The reason it messes up fixtures is because of the split season and the GAA’s refusal to play Club games for 6 and a half months of the year.
Ah yes, Dublin are gone away, you’d like us to believe that. They’ve no problem continuing to play their home games in Croke Park despite being in Division 2 all the same. No way they’re giving up that little benefit. No sirree.
Ah would you stop. Your narrative at the time (along with window lickers like Ewan) was Dublin would dominate football for ever more because of the funding.
We will be lucky to win one in the next 5 years and if we do win one it will be next year. After that the talent just isn’t there.
This is an impressive sweep. Be terrible if the lads werent able to be blooded right into Croke Park in a league game. Nah, very important they know where they will sit in the dressing they will be sitting in come Championship. Be terrible to not to have that little bonus, along with all the rest.
Yeah, it was using a familiar dressing room that was the real secret behind the 6 in a row. Good man.
It’s not a mess now.
Oh my.
It’s a total mess now because of the split season.
Hence all this decoupling talk.
The optimum Club GAA schedule is as follows:
Under 21 Football - February 1st - April 1st
Minor Football - April 1st - May 15th - Get down to Semi Final Stage and complete once exams finish in late June/early July.
Minor Hurling - July 10th - October 1st.
Adult Hurling/Football - August 13th - November 3rd
Under 21 Hurling - October 26th - December 22nd.
The only main crossover should be Minor Hurling with Adult Hurling and Football where Minor can be played midweek with Adult at weekends.
But, but, but the split season zealots want the decks cleared from January (in reality November) to July for their beloved Inter County round robins and back doors and wont allow any club championships go ahead in this period.
Minor club football over in May? How is that promoting football? No football during the summer months?
You don’t understand the complexities and nuances of it.
Looks like you want Minor/Under 21/Adult hurling and football played from April to August.
Marginal gains. No fear of them handing back this one anytime soon.
I’ve never seen it work better.
So minor club football which would way more players than minor club hurling over for vast majority in early May? For example football is number 1 in majority of Ulster counties and you want 95% of players to have no football in May , June, July , August and September. What would they do for the summer?
That would be UNREAL.
Everything in the GAA is linked but those against the split season are overestimating the impact it has on the topic of age grades.
Well if you are in a football dominated county, leave Minor Football until July to October and run the hurling off in the first half of the year.
Do ye want everything spoon fed to ye?
Its inextricably linked.
You can’t run what was once an 11 month club season into 5 and a half months and not accept some consequences.
You hate to see smart lads disappear down rabbit holes.
The split season zealots can’t accept the catastrophic consequences of their actions.
The ages were changed before the split season, can you remember why? Think hard now
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Everyone knows/acceps changing the age grades was stupid. Except @myboyblue and he’s clueless.
Now we can’t change them back thanks to the split season.