Sure Jaysus when I was a dual player in Dublin, with 16 team divisions in football (which there still is) and 12 team divisions in hurling (which there still is) and cup competitions and championship I was getting about 35 games a year and when I was playing u-21 on top of that there was another 10 or so into the mix. That was before you might be asked to “supplement” a junior or intermediate team that was short of an evening. We also played challenge matches and tournament games in both codes. In short a decent dual player could easily play 40 games in a year and an under 21 could be up around 50.
And the mentality of most senior club teams in Dublin now is to not take the league seriously!!..so thats 13 of the already scarce matches dust binned straight away…really bizarre…
Clubs play without county lads till august in cups and leagues.League finals played in early august. Then championship starts in mid august and rolls on every week.
Dual thing has to die unless they break it up further. Concurrent game is defunct as a model now.
Exactly…its really bizarre. .in a lot of cases they want more games but don’t take the majority of the ones they already have seriously. .I know places like Mayo and Tyrone take senior league seriously but others don’t. .
On a side issue, is there always disconnect between rule makers and players?..look at rugby, they always seem to be changing the rules to stamp something out…would that not suggest rule makers and players going in two totally different directions?