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The reason to train is matches at the right time of year. Opportunities to test themselves. How often do you hear of lower tier players say this is our All Ireland at the end of the season. If you're drawing up goals for a season how do you do that for that for the All Ireland or any knockout based competition. Look at Fermanagh this year, they could have said let's aim for the super 8s as a mark of success for the season. They've drawn Donegal in Ulster and Monaghan in round 1 of the qualifiers. Is their season a failure as a result? Who knows they're not expected to beat those teams, they need to test themselves at their level. Show that they have made real progress. Having a league based tournament does that. Get guys playing a good program of games. The Provincials should stay but they should be early and get to a league based competition. Get guys playing when they should be playing. The football could prove to be better with defensive football less effective in good weather and with teams matched closer to their level they might go for it more. It's perverse the GAA's fascination with having the primary competition as a knockout competition. Whammo86 (Antrim) - Posts: 4241 - 29/05/2019 19:02:58 2188939 Link 3 |
A reason to train isn't a knockout cup competition that no one gives an arse about winning by the way. A reason to train is a proper well scheduled program of games at the right time of year. A very simple solution would see no NFL 3 tiered All Ireland. Start March and April with Provincial championship. 12 teams to championship 1, 10 to championship 2, 10 to championship 3. Played May to August. They play a single round robin in each tier moving on to playoffs. Championship 1 in a season is made of 4 Provincial champions, 6 next best rated from the previous season's Championship 1 and previous season's championship 2 finalists. Every team is getting a minimum of 9 games at their level at the best time of the year. It's moving the NFL to the summer with a little tweak to give Provincial champions a shot at the All Ireland and I think 12 in the top division is more inclusive without reducing the quality. May to August is 17 weeks. 11 rounds can be played with 3 defined club weekends in each code ear marked at the start of the season. The idea is to get people playing games and as many quality games as possible at the right time of the year. That's more important than tv coverage. Getting the worst 12 teams together to play a competition with nothing at stake is a waste of time. A place in a knockout All Ireland isn't much of a reward of the tier 1 competition itself is rubbish. Whammo86 (Antrim) - Posts: 4241 - 29/05/2019 19:18:59 2188941 Link 3 |
The focus is the wrong way around. Whammo86 (Antrim) - Posts: 4241 - 29/05/2019 19:22:29 2188943 Link 5 |
If the existing teams played attacking football instead of all this 13/14 men behind the ball and handpassing us all to sleep over the past ten years we wouldn't be where we are . OpenStand (Limerick) - Posts: 677 - 29/05/2019 19:29:09 2188947 Link 0 |
http://hoganstand.com/Laois/Article/Index/299544 The players are telling us what they want. Games at the right time of the year. There's no mention of tv here. Just get players playing and training for a worthwhile well scheduled competition. Whammo86 (Antrim) - Posts: 4241 - 29/05/2019 19:44:21 2188951 Link 4 |
Ah here Whammo! He doesn't mention beer or Taytos. Does that mean he doesn't like either of them too?
GreenandRed (Mayo) - Posts: 7369 - 30/05/2019 06:51:56 2188996 Link 3 |
John horan is only interested in Dublin and feck the rest, brush them under the carpet. He has to be the worst GAA president ever. KingdomBoy1 (Kerry) - Posts: 14092 - 30/05/2019 10:25:48 2189031 Link 0 |
It shows his priorities which isn't what gets reflected on here. It seems to me that most want to sort out a media strategy first and then the competition. That approach sounds like polishing a turd to me. Sort out the competition first as something people value. The Tommy Murphy Cup wasn't. The National Leagues are. That's the direction it should go in. Whammo86 (Antrim) - Posts: 4241 - 30/05/2019 11:07:03 2189042 Link 2 |
But Fridge, are many people going to these games anyway as it is? I'm not saying that all games be shown live. I'm not sure who else suggested it but maybe Saturday can be designated the Peter Canavan Cup day. The best two games on paper get live coverage, Sky at 5, RTE at 7. The other games then get proper highlights on Sunday Game. Lockjaw (Donegal) - Posts: 9155 - 30/05/2019 11:09:46 2189045 Link 0 |