This should have all been wrapped up by Christmas. Joke that they have to wait 2 months between Prov final and this, and another 2 and a half months for the final.
Iād have left it the way it was. Teams should have been allowed a month to celebrate after provincial win and let it sink in.
If anything Iād push the all Ireland semis to last week in February. What has happened in recent years is teams are so primed for the semi in February that they find it hard to go again for 5 weeks for st Patrickās day.
The best final weāve had in either code in recent times was cuala v na piarsaigh when both teams were aiming for paddys day from January 1st knowing they were going to get over the semi easily enough.
Na Piarsaigh almost got caught v slaughtneil the same year but got over it and were primed for Cuala and probably fucked it away in the drawn game that year
That club hurling final to which you refer was probably the only decent final in years . Over the last 10 years this fixture has in the main produced boring turkey shoots