Finals should not be played midweek though.
Shit like this happens all over the place. Its nuts.
Replays need to be abdoned across the board outside of finals, and then onky one replay.
It would actually add to the thing.
Laois have a great system in the greater scheme of things. Club players all know the championship hurling and football starts in August and will be over by mid October. I’d have loved that rather than the bullshit systems where I played where you started in late April, waited 8 weeks, played one game…
But it’s a replay more so than a final and replays can take place anytime really. Given both teams knew the 1st round was on this Sunday they should have been given the option of ET in the case of a draw at FT IMO.
16 teams is about 4 teams too many in a Senior Championship in a county of Laois’ size, that’s the problem for me.
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Players love the system and won’t see it changed. It’s a great championship when it gets going, games week in week out. Tough on dual clubs and players but you can’t have it every way.
They should do like the camogie and just fuck one of the teams out.
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Aye, Portlaoise.
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Wayhey
You think this is bad, you should see the state of the Waterford Senior Football championship.
We’re currently in the middle of 3 team playoff to decide who finishes 1st, 2nd and 3rd in one of the groups. Said teams finished level on points and scoring difference couldn’t be used as De La Salle withdrew meaning the Nire never got the chance to wallop them. So instead of doing the logical thing and just disregarding all games involving De La Salle the dumb fuckers in the Co Board decided to have a play off.
Heading into November and the quarter final pairings haven’t been decided yet. The worst thing about the whole farce is we won’t have a team in the Munster club, we were due out against the Cork champions on the weekend of the 1st.
Rightly or wrongly the rules of the GAA (rule 6.20) don’t allow the county board to do this. Expedient and all as it might have been they still have to follow the rule book.
the Wexford intermediate final was played on a friday night and the winner had to play in Leinster on the Sunday morning.
The managed to gain a W.
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I have no sympathy for teams that have to play a couple of days in a row. If the county boards got their fingers out and ran their club championships in a timely manner this wouldn’t happen. The only counties that should be possibly running late are those counties that are involved in the latter stages of the All Ireland championships. I cant understand how a county that is finished with inter county championship in June/July are struggling to finish their county championships before the start of the provincial club championship.
Appears I may have jumped the gun here. The grand plan now is to play Q Finals this weekend, Semi mid week, final on Saturday and Munster Club Sunday. Absolute clusterfuck!!
It’s hardly the teams fault if a County board make a fuck of it.
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Ya, that was a ridiculous statement.
Re: team winning shortly after playing. Ya not going to completely stop someone and there can be serious disparity in standards from county to county so in this instance the Wexford champs may have won evem if they played it straight after getting the cup.
Point being it is a disadvantage. Against equal or better oppositio it could get you destroyed. Teams don’t get to represent their county too often.
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Yeah but the clubs all have representatives on the county board so I cant understand why it takes them so long to get their championships run off and then moan about it come October.
Intermediate Final replay on Sat
Ballyragget and Bennetsbridge
Junior and Senior county finals on Sunday
Glenmore and Kilmacolm
Clara and O Loughlins
Grand so. Might pop along to them this weekend.
Kilmacow