Special Congress 2017 - TAKE 2
Great to see such agreement coming down the tracks from our Hurling illuminati.
@rocko, give me back me thread title editing privileges ffs sake.
So it’ll be ten teams? Then 11? Then what they’ll bring in relegation and promotion so it’ll always be 11? No provision for any side to break into the group of 5 poor bastards in the limbo championship? It’ll be 6 on one side and 5 on the other. Talk about pulling up the drawbridge behind the “elite counties” and let the rest rot.
(5) It proposes a new Tier 2 Championship involving the four counties currently in the Leinster Championship Qualifier and two other counties based on finishing positions in 2017 championships.
(6) The Tier 2 Championship to be run on a ‘Round-Robin’ basis with the teams finishing in the top two places playing in the championship final. The winners qualify to play in the Liam MacCarthy Cup in the following year.
(7) Promotion and Relegation is provided for as well as provision to reduce the number of teams in 2019 to five.
How about. Teams in 1a & 1b of the league go into championship (meaning every team in Div 2 has a chance to play championship if they win promotion that year, and everyone in 1b has a chance to end up in the Christy Ring). 3 groups of 4. 4 quarter finalists from winners plus the best, runner up. They’ll play the 3 other runners up plus best 3rd. 12 to 8 to 4 etc.
Division 2 makes up the Christy Ring then, and so on down.
Fuck the provincials. They have to go.
Promotion/Relegation
The winners of the new Tier 2 Championship shall replace the bottom team in the Leinster or Munster Championships, as appropriate, in the following year.
I could be wrong in interpreting this, but if Kerry top the Tier 2 in 2018, then they replace the bottom team in the Munster Championship for 2019. Otherwise the Tier 2 champs go into Leinster.
Nervy times for one J. Kiely.
Champions league.
The winners of round 1 going into the quarter finals.ffs.
The Offaly motion. Extreme case of NIMBY.
They’ve stumbled across something that actually works now that Kilkenny have regressed in Leinster so maybe leaving it alone would be the best option.
Not really too sure what the Tipp proposal is as regards the provincials, the text seems to contradict itself. The Dubs just want the provincial winners to have to play quarters as it was in 2007, instead of going straight into semis.
Cork bois are looking to make sure that Kerry go into Leinster and no Munster teams end up in Tier 2, sound @caoimhaoin, @gilgamboa, @ChocolateMice et al 
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Cork want more games in Pairc Ui Frainc, and as soon as possible
Limerick could do with opening up the Yurt Locker for something a little more TANTALIZING than February fixtures against Antrim & Laois as well.
Personally, I like the idea of the Munster/Leinster round robins.
I’m not sure what the issue here is for having a championship for the elite. The championship has been cut and recut over the years to try and bring the game on in counties 10-16, but it hasn’t happened. In fact they are getting worse. Bar the very rare instance of say a Kerry turning over Waterford 24 years ago or Westmeath getting close to Tipp this year most of the games involving top ten counties against counties 10-16 end up in humiliating defeats for second tier counties. The GAA are fifty years throwing money at these counties but they are no better off. Some of the ones that did show promise like Kildare and Antrim have fallen completely off the radar.
In a time of scarce resources surely the resources should be best spent on counties that can actually promote and grow the game.
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Throwing money?
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Tipp Waterford Cark Limerick Clare & Kilkenny are the only counties that play hurling, where are they going to get this top 8 from
Warwickshire and Fingal.
warwickshire maybe
Cricket is Fingals sport
With their cricketing skills they could bestride the spud pucking world like a colossus in a matter of years.
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It’s true but why would anyone take up Spud hockey
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The Government give them taxpayers money to play it.
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Most enjoyable this morning. Keep it up.
Hurling is more popular than soccer and rugby now.
For now.
In Galway city.
Will last a month