Club Championships 2023/24

You've shown your true colours anyway with dual players comment, the reason most players play both is there clubs wouldn't be able to field teams if they didn't.

I dont see what the big deal about playing into January is?

I think it has been a really good club championship in both codes. Lots of games every weekend right up to Christmas. I enjoyed it.

Those weather conditions could easily have occurred in December.

Exactly. We've had snow and storms on St Patrick 's Day in the past.

The Glen v Kilmacud match clearly shouldn't have been played yesterday and if the schedule wasn't so crowded they could have rescheduled it.

It still takes way too long for county's to complete their club championships and is proof that irrespective of all the changes the GAA at central level have done to ease fixture congestion the problem is mainly to do with county boards.

Offaly hurlers were out of the championship on June 17th and the Offaly hurling final was played on October 15th

Offaly footballers were out of the championship on June 10th and the senior football final was on September 24th.

It should not take that long for any county to complete their championship, simple as that.

Clubs leagues finished in around early june.

Again clubs leagues take way to long to finish.They should be weekly fixtures not once every 2 weeks.

Too much nonsense in GAA over having gaps between fixtures, what the hell is wrong with having a one match per week schedule for all competitions.I imagine the players would like it more as it would reduce the training to matches ratio.

I saw yesterday there that both respective mangers were not consulted about whether they wanted to play the game. I was shocked at that. As both said it should not have been played.

It's not their decision. If the referee deems the conditions playable, and one team doesn't want to play, they are free to forfeit.

As has been pointed out on numerous occasions, conditions at pitch level were much different to how it looked on TV. Shite for sure, but playable. 1-14 and 2-10 are some impressive scorelines for teams who supposedly couldn't see the ball or the goals.

Both managers should have got together in that case and had a discussion. If both refused to play what would the ref do then? He would have to call it off?

What are the rules on it if both refuse to continue/play?

By controversy I mean that both managers did not want it played and were surprised the ref went ahead with it. Plus the game became virtually unwatchable on the telly.

The only time I remember similar fog at match was Dublin v Mayo in Westport (League) I think it was a televised game. But it was definitely called off.

Interestingly the Galway-Offaly game yesterday in Tullamore was abandoned with 15 mins to go, due to the fog.

So the referee can do that if conditions are getting worse.

Now, I'm not sure how the fog differed in Tullamore v Newry or if it differs hurling v football, but still.

There will be loads of tickets available.

It's not the intercounty all-Ireland final.

Should be handy enough for tickets I assume not many neutrals will be at it. 30k ish attendance would be my guess. I can't remember the football attendance last year (even though they closed one stand due to a concert upcoming) it was still very sparse.

I know. What I meant was any season ticket holder that wasn't going to use their ticket.

You are correct castlebar. Typical Dub getting anywhere outside Dublin mixed up.

It was back in 2012 match abandoned due to Fog with the score Dublin 0-8-Mayo - 0-5

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Shane Walsh is a funny sort of player can go missing games, then all of a sudden bang he clicks.