Gaa split season,killing Meath football since 2011

From I can see the only people that enjoy the split season are that 35-45 age bracket with young kids who are recently retired or are just playing a bit of junior b.

They don’t fancy training in Jan, Feb or march.

Their wife’s don’t let them out for a drink so a million inter county games suits them because they get a free pass from the wife for them and they don’t have any training to attend mid week.

They can get their summer holidays out of the way before the club season gets under way in august.

I’ve never been so disillusioned with the whole thing.
What Is even the point of the last seven months? A complete and utter waste of time and resources.

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GAA Go should televise them.

:grin: you’ve obviously never seen a game in NY or Boston

That dig covers a fair cohort of TFK😅

I can’t understand how lads choose these ridiculous formats over some good club action.

This is without doubt the worst summer of gaa ever.

If we have two good games between hurling and football from here until the end we’ll be doing well.

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Great article from Eamon Sweeney comparing the gaa to the Catholic Church and fiana fail.

A lot of similarities between the three.

Also the Newstalk paper review is very good on the gaa.

Quarter finals were desperate. Semis will be worse. Dublin and Kerry 4eva.

The most underwhelming Championship in living memory

More posters tuned into the cricket today than the football. Says it all

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Derry 1-12, Tyrone 0-12, Monaghan 0-12, Armagh 0-12, Cork 1-08, Mayo 0-11. Vomit-inducing football is alive and well.

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When you see erstehile GAA men like @balbec and @Bandage getting more worked up over the cricket than the All Ireland QFs even the split season zealots must know the jig is up

I wouldn’t cross the street to watch bogball pal.

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@balbec wouldn’t be caught dead watching football. :laughing:

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We’re going to have to bring in a rule making teams keep at least 3 forwards inside the 45 at all times.That would definitely help.

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The ECB put cricket behind a paywall but at least all the big games are actually on television, not stuck on some shitty app. Imagine Wimbledon sticking 2 of the men’s singles quarter finals on an app & not televising them. It’s a complete shambles. There’ll be muldoon children who couldn’t access yesterday’s games who simply wouldn’t have been arsed watching today as a result. I don’t think I’ve ever seen an organisation so comprehensively sabotage their own product. It’s baffling.

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I wouldn’t say the reason behind not being arsed to watch gaelic football is anything to do with what channel it’s on.

South Board are renowned as a joke in Tipp.

Took the dog for a walk during Cork and Derry yesterday. Mind numbing stuff. I could see why people would like to see the hurling season extended but the sooner the football championship ends the better. What are teams doing since November? Obviously not doing any shooting drills.

Split season eh

https://twitter.com/pat_nolan/status/1675622542835343362?s=46&t=YOfhVM10W0bcyIiYSLI3Wg

This is your brain child.