Ger Gilroy and the OTB lads thought some Proposal B a couple of years ago which essentailly put the National Football League in āHigh Summerā would see Division 4 clash of Tipperary v Waterford sell out Semple Stadium.
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Thereās a few different issues at play here and itās doing no one any favours lumping it all under āsplit seasonā. The biggest one is the complete and utter clusterfuck they have made of the football championship format.
There is little enough wrong with the hurling format imo and the sudden fallibility of Limerick has generated a surge of interest in it.
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Thunderous, mesmerising, thrilling
Hyperbole spilling out of him
copyright, north county corncrake 2017
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Prick
hurling is a regional game
there isnt enough interest in the rest of the county for it to thrive on a county basis
1 team from Ulster & a midlands team are needed
have the all Ireland as
- dublin
- kilkenny
- Ulster red hands
- midlands/Wexford
- Galway
- Tipp
- Cork/Kerry Combined
- Clare
- Waterford
- Limerick
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Of course youāre right but tbf, I donāt think TFK is really the place for an actual debate considering the majority of the most vocal people about it are āpersonasā rather than peopleās real opinions.
The split season itself is a good idea, and is the one good thing the GAA has done in the past few years, actually prioritising its playing members, the people who mean we have a sport. There are a number of sideshows they have handled less well though.
The round robin thing is completely separate. In hurling, the round robin is decent enough at the moment in Munster, creates competitive games that actually mean something. Has revitalised the provincials to an extent, although youāre always going to have an issue if there are teams way off the pace in Leinster. If we go back to the old format, thatād be grand too; thereās definitely more good matches now though. In football, itās the opposite, itās probably designed to kill the provincials but to have 3 teams coming out from a group of 4 in the round robin is utter madness. The Tailteann Cup could be a good idea, hard to know for sure.
Then thereās the TV rights thingā¦ obviously I think as many as matches as possible should be on free-to-air as possible. But if RTE donāt want to show them, what can you do? I think TG4 should have been brought in but obviously they havenāt for whatever reason. I donāt really have an issue with GAA Go in itself; Sky was a similar barrier for peopleā¦ these are matches that wouldnāt be broadcast otherwise. What would the costs be in making it available as an actual TV channel on a Saorview box? I know nothing about that but if the costs arenāt too prohibitive, maybe thatās something they could look at.
Obviously if we go back to meaningless provincials; weād have less matches and that would solve part of the TV problem; the matches would all be shown but the quality would decrease until the knockouts again.
As for a match between Dublin & Wexford being shit to watch, Iām not sure thereās a whole pile that can be done to fix that in the short term.
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The split season insinuates thereās some sort of 50/50 divide.
The inter county season begins in December and doesnāt end until July.
The clubs get zero look in until august.
The only thing this split season has done is rejuvenate junior soccer and rugby around the country.
So thereās two provinces and one of them is sinking quicker than the titanic after it hit the ice berg.
And you conclude that thereās little wrong with format.
Interesting.
Joeās stand in is all over it now on Liveline.
I have actual stats to show the amount of time our county players spend with their clubs before and after the split season. And itās incomparable tbh.
Even versus 2017.
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And the one county being Dublin who should easily have a good hurling team is getting set back a good 30 odd years thanks to the split season as lads arenāt picking up their hurleys until July.
Just watch the Dublin club hurling championship absolutely tank in standard thanks to the split season.
Are here.
Youāre spamming the board. The odd good point you make is lost in the nonsense.
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There is no reason why all players shouldnāt be with their clubs two weeks of every month.
How many weeks a year does Harry Kane spend with spurs compared to England ?
Itās called dovetailing.
Itās the same in rugby. Youāve international windows and club windows.
Liveline now.
A Tour De France from John Arnold.
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Iām dealing with reality, what actually happened versus what is happening now.
Clubs are in a way way better position than 5 years ago, thankfully.
And I know most of the people donāt care about that, and just want to fuck the clubs and go back to their 10-month-long intercounty seasons with their All Irelands in September. And thatās fine if thatās their opinion but luckily that hasnāt fed through to the upper echelons yet.
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Thatās it clubs benefiting hugely.
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Thatās your opinion. You are a part of a club whoās had unprecedented success.
Iāve talked to clubs who are struggling and they canāt get anybody training because theyāre still playing soccer, studying for exams and just couldnāt be arsed because the championship is so far away.
Nobody is calling for a return to 2017.
The inter county season needs to be shortened, the amount of games culled and a fair structure for all counties to compete in put in place.
Yep the junior soccer clubs have benefited massively.