Over 30's championship?

Fentdog84

Just an idea for curtain raisers to championship games..Im thinking from the point of view of munster hurling ties instead of the Intermediate game which are mostly pretty lifeless affairs, I mean it not even usually the county's second best team playing.

The average age of an intercounty player retiring/being dropped of the panel is around 31-32 so it would give fans a chance to see these players for a few more years representing their county. The competition would be for players aged between 30-40, so the standard would be pretty good..of course if the player was already a member of the current senior squad he would be inelligible. If it was taken seriously I could see it being good entertainment. Yay or nay?

Syferus

It'd be great for spectators in an ideal world, but you'll hardly get huge amounts of senior players opting for another 8 years or so of training for inter-county matches as they'd have been playing county for the bones of a decade and a half at that point. That idea basically amounts to an age-capped Masters' championship, which badly needs some form of replacement after the GAA scraped it two years ago, mid-season no less. People don't suddenly stop playing sports at 35 and if the GAA really wants to be a community-centric organsation it has a strange way of treating people who are passed Senior age.