The trait of one team going easy on another clearly inferior team seems to have disappeared from the GAA this season, after more barely believable scorelines were registered in the NHL today.
A few weeks back, the poor footballers in Kilkenny were subjected to two beatings in the space of week by a combined total of 96 points; their makeshift under-21 side conceded 6-34 to Louth and their porous senior team let in 9-23 against Peter Canavan’s Fermanagh side.
It seems as if not’s only in football that hidings are being administered, however, as in Division 2B today, the Kildare hurlers racked up an astonishing seven goals and 30 points (0-51) in a 44-point defeat of Armagh in Newbridge.
The Lilywhites had scored 5-15 – a score that would often be good enough to win two matches – by half-time, but thankfully for the Orchard men, they eased off in front of goal in the second half.
In Division 3B, meanwhile, the Warwickshire hurlers were busy dishing out a thrashing of their own as they put up a score of 8-19 (0-43) in an emphatic 38-point win over Longford in Páirc na hEireann.
We’re not going to go town on either of the teams involved because it sure can’t have been easy being on the end of such comprehensive and demoralising defeats, but surely there’s something for the GAA to look at when there is such a gap between teams supposedly competing on a level playing field.
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