I haven’t answered because it’s an impossible question. Only one team can represent each club in a provincial championship in a given year. I would say that Galway in football and similarly Kilkenny in hurling are quite strong considering an all time great club team regularly got challenged in those counties.
The likes of Tyrone is a very even championship but their clubs never do anything outside Tyrone so it’s hard to gauge what level their general club scene is at.
I don’t think it’s a particularly difficult question to have a good attempt at.
Tyrone have been consistently top four in Ireland at inter-county level for the last 20 years. No team has a hegemony over the championship there and it is genuinely unpredictable who will win it in any given year. Matches frequently go to extra time. Therefore it’s not much of a leap to suggest it is a superb championship and one of the best in Ireland, and a victim of its own unpredictability and cut throat level of competition when it comes to provincial level. A team is drained just by winning Tyrone.
I rate the Kildare championship highly for a similar reason though it would be at a slightly lower level overall than Tyrone is. So too Cork.
Derry would be a bit of an outlier in that they have a culture there where club football has been taken more seriously than county.
Dublin, Kerry, Mayo, Donegal, the strong teams at inter-county level, these are all very strong and competitive championships.
Competitiveness is not equal to quality.
Your opinion is basically that no championship that’s any good will ever have one outstanding team in it, which is nonsense.
A high standard spread evenly to give a high standard of competition is most assuredly superior to a championship in which one team dominates.
Domination has a paralysing effect on a competition and on the competition.
That being the case we should all be grateful Mountbellew put an end to Corofins attempts at claiming 4 in a row All-Irelands this year.
The argument that the Galway championship isn’t great is a bit of a straw man
There is then a case that they have no real completion so they struggle on leaving the county
Bottom line is they were a super team and should be feted accordingly
Woolie leaving the Podcast might be starting to make sense…
Christ that photo is 15 years old.
Surely an honorary Galway man at this stage.
Fashion designer Paul Galvin gone to Kildare footballers as forwards coach
Who was the last GAA manager to be sacked based on league performances ahead of championship?
I don’t know but I have a suggestion as to who it should have been….
Did Stephen Wallace and offaly part ways before championship a few years ago ?
Limerick sacked Tom Ryan in 1997, a few days after he steered them to a League Final win over Galway.
For ingratitude, it has to be right up there with Man U sacking Louis Van Gaal in the dressing room after the 2016 FA Cup Final win.
I think they may have parted company after a championship defeat to Wicklow.
Didn’t he get involved in a row at a club game in Kerry and gave some fella a few pucks?
He gave a very abrasive interview a few days later on off the ball and came across as a pig of a man. So I’d say Offaly jumped on the opportunity to get shot of him when they heard of the row in Kerry.
In fairness he couldn’t answer the twenty questions
That was 1996