Replying To tirawleybaron: "The fact is that the best championship in the country is in Ulster - which has no fixed element at all. Leinster seeds qfinals, Munster seeds semi finals and Connacht has a partial fix of qfinals.
Generally, the best championship matches have been first round matches were the big guns draw each other. A draw like that effects the way a Kerry/Galway/Dublin tailor their whole training programme."
Munster doesn't seed semifinals. And Meath v Dublin could've been a QF this year.
Replying To tirawleybaron: "The fact is that the best championship in the country is in Ulster - which has no fixed element at all. Leinster seeds qfinals, Munster seeds semi finals and Connacht has a partial fix of qfinals.
Generally, the best championship matches have been first round matches were the big guns draw each other. A draw like that effects the way a Kerry/Galway/Dublin tailor their whole training programme."
Exactly.
This is a terrible topic and completely self serving....