Would you be in favour of the split season yourself?
My brain child? Modern day football has nothing to do with dates and times of matches. Lazy excuse. Coaches are ruining the game. Take out Kerry and Dublin and the rest are putrid. With the talent Galway have they should be ashamed at their style of football.
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Lookit if these games were played next month theyād be all out attack,man on man.High fielding and long range kicking and you know it.
The style is coming from the number of games teams are asked to play.
The only chance the majority of counties have against a Dublin team who have been preparing uninterrupted for six or seven months is all out defence.
The style existed long before the split season or this format
No it didnāt. Football was a better spectacle than hurling for the majority of the last ten years.
You lot have destroy inter county gaa and club gaa with this absolute rubbish.
All the county players dying on their feet towards the end of games and they havenāt even put on their club jersey yet this year.
Itās absolutely farcical what was allowed happen.
Cripes thatās a fair leap.
https://twitter.com/offtheball/status/1675636718702309377?s=46
And you had morons on here defending gaa go.
It was a total money grab by croke park.
Itās also absurd that people are using the fact that most of the preliminary quarter final winners couldnāt raise a gallop after half time in the quarter finals as a POSITIVE for the new system. Yes, the actual quarter finals become non-event fixtures to be ticked off & fulfilled but it means some earlier round robin game takes on even greater significance. Reverse engineering & doing backflips to try justify whatās a huge pile of steaming shite. Iām so fucking angry with the GGA.
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Letās absolutely cripple all the best players before the club season starts.
This will really benefit the clubs who are on their knees country wide already.
Iām not a part of the decision making process.
Football has been absolutely turgid for years except for the semis and finals for as long as I can remember. Iām not defending the split season but it canāt be blamed for the style of play
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Letās absolutely cripple all the best players before the All Ireland season starts.
This will really benefit the counties who are on their knees country wide already.
Mayo just gave up after half time on Sunday. Even their supporters looked a spent force and provided little resistance when the Blue wave came.
Cork despite being well in the game on the scoreboard couldnāt raise a gallop in the last ten minutes to trouble Derry. Their players had their eyes on Ibiza from the moment Derry got the goal.
Its no longer cause for disappointment to be knocked out of Championship, in fact nowadays its more a relief.
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Tyrone gave up too.
Yes it can. The reason we have a split season is so they can play dozens off needless inter county games which sucks the joy out of the Championship.
It was when you got to Dublin-Mayo in the final. The smaller counties having less depth is probably an issue but doesnāt seem to be affecting Monaghan too badly
Not sure how much they actually wanted it but Virgin basically being locked out of any negotiations as their CEO said was dodgy as fuck
Monaghan are the exception not the rule.
Fair play to them but it isnāt sustainable.
They either need to scrap the leagues completely and space these games out a lot more or bin the whole thing.
Theyāll cripple the players for a finish.
You see they canāt justify spacing out the games a bit more or thereād be calls to release players back to their clubs.
The reason the men long ago who designed the calendar gave three and four week intervals between games was to allow club games proceed in between. Then the I/C Managers wouldnāt allow players back to their clubs in between so we are left with this current sorry mess.
Its catch 22 now.
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I went to see Waterford play Carlow in Division 4 of the League on a wet Saturday night in February and I can honestly say it was more entertaining than Derry vs Cork.
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