Post by Admin on Dec 12, 2014 10:37:11 GMT
Colm Keys - Irish independent - 9th December 2014
Two Tipperary clubs have called for the introduction of extra-time for all inter-county championship games.
At the end of a year when their county hurlers lost an All-Ireland final replay to Kilkenny, Burgess and JK Brackens have both submitted motions to the forthcoming convention seeking universal extra-time.
Burgess specify that two 10-minute halves should be added for knockout games.
The last three All-Ireland hurling finals have gone to replays, while the All-Ireland football semi-final between Mayo and Kerry also required a second day out to settle it.
While they are lucrative, the last two All-Ireland hurling final replays and the Mayo-Kerry game have also been among the best games in modern times.
With the 2015 Congress open to playing rule changes, Tipperary clubs have been busy putting forward suggestions.
Newport favour the introduction of an advantage rule in hurling where a referee should be able to decide "after five or six seconds" whether a player has gained an advantage or not; they are also seeking 35-minute inter-county U-21 matches.
In the course of his report to annual convention, county secretary Tim Floyd touches on the fall-out from their Munster championship defeat to Limerick.
"A lot of blood-letting was experienced over the following week as a local newspaper printed an article which caused major public reaction," he writes.
"This opened the whole debate on amateur players whose hobby is hurling and who are not contracted to anyone, yet the public expect them to behave like professionals.
"In all walks of life we have role models, especially in sport, and impressionable youth are influenced by what they see and hear and very often try to emulate them.
"In the main these influences are good and our hurlers and footballers are a credit to their clubs and county. Isolated incidents occur in all walks of life and hurling is no exception.
"I have seen our players grow in maturity over the past six years with a clear vision and focus, and winning trophies is their priority."
Floyd discusses the trend of "famines" for Tipperary hurling but he concludes that they are in "a far healthier state now than previous famine periods and the foundations are laid for All-Ireland glory very soon again."
He credits Dublin hurler Niall McMorrow's decision not to shoot for a point in their final-round League match last March with helping to swell the coffers of Tipperary GAA by €50,000, courtesy of League contributions enhanced by making the play-offs.
Irish Independent
At the end of a year when their county hurlers lost an All-Ireland final replay to Kilkenny, Burgess and JK Brackens have both submitted motions to the forthcoming convention seeking universal extra-time.
Burgess specify that two 10-minute halves should be added for knockout games.
The last three All-Ireland hurling finals have gone to replays, while the All-Ireland football semi-final between Mayo and Kerry also required a second day out to settle it.
While they are lucrative, the last two All-Ireland hurling final replays and the Mayo-Kerry game have also been among the best games in modern times.
With the 2015 Congress open to playing rule changes, Tipperary clubs have been busy putting forward suggestions.
Newport favour the introduction of an advantage rule in hurling where a referee should be able to decide "after five or six seconds" whether a player has gained an advantage or not; they are also seeking 35-minute inter-county U-21 matches.
In the course of his report to annual convention, county secretary Tim Floyd touches on the fall-out from their Munster championship defeat to Limerick.
"A lot of blood-letting was experienced over the following week as a local newspaper printed an article which caused major public reaction," he writes.
"This opened the whole debate on amateur players whose hobby is hurling and who are not contracted to anyone, yet the public expect them to behave like professionals.
"In all walks of life we have role models, especially in sport, and impressionable youth are influenced by what they see and hear and very often try to emulate them.
"In the main these influences are good and our hurlers and footballers are a credit to their clubs and county. Isolated incidents occur in all walks of life and hurling is no exception.
"I have seen our players grow in maturity over the past six years with a clear vision and focus, and winning trophies is their priority."
Floyd discusses the trend of "famines" for Tipperary hurling but he concludes that they are in "a far healthier state now than previous famine periods and the foundations are laid for All-Ireland glory very soon again."
He credits Dublin hurler Niall McMorrow's decision not to shoot for a point in their final-round League match last March with helping to swell the coffers of Tipperary GAA by €50,000, courtesy of League contributions enhanced by making the play-offs.
Irish Independent