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So 92% of members want inter county season to last no more than 7 months and 89% in favour of split season. The armchair experts on here will still argue against it though.

TheFlaker (Mayo) - Posts: 8561 - 21/10/2025 15:02:45    2640971

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Replying To TheFlaker:  "So 92% of members want inter county season to last no more than 7 months and 89% in favour of split season. The armchair experts on here will still argue against it though."
Thats intercounty players, how do club players feel about having to play games on soft pitches in the muck and dirt this time of year?

Bon (Kildare) - Posts: 2539 - 21/10/2025 17:32:14    2640993

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Replying To Bon:  "Thats intercounty players, how do club players feel about having to play games on soft pitches in the muck and dirt this time of year?"
My favourite thing about people who argue against the split season is their lack of knowledge on what happens on the ground. An astonishing lack of knowledge on how the GPA works on display here. Bravo.

TheFlaker (Mayo) - Posts: 8561 - 21/10/2025 18:41:35    2641001

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Replying To Bon:  "Thats intercounty players, how do club players feel about having to play games on soft pitches in the muck and dirt this time of year?"
If the pitches are in great nick out here in the west, I can't imagine they're full of muck elsewhere. All club championship games I've been to so far have been played on good quality pitches. It's generally spring time that pitches at their worst and softest. Excluding December and January, which should be non-playing months for almost all clubs anyway.

WanPintWin (Galway) - Posts: 2606 - 21/10/2025 19:24:56    2641010

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Replying To Bon:  "Thats intercounty players, how do club players feel about having to play games on soft pitches in the muck and dirt this time of year?"
Are you involved in club football? I am amazed you think club footballers think differently. Do you actually think the GPA has no clue what is going on at club level?

TheFlaker (Mayo) - Posts: 8561 - 21/10/2025 20:09:38    2641011

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Replying To WanPintWin:  "If the pitches are in great nick out here in the west, I can't imagine they're full of muck elsewhere. All club championship games I've been to so far have been played on good quality pitches. It's generally spring time that pitches at their worst and softest. Excluding December and January, which should be non-playing months for almost all clubs anyway."
Mowed the lawn today conditions are glorious bar last Saturday

jm25 (Galway) - Posts: 1702 - 21/10/2025 21:04:27    2641016

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And by the way i am someone who wishes the All Ireland final was still on in September or even late August. But i am also seeing the massive help the split season is to everyone involved.

TheFlaker (Mayo) - Posts: 8561 - 21/10/2025 21:22:04    2641018

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Replying To Bon:  "Thats intercounty players, how do club players feel about having to play games on soft pitches in the muck and dirt this time of year?"
Bon I'm surprised at you. It was the CPA not the GPA who pushed for the split season we have now. All our clubs players I've spoken to prefer the current set up to what it was like before.

Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 17275 - 21/10/2025 22:42:10    2641025

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Club finals being played 6 days before winner plays provincial.

At least the GPA main men earned a few bob in States in the "off season."

BarneyGrant (Dublin) - Posts: 3741 - 21/10/2025 22:42:30    2641026

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