Underdogs returns to TG4

TG4’s legendary GAA series Underdogs is back with the fastest field game in the world: hurling.

The search is on to find a squad of ambitious men with enough drive, skill and passion to take on one of the greatest teams in the country.

On the sideline will be the new management team of former Cork hurler and county manager, who led Cork to an All-Ireland victory in 2005, John Allen, Wexford camogie star and four-time All-Ireland winner, Claire O’Connor, and former Cork minor player and one of the youngest managers ever to win the Fitzgibbon Cup, Jamie Wall.

The management team have to put a panel of hurlers together that have the potential to take on one of the best inter-county teams in the country. Some will be chosen to go on this journey, trained and managed by legends of the game; others will go home.

For six months we will follow their trials and tribulations as they train to take on one of the best teams in the country, receiving advice from the likes of Davy Fitz, Lar Corbett and Declan Hannon.

Each week, management will have to drop one or more of the players as only 30 can play the ultimate challenge match.

Tune in to follow their journey. Underdogs will broadcast from Thursday, September 15, at 9.30 p.m. on TG4.