Tongue in cheek the whole thing?

Gosh.

patrique (Antrim) - Posts: 13709 - 30/10/2009 21:02:03    471366

Happy Halloween??? What's all that about?

Ulsterman (Antrim) - Posts: 9816 - 30/10/2009 22:23:48    471414

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Happy Halloween??? What's all that about?
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An Americanism.

Also proof that Tyrone and Kerry fans don't despise each other, despite your constant preachings.

3inarow08 (Kerry) - Posts: 2455 - 31/10/2009 11:54:26    471637

One answer... The Provincials are dead, long live the provinces!!!! My personal feeling, and I'm sure I have plenty of company on this subject, is the provincial titles are irrelevant in the modern era. It might mean something if there was a net benefit to a team but sitting idle for 4-5 weeks like Cork did this year after winning Munster, can hardly constitute an advantage, players want to play and after a while there is only so much training that a player can do, before it becomes stale. If it was left up to me, I would scrap the National League in its entirety. The product is poor, the conditions are awful and the attendance matches this predicament. In its place I would combine a league-type situation with Championship ramifications. The overhauled championship would have 4 groups of 8 teams, these groups would be seeded 1 through 8. The games might involve a home and away component, (or some derivative of) meaning that there would be 14 games in all. All games would start in April (when the weather starts to improve). After the league-type component ends, the top four teams from each group go into the last sixteen, then it is knockout from there. With 2 week breaks interjected into the spring/summer games, this would take at least 5-6 months to complete. Games being played in this time of year also allow for whatever tourists that are in the country to view our native sports, along as there is proper marketing (big ask). The time has come for a more compact, exciting season, rather than the fractured sometimes anti-climactic one that we currently have.

Kerry_NYC (Kerry) - Posts: 46 - 31/10/2009 20:09:09    471924

good ideas kerry nyc.
what you suggest also fits the bill of working side by side with club football. The more truncated and sporadic the county season, the more messed up club football becomes.

curlyfinger (Fermanagh) - Posts: 64 - 31/10/2009 21:38:45    471982