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My proposal for a new football championship.

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    #32
    Jayop
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    Would be tough to incorporate given how the numbers work out for each stage.


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    #33
    Stoner
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    I guess progressing in the league would do that.


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    #34
    Ceist_Beag
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    Jayop wrote: »
    OK, so I'm going by the article in the Times last year and I'll try to sort the McGuinness proposal into a shorter version to compare them.

    http://www.irishtimes.com/sport/gaelic-games/jim-mcguinness-how-i-would-reinvigorate-football-championship-1.2241993



    And here's mine by comparison. In truth and on reflection they are actually vastly different and mine is much closer to that proposed by the GPA although I wouldn't have lost the provinces like they suggested.



    For me Jim's proposal falls down in several areas very badly.

    1) 16 teams start the summer out of the All-Ireland and no matter how many times people say it, there's no graw for starting in a secondary competition. Everyone should start in the hunt for Sam and the top boys should peel off as they progress.

    2) 16 playing 1 and 15 playing 2 etc, will not solve the problem of hammerings in the championship which is the whole reason for change anyway I thought. Would Dublin V Laois or Kerry V Armagh be any better spectacle than what we already have in the early rounds?

    3) Running the provinces over a weekend would be a disaster. I'd say a fair percentage of the crowd at a lot of provincial games is neutrals who go to lots of games. Running 5 games over a weekend would force them to pick one or two games to go to.

    4) And this is the big one. Feck all summer football. Only 8 teams will have more than 1 game in the proper All-Ireland series. Surely that's the last thing we want.
    Good post Jayop, your proposal is actually quite different from Jims and you make a good case for why yours is better! :D


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    #35
    Coillte_Bhoy
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    Stephen Hero wrote: »
    Here is mine

    Leinster (force Kilkenny to compete)
    Munster
    Connacht (plus London and New York)
    Ulster

    Provincial championships run as normal.
    No back door.
    Winners of each province go to All Ireland Semi Final and pair off on a rotation basis
    i.e.
    Y1 M v L, U v C
    Y2 M v C, L v U
    Y3 M v U, L v C

    So essentially return to the pre qualifier system then? :rolleyes:


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    #36
    Coillte_Bhoy
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    Some good ideas but a big problem will be uncertainty over club c'ship dates. At least in most counties players have some certainty on when theit club cship games will be as the fixture list is drawn up well in advance so any system that will use league positions etc would imo have to use the previous years


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