Changes in the GAA - super thread

Voting has begun!

Defeated - 50.6% in favour, but 60% required.

Proposal B voted down thank god.

But not enough players came out in support of the proposal. To my knowledge no player from Ulster publicly supported change. Based on that it’s no wonder it didn’t get enough votes

Niall Morgan did, as did Oisín McConville last week.

Both plan A and plan B had huge flaws

back to the drawing boards

Why does the championship have to be over so early in these proposals? There should be a significant group/knockout competition played in mid June to July/Aug after the league in its current format is played in April/May/early June. I thought players wanted more matches and less training?

That's already been decided at the last Congress. It's to give club championships prominence over the summer months.

Glad to be corrected but that leaves an awful lot of silent voices (for or against the proposal).

silence gives the boards free reign to vote as they please and say that the players are happy

This is what you are dealing with, what planet is this lad on?

Does he not understand how the current championship works? Also telling he calls it "their" competition. Extremely arrogant.

Was half expecting proposal B to get voted in but in hindsight I was too influenced by the round the clock promotion by the media who gave a lack of balance in their discussion.

It's fallen short by 10% because of the flaws within proposal B, even those involved on the fixture task force highlighted them. The sensible thing to do now is iron them out and come back with proposal B with the required adjustments at the next Congress

If the GAA are to run with a league format to decide the knock out placings they need to be even groups not uneven as Div 1, 2,3,4 are.

I think more than 10 teams should be be given the opportunity in the knock out All-Ireland series. The NFL is a good competition but its played its part in creating the gap between the top 5 teams and the rest, reverted back to Div 1A, 1B, Div 2A 2B needs to be looked at again.

Just as well the Kerry chairman Tim Murphy is at the end of his term now, as not sure what he was trying to achieve with his fence-sitting, even with his speech this morning! Not that Kerry voting in favour would have made any difference, but actually taking a stand might have swayed a few other counties.

There won't be any organised strike, what will happen though is that talented players won't bother committing to the county team in weaker counties.

Why would a young lad commit to an inter county training regime where you need to lead a monastic life to play 7 games in muck and mud in front of 1 man and his dog and then get 2 games in the summer and be pummelled by the superpowers who have voted to keep this very system in place.

Crazy, it's a struggle as it is to get players to commit in the lower divisions, now that hope of change is gone I can see lots of players throwing their hat at it.

The weak get weaker and the big 6 get stronger