Mod note Post #1 - All Ireland Senior Hurling Championship 2022 (Liam McCarthy Cup)

legendary.xix · 07-04-2022 1:14pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118879433#Comment_118879433

The hurling league format of 2 even groups of 6 would be more suited for the championship but the provincial councils will never agree to it.

The 3rd and 4th placed provincial teams could be the Preliminary Quarter-finalists, with home advantage for the 3rd placed team.

The McDonagh winner then however, including Kerry, would have to be guaranteed promotion as a compromise.

breezy1985 · 07-04-2022 2:23pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118893707#Comment_118893707

Some fans actually still like the provincial championship too.

914Deise · 07-04-2022 3:13pm

Would it be possible to do both. Have your provincial championships. Then all teams back in with open draw for 2 groups of six like you mentioned. Seed the provincial winners and maybe runners up 1 and 2 in each group. You'd probably have to end the league altogether or much earlier in the year.

Provincial championship would have to be straight knockout and possibly less games in the league to accommodate this.

07-04-2022 3:24pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118877421#Comment_118877421

Speak for yourself. Coming from Limerick the Munster championship still matters hugely to me. I remember going to games (not exactly long ago) where any sort of championship win was beyond us and a provincial title was dreamland stuff. To have won as much as Limerick has in the last 4 years hasn't made Munster any less valuable to me.

Agree on your other points though, timing is key and the set-up of Munster can make it harder to win an All Ireland.

breezy1985 · 07-04-2022 3:28pm

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That's just a backdoor way to killing the provincial championship. It would become a warm up tournament. The current system finally put fear back into the provincials which is the way it should be.

breezy1985 · 07-04-2022 3:30pm

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I watched the 2013 Munster final with a spoiled Cork friend who was baffled about how excited I was and how much I celebrated (drunk) our 2013 Munster final win. How times have changed

legendary.xix · 07-04-2022 9:51pm

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Munster is hurling gold. The Leinster Championship 2019 was a cracker to be fair though. 4 teams finished on 5 points. The defending champions Galway finished 4th. Dublin lost out to Laois then in the Preliminary quarter-final.

Leinster carries the can of automatic relegation. The Leinster fixtures are sensible in that Laois and Westmeath play the final game. It'll essentially be a relegation final.

Dublin, Galway, Kilkenny and Wexford will go into the final round with at least 2 wins each. If Wexford (home advantage) beat Galway in Round 1 and Galway (home advantage) beat Kilkenny in Round 3, my prediction after 4 rounds is: Wexford 8, Kilkenny 6, Galway 6 and Dublin 4. Round 5: Kilkenny v Wexford and Galway v Dublin.

Realt Dearg Sec · 13-04-2022 11:06pm

Can we have a rule where Munster people who value the provincial championship are allowed to keep it, but can no longer also whinge about how much easier it is for Leinster teams to get into the All Ireland phase? I think that would be a good compromise.

citykat · 16-04-2022 4:39pm

Donohoe up to his old simulation tricks?

PeggyShippen · 16-04-2022 4:43pm

Shocking amount of steps for the Galway goal. It's a joke at this stage. And what a poor crowd.

citykat · 16-04-2022 4:45pm

Galway goalie making a meal of that tackle

PTH2009 · 16-04-2022 5:00pm

Summer hurling me swiss

The GAA have made a mess of the calendar

PeggyShippen · 16-04-2022 5:04pm

Awful game . Just shocking. Like a bad league game. Terrible ref,crowd and play. A lethally bad start to the championship

PeggyShippen · 16-04-2022 5:07pm

The goalie puts it over and then the terrible Galway goalie gives away a point. Junior b

letsseehere14 · 16-04-2022 5:26pm

At the end of the championship last year it was widly accepted that every Munster team was ahead of all in Leinster. Judging by that 1st half. That hasn't changed.

Galway have the players to improve from where they are but that was a poor half from them, and they're well ahead. Wexford have been as poor as the attendance.

I thought Wexford were supposed to have the best fans in the country? Have the GAA seriously misplanned this calendar?