I don't mean change the number of months assigned to county. I mean change the months for county. Right now it's February - July. Why not have April - September?
To give club players a better chance of playing in summer? To give the majority of players more game time in best months for games.
Sure most county players are finished up in August anyways!
I do wonder did international exposure ie players going over to clubs in the States in the summer play a part in the GAAs decision making ?
It's not really international exposure though.
The game in America is very much a niche Irish thing, even in cities like Boston with a big Irish influence it's not even on the radar of people who don't have an Irish born friend or relative.
and wen would you have the club season?
Offset by 2 months.
Start it in September? Don't be ridiculous
As opposed to the massively different conditions in August?
Get rid of the cashless only tickets policy, delighted to see the GAA come under public pressure recently over this issue. It's a ridiculous policy, i can't understand the logic behind it at all. No big deal to have one or two cash/card only gates at every ground. How many ticket sales are they missing out on? I was at a Bundesliga 2 game in Germany recently, bought 4 pre booked tickets at the stadium for cash. btw tickets were just €14 each for a top professional league in a modern stadium with bars, food outlets, plenty of toilets etc as opposed to €18 for NFL games here in mostly **** stadia but thats another story
There really after making an unnecessary change to the Minor Championships having them all separate games and not as part of curtain raisers to the Senior games which worked so well in the past
The Munster Minor Hurling fixtures are the across all levels too
Is it not becuase players will be preparing for exams?
Very sad news tonight, thoughts and prayers to Liams Family/Friends and all the GAA community.
Brilliant servant to the GAA
Many players have exams which will take precedence?
Is the Allianz National Hurling League in danger of losing supporters? Some people are getting fed up of paying €18 for shadow boxing.
Only €10 for Division 4 football matches!
Same for lower tier hurling. Kerry v Offaly produced one of the best games of hurling last year. It was only €10 to see it! Lovely hurling!
So, how the last 16 standings are affected by this week's results:
Provincial finalists: Clare/Limerick (7th and 8th D2), Kerry/Tipp (5th D1, 8th D3), Sligo/NY (1st D4, N/A), Roscommon/Galway (3rd D1, 2nd D1)
League placings: Mayo (1st D1), Cork? (4th D2 currently above cut off point of 5th in same division).
Meath must reach Leinster final to avoid Tailteann Cup.
Time to scrap Leinster football seeing as there's no appetite to remove Dublin? Can't understand why Connaught can have a hurling championship without Galway but Leinster can't without Dublin?
Just disband Leinster send the southern counties to Munster and the rest to Connaught. Otherwise in 17 years we'll be celebrating Dublin winning 30 in a row.
And Connaught and Munster while you’re at it!!!! Why stop at Leinster??? Meath are not going to challenge anywhere anytime soon. They’ve found their level at present. Removing Dublin won’t win them matches.
Connacht don’t have a hurling championship without Galway
I think you’ll find it’s football being discussed.
It's a valid point. In hurling they moved Galway and Antrim to Leinster. It helped the province. Connaught have a hurling championship without Galway.
These drastic moves happened because of extremely lobsided results. We've reached that point with Leinster football.
Last 10 finals winning margins starting from 2014.
16
13
15
9
18
21
14
Dublin have no place playing in Leinster. Do what they did with Galway in hurling and pick another province for them and like Galway Dublin play all provincial game's away for the first 10 years.
There is no Connaught hurling championship at present and pretty sure the Ulster hurling championship has been abandoned too..
The comment you quoted mentioned Connacht having a hurling championship without Galway, which they don’t
Connacht do not have a Hurling Championship
They have a pre-season league alright (which this year featured a Galway Junior team essentially) but it’s a completely experimental league for those teams
It's changed since I've last looked then. In that case Dublin should be entering an intermediate team into Leinster. That would be a lot fairer.
Any takers for 5 points a goal in football hurling?
And banning the fisted goal in football? Not complicated and no fuss.
Might make the games more open?
And would especially lower the value of effective 'freetaking competitions' in hurling where the freetaker could easily get 15 plus.
Another simple one is countdown timer like in the ladies football should be used in both men's codes.
It stops when play stops simple. Everyone knows where they stand and would cut out a lot of the messing of teams trying to waste time because of a fella in the sin bin.
This would improve things so much in football and make like easier for refs.
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