Club finals on the new bank holiday for St Bridgidâs day, first weekend of February be a good idea in my opinion.
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I still wouldnât agree with that. I donât see any benefit in having 3 championship games 3 months apart
For everybody. If you lose your first two matches, youâve no business being in a championship.
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Nonsense.
Your opinion.
Championship game every 4 weeks would be a good compromise in my opinion but another problem is county players are wrecked and canât give much to their club in that situation.
It doesnât take much to tip the needle in club championship.
With the 6 team group Iâve seen plenty of cases where a team might lose their opening two games due to injuries or whatever but sneak into the knockout stages with a bit of momentum and win the thing out.
You are looking at it from the angle of someone with very limited interest or attachment to the club scene.
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What about dual clubs though? That would essentially be a match in either code every 8 weeks then?
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Championship isnât meant to be forgiving. Itâs meant to be cut throat.
This is why the Tyrone championship is the best in Ireland to follow.
Thats the main issue in reality. Dual clubs. Unsolvable.
I would agree there is scope for this, but you need to allow for rounds of football and hurling in the county, so you would need 2 weekends per window. Most counties you could have intercounty footballers also playing the club hurling championship and visa versa.
I disagree. Canât build any momentum when you have a month off between games. Also the interest in club games is a lot higher when it isnât at the same time as the intercounty
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10-12 years back when the Dublin championship would be played off over a shortish window mainly in October, the opposite was a common complaint, people were complaining that the time frame was much too short, and that minor enough injuries could scupper a playerâs entire year.
I didnât buy those complaints.
But neither do I buy the opposite complaints.
And youâll never keep everybody happy.
I would say at least 95% of club players are happy with the split season
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What about inter county hurling and club football February to June, inter county football club hurling July on. Again dual clubs the problem. Maybe club hurling teams have to play without county footballers and vice versa. Cant be many either way.
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Yeah but it comes back to the problem mentioned by Roy Curtis and correctly identified by a number posters here over a number of years.
The GAA is shooting itself in the foot in promotional and marketing terms by having no inter-county fixtures after July 24th.
This is a bigger problem. If you downgrade your showpiece competitions you downgrade the entire GAA.
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Youâre trying to solve a problem which has already been solved and doing a poor job of it
But they are getting the first 7 months of the year. Surely thatâs a long enough period to act as a promotional vehicle.
Ladies football and camogie after July 24th.
I wouldnât have much problem with extending it by a few weeks