So soccer is moving to the summer across the board or is it a choice of each district?
Somebody was always going to eat into early summer period the gaa has moved away from I guess.
I canât really see how itâs going to be great for soccer around the country but it also wonât help the gaa either.
Itâll likely end up damaging both sports. GAA and association football are only able to sort of co-exist because there isnât that much overlap between the seasons at local and underage level.
Somebody correct me if Iâm wrong but did the FAI not already try this a few years back and then backtrack because it wasnât working?
It does smack of being the decision of an Englishman who knows feck all culturally of Ireland.
FAI decision to switch to summer soccer âcould killâ the game in rural Ireland, warns grassroots chairman
https://www.irishmirror.ie/sport/soccer/fai-decision-switch-summer-soccer-34259050
Iâd figure itâll be negative for both of them in rural parts of the country alright.
Iâm nearly sure they did try this before but that was pre split season.
Wouldnât be like you to see the negative side of something?
It seems to me itâs another example of âthe perfect is the enemy of the goodâ. In the INTERNET age thereâs an obsession that everything should be LOGICAL, QUANTIFIABLE and PERFECT.
But that can never work. And when it doesnât work the same people who thought it would cry WAAAAA WAAAAA WAAAAAA WAAAAAAAAAAAAAA.
Itâs like these INTERNET posters who become obsessed with âhypocrisyâ and âlogicâ, whose worldview then becomes ultra-hypocritical and ulra-illogical and downright nuts precisely because their obsession with hypocrisy and logic fries their brains. Like Ewan and Fulvio and the rapey lads here. Obsessed with hypocrisy, obsessed with logic, and theyâve all gone totally gaga, theyâve become the absolute apex of what they once claimed to rail against. One piece of logic completely contradicts another piece of logic. Another piece of logic contradicts both. And on and on and on.
Weâd all be better off realising that across so many different fields, the systems we had were that way for a reason. Because they were the best way of muddling through. In life you can only ever muddle through and ideas of utopia and perfection are always doomed to failure and always lead to bizarre and stupid unintended consequences.
The beauty of the Irish political system is that itâs designed for muddling through in the most imperfect way. And thus, itâs fucking great.
If you genuinely think the GAA split season is a factor in the FAI decision then that shows how out of touch with reality you truely are. The reason they made the decision was to align soccer from top to bottom i.e. go with the same calendar League of Ireland has had for the last 20 years or so. Its a decision to suit elite soccer in Ireland, for participation it has the potential to be a big problem, think they made a massive mistake myself.
I think heâs right about rural Ireland. I played as much of if not more soccer growing up than gaa but its hard to explain to a dub how much more âimportantâ in terms of crowds prestige everything the gaa is in 90pc of the country.
Soccer will be left with the drinkers in those areas to an even bigger extent than now. It probably wonât affect the Ireland team that much as we werenât getting many players from outside soccer areas anyway. Like the way rugby is the preserve of Dublin private schools soccer will be the preserve of people in non gaa strongholds and those of immigrants stock. If the immigrants are good the boggers might be no loss.
How many footballers have come from rural ireland to date
Edit, you make that point already
Id say though, if you were good enough though you would always pick football over gaa, take clifford for example
Or the best minor in Dublin gaa
Kevin Doyle from Adamstown in Wexford, Seamus Coleman fron Killebegs in Donegal, Jay Molumby from Cappaquin in Waterford are 3 off the top of my head.
At least 2 of them are made up
On what basis 
So 1 above average player there
Cheers
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Itâll kill soccer in rural Ireland. GAA is still king in the country. Itâs terrible these days that the top young lads basically have to dedicate themselves to one sport at 14 years of age.
As such, youâd never know how good a David Clifford might have been as he wouldnât have played enough, you might some way now. Interesting move, I think youâll see far more coming from rural Ireland now anyway with the change in demographics.
One or two lads can make a massive difference.
It wonât be good for anybody imo but I have little sympathy for the gaa here.
They make no effort to co operate with anyone.
In an ideal world all sports should work together.
Itâs what is best for everyone.
Invariably the best gaa players were the best soccer or rugby players around us.
Fuck off you gobshite
The reason they made the decision is theyâve spotted the gaa have left the summer behind them and pushed into the autumn for whatever reason.
Young fellas will play loads of games in the best weather and probably go training a little less. Canât see the downside myself. Might also give the national soccer team back a bit of athleticism and physicality eventually too. No cut to the national team any more, bar the women.
Ya, they want the more technical lads to flourish. I think the model for Ireland is the Danish team of the last 10 or 15 years, big strong physical team, technically competent and a 10 that the team plays for. Thereâs too many Cullen and Molumby type midfielders played for Ireland last few years, than you get the other extreme of an Alan Browne too technically deficient to hurt anybody on the ball. Thereâs a balance there to be found, teams have gotten bigger and Ireland are getting bullied too often.