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Provincial Final Replays - Good Idea Or Bad Idea?

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Provincial final replays seems to be gaining a bit of momentum at the moment for both football and hurling. In hurling that would mean Kilkenny and Cork waiting 5 weeks for an All Ireland semi final when no replays occur. Are provincial final replays likely to gain support?

legendzxix (Kerry) - Posts: 8928 - 10/06/2025 08:04:28    2616288

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Replying To legendzxix:  "Provincial final replays seems to be gaining a bit of momentum at the moment for both football and hurling. In hurling that would mean Kilkenny and Cork waiting 5 weeks for an All Ireland semi final when no replays occur. Are provincial final replays likely to gain support?"
Hard to say. There's pros and cons to it.

Personally - on balance I think the finish on the day is probably better.

brianb (Kildare) - Posts: 459 - 10/06/2025 10:27:33    2616318

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Replying To brianb:  "Hard to say. There's pros and cons to it.

Personally - on balance I think the finish on the day is probably better."
So do I.
The knock on effect on the calendar would have a load of teams sitting around for weeks and would require AI Finals to be brought well into August.
If allowed we'd have demands for Qtr Finals, Semi Finals to have replays as they are season ending for the losers.

Seanfanbocht (Roscommon) - Posts: 2406 - 10/06/2025 10:38:58    2616321

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In the 2026 football format for the All Ireland series have Provinhial winners any advantage over the losers'

gunman (Donegal) - Posts: 1172 - 10/06/2025 11:20:01    2616334

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Replying To gunman:  "In the 2026 football format for the All Ireland series have Provinhial winners any advantage over the losers'"
No advantage whatsoever. Like league finals, all about glory on the day in football.
If they have the draw before provincial finals as they annoyingly do - Kerry could be drawn against the highest ranked league qualifier and Clare against the lowest league ranked qualifier!

legendzxix (Kerry) - Posts: 8928 - 10/06/2025 11:47:01    2616341

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Replying To legendzxix:  "Provincial final replays seems to be gaining a bit of momentum at the moment for both football and hurling. In hurling that would mean Kilkenny and Cork waiting 5 weeks for an All Ireland semi final when no replays occur. Are provincial final replays likely to gain support?"
Of course there should be replays in provincial hurling and football finals and anyone who thinks differently is clueless… The condensed calendar is just ridiculous… All Ireland Finals should be pushed back 3/4 weeks… which would be a reasonable compromise… Every thing over and the summer only right started… that's just not right

ForeverBlue2 (Cavan) - Posts: 4056 - 10/06/2025 13:19:06    2616381

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On balance, I'd be for finish Prov Finals on the day - the calendar is already too tight and that SHC 5-week gap is too much (should be 2-3 weeks).

Having said that, penalties are an awful and an unnatural way to find a winner.
Instead, after extra time, play on as sudden death extra time - first team to a 2-pts lead wins,
i.e. a goal is always a 'golden score' as is a 2nd point.
(going a point down, gives that team a chance to come back).

omahant (USA) - Posts: 3294 - 12/06/2025 15:43:41    2616976

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Replying To omahant:  "On balance, I'd be for finish Prov Finals on the day - the calendar is already too tight and that SHC 5-week gap is too much (should be 2-3 weeks).

Having said that, penalties are an awful and an unnatural way to find a winner.
Instead, after extra time, play on as sudden death extra time - first team to a 2-pts lead wins,
i.e. a goal is always a 'golden score' as is a 2nd point.
(going a point down, gives that team a chance to come back)."
A golden score could work a bit like American football. Score a goal - game over; score a point; the opposition will kick/puck out the ball - if they score we're back level; if the ball goes out of play (other than a 45 / 65) game over.

Basically if the ball goes dead and a team are a point up they win.

brianb (Kildare) - Posts: 459 - 13/06/2025 10:54:08    2617142

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