To justify a split season theyāve had to multiply the number of games.
You canāt have Inter County teams having regular 3 or 4 week gaps between games or thereād be outcry to release players back to Clubs.
Lar Wall to Meath. Heāll 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 8ās in football were introduced in 2018 before any split season so once again on this thread youāve 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 canāt 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 hadnāt 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. Thereās no argument there.
Good bit of detail missing there 2017 was the last year of the September All Irelandās 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 Iād say if a team had a break of over 4 weeks.
Heās 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.