Realistically it’s only lads in the successful counties who faced an extended wait for their club championships to proceed. Sure most counties would be out in June/July in both codes under any system.
Even if a split season where the clubs were first would be a 1000 times better. You could have county finals country wide on the same weekend.
It would create a narrative for a fan too as inter county squads would be picked more on club form.
A shortened inter county season would be in place too.
Anything is better than this bullshit we have at the moment.
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They are white elephants though and the GAA don’t have a plan for them. The one in Cork will at least have its uses occasionally under the current system and is already built. The other one is not built and is in a location nobody wants to go to. The NI executive would be as well off burning a massive pile of cash like the KLF as rebuild Casement Park. Casement Park should get a modest upgrading using the existing structure and no more. If a league as championship system comes in there will be no use for neutral venues of 35-45k in non-competitive counties, or any county for that matter, because all the knockout games, of which there will be few, will go to Croke Park.
Clubs first would be miles worse. Clubs would maybe get their county players 2 nights before championship.
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Ban inter county sets up meeting until post august.
TG4 would have some dilemma deciding what game to show.
Id agree if it was enforced but not a chance. Say your club exited in early June. County manager is going to train those lads.
They’d still choose the Roscommon football final.
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All they really need to do is have the inter county championship running from early June to early September - late June in the case of U20’s until after the Leaving Cert.
You’re giving the younger inter-county players and U20’s the chance to focus on exams in May and early June.
Club leagues can be tipping away from late March/early April. Club championships to get going in late August when summer holidays/weddings/stags are out of the way and fellows that are in the US and abroad for summer are returning home.
Need to scale down on amount of inter-county matches. Getting rid of the round Robin in the hurling championship would be a start. Three to two inter-county competitions too. Get rid of either the league or your Walsh Cup/Dr McKenna Cup type January mud baths.
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September all irelands are done mate. Could go to mid August but no chance of going to September. All ireland finals have replays so be back to October finishes if one ends in a draw.
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Replays in All Ireland Finals are anomalies and only affect the two competing counties. There was no draw in an All Ireland Hurling Final in 53 years between 1959 and 2012 and there hasn’t been one since 2014. 5 drawn hurling finals in the last 90 years.
There’s been 7 drawn football All Ireland Football Finals in the last 75 years.
Been a good few recently mate. No way should intercounty season be going into October.
But but but the club players created the split season through the CPA?
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Liam Griffin is what did it mate and you fucking know it
Because they bizarrely somehow concluded this was a good idea.
The split season is the best option with the current power of inter county.
However, and despite @Cheasty’s condescending tone on most other strands of this argument he is right on one thing. The power that inter county managers and the inter county game itself holds over the organisation needs to be told to go and fuck itself.
The Wexford senior championships kick off (throw in) tomorrow night. The issue we have is that we pretend to play hurling and football. Something has to give. Or we’ll be same basket case to infinity and beyond.
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In your opinion, which from the posts I’ve read is the opinion of someone at such a point of seethe that he is slobbering on the keyboard as he pounds out each new post.
He was one of them.
An intended consequence is that most of the hurling in Wexford will be done by the August weekend.
He won’t like that.
Surely it would make sense to run off football first and have more attractive hurling championship second? Makes zero sense to have hurling first.
Agreed but how do you take away power of intercounty manager now? Gone too far.