Replying To Pikeman96:  "@Viking66 - 2014 is actually a perfect example of how the current split season prevents that sort of thing from happening now.

Main reason our club championships ran a little late that year was due to our U21 hurlers reaching the All-Ireland Final in the middle of September. With so many of them playing in the adult club championships and so many of them being dual players, both our club hurling and football championships had to work around them.

The football wasn't helped either by how the Senior Hurling Final (Shelmaliers v St. Anne's) ended in a draw and how the same two teams were due to meet in a Senior Football semi-final the following week. If the football had proceeded as planned, it would have meant football semi-final then, football final the following Saturday, winners playing in Leinster the next day, and hurling replay not taking place in time for Leinster at all.

Fixtures committee of the time decided that the lesser of two evils was to have the hurling replay when the football semi-finals should have been played. Basically, we were going to be without a representative in Leinster in either hurling or football, and they decided it was in our better interests to have somebody in hurling.

But again, main reason for it was we lost a number of weekends in August & September for club championship action due to a county team still going strong. The split season means that couldn't happen now."