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Published 16:34 7 Oct 2017 BST
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To find out more about it, we were talking to Érin's Own club man and Kilkenny senior star Conor Fogarty about the club scene, and he claimed that the fact they only have 12 senior teams, and a competitive league structure, is crucial.
"It's just so hard to win. The standard there is just very, very high, and I know that from my own club. Unfortunately we've never won a county Championship and we've been there for years," he began at a Lucozade Sport 'Made to Move event. "I suppose I'd put it down to the quality of teams, and the massive effort going on behind the scenes by club players around the county.
"There's twelve teams in the senior competition and for any team going out any day in the competition, you're never guaranteed a win. There's very little between the 12 teams in senior in Kilkenny," added the 27-year-old.It really is dog eat dog.
"The league is very competitive, you're looking for wins to get into the top 2 in your group because then you're directly through to a quarter final, and if you don't do well, you're looking at being relegated.Fogarty feels that the gap in the standards between intermediate and senior clubs is minimal, and that's why promoted teams fare so well.
"You look at Clara, when they came up from intermediate, they went straight on to win two senior county Championships, and even intermediate and junior, they're very hard to come out of and to win," he concluded.That's what every county wants. Then you hear stories of the priest blessing the local schoolboys hurls, then you know it's Kilkenny.
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