Gaa split season,killing Meath football since 2011

[BruidheanChaorthainn]

@ChairmanDan

Waterford I believe are adopting the same approach as last year. An 11 week break from exiting the Munster and All Ireland Championship on 13 May before the 6 week mini blitz Club Championship starts on the weekend of 29/30 July.

Hurling will go extinct in both Waterford and Wexford thanks to these club championships.

The standard will fall off a Cliff in Dublin too.

[Fat_Pox]

@BruidheanChaorthainn

Hurling will go extinct in both Waterford and Wexford thanks to these club championships

That is the fault of the county boards with their ineptitude in organising championships in a rushed manner. Not the fault of the split season. They should follow how other counties do things.

[Fat_Pox]

@BruidheanChaorthainn

The standard will fall off a Cliff in Dublin too.

Expand on that from your armchair in Limerick.

[BruidheanChaorthainn]

@Fat_Pox

@BruidheanChaorthainn

The standard will fall off a Cliff in Dublin too.

Expand on that from your armchair in Limerick.

Very simple club players are hurling less now than ever before.

More lads play multiple sports now than ever before too.

[myboyblue]

@Fat_Pox

@Jahan

I could be wrong but it’s almost as if those who watch sport solely on the couch in front of the television and like select big events across multiple sports spaced out over the calendar year are against the split season, and those who are actually fully invested in and involved with the GAA are in favour of the split season.

Cracking post. The main protagonists on TFK against the split season are the casual armchair/bandwagon sportsfan. The restructure of the season has eaten into them following their other sports. @ChairmanDan is unable to balance following Carlow/Waterford with also trying keep up with Spurs, Preston, the cricket season and rugby.

@BruidheanChaorthainn is more interested in some final in a secondary rugby club competition rather than a knockout game involving Limerick this weekend.

@peddlerscross would rather spend the early part of the year attending association football games and race meetings in the UK.

The new split season has some faults that will no doubt be ironed out but is superior for the grassroots of the association- namely the club player.

[BruidheanChaorthainn]

@Fat_Pox

@BruidheanChaorthainn

Hurling will go extinct in both Waterford and Wexford thanks to these club championships

That is the fault of the county boards with their ineptitude in organising championships in a rushed manner. Not the fault of the split season. They should follow how other counties do things.

It’s the fault of the split season.

Best players flogged to death is because of the split season.

No club championships until august.

Insufferably long and boring inter county championships.

All comes back to the split season.

People were sold a pup.

The inter county season needed to be shortened not extended and bizarrely lads think this is the benefit of the clubs.

It’s moving towards semi professionalism and the inter county players not playing with the clubs and the game of hurling dying out in many areas.

[myboyblue]

More lies

[Declan_Moffat]

The one thing that could be never aimed at Dublin is a lack of games. You could play over 20 games a year as a club player in Dublin if you wanted to.

[Cheasty]

@Aertel220

I’m not so sure anymore. Kilkenny haven’t won one since 2015, Cork since 2005 and Tipp are usually just picking one or two every decade now. It’s actually far more open these days. I think the days of the Big 3 hoovering up 75%+ of All-Ireland’s in hurling are a thing of the past.

You can forget Waterford, Wexford and Dublin and Offaly are a long way away yet so Limerick, Galway and Clare are very likely the only teams outside the big three who can win it in the foreseeable future.

Limerick are on the ropes. Galway don’t have the culture of consistently winning. Clare are going well again this year but who’s to say they won’t collapse again in a semi-final and who’s to say what they’ll be like when Tony Kelly and the other stragglers from 2013 decline/depart.

The big three always come back. Tipp were on the floor last year and will at minimum be in the Munster final and an All-Ireland semi-final this year.

Kilkenny are knocking on the door again this year, they’re the crafty lad in the chipper who stands off to the side while there’s a brawl going on.

When Cork get it right, and one of years they will, they’ll get it very right. I’d wager the big three will take out minimum 80% of the All-Irelands between 2025 and 2029.

[BruidheanChaorthainn]

@Declan_Moffat

The one that could be never aimed at Dublin is a lack of games. You could play over 20 games a year as a club player in Dublin if you wanted to.

That’s a little different to the quality of the game.

The standard of the club game will go backwards thanks to the split season but I guess that’s not really an issue a such but a little disappointing l.

[Declan_Moffat]

You didn’t mention quality. You mentioned the amount of games so stop trying to change the narrative to suit.

[BruidheanChaorthainn]

@Cheasty

@Aertel220

I’m not so sure anymore. Kilkenny haven’t won one since 2015, Cork since 2005 and Tipp are usually just picking one or two every decade now. It’s actually far more open these days. I think the days of the Big 3 hoovering up 75%+ of All-Ireland’s in hurling are a thing of the past.

You can forget Waterford, Wexford and Dublin and Offaly are a long way away yet so Limerick, Galway and Clare are very likely the only teams outside the big three who can win it in the foreseeable future.

Limerick are on the ropes. Galway don’t have the culture of consistently winning. Clare are going well again this year but who’s to say they won’t collapse again in a semi-final and who’s to say what they’ll be like when Tony Kelly and the other stragglers from 2013 decline/depart.

The big three always come back. Tipp were on the floor last year and will at minimum be in the Munster final and an All-Ireland semi-final this year.

Kilkenny are knocking on the door again this year, their the crafty lad in the chipper who stands off to the side while there’s a brawl going on.

When Cork get it right, and one of years they will, they’ll get it very right. I’d wager the big three will take out minimum 80% of the All-Irelands between 2025 and 2029.

The 60s and 70s gaa invested in hurling in the likes of Offaly and got huge returns.

Nowadays there’s only an interest in spending millions on stadiums in the more powerful counties.

[BruidheanChaorthainn]

@Declan_Moffat

You didn’t mention quality. You mentioned the amount of games so stop trying to change the narrative to suit.

I didn’t say that but carry on making up things if you wish.

[Cheasty]

@Aertel220

Joe McDonagh does offer entry into the preliminary All-Ireland quarter-finals to be fair. We could end up being paired off against the 3rd placed team in Leinster (Dublin) and staging a Laois 2019 style coup at home in front of a raucous crowd.

Wexford would have to lose the McDonagh final next year for that to happen. The McDonagh winners this year get a crack at Dublin but next year it’ll be a Munster team.

[Declan_Moffat]

This is what you said when pulled up on your Dublin claim. You said club players are playing less than before.

I said that you get loads of games in Dublin if you wanted to.
You then changed it to quality of games.

[BruidheanChaorthainn]

@Declan_Moffat

This is what you said when pulled up on your Dublin claim. You said club players are playing less than before.

I said that you get loads of games in Dublin if you wanted to.
You then changed it to quality of games.

Dublin club championship doesn’t start till the middle of July if not the end of July.

So like all over the country lads are still playing junior soccer and junior rugby until now before picking up their hurleys.

Anyway the standard isn’t an issue I’m going to get hung up on.

[Declan_Moffat]

That’s championship. League has been on. Do you think hurlers just pick up the hurley for championship?
Again you mentioned games.

[BruidheanChaorthainn]

@Cheasty

@Aertel220

I’m not so sure anymore. Kilkenny haven’t won one since 2015, Cork since 2005 and Tipp are usually just picking one or two every decade now. It’s actually far more open these days. I think the days of the Big 3 hoovering up 75%+ of All-Ireland’s in hurling are a thing of the past.

You can forget Waterford, Wexford and Dublin and Offaly are a long way away yet so Limerick, Galway and Clare are very likely the only teams outside the big three who can win it in the foreseeable future.

Limerick are on the ropes. Galway don’t have the culture of consistently winning. Clare are going well again this year but who’s to say they won’t collapse again in a semi-final and who’s to say what they’ll be like when Tony Kelly and the other stragglers from 2013 decline/depart.

The big three always come back. Tipp were on the floor last year and will at minimum be in the Munster final and an All-Ireland semi-final this year.

Kilkenny are knocking on the door again this year, they’re the crafty lad in the chipper who stands off to the side while there’s a brawl going on.

When Cork get it right, and one of years they will, they’ll get it very right. I’d wager the big three will take out minimum 80% of the All-Irelands between 2025 and 2029.

In 09 If Limerick didn’t have jp to help get the academy off the ground god knows where hurling would have ended up in the county.

Not every county is lucky to have a figure like him.

The new increased inter county season means it costs millions to run an inter county now. That in turn means very few will compete.

[BruidheanChaorthainn]

@Declan_Moffat

That’s championship. League has been on. Do you think hurlers just pick up the hurley for championship?
Again you mentioned games.

That is what is happening because championship is more important than league but if you are playing junior soccer you still have two or three months to prepare.

The junior rugby and junior soccer seasons are far more attractive and fun to play.

The gaa loses out again.

[Thomas_Brady]

Small correction… The academy didn’t start till 2011/12.

JP isn’t pumping millions in either. It’s totally overblown.