Youâd have inter-county teams playing literally two games a year then.
The solution is to treat inter-county like international association football and club GAA like club association football.
Have two mandatory club championship weekends a month every month from May to September.
Plenty of inter-county players are done by the middle of May. Then they have the best months of the year from the middle of May to early August off.
This could prove me completely wrong but pick a random season like 2018. His many big âoccasionâ type matches was there compared to last year? Only include non provincial and discount anything from quarter finals on
So how are they tired? Totally contradicting your argument.
Why would you discount provincial matches and matches from the quarter-finals on?
Perhaps, but it wont be because of the split season
If the Joe McDonagh finalists did not have that ridiculous preliminary quarter final hurling championship would be starting 2 weeks later. Amazing the experts havent mentioned that.
Alright count them. I was discounting them because they exist under the current format and are more or less the same. Provincials arenât knock out and quarter final on are
The split season is playing out in plenty of counties now that inter-county teams are out of the championship by the middle of May. Then there is no club action until early August until the All Ireland Finals are done. A truly bizarre state of affairs last few years in counties like Wexford and Waterford that supporters in those counties had no championship action to follow for their clubs or county across the later half of May, June and July.
A situation thatâs actually beyond farcicalâŚ
To be fair Laois caught Dublin in 2019. Carlow gave the Dubs a good rattle for 60 minutes last year too. Wexford couldâve easily been reliant on the Joe Mcdonagh entry but for a late surge against Kilkenny and Iâd say Offaly could scalp a 3rd placed Leinster team in the near future. The chasm between a Joe McDonagh winner and a 3rd placed team in Leinster isnât as wide as youâd think. The 3rd placed Munster teams have hammered them to be fair. Cork v Antrim in 2022 the only remotely competitive instance.
Is there not an element that everyone is happy out with that situation as they can drink pints go on holidays etc in peace
If the split season zealots were running a sport like skiing, theyâd be pumping artificial snow onto the Alpine slopes and running off the skiing season in June, July and August.
Again you are contracting yourself. How are players burnt out in that case?
One competitive game every 10 years is not good enough reason to keep Joe McDonagh entry into All Ireland.
You are babbling incoherently yet again. I have no idea what you are on about.
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Itâs like the International Olympic Committee moving the Summer Olympics to March/April to give the summer parkrun season a free run at it. Let Joan hand out her post race baked goods without everyone wanting to rush off to watch Adeleke.
The only thing more absurd than the split season itself is the fact that Leinster GAA were streaming U20 hurling matches tonight between Kildare & Meath or some such, the childrenâs hurling championship games are online tomorrow too but thereâs no live TV or live streamed coverage of the Leinster senior hurling matches on Sunday. The GGA is killing itself.
Football provincials are either guaranteed knockout or potential knockout now for around 18-20 teams. No county was eliminated from the football championship in the provinces in 2018.
The hurling format in 2018 was the same as it is now.
Hurlingâs blockbuster games now tend to be in the Munster round robin in games not involving Waterford.
In 2023 the Limerick-Clare Munster final and Kilkenny v Clare were the only games outside of the Munster round robin that delivered a serious championship spectacle.
The business ends of the 2017 championships were a good example of how the old GAA season grabbed everything and destroyed the competition from other sports in the traditional months.
July 30th: Kerry v Galway/Roscommon v Mayo (65k)
August 5th: Tyrone v Armagh/Dublin v Monaghan (82k)
August 6th: Galway v Tipperary (68k)
August 7th: Mayo v Roscommon (39k)
August 13th: Waterford v Cork (72k)
August 20th: Mayo v Kerry (66k)
August 26th: Mayo v Kerry (53k)
August 27th: Dublin v Tyrone (82k)
September 3rd: Galway v Waterford (82k)
September 17th: Dublin v Mayo (82k)
Nothing else really mattered in Ireland for those eight weeks. Each game could be endlessly dissected, and the games were spaced better, they had space to breathe.
Iâm almost sure every one of those games could happen exactly the same in 2024 just a couple of months earlier. It was better to have it in August but hardly the end of the world either if they felt there was a good reason to change it.