Gaa split season,killing Meath football since 2011

[BruidheanChaorthainn]

The club championship is nearly as rushed as the parade on all Ireland final day.

[BruidheanChaorthainn]

@maurice_brown

I think we need to face up to reality and join up all the thinking that is going on here on TFK alone.
There’s been a census recently. I haven’t delved into it but it’s easy see the demographic trend at the moment. It’s been said on other threads here. The population coming to clubs from Irish family household is dwindling. Has been for more than 2 decades now and to the point now where couples cannot buy/build to start a family.
Numbers coming from other backgrounds may help but your natural grassroot GAA feeder family unit/national school/underage structure isn’t there.
So clubs are going to suffer, clubs are going to change or morph into another identity for the games to survive. Hurling and camogie especially are greatly under threat. Those games and their clubs as they are now will look very different in 10 years time.
As will the intercounty game and the counties. The GAA at HQ is a multi million euro business now, the most successful of its kind in the world. For it to survive in the future it must adapt to what is coming down the line. Just enjoy what you have for the moment, it’s special, and going to be short lived.

Clubs are going to fold due to the split season. It’s as simple as that.

The inter county game will tumble forwards for another few years but in reality the overall product is woeful when you consider the mind boggling figures that are invested in it every year.

[dodgy_keeper]

@Gary_Birtles_Lovechi

My own club didn’t play not so much as one game in the rain. We’re now two games away from winning the Limerick intermediate hurling championship. And it not even the last week of September yet.

Split season has been a tremendous success.

Your lads played their first group match (of 5) on the last weekend in July.

You’ll have a semi final on the weekend of October 15th/16th.

That’s a nice spread of games in good weather, plenty of time for training or lads to go off and play football if they so wish.

Not sure where this idea of a ‘6 week blitz’ is coming from. In the successful counties the championship structures are well designed, if others rush their own championships off that’s their fault/responsibility and the onus is on them to amend.

[Perez2017]

@ChairmanDan

Club championship blitz in 6 weeks is the way to go according to the split season zealots. Maybe they’ll streamline it a bit next season, start playing midweek as well and get the club championships played off in 4 weeks.

You live in Carlow mate. Club fare is exceptionally poor there. That is your hard luck.

[Perez2017]

@BruidheanChaorthainn

@maurice_brown

I think we need to face up to reality and join up all the thinking that is going on here on TFK alone.
There’s been a census recently. I haven’t delved into it but it’s easy see the demographic trend at the moment. It’s been said on other threads here. The population coming to clubs from Irish family household is dwindling. Has been for more than 2 decades now and to the point now where couples cannot buy/build to start a family.
Numbers coming from other backgrounds may help but your natural grassroot GAA feeder family unit/national school/underage structure isn’t there.
So clubs are going to suffer, clubs are going to change or morph into another identity for the games to survive. Hurling and camogie especially are greatly under threat. Those games and their clubs as they are now will look very different in 10 years time.
As will the intercounty game and the counties. The GAA at HQ is a multi million euro business now, the most successful of its kind in the world. For it to survive in the future it must adapt to what is coming down the line. Just enjoy what you have for the moment, it’s special, and going to be short lived.

Clubs are going to fold due to the split season. It’s as simple as that.

The inter county game will tumble forwards for another few years but in reality the overall product is woeful when you consider the mind boggling figures that are invested in it every year.

Clubs will struggle due to demographics nothing to do with split season.

[BruidheanChaorthainn]

It’ll be 100 percent to do with the split season but the zealots will try and make up a few excuses As they are badly exposed already.

[BruidheanChaorthainn]

@Perez2017

@ChairmanDan

Club championship blitz in 6 weeks is the way to go according to the split season zealots. Maybe they’ll streamline it a bit next season, start playing midweek as well and get the club championships played off in 4 weeks.

You live in Carlow mate. Club fare is exceptionally poor there. That is your hard luck.

No one counties club championship is better than another ones ffs.

[ChairmanDan]

I live in Waterford. Home of the current All Ireland Club Hurling Champions. Same carry on there. 6 week blitz for the club hurling championships across all grades. Starting on the August bank holiday weekend and culminating with Waterford Senior Hurling Final on 11 September.

[estebandaface]

I think a few people need to look up the word zealot and then go and look in the mirror

[BruidheanChaorthainn]

The Limerick players who finished up this weekend with their clubs would have been with their clubs for maybe six weeks.

[maurice_brown]

@BruidheanChaorthainn

It’ll be 100 percent to do with the split season but the zealots will try and make up a few excuses As they are badly exposed already.

Nothing to do with zeal. Take Galway as example…the Gantlys in Beagh have moved on, what family replaced them…where is Beagh now.
The 6 Cooneys of the 80s/90s in Sars, have produced 4 players currently between.
The Meehans in Caltra, Caltra failed to reach intermediate 1/4 since they been relegated.
When the Cooneys and Burkes move on in St. Thomas’ who will replace them?
The Mannions in Ahascragh Fohenagh?
The Healys in Craughwell?
Joe Rabittee has 2 daughters making headlines, Athenry hurling struggling.
Steve Mahons Kilbeacanty staring at Junior hurling.
It’s life.

[Perez2017]

@ChairmanDan

I live in Waterford. Home of the current All Ireland Club Hurling Champions. Same carry on there. 6 week blitz for the club hurling championships across all grades. Starting on the August bank holiday weekend and culminating with Waterford Senior Hurling Final on 11 September.

Waterford championship unfortunately is the least competitive in Ireland. Very unfortunate for you.

[ChairmanDan]

Your man @Perez2017 has an amusing smugness and delusion about how wonderful Cork club hurling is. Someone should tell him that it’s not the 1970’s anymore and that Cork clubs have won 2 club All Irelands in the last 43 years. It’s the tippy tappy non contact nature of club hurling in Cork that has largely contributed to the current state of the Cork Senior team. An 18 year gap back to the last All Ireland win when 2023 swings around, the longest ever.

[Perez2017]

@maurice_brown

@BruidheanChaorthainn

It’ll be 100 percent to do with the split season but the zealots will try and make up a few excuses As they are badly exposed already.

Nothing to do with zeal. Take Galway as example…the Gantlys in Beagh have moved on, what family replaced them…where is Beagh now.
The 6 Cooneys of the 80s/90s in Sars, have produced 4 players currently between.
The Meehans in Caltra, Caltra failed to reach intermediate 1/4 since they been relegated.
When the Cooneys and Burkes move on in St. Thomas’ who will replace them?
The Mannions in Ahascragh Fohenagh?
The Healys in Craughwell?
Joe Rabittee has 2 daughters making headlines, Athenry hurling struggling.
Steve Mahons Kilbeacanty staring at Junior hurling.
It’s life.

Totally agree. All this has been happening pre split season. Total nonsense been spouted here.

[Perez2017]

@ChairmanDan

Your man @Perez2017 has an amusing smugness and delusion about how wonderful Cork club hurling is. Someone should tell him that it’s not the 1970’s anymore and that Cork clubs have won 2 club All Irelands in the last 43 years. It’s the tippy tappy non contact nature of club hurling in Cork that has largely contributed to the current state of the Cork Senior team. An 18 year gap back to the last All Ireland win when 2023 swings around, the longest ever.

It’s competitive, draws decent crowds. Will be 7 to 8 thousand at Sunday’s semi finals. Will improve over next few years too.

[peddlerscross]

The split season zealots are intent on having as many clubs as possible finished hurling by mid September to clear the decks for the Inter County pre season to begin again in October.

[Perez2017]

@peddlerscross

The split season zealots are intent on having as many clubs as possible finished hurling by mid September to clear the decks for the Inter County pre season to begin again in October.

You obviously dont remember clubs been knocked out first week of June in knockout championship. Mid September is paradise by comparison.

[Bod95]

@peddlerscross

The split season zealots are intent on having as many clubs as possible finished hurling by mid September to clear the decks for the Inter County pre season to begin again in October.

Limerick won’t be back until January 1, maybe weaker counties such as Tipp will go back in October to give themselves every chance chance of being competitive against the top teams in next year’s championship.

[BruidheanChaorthainn]

What it’s done is given junior soccer and junior rugby a huge boast. Most lads are free now until July thanks to the split season.

[Perez2017]

Their isnt too many skilful Gaa players playing junior rugby.