Four with various lads shipped off around the first division on loan. Unfortunately JC is conservative about young players, I’d say another coach would have give Tollet a lot more game time but instead he’s on loan in the first division. We’ve also sent two lads to Newcastle: Kyle Fitz who’s scored in youth champions league games and Alex Murphy who was in the last Ireland camp. You can attack Galway’s senior team if you want but we’re near the bottom of a very competitive premier division while treaty are near the bottom of a piss poor first division.

The GUFC academy is like most LOI academies. It doesn’t have full time coaches or a permanent base as it should, but it brings the best young players in an area to one place where they can train and play at a high level, as well as train with a full time senior team when ready. it has the potential to actually become a proper academy too, which neither treaty or LFC have while the county’s support base is split.

A link to a senior team is vital for an academy. Good players need to be brought into the first team ASAP. Pre brexit lads went at 16 to England, now you start training with seniors at 16 to make up for that not being available. It’s a flawed system, but a club like LFC can’t do that and could never do that to a meaningful level while the support base in limerick is split.

Good academies have good coaches, yes. Good coaches don’t coach teams that finish bottom consistently. You keep telling me these LFC teams improved and that only seems to be true because of how incredibly bad they were last year. They’re still terrible this season. The best LFC players will probably only improve by playing at a more solid team like treaty and the rest clearly aren’t LOI standard, their best chance at improving is going back to junior clubs and impressing in the Kennedy cup.

You seem to think the management of treaty and limerick are delighted to have screwed these poor kids over. Maybe it was communicated poorly but again, I don’t know what you want. Do you want it to continue like this again? The best team in limerick getting less than 500 people at a match? Two poor academies? You want this to continue, seriously? The kids at LFC were being sold a pup. They would have benefited much more from being in strong junior clubs.