Unintentional irony alert
Have you ever heard of the word overlap?
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Why should clubs who produce inter county players get them run into the ground before having access to them?
The inter county season load is ridiculous now. Youâre squeezing so many games into such a short space of time for absolutely no reason.
Itâs causing injuries and will continue to do so.
Intercounty season isnât any more squeezed now than it was when the April club month was there, National Leagues are run off the same time frame, provincial round robins in hurling are run off same time frame, football championship is a Frankensteinâs monster but thatâs a structural issue with 2 of the 4 provincial championships close to a waistland, Roscommon losing 4 out 6 championship games and still making the last 8 shows how silly it is. Teams arenât actually permitted to be back training until December 7th, weather thatâs abided too or not is another story but overtraining causes injury as much probably more than games, ironically the year Aaron Gillane got HOTY he actually didnât rejoin the Limerick panel til February after some discipline issues.
Thereâs football 1 week and hurling the other.
Waterford, Tipp and Galway hurlers were well rested this year.
There is 2 weeks between hurling championship games in Clare. The most competitive hurling championship in the country too.
The last 3 hurlers of the year missed
The early parts of the league if I recall correctly. Possibly the last four.
So basically youâre talking about one code.
What do you mean the inter county season isnât more squeezed? Your playing 4
Games in 6 weeks. Itâs way more squeezed. Often playing two games 6/7 days apart.
2 week gap between club football games in Clare too.
Both National Leagues are not any more squeezed than Pre Covid, intercounty hurling championship is not any more squeezed than 2018&19 when the provincial round robins were in place, intercounty football has a new championship structure which is a separate issue to the split season.
So youâre talking about two years out of over a 140 years.
2018 was a disaster as invariably youâd teams absolutely knackered. Limerick were wrecked out in Ennis.
Galway never recovered from what they were put through in 2018.
You seem to have forgotten there was no round robin pre 2018.
After 2018 they made an adjustment to the round robins to ensure teams arenât out 3 weekends in a row.
Galwayâs issues are far more deep rooted than that, won 5 Minor All Irelands in 6 years from 2015-20 yet they havenât won a u20/u21 since 2011 when David Burke was on the team, thereâs a mentality issue there.
2016 Dublin and Mayoâs season ran into October with the replay, a close to 10 month intercounty season is not sustainable.
Will you stop with your 2 weeks breĂĄk between games. Dual players have break. Hurling 1 week, football the next. But you know that anyway.
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IMO the league should be shortened. Most counties start off serious about it, but when it comes to march, the intensity declines. 4 league games and league finals would be plenty. That would give teams a chance to rest before championship and potentially have a 1 or 2 club championship games also
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- no break
Managers seem slow enough to catch on to all this. Last 2 football AllâIrelands were won by Div 2 teams, Galway came very close in 2022 to winning it from Div 2 as well. It used to be the same in the hurling before they changed the format.
Most hurlers in Clare dont play football so have 2 week breaks between games. I do not understand youâre point.