At this point it doesnāt really matter when itāll end.
Itās so bad everyone will stop watching in time.
This season is Inherently unfair on the clubs and does nothing to grow the game.
The 17-21 are giving up in the droves thanks to it as there is nothing happening all summer.
The only other sport I can find that has a split season is super rugby in New Zealand and Australia.
Itās completely failed there too. Played largely in front of empty stadiums.
June and July which are meant to be inter county months has seven games of senior inter county hurling and four of them are played on the same day.
Thatās what youāre holding up the club championship for. Seven games and five match days.
Then on a completely random weekend in April you could have four semi interesting games in two days that nobody can watch.
Itās a one of the worst ideas Iāve ever seen.
Theyāre delighted because they can enjoy their summer rather than having to think about one game being shoehorned in at some point in the summer at a weekās notice depending on how the county team does.
Playing the games in the Stadiums is the minimum the Cunts should be doing.
Hard to get lads committed to playing on concrete
How many club games have you been at in the last few weeks?
What are you on about ?
They are giving up the game in droves.
Your lot organised the bulk of the club season for the busiest holiday month in Ireland. You canāt have any summer if you are playing club gaa unless you pack it in.
August also contains debs, leaving cert holidays and leaving cert results a long with various other social events. So itās idiotic to fix the bulk of the club season in this month.
Thatās why the under 19 grade failed so badly and has now created a massive gap between juvenile club games and the adult club action.
As peddlers pointed out in a lot of club games around the country its oldest lads who are the most skilful.
All you had to do was get a few county managers in line but instead we had to destroy for no particular reason.
Lah di Dah 
Pre split season championship was always in full swing in August.
I never once said the previous format was perfect.
The biggest issue was the inter county game ruined it.
There should be a max of three inter county friendlies before the round robin.
County players guaranteed four games.
Double what they were ten years ago and four times
More than pre back door years.
Thatāll make the inter county championships more competitive and stop this move towards professionalism. We desperately need to break that up.
Itāll also give adequate time for proper club championships to take place. Not this mini blitz we have now.
Anything for Gowran today?
Do we have data on this?
7 percent deduction of teams registered in 2023.
The under 19 grade has been a disaster in most counties from what Iāve seen.
Youāll always lose lads at that age but the gaa couldnāt have arranged their exit better with this new āsplit
seasonā.
The rise of the academies in gaa has again suited the biggest clubs.
Your average under 20 club hurler has very little development opportunities from January to the club championship bar the gym.
Where as the guy who may be slightly better that makes the under 20 county team gets incredible development opportunities with the expanded underage inter county championships. Guaranteed four games as well.
The difference of those two players development a crucial age is off the charts. Particularly when itās just a coaches opinion on picking those inter county coaching squads.
That again suits the senior clubs with the most county county representatives creating a further gap between the small and the big.
Thatās a lot. Thatās very worrying.
The reduction in teams is natural now that Covid has ended and lads can spread their wings for J1/Oz etc.
On participation level as a whole, Junior hurling/football is of a much higher standard which reduces the amount of pub/social GAA players. Counties need to introduce more Junior C/D competitions to cater for that cohort.
Thereās an obvious reason why junior championships have gone up in standard and itās gone over your head.
Iāve a requested a list of the teams off the gaa.
Iād have to analyse exactly as it could be Covid related and redistribution of young people out of the cities but that isnāt what Iāve seen.
If anything more people are moving away from the countryside.
The influx of Ukrainian refugees into Clare is a fantastic opportunity for the GAA there especially given they have the same colours.
I look forward to Stepan Banderas CLG Lisdoonvarna reaching a junior football final in the coming years.
Iād imagine thatās on the back of big rises in team registrations in previous 5 yearsā¦
Have another go.
The drop was from the 2019 figures.
And Limerick were one of the few counties to see an increase in team registrations .
I wonder what reason that was?
The success of the senior team of course.
Thatās why itās vital weāve fair and competitive inter county championships which can help clubs as opposed to hind them.