Junior C hurling is not for the faint hearted. I've realized this since starting a few months ago.
I also realized that it's been a long time since I posted about it. That's what happens when your so busy playing the game that you don't have time to write about it.
The good news is that we're still going in the championship. We won the quarter final last week and are preparing for the semi final next weekend. A great achievement for such a small club that has three adult teams at the start of the year. A lot of clubs our size are only fielding one or two if the going is good and we've outlasted so many of these bigger clubs just through stubbornness and a lot of physio.
Our team is literally being patched up week to week and seeing who is the least injured to play again the next game. At the moment I'm holding together fairly well apart from an injured wrist after tonight's training but that will fade down.
The pulled muscles and belts of the hurl were worse the last few days out.
Unfortunately we are running low on backs and I've ended up playing a lot more minutes than i had evert thought that I would. Namely zero minutes. Instead I've ended up laying in every match to date bar one which was not in my plans.
We are doing a good batch of training at the moment and I can't see our opponents going as hard as we are at the moment. The team that we will be playing are young and fit but we want it more. IT should make for an interesting battle.
Old v young.
Experienced v enthusiastic.
A hard match to call.
I'm loving it so far but I do get nervous about the games. It's hard to step out there with lads who are fitter and more skillful than you every single match and with people watching.
I've been playing for three months but some of my team have been playing for over 35 years. That's a big gap to bridge.
But as I see it if they had anyone better for the job they would be playing him instead. Well they did have someone better for the job but he's on his second injury this season and probably won't be back before the end of the year. Only two matches left at most.
So it is what it is now. All I can do is practice as much as possible for the rest of the week and try my hardest.
It would be great to get to the final so we'll see what happens next weekend.
