Sure by your logic Tyrone should have no chance against Kerry clubs in the intermediate championship and fair much bette against them in the senior championship. As youâve pointed this is not the case.
Doesnât seem like wisdom to me, it has given them a lopsided, closed shop for a senior football championship. The same clubs stay at the top, it damages the smaller clubs.
No it doesnât it keeps the small clubs going as theyâve a realistic Chance of playing senior club championship.
Kerry have won 4 of the last 10 intermediate all Ireland clubs
They shouldnât have but Tyrone club football is competitive and a meritocracy, not a plaything for a few superclubs to dominate.
Kerry have won 7 of the last 10 junior all Ireland clubs
They should be winning 10 out of 10 given the completely unfair advantage they have. Imagine how dominant Dublin clubs would be if their 9th best club represented them at AI level rather than their 33rd best.
You donât even know what you are arguing here. You seem to have issue the Kerry club championship is extremely well run.
Itâs a club structure which has seen four different Kerry clubs win the All Ireland Club - Austin Stacks, Castleisland Desmonds, Dr Crokes, and Laune Rangers. No other county has produced more than four club football winners. East Kerry as well were the inaugural club champions in 1971.
Itâs a club championship structure which has served the county team well for over a century too as 37 All Ireland titles bear testament too.
Iâd imagine though it will cause real alarm in the Kingdom to hear that an Italian who supports Tyrone/Armagh take issue with how they do things in Kerry in Gaelic football.
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Theyâve won all Irelands at senior, intermediate and junior, club and county and underage.
Theyâre set up to win, at all levels and all grades.
They should be the blueprint
My issue is it is completely uncompetitive.
Why canât clubs who come up from intermediate make an impact?
Much like most counties so.
I know 16 senior clubs is ridiculous. Itâs impossible to get relegated.
Because they arenât good enough
By rigging the system, their success at AI level has not been great at senior level given they come from a hurling province where they are the only football dominant county and they rig the system for their intermediate and junior clubs to have an unfair advantage.
Doesnât bode well for the club structure there if thatâs the case. Thereâs a huge gulf in class between the top few clubs and the rest and that is the sign of a failing club championship.
Cork have something similar going on. The great Bill Cooper won nothing with Youghal this year but Iâm reliably informed he still has a club title this year
Now it isnât. Thatâs rubbish. Theyâve 7 or 8 huge clubs and a lot of very small rural clubs.
Like most other counties.
Why are the rural clubs so shit?
former all Ireland senior club champions now playing junior, ditto Castleisland some fall by 2 former all Ireland senior club champions. Killorglin, Castleisland and Listowel all making a poor shape in Kerry