True more money for the GAA but if the supporters grew a pair and demanded that the super 8 tickets should cost 30 euro and this 1 price covers the 3 games otherwise we won't attend the matches, the GAA would have to rethink the prices and stop the thievery of supporters but of course Ireland is full of chickens and sheep and will pay any amount of money to watch their county play so I hope the GAA charge 100 euro for each game in the super 8, people deserve to get robbed blind, this has nothing to do with helping the weaker counties improve themselves.
Here is an idea whatever amount of money the GAA make on the super 8's they have to match it and divide the money equally between the division 4 teams, the following year divide the money to division 3 teams, put their money where their mouths are

riverboys (Mayo) - Posts: 1389 - 26/02/2017 20:47:19    1961260

uibhfhaili1986 (Offaly) - Posts: 1296 - 26/02/2017 20:53:27    1961267

rebelfan (Cork) - Posts: 70 - 26/02/2017 21:08:56    1961285

have posted previously on the anti rugby thread re being from limerick you have a lot more munster games than limerick ones and while i love both) my boys get to see more stander, earls , zebo than cian lynch, gavin omahoney dave dempsey hegarty dowling downes etc , has an effect , next day after musnter play they out in back with rugby ball , after limerick play its hurlies and sliotars

i think having more big games is great idea, pity it benefits the bigger teams , but its a start , so lets try it and see, lets look at it in hurling too and if if dont work - go back to the old system

i just long for the day my beloved limerick get there - seems a fanciful notion as we are bottom of division 4!!! makes me emphatise with fans of team of bottom of soccer leage 2 , at least we cant be relegated

janesboro (Limerick) - Posts: 1502 - 26/02/2017 23:26:56    1961368

I put a link below relating to format ideas put forward by L Shara which are 'revolutionary' and may be too much for the GAA (and YOU :).
I initially came across Shara's ideas in January's issue of World Soccer, and went searching.
Essentially, he argues that while group formats such as in Soccer's World Cup start out as fair, there is a lot of manipulation in determining who advances. Example, a team with 1 pt can more easily get the win it needs in its 3rd group match against a 6-pts team who has qualified. He argues strong teams get seeded and avoid equally strong teams - while weaker teams have an unfair tougher draw to overcome.
Shara offers many solutions that follow a common theme - applying this theme to the AI SFC = say, divide the 32 into 4 seeding pots (in line with NFL) - Each team plays one fro each pot (incl their own) for 4 match roughly equal strength schedule - then, all 32 listed in one table to determine the KO teams (say, KO 16 contest Sam). It may sound bananas that each team plays a unique 4-match set - but this is no worse 
than an FA Cup Rd of 64 where a team's chance of advancing varies widely based on quality of the unique opponent.
We could merge the NFL into the Race for Sam - Say, Kerry draws 4 teams from Divs 1, 2 and 3 for 12 games (maybe avoid Divs 1 v 4) before KO of 16 field chosen 32 team table. This could run toward Prov KO as well. Quite daft, you say ?

http://uk.reuters.com/article/soccer-tournaments-idUKL3N12S5E220151028n

omahant (USA) - Posts: 2593 - 27/02/2017 04:01:16    1961396

It won't give more time to the clubs, in fact it will have the opposite effect. In fairness to the lad he is a current club player at the coalface experiencing the reality of the situation. The history in Galway shows that prior to any of the counties C'ship games in the All Irl club games are postponed anything from a month to two weeks prior to the games, so despite the All Irl dates brought forward more dates will be lost through the new Super 8. Also as he is a club player, if he was a member of the CPA he would be very annoyed at the Galway delegates who voicferously objected to the motion for official recognition of the CPA, these delegates are supposed to be representing this lad & his club & they are doing the opposite. Don't talk to me about democracy in Gaa either as is apparent on the HS poll here where there was three quarters against Super 8 & the entire playing m'ship represented by the CPA & GPA & yet Delegates at Congress voted as directed by Croke Park.
moc.dna (Galway) - Posts:346 - 26/02/2017 12:58:15

I'm a club player myself. The inter-county season is being shortened by a month. That gives a month extra to the club scene.

There's an argument that it doesn't go far enough but I think some of the reactions about the plight of the poor club player have been bordering on hyperbole to be honest.

I would have preferred a situation where there is a total restructuring of the season between club and county.

MesAmis (Dublin) - Posts: 13707 - 27/02/2017 08:18:02    1961408