Leinster Championship Round-robin from 2016?

BonnieSituation

It seems the Leinster Council have decided that we will have a round-robin for the Provinical Championship from 2016:

http://www.rte.ie/sport/gaa/football/2014/1002/649539-leinster/

RT&#201 wrote:

The Leinster Council has approved in principle the introduction of a round-robin element into the Leinster Senior Football Championship from 2016.
The details of how it will work and which counties will be involved are still being worked out, but it is planned to bring a finalised proposal to congress.
A 'Qualifier Group' system is already in operation for the Leinster hurling championship, with Laois, Carlow, London, Westmeath and Antrim competing for a place in the Leinster championship proper.
Many feel the football championship would benefit from a similar set up, with suggestions that any football round-robin format could have six teams in two groups of three,
For the 2015 League, only Dublin will have Division 1 status.
Laois, Kildare, Meath and Westmeath will be in Division 2. Wexford and Louth will be in Division 3, with Longford, Offaly, Wicklow and Carlow in Division 4.

http://www.rte.ie/sport/gaa/football/2014/1002/649539-leinster/


Interesting development all the same.

Boom__Boom

As if there weren't enough fixture congestion.

The Leinster council doing everything and anything to retain the provincial championships because they know that when the provincial championships are done away it's the death knell for the provincial councils.

SHOCKED I AM. SHOCKED.

Hopefully congress tells them to get up the yard.

corny

You'll still have the underlying problem of mismatches in Leinster.

Doesn't really matter what way you fix it the presence of Dublin makes it a non event.

BonnieSituation

Never mind the fixture congestion; to get to 2 groups of three will require matches anyway.

Why not just have straight up 4 groups of 3 to find the Semi Finalists?

Sure there'll be mismatches but what ya gonna do. Force Kilkenny to field a team (and link it to funding; likewise with Cavan and the Senior hurling issue that happened there) and seed the previous years Semi-finalists.

Ulster and Leinster have the least wrong with them as Championships. Leinster can't help it if one team is so far and away the best in the province. But the championship works and is a decent barometer overall.

Hibbeler

Am I right that there was a round robin in the Leinster Championship before? In the early 2000s I think.

BonnieSituation

Hibbeler wrote: »

Am I right that there was a round robin in the Leinster Championship before? In the early 2000s I think.

It was 2000; to decide the 8th team in Leinster:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000_All-Ireland_Senior_Football_Championship