bit of spontaneity lacking at times, this might sound mad but with the level of coaching, S&C etc. these days some games are almost too perfect and are a bit like a video game, Kilkenny scoring 2-26 in last year's final and losing an example of that , to put a snooker terminology on it some games now are frame after frame won by century break after century break and not many safety battles or missed pots adding excitement. I still find the enjoyable on the whole but just my observation.

Agree completely. Robotic LImerick are turning me off hurling (and I've been watching for more than sixty years.

Nothing wrong just Limerick too good at the moment and the other counties aren't up to their level. Same as Kilkenny before Tipp beat them in 2010. Limerick will be beaten some day too maybe not this year though. Limerick fans appreciate it while it lasts.

Cork are going 26 years without a league. 18 years without an All Ireland and 5 years without a Munster championship. 🤣🤣🤣. A generation without success for the first two.

My heart bleeds for them.

You should know what it feels like. Limerick waited a long time for all Ireland final championship success. 1973-2018.

How about splitting Limerick…….a ‘Limerick city’ based team consisting of teams from city only and then a limerick county team with players from everywhere else…🤣

Nobody said Limerick were ruining Hurling. I said here already on this forum that It's up to every other county to get up to Limericks level. Not Limericks fault at all. They are a great team. I love the way they play the game right now.

"When did Limerick last string four stick passes together?"

Sunday. Barry Nash goal.