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  • #14492
    Cavan_King
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,557 ✭✭✭Cavan_King


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123978329#Comment_123978329

    Do Ramor keep within their own club area for their players!? Are there players in their immediate area would improve them if there was less clubs? Of course there is.

    Also, if the competition from other clubs was better because they’d have a better pick, would Ramor or Crosserlough be winning the championship? The point is it’d raise the standard across the board to have the amount of clubs we should actually have.



  • #14493
    etuzyuk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 217 ✭✭etuzyuk


    It would be nice to see a county championship like they have in Kerry purely to see more competitive teams in it and to give every footballer in the county a realistic chance of winning a senior county medal. That would help selection for county team panel too you'd imagine.

    Whether that would improve our chances in the Ulster club championship is debatable. You can argue it might give marginal gains but doubt we'd see anything too dramatic. Only a club can go forward to Ulster so if a divisional team were to win, we'd be sending forward a beaten club. The likes of Ramor and Xlough at the moment have a natural ceiling anyway and need to get over the likes of Gowna and Kingscourt first before worrying about Ulster clubs. You can just as easily argue that introducing better teams into the championship will just reduce their chances of winning a county title so hardly preparation for beating better teams in the north.



  • #14494
    baconsarnie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,392 ✭✭✭baconsarnie


    The obvious thing (in my opinion) is to go to a more streamlined championship structure. 10 senior, 10 intermediate, 10 junior and the remaining 8 in a junior shield.

    There are too many teams in Senior and their sole annual aim is to win one game to stay up. I don't think they would even compete in intermediate to be honest. There are better teams in intermediate who are stuck (Cucus for example) on the basis that they meet a strong team and don't win intermediate. Ballyhaise a good example of that- easily a top 8 senior team but took years to get out of intermediate.

    A 10 team intermediate would be brutually competitive and a team 10 junior equally so.

    It's not that we have too many teams, it is how they are distributed to make for really competitive championship structures. Too many senior games allow the bigger teams to coast until they hit the knock out stages which means they are playing close to meaningless games.



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