Hurling desperately needs Wexford, Offaly and Galway to shake things up.
Not sure how likely those counties are to compete in the next few years.
Nicky mostly copied and pasted the arguments former poster @Sidney was making in February 2017.
Itâs good that the round robin will be abolished in the football.
If the four point goal is approved in the football itâs surely only a matter of time before hurling does the same as the great Ken Early suggested the day after this yearâs All-Ireland hurling final.
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Whatâs the new football system proposed instead of the round robin? Hard to improve on perfection
The absurdity of playing All Ireland Quarter Finals and Semi Finals at lunchtime and mid afternoon on a Saturday will never cease to amaze me.
That Clare v Kilkenny Semi Final might as well not have been played for all it will be remembered.
Likewise the Dublin v Galway Football Quarter Final. There was more people watching Tay Tay across the city.
Cyril Farrell has been very consistent in his disdain for the whole mess too.
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Just looked it up there.
âThe new system proposes a final 16 of contenders divided into winners and losersâ groups. On the winnersâ side of the draw (Round 2A), the four victors would enter the All-Ireland quarter-finals with the four beaten Round 2A counties meeting the winners of the last 16 losersâ round (Round 2B) in preliminary quarter-finals.â
I genuinely think thatâs worse. The good of the other was that over time it would bed in that the perennial Sam counties had one home game a year and MAYBE eventually people would start going. Now it will go back to most of the counties having no home match. The likes of louth or Westmeath used to get three matches to test and improve themselves. Now itâs one and done in the proper championship.
Less matches and get it over quicker though which seems to be what everyone wants to get back quickly to the clubs. The county game is dead as a dodonail
It seems the GAA have just cogged the new proposed format for the All-Ireland football championship from this post.
Hello MUFFINS in Croke Park.
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Can I shock you? I like it again. I think one change should be seeds 1 - 4 should be provincial champs and the next 4 from league positions. Next 4 can be provincial finalists.
I was at a match last week Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday. I love the split season. Nicky English talking through his arse.
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The lads on this thread will ignore what the Cliffordâs say but take pisshead Roy Curtisâs views as gospel.
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I didnât realise you were such a big test cricket fan.
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Matches on every night of the week now because there was nothing of significance played Club wise from January to July.
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There was never anything of significance played from January to June at club level
Ahhhh you had to bite
It gives them purpose
There was
Regularly excellent club championship games played in April and may where all the inter county players arenât crippled
You always hear lads going on about those April games alright
Yes there was. Particularly underage.
Tipp are trying to run off U17, U19, U21 and Adult Hurling and Football Championships from July to December and its a disaster.
Previously the U16, U18 and U21 Football Championships would have been wrapped up by mid May allowing for some breathing room during the second half of the year.
We have a farcical situation this week with a West u19 A Hurling final tomorrow night and the winners play a County Semi Final, Thursday night.
Another team in the B won a West Hurling Final last Wednesday, played a Football Semi Final Friday, played an U17 Final yesterday and an u19 County Semi this Wednesday coming.
A huge crossover between both age groups.
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Youâre dealing with two chaps who havenât a notion though.
Sure the lads know full they destroyed they just canât admit they are wrong.
Players arenât committed to it and clubs will really start to struggle to get management teams going forward.
It was beautiful when youâd games spaced properly and were able to continue to live your life while playing but they wanted a sort of bastardised semi pro competition.
You reap what you sow.
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Youâd swear lads like Cyril Farrell, Nicky English, Pat Spillane, Babs Keating etc didnât know what they were talking about 