The Carlow county boardâs decision you mean
They donât care about hurling in Carlow unfortunately.
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Certain things in life are unfair.
Inter-county panels cried ânot fairâ about training for one championship match. Maybe it wasnât fair. But it wasnât designed to be. Nevertheless, we got the back door.
But that caused unintended consequences. Inter-county managers now demanded a clear run with no club activity to interrupt them.
The media said the league would work better if it was Divisions 1 to 4 rather than 1A/1B/2A/2B. They wanted the big counties playing each other more regularly and no more piddling Sligos or Fermanaghs or Wexfords intruding. But that meant inter-county football as a whole became lop sided and uncompetitive.
Because the championship became lopsided and uncompetitive across the board, Ger Gilroy and co. said it wasnât fair that we only got to see the top teams play each other once a year. So now we get round robins. But we find that the round robins are shit, and actually take away from the big knockout matches when they come around because the whole thing is more predictable and average attendances across the board go down because there are too many matches and people canât afford them all.
The Club Players Association cried ânot fairâ and said they wanted âa regular programme of fixturesâ, which became âa regular programme of meaningful fixturesâ, which led to bloated club championship formats with ridiculous concepts like round robin groups with no team eliminated and caused the moving of the All-Ireland finals to July, and a complete ceding by the GAA of media coverage to other sports in its prime months, and top inter-county players going to Chicago or not playing for their club at all. And teams who win county championships waiting three months to play in the province.
Joe Brolly said it wasnât fair that Sean Cavanagh fouled Conor McManus. So we got the dogâs dinner of the black card and the best player in Gaelic football banished from an All-Ireland final replay because of a jersey tug.
It was agreed that that wasnât fair either so we got the sin bin but now thatâs not fair either because Evan Comerford was able to delay an All-Ireland semi-final by six minutes and run out the clock on John Smallâs black card.
The Dick Clerkins (Iâm not singling him out here, Dick Clerkinism is a state of mind held by most in the GAA media) said that it wasnât fair that you didnât get rewarded for catching the ball so we now have the dogâs dinner of the attacking mark.
Then teams cried ânot fairâ about cynical fouls outside the penalty area in hurling so we got the dogâs dinner of the hurling rule where you can get a penalty for a foul outside the penalty area but in the one instance where it was enforced that rule was found to be even more unfair so now itâs not enforced and thatâs even more unfair again.
Round and round and round we go.
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Post of the Year there.
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Colm Parkinson is a wanker who secretly hates hurling.
Weâve been told to give the split season a chance and not to rush to judgement on it until it plays out. It has now played out in Carlow and Kerry hurling and has had its chance so Carlow and Kerry hurling aficionados are the only people really in a position to pass judgement at this juncture.
The input of split season zealots like @the_man_himself here is unhelpful.
Carlow GAA was fucked the moment it expelled Graiguecullen.
You are an admitted split season zealot. Are you a member of a club in Carlow?
Yes, Iâm still a paid up member of the club in Carlow that I lined out for, for many years.
Carlow or Kerry county boards donât care about hurling.
Thatâs it in a nutshell as @BruidheanChaorthainn has also pointed out. Split season has given carte blanche to County Boards to downgrade the lesser code within the County. The Waterford Football Championship probably wonât get going until October.
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So your first job at the AGM is to put forward a motion for the county board to run the championship to your liking as they did in 2019 with basically the same time available
Do the Wexford county board not care about hurling either then seeing as the Wexford hurling finals are all on this weekend, just a week after Carlow and Kerry?
I wasnât on about the dates lad,itâs weâll know that Kerry co board donât care about the small ball
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Yeah Kerry is fair enough. Iâd agree with you there but the Carlow GAA championship calendar is almost identical to the Wexford one, just with less clubs. Hurling first, football second. The Carlow county board certainly do care about hurling.
ah they dont really. the club set up there is a disaster and that falls in their remit. Football at club level in Carlow is taken way more seriously than hurling from a county board perspective. Take St Mullins and MLR out of it and there is damn all hurling going on there improving club level.
Thatâs a fair point. Myshall take hurling more seriously than football too but didnât even make a semi-final this year. Not as much of a dual county as Wexford at all when it comes to the club scene.
In all your arguments you ignore the fact the all ireland senior football championship as currently structured is absolutely shit. The final few games (semis and final) can often be fantastic between the bigger teams but more or less nobody cares about the Munster, leinster, Connacht championships or most of the qualifiers. They are as well try a new format or two and see how they go.
Youâre wasted here lad.