They said when they tried that with the super 8s it produced too many dead rubbers
But they’re going to have loads of them now too. Like a heap of teams will be already through after two rounds.
Ah sure it’s a farce.
If the provincials weren’t played first the structure wouldn’t seem so bad.
More Sean Quigley’s please, less Jarly Og’s.
It’s not that great a pass
Jarly would have passed it back to the keeper as the fisted point wasnt on.
A young lad was through 1 v 1 with the keeper yesterday at an u7 blitz and handpassed it over the “bar”
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Ah no.
Is it not 3 points for an ‘over’? Good thinking on the feet for that young man.
9…
There’s no score at u7 ffs
(unless you win)
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The current matches are to determine who plays who in the knock out matches. This is how multiple other successful sporting competitions around the world work, NFL, baseball, NBA, AFL, NRL, euro rugby etc etc.
There are then 11 big knock out matches. Any other system would have less actual knock out matches which are the games everyone wants. The poor cunts in the gaa literally can’t win.
The problem is the 6 weeks of provencial championship before them
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Yea but they are just a secondary warm up competition which kind of half feed in to the main competition. They should be scrapped but aren’t the worst either when you think about it. They give a county like Sligo or Louth a chance to play at the top table the odd time and mean we have some half interesting group pairings like Kerry in with mayo.
The main problem will people not going to the games. If all the people who like the sport went to their teams only home game of the year it would be brilliant
Quigley knew the calibre of defenders he was up against - stooks looking out the field to see
A) who to blame
B) any sign of a lucozade quickie
C) is there long more to go
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Tipperary’s dalliance with being an occasional dark horse in Gaelic football is well and truly over.
No Conor Sweeney and Michael Quinlivan, no party.
There’s an exceedingly attractive double header in Portlaoise on Sunday @Cheasty. Group winners Limerick against an already eliminated Wicklow. Followed by Longford v Carlow. Nothing beats being there.
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I see Leix are playing in Dublin’s home ground Parnell Park this weekend @myboyblue . Hopefully the tailteann donkeys don’t damage the pitch too much. Dessie and the lads might need it for training in the next few weeks.
It’ll be a bittersweet occasion for Cahir.