I go to a good few games myself both club and intercounty so personally not really losing out at all, players generally have spoken positively of the new calendar which ultimately are the most important stakeholders.
I love the way you frame that as āvested interestsā and āheadbangersā as an excuse to avoid dealing with the arguments people make. Same mindset conspiracy theorists use to cocoon themselves in a safe space of batshit insanity.
You completely contradicted yourself in one and a half sentences there.
Iāll go easy on you because you have an IQ of about 14.
Cheers mate. I was actually at a match tonight. Freezing so iāll stick to the couch in future.
You got to see a great Liverpool performance.
What in gods name are you talking about 
I made a very easy to understand point. You dismiss peopleās very reasonable arguments without addressing them and have pre-prepared excuses for not addressing these arguments.
Once again your talking shite, youād swear thereās some radical overhaul to the calendar, take the last pre covid championship in 2019, ran roughly from May 10th to end of August, last year was April 16th to July 25th, this year April 9th to last weekend of July, i.e they basically got rid of the April club month which wasnāt been respected in alot of counties anyway, players have overwhelmingly spoken positively of the new calendar who to me are the most important voices in all of this.
The 2019 championships finished on September 14th.
The players are not the most important voices. The most important voices are the voices of potential spectators who stay away or potential television viewers who donāt tune in.
Same as with any sport.
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2019 All Ireland Football Final was September 1st, replay was on September 14th, donāt let facts get in the way of a good story I suppose. Players are the most important voices in GAA, unlike professional sports the elite level and grass roots crossover and both have to coexist and facilitate each other.
The split season zealots quite happy for young fellows on Minor and U20 teams to be sloshing around in rain, muck and wind under floodlights on Monday nights in March and April. Under the old system, no inter-county action until the exams are out of the way in June.
The heavy lifting in Senior championships across April and early May, right across university exams for the large cohort of inter-county players in third level education.
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Minor championships pre Covid started in April, Donald Trump would be proud of these efforts of being disingenuous
Nephew of the wife played for the Waterford U20ās in a Munster semi final against Limerick in Limerick last year on a Wednesday night at the end of April. 9.30 the following morning, he had an end of year practical exam in UCD.
Thatās the type of putting the players first player welfare that split season zealots like @billyocean are championing.
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Iām not doing anything of the sort, this would have happened before except the game would have been a Munster round robin rather than SF, far from ideal but canāt be all things to all men.As i said think your being highly disingenuous.
I know a lad that hurled in an under 21 championship for his county with an exam that day AND the morning after at 9.30am.
And this was 22 years ago!
Amazing really when you think of it.
Player welfare like.
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vested interests for amateur rural sports?
Did he pass?
No!!
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But that was more to do with the total disregard for the concept of attendance and studying during the year.
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I know a fella who walked out of a leaving cert exam early to go on a county minor teams weekend training camp 
He regrets nothing
These split season zealots dont get it. Dont get it at all.