To justify a split season they’ve had to multiply the number of games.
You can’t have Inter County teams having regular 3 or 4 week gaps between games or there’d be outcry to release players back to Clubs.
Lar Wall to Meath. He’ll have them purring
We need lads to be over weight again and get rid of player fit jerseys
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Provincial round robins in hurling and super 8’s in football were introduced in 2018 before any split season so once again on this thread you’ve told complete and utter lies.
And 2018 and 2019 were effectively Split Seasons in all but name with a two week club window in early April.
Did one County allow Inter County players back to their clubs in 2018/2019 once the Inter County Championship was up and running?
Compare that to 2017 when Inter County players were playing Club games in between Inter County games.
Well in my own county there was 2 rounds of football and 2 rounds of hurling in April 2019 and 2 rounds of football and 1 round of hurling in 2018, that year the national league dragged into mid or early April after the snow that March wrote off a full weekend and some counties were still even effected the following weekend, you can’t even keep up with your own lies.
Inter County Championships started in mid May in 2018/2019 and in both seasons, nobody was releasing players back to their clubs from May 1st until they were knocked out of the Inter County Championships.
So it effectively ringfenced access for Inter County Managers to players for weeks on end, something that hadn’t been the case at least officially up to that point.
2018 and 2019 was when the dominos started to fall for the current sorry mess we are in. There’s no argument there.
Good bit of detail missing there 2017 was the last year of the September All Ireland’s and 2018 was the 1st year of the provincial round robins for example so alot of factors to consider, Munster hurling championship went from 4 games excluding replays to 11 games just as 1 example, the scenario of provincial winners having a 5-6 week gap was gone too, this thing of players going back to their clubs during the intercounty championship only really happened over the last 20 years I’d say if a team had a break of over 4 weeks.
He’s dead right about the volume and duration of training. If there was a fella getting paid based on the time they spent training you could understand it maybe 
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And these fellas lapping it up 
The only crowd for the split season are the coaches who are rolling in money from it.
Teams can start training from December 7th though are not allowed to train Christmas week. Challenge matches are allowed from January.
They should start the league a week earlier maybe.
Sunday September 22nd down the years:
1957: The Wee County’s last All-Ireland win and last All-Ireland final.
1963: Dublin beat Galway in front of the third biggest crowd ever.
1968: Down beat Kerry, as they always do
1974: Dublin beat Galway again, as they always do.
1985: Kerry beat Dublin, as they always did but now never do.
2002: Armagh win an All-Ireland, as they never did before.
2013: Dublin beat Mayo, as they always do in finals.
2024: TG4 show a dead rubber hurling game from a ground somewhere in County Limerick which doubles as a Stamford Bridge style car park for the local Super Valu.
Galway should have been losing another All-Ireland final today and Armagh should have been winning another one. That’s eight long weeks ago now. Another season, another world.
The US Masters is not moving to Superbowl Sunday this year, or any year.
Living in the past is not good. Go to a few matches, loads on at the moment. Be good for you.
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The split season nut jobs have nothing except to sneer at those who tell the truth.
It’s very Trump-like.
The same fellas who were going to be so busy in August attending club games were on here desperately looking for more funding for pole vaulting or whatever Olympic sport was on the fox.
The seven week mini blitz came to the end of a lot of clubs this weekend. Another woeful format to go with the awful inter county season.
So clubs who arent good enough to advance should get their season extended?
September All Irelands wont be coming back.
When the all stars are on in November or whenever, the all Ireland finals will feel like about 3 years ago.