I’ve yet to hear a single club player argue against the split season.
Either you dont talk to many people or you are talking nonsence
Marriage is a real blight on the club game
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Lookit - all fine and dandy for you as you pursue the Holy Grail - we’re struggling to keep clubs and clubmen interested - the current intercounty system/panacea is a crock of shite.
These current competitions are a load of bollocks - a multiplicity of meaningless games to eliminate the misfortunate lowest three - all with the goal of giving teams a few extra meaningful games.
Championship football/hurling should be what it says - Championship - Knockout - Kill or be Killed.
There’s a plethora of scuttery Spring competitions to test out the inevitable intercounty aspirants that crop up via websites and forum boards. Championship should mean what it says - the short road to No.1.
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We have been through this a thousand times but:
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It makes no sense to have clubs back training in January for a game or two in April that could define their season.
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There was huge differences in how each county used the April for clubs. Some counties completely took the biscuit and played zero or one championship game then headed off for a 4 week pre season consisting of gym, challenge games and 4 days in Portugal on warm weather training camps.
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Losing 2 games should mean show us over. No more about it
I’ve polled every person I’ve met at J14 or McDonagh Plaza n recent weeks. Its overwhelmingly positive.
Sure the younger lads can fuck off to the states now and miss fuck all. Ideal for them
Makes sense now
The Box Office Chicago Championship kick off over the weekend I believe, serious drinking done by the commentators on Facebook Live.
I was speaking to Pat over the weekend, he reckons the double is on.
5 weekends and 24 matches devoted exclusively from mid May to mid June to the process of reducing 16 to 12 in the Football Championship, most likely the elimination of Clare, Louth, Westmeath and Sligo. You’re having lottery penalty shoot outs in the Ulster Football Final and split season zealots bleating on about fixture congestion and not enough weekends in the calendar to accommodate a crock of shit like that.
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Lads are still confusing the FORMAT with the SPLIT SEASON. It’s almost like some lads deliberately want to misunderstand
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Most who go to America arent home until mid August by which time their clubs season could be effectively done.
THEY HAVE MADE THEIR MINDS UP AND ARE NOT FOR CHANGING
LOUD NOISES
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The old format had seven rounds of knockout games. I’m not sure how it’s a benefit to go from seven rounds of knockout games to just four rounds.
Teams now aren’t “knocked out” of the championship. They’re slowly, facelessly and passionlessly forgotten.
The loudest vessels are the ones who never played it would seem
Surely the 3 of them?
The FORMAT and the SPLIT SEASON do go hand in hand. You couldnt justify a split season without populating it with endless round robins.
You couldnt have County teams lying idle for more than a fortnight in a split season without massive calls for them to be released back to their clubs. The reason there used to be three or four week gaps between games was so club activity could proceed.
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And yet club activity didn’t proceed. Which is why we are where we are.