Would GAA (football) solve a lot of its problem if it had a single, proper championship?

And once again more nonsense from this poster , 14 years of nonsense actually .The reality is the absolute shambles of the Munster Championship must be addressed. 100 years of total dominance by one County has led to declining interest .

Ok. So no ideas to fix Leinster. We'll move on then.

Not yet , time to shut this nonsense down now , the usual offender is back on his 14 year agenda !

A 14 year agenda of anti Dublin nonsense !

Nope i wont ignore

In your opinion 🙄

Split Kerry was only mentioned to show the bitter anti Dublin nonsense was just that nonsense

Sure your a great lad yourself , never moon howled in your 4341 posts , well done you i'm sure your very proud of yourself .

Absolutely not !

More fool you for believing everything you read , close the door after you 🤣

Dunnerc is trying to bait and drag the thread off topic. Tbh it is best to just ignore him and grapple with the issues. That's what I do these days. No point engaging (as you presumably saw yourself from your exchange after this post). He mostly just repeats what is said to him with a word or two changed.

You can talk all you want about the provinces but theres not a hope in hell Ulster will give it up.

Also leaving Munster in its dead state , supporters don't want that , i feel your argument is pure nonsense

What's your proposal for dealing with the shambles of the Leinster Championship then? While seeding is probably a marginal improvement it really will make no difference to competitiveness or interest there. They'll continue to decline under your proposed reforms.

Connacht, Munster and Ulster should have decent provincial finals anyway.

Leinster should probably consider a Tier 2 Championship at least to try and raise standards. At least 5 counties in the Tier 2. That is a Leinster matter. I merely suggest for consideration.

Fair enough and I appreciate Leinster is a hard problem to solve given the scale of the problems there. But that proposal won't make any difference to standards there? It will still be an uncompetitive shambles even with seeding and a Tier-2 competition. Even if it does somehow make a difference it'll take years- which means more declining interest, competitiveness etc. Leinster needs radical reform, quickly. And I also don't think one Province alone should be treated a certain way- either they all should go or all remain the same. I think they all should go.

The provincials have really odd breakdowns all over the shop with teams of varying quality.

The map of the teams from the national league really tells a story

How often do people look at it though? It really shows how unbalanced the championship is. In a word it is just daft.

The table above shows how unbalanced it is Connacht have only 5 teams come championship time NY and London are thrown in for the craic, yet Leinster have 11 why 11 counties?!! 7 of them were division 3/4……

The south east of the country is a football wasteland in particular. Munster and Leinster have only 1 div 1 county each. Ulster will have four division 1 teams four!! Yet people wonder why the provincials are not competitive??????

I know the Rossies got relegated to div 2 but they were hard done by and had a decent league. Monaghan are finally on the dip after been greater the sum of their parts for years. But they have now been replaced by two div2 ulster teams who got promoted.

- Ulster 9 teams meaning a preliminary competition is needed for at least two teams have to have a preliminary competition.

The whole thing is madness.

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What they should do is the following

Based on the league wouldn't a idea be that each "conference" be created after the league div 1 teams get a bye to the last 10.

Div 3 and 4 teams play each other in a knockout blitz (preseason as they did not like the preseason competitions being scrapped, this would solve it). Come championship time the top two from this go unseeded against the seeded top two from div2 in a play off.

Leading to a group of 8 from division 1 and a final two from that play off system - with 10 counties which can play in a round robin knockout home and away resulting in a top four which go on to the AI semi finals.

I have not forgotten about NY by the way. They no longer compete in the championship but are a venue on rotation for an all star match— proceeds going there

What of the Ulster Championship?

Ulster can change the name of the McKenna Cup to the "Ulster championship" if they wish and run if off preseason. And this is where I think Ulster needs a firm hand, if they don't abide by the "new" championship structure they should be suspended from the championship proper, and fined. Connacht can change name of the FBD to the "Connacht championship if they wish. Make it a preseason competition

Change the voting system at Congress, one province/and single county should not be allowed to hold the others to ransom IMO. The same goes for ANY other county that kicks up a fuss.

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Time and again the league as shown that football in this country is div 1 plus the top 2 from div2. The rest bring the standard way down. The championship should reflect the reality.