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A solution? Make intercounty players professional and exclusive to the county game. Let the club players get on with it. Not fair to club players to be waiting on county players to play games. The club players are the majority here not the elite inter county players. Chops (Westmeath) - Posts: 775 - 10/01/2017 13:44:12 1944543 Link 2 |
Tiobraid I am not trying to be argumentative but why do teams need 2 weeks to prepare for a game. It is, of course, unfair to equate to pro sport but soccer, rugby, american football, basketball etc. do not need anywhere close to that amount of time. The football qualifiers has actually shown that a certain momentum can be gained from playing every week. Just a thought though and I am interested to hear yours. Fair point regarding the challenge the CPA will have addressing the individual needs of every counties fixtures. Virtually impossible. breakingball22 (Louth) - Posts: 419 - 12/01/2017 12:13:44 1945124 Link 0 |
Senior teams averaging 13/15 games per year & that's faitly accurate. Junior teams playing on average 5 games across the year which is a disgrace.
moc.dna (Galway) - Posts: 1212 - 12/01/2017 12:56:12 1945140 Link 0 |
Where you getting those figures from??? That's the table from the middle of august in fermanagh. Doesn't even include their championship games. SFL 1 Pos. Team P W L D F A Pts 1 Roslea 17 12 4 1 273 227 25 2 Derrygonnelly 17 12 5 0 315 209 24 3 Erne Gaels 17 11 5 1 285 226 23 4 Teemore 17 9 5 3 246 219 21 5 Ederney 17 8 7 2 243 249 18 6 Irvinestown 17 7 7 3 270 268 17 7 Devenish 17 8 8 1 249 248 17 8 Belcoo 17 5 11 1 211 257 11 9 Maguiresbridge 17 4 11 2 228 301 10 10 Tempo 17 1 14 2 168 284 4 SFL 2 Pos. Team P W L D F A Pts 1 St Pats 17 15 2 0 365 178 30 2 Kinawley 16 14 2 0 268 155 28 3 Newtownbutler 17 12 3 2 271 209 26 4 Aghadrumsee 17 10 6 1 267 216 21 5 Lisnaskea 17 10 7 0 270 231 20 6 Enniskillen 16 4 9 3 203 219 11 7 Derrylin 17 4 11 2 216 273 10 8 Belnaleck 16 3 10 3 203 247 9 9 Coa 15 2 12 1 136 256 5 10 Brookeboro 16 2 14 0 134 349 4 gotmilk (Fermanagh) - Posts: 4971 - 12/01/2017 13:23:20 1945148 Link 0 |
Anybody that thinks the clubs should do without the county players, I would be interested to know how many players from their clubs are on county teams? My own club could have 2 or 3 on both the hurling and football panels. We lose them and we may go back playing junior. Joe_Bloggs (Tipperary) - Posts: 186 - 12/01/2017 15:57:54 1945211 Link 0 |
Go to the Galway Gaa website, click on football results, scroll down & you will get links to the different competitions, you can even analyse it & do a statistical table as I have done over the last two years. If you want to see a real scandal look up the U21 football competitions for 2014/15/16 & see how few games & how they start in one calendar year & finish in the next. By the way to date Galway Gaa are not running an U21 competition for 2017.
moc.dna (Galway) - Posts: 1212 - 12/01/2017 17:39:49 1945253 Link 0 |
I'm just throwing this out there, I know it will never happen but I think it's a good idea. What if this year's county champions represented their county for next years inter county championship. They could play in inter county championship and abstain from local championship for that year, meaning you will have a different county champion in every county every year, and chances are, a really competitive inter county championship with club teams from so-called weaker counties able to compete with each other better than say Wexford with Kilkenny at the moment. Oulart, as an example, would hold no fear of anyone in Leinster. The fixture's problem would not be a problem anymore. I know it's a flawed plan and will never even be considered but it would be a fair carrot to add to the bonus of winning a county title. P.s, I know there's already a club championship, but wouldn't it be great to see the best club players playing in proper summer weather Monica (Wexford) - Posts: 31 - 12/01/2017 21:55:22 1945325 Link 0 |
We do get to see the best club players play in the summer months...it's the intercounty championship.
gotmilk (Fermanagh) - Posts: 4971 - 12/01/2017 23:41:03 1945356 Link 0 |
Could you send me a link to those stats? I genuinely would be interested in reading those stats and stats from other counties.
gotmilk (Fermanagh) - Posts: 4971 - 12/01/2017 23:42:38 1945357 Link 0 |
I'd be in favour of scrapping inter county championship myself and having a really good club championship from Spring to September with maybe a break for a few weeks to coincide with builders holidays so lads could book a holiday away. If people wanted to have the elite playing against each other there could be a league played off over 6 - 8 weeks at the end of the year. Joe_Bloggs (Tipperary) - Posts: 186 - 13/01/2017 09:35:10 1945383 Link 0 |
To be honest its probably too late now to do that but its a pity that system wasn't continued with from the start of the GAA, it would have led to a more equal and balanced structure that the present inter county system, what you would have seen happen would be each county would have coalesced around a number of strong clubs - in counties like Tipperary, Cork, Kilkenny you would see quite a few strong clubs, in Limerick, Wexford, Clare etc. you might have a smaller number but equally strong clubs, In laois or Westmeath you might have only one or two strong clubs - it would have made for great competition that could have incorporated all areas of Ireland rather than the present system of an elite level of 5-6 teams.
73forever (Limerick) - Posts: 89 - 13/01/2017 10:28:56 1945395 Link 0 |
I'm just throwing this out there, I know it will never happen but I think it's a good idea. What if this year's county champions represented their county for next years inter county championship. They could play in inter county championship and abstain from local championship for that year, meaning you will have a different county champion in every county every year, and chances are, a really competitive inter county championship with club teams from so-called weaker counties able to compete with each other better than say Wexford with Kilkenny at the moment. Oulart, as an example, would hold no fear of anyone in Leinster. The fixture's problem would not be a problem anymore. I know it's a flawed plan and will never even be considered but it would be a fair carrot to add to the bonus of winning a county title. P.s, I know there's already a club championship, but wouldn't it be great to see the best club players playing in proper summer weather ormondbannerman (Clare) - Posts: 13473 - 13/01/2017 11:19:11 1945412 Link 0 |
To be fair to county boards it's incredibly difficult to come up with a fixture planner at the start of the season with the current inter county season. Whammo86 (Antrim) - Posts: 4241 - 13/01/2017 21:12:09 1945555 Link 0 |
Problem is that most county fixtures planners seem incapable of setting out a proper calender of fixtures for the forthcoming year, with planned breaks from championship activity and breaks to allow teams to train. manfromdelmonte (UK) - Posts: 541 - 15/01/2017 17:35:38 1945860 Link 0 |
It is all very well for lads from tyrone, fermanagh, louth and cavan etc to not understand why fixtures are a problem, because ye dont bother with hurling. If you tried to run a county football championship, county hurling championship, county football league and county hurling league then you would know why even counties beaten early in championship struggle to get club championships played in time. Add in the difficulty with having to play under 21 at weekends in september and october. If for example a club has a team in an under 21 semi final, a team in a junior football semi final and a team in a intermediate hurling semi final, these will have to be arranged around one another on seperate weekends. Then what happens if there is a replay, more delay. 890202 (Wexford) - Posts: 1278 - 19/01/2017 09:33:39 1946870 Link 0 |
How many duel clubs are there in Wexford?
gotmilk (Fermanagh) - Posts: 4971 - 19/01/2017 10:29:27 1946896 Link 0 |