+1. I felt the same when DCC threatened to ruin the IFSC by sticking a white water rafting âattractionâ in it. You canât mess with sacred things.
The 2021 Championship Formats/Timing in both codes were very close to spot in my opinion. That would have been a great championship season if there were full crowds.
Bring back the football knockout qualifiers by all means and extend it by a few weeks but please dont have this long, meandering nonsense from January to June where nobody really knows or cares if they win or lose as it makes no difference in the grand scheme of things.
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A major reason why the Football has turned to shit and everyone is sitting back with 15 behind the ball is because it takes a lot of energy to âpress upâ or âgo for itâ, energy which nobody has thanks to the ridiculous number of games they are playing. Teams are just saving energy by sitting back and allowing games become like Chess. It was better back during the League when teams were fresher.
I wouldnt expect the split season zealots to understand this nuanced analysis though.
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Bullshit.Its easier to sit back and drag the shit out of the game till the last 5 minutes,fear is whatâs killing the games led by charlatans like McGeeney who are afraid of their lives of losing a match.
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I think McGeeney is being pragmatic. He knows that they cant sustain high energy, attacking football week in week out so instead have sucked the life out of games. Tomorrow will be their 7th game in about 10 weeks and they play again next Saturday either way. A mental schedule of games.
They were involved in a serious, one-off, knock out match with Monaghan in 2021 and played good stuff last year too in what was a much âlighterâ campaign.
As someone who is overall in favour of the split season, theres some thongs need to be fixed. The hurling season should be condensed more to give a greater gap between league amd championship and restructure the league to the old 1A and 1B. Having the Joe mac teams play the prelim needs to be dropped, obly for Dublin v laois andnl carlow they were all training games.
Rip up the football championship the format is all wrong.
The precession of the simulacra has killed the GAA.
The league in hurling anyways needs something doing to it and I donât know what that is. Doing away with the knockout stages to it would be a start anyway.
I actually think the Joe McDonagh counties getting a home game in the AI series is not a bad thing. You had decent enough crowds yesterday in Carlow & Tullamore which can only be good for the game in the counties, even despite shipping 7-38. I would actually go further and give them home games against the provincial winners to boost the profile of those games.
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Iâve seen it myself at club level that itâs much more energy sapping playing as wing-forward in such a system. Youâre basically expected to rush back as soon as your attack breaks down. Then if you get a turnover youâre galloping back up the other end of the field. Itâs actually much less taxing playing a traditional man on man system for the most part.
If the current hurling system is to continue I think a sixth team should be added to the Munster hurling championship, regardless of whether that team is Kerry or somebody else. Iâd be intrigued to see Offaly or Antrim go into Munster.
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If Offaly or Antrim went into Munster, theyâd ship 5 consecutive 15+ point hidings in a row and you could effectively end Hurling as a pastime there within six weeks.
At least in Leinster the hammerings are limited to 2 really bad ones.
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They might, but theyâd be forced to up their standards. If theyâre serious about hurling.
Fix the hurling league, no bother we all can agree on it and yes there should have been no semis either despite Limerick benefiting from it this year.
The Joe mac teams were thriwn this bone to agree to the restructure. The joe mac is a very good competition in itself but extending the hurling season by 2 weeks to allow a hammering every year is pointless. Third place in munster or leinster should go straight to a QF. Only 3 out of the round robin works well as the formst goes, it adds jeopardy
Would it be worth going back to the old divisions.
Div.1 - 10 teams
Div 2 -10 Teams
Div3 - 7 Teams
Div 4 - 7 Teams
top wins the league. One up one down. Would need a few extra weeks.
Just pull it out of your ass crack and reset your nut sack.
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Galway v Tipperary in a knock out championship hurling match with a Saturday tea time throw in. This should be played in the prime time Sunday afternoon 3.30 slot.
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Here comes the Carlow Waterford Wexford Preston North London 
take your pick fanatic and all round loyalist to the 
blowharding again, you made a slur about me a few weeks ago that I havenât forgotten, you claimed I was a Mullingar man supporting Limerick for your information and Iâve gone through the genealogy I am 100% Limerick born and bred and as are both sides of my parents generation going back 3 generations. How you can comment on GAA matters while being a rabid loyalist is anathema to me.
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Lads fuck off. We are in for a feast of a weekend. The ridiculous football championship is finally about to start and Galway Tipp will be a cracker in the hurling. Canât see it but who knows maybe the Dubs have it in them to topple Clare
And two very evenly matched Tailteann semis
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