Well that has been long mooted and every time itâs mentioned somebody just shouts âit would be unworkableâ.
When everything is âunworkableâ, as every suggestion to protect competition is always deemed to be, you end up with grotesque imbalance.
Sure everything is âunworkableâ because the GAA is supposed to be an amateur organisation, but professionalism and monetisation was allowed to creep into it and spread like Japanese knotweed. No effort was ever made to try and eradicate the Japanese knotweed.
Also some of these big three things are misleading. It was club teams repressing counties until the early teens as far as Iâm aware if not a little later.
Some of those early championships were bizarre too. Cork and Limerick didnât enter a couple of them.
1982/1983 Iâd guess though there was only one semi-final in those days.
In both those years Kilkenny beat Offaly in the Leinster final, Cork thrashed Waterford in the Munster final and Kilkenny beat Cork in the All-Ireland final.
I didnât even flick on the football yesterday. Glued to the tennis. An All Ireland Football semi final the same day as the Gentlemenâs Singles Final at the All England Club is just all wrong.
Are you thick? Look at the viewership peak for Sky Sports for the biggest Cricket Competition which only happens once every 2 years. Thatâs what the comparison is all about
Itâs all so rushed, four All Ireland semi finals and the two finals, crash, bang, wallop all played off in the space of 22 days. No sense of occasion or build up to it anymore.
No Sevens on the Saturday, both All Ireland Finalists travelling home the night of the game, no Minor match, jubilee team rolled out in front of a few hundred people at 2.30pm.
Will the winners even go to the Hospitals on Monday?