Very unfair on Galway
The 4 provinces of 8 splitting looks pretty forced and sub optimal
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Has the “champions league style format “ been discarded as the panacea for all championship structure problems ??
I had a terribly long winded and boring post from last year which outlined a structure that would work well.
The one thing which I cannot abide by is using the league to determine who should be in what tier come the championship. It smacks of eliteism and ring fencing for the top teams to ensure they wouldn’t have the unseemly mess of having to spend a year in tier 2 if the draw went against them.
Every team should enter the championship on the same footing. Play your provinces and a round or two of qualifiers. Let your 8 provincial finalists and the 8 teams left standing from the qualifiers go into tier 1 and the remaining 16+ teams go to tier 2.
Far more buzz would be generated about football in the likes of Clare, Tipp, Limerick, Sligo, Longford, Westmeath, Fermanagh, Louth etc with them getting into Tier 1 once every 5 or 6 years or being one game away from it in a do or die qualifier than being perennial Tier 2 semi finalists.
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This proposal below is interesting. Gives a real bite to the league and gives every team in the country a chance to make the quarter finals every year. Not sure what they are advocating as a second tier championship though.
I still think using the league to seed 8 groups of 4 (champions league alert) is the best way to go. Scrap provincials.
This proposal advocates that the top four in Division 1 and top two in Division 2 progress to the All-Ireland quarter-finals, with the Division 3 winners, the Div 4 winners, the fifth-placed team in Division 1, and third-placed team in Division 2 contesting two preliminary quarter-finals to fill the last two quarter-final berths.
Cork
- Micheal Martin (Nemo Rangers)
- Sean Powter (Douglas)
- Maurice Shanley (Clonakilty)
- Kevin Flahive (Douglas)
- Kevin O’Donovan (Nemo Rangers)
- Sean Meehan (Kiskeam)
- Mattie Taylor (Mallow)
- Ian Maguire (St Finbarr’s)
- Killian O’Hanlon (Kilshannig)
- John O’Rourke (Carbery Rangers)
- Colm O’Callaghan (Éire Óg)
- Ruairi Deane (Bantry Blues)
- Mark Collins (Castlehaven)
- Brian Hurley (Castlehaven)
- Luke Connolly (Nemo Rangers)
Subs
- Anthony Casey (Kiskeam)
- Sam Ryan (St Finbarr’s)
- Paul Ring (Aghabullogue)
- Michael Hurley (Castlehaven)
- Tadhg Corkery (Cill Na Martra)
- Paul Walsh (Kanturk)
- Kevin O’Driscoll (Tadhg MacCarthaigh)
- Sean White (Clonakilty)
- Paul Kerrigan (Nemo Rangers)
- Mark Keane (Mitchelstown)
- Damien Gore (Kilmacabea)
Cork are going nowhere if Kerrigan is still knocking about.
Only chance they have is if Kerry lose Clifford early on or get a silly red card early doors.
Looking forward to Mayo and Roscommon.
No sign of the lad who returned from the AFL for Cork either.
He’s on the bench
think he was ruled out of the championship with an injury…
He’s in the subs.
thought he was talking about Ciaran Sheehan
Maybe he is
on that has sheehan played a championship match since he returned?..
Yeah I was on about Sheehan guys, never heard of the other chap.
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Is there many of the AI U20 squad last year in that Cork squad?
Mayo team to play Roscommon. Wouldn’t be surprised if Loftus doesn’t start. This will be an all out war.
- David Clarke – Ballina Stephenites
- Oisín Mullin – Kilmaine
- Chris Barrett – Clontarf
- Lee Keegan – Westport
- Patrick Durcan – Castlebar Mitchels
- Stephen Coen – Hollymount/Carramore
- Eoghan McLaughlin – Westport
- Matthew Ruane – Breaffy
- Conor Loftus – Crossmolina Deel Rovers
- Bryan Walsh – Ballintubber
- Ryan O’Donoghue – Belmullet
- Diarmuid O’Connor – Ballintubber
- Tommy Conroy – The Neale
- Aidan O’Shea – Breaffy
- Cillian O’Connor – Ballintubber
What happened to hunky dreamboat Mark Moran?