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Tiered Leinster SHC - 2 Like(s)
I really do try to be positive (honestly) but this is pretty bad.
Form a Galway point of view, the only difference between winning 3 games and losing 3 games is one extra game before a leinster semi final. The first 3 games of the year are glorified challenge games with no jeopardy at all. For example, we could lose to KK, Dublin and Offaly, then beat Laois and be at the same stage as KK who won all their games.
Apparently there is a yo-yo 'Problem'. So the solution is to shuffle things upward and make Wexford and Offaly the yo-yo teams (Apologies wexford and offaly fans, just basing it on the most likely imo.)
A lot of momentum for this seems based off of kildare putting in a few decent performances this year. So the solution to their relegation is to make it next to impossible for them to ever get a game against Galway or Kilkenny- Or if they do it will be because they are at a very low ebb having been relegated.
What's basically happening is Leinster will be shrunk and Joe Mcdonagh has become 'group 2' and the now Joe mcdonagh is a 3 game semi final and final with no incentive to win the final.
it's pretty similar to the Leinster u20 the last few years which as a Galway supporter i barely watch until the semi final. You'll be there either way so what does it matter.
Meanwhile Munster counties will play 4 high quality games and hockey the living you know what out of the 3rd (and sometimes second) place leinster team. All the existing gaps are going to grow as a result of this. It's complete change for the sake of change
Overdahill (National) - 08/10/2026 09:53:53
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Tiered Leinster SHC - 2 Like(s)
Replying To Overdahill: "I really do try to be positive (honestly) but this is pretty bad.
Form a Galway point of view, the only difference between winning 3 games and losing 3 games is one extra game before a leinster semi final. The first 3 games of the year are glorified challenge games with no jeopardy at all. For example, we could lose to KK, Dublin and Offaly, then beat Laois and be at the same stage as KK who won all their games.
Apparently there is a yo-yo 'Problem'. So the solution is to shuffle things upward and make Wexford and Offaly the yo-yo teams (Apologies wexford and offaly fans, just basing it on the most likely imo.)
A lot of momentum for this seems based off of kildare putting in a few decent performances this year. So the solution to their relegation is to make it next to impossible for them to ever get a game against Galway or Kilkenny- Or if they do it will be because they are at a very low ebb having been relegated.
What's basically happening is Leinster will be shrunk and Joe Mcdonagh has become 'group 2' and the now Joe mcdonagh is a 3 game semi final and final with no incentive to win the final.
it's pretty similar to the Leinster u20 the last few years which as a Galway supporter i barely watch until the semi final. You'll be there either way so what does it matter.
Meanwhile Munster counties will play 4 high quality games and hockey the living you know what out of the 3rd (and sometimes second) place leinster team. All the existing gaps are going to grow as a result of this. It's complete change for the sake of change" There have been two problems with Leinster in recent years
1. The teams haven't been good enough
2. There's a clear top 5 and whoever comes up goes straight back down
This proposal stops the 6th best team yo-yoing although as you said, there is now yo-yoing between 4th and 5th (Tbf, it's not quite the same as both teams can still win Leinster from the second group in theory)
However, it doesn't do anything to make the teams better and if anything, it makes the quality level worse
People are saying it brings jeopardy into Leinster because there are now knockout games
But there already is jeopardy under the current structure, it's just that the teams haven't been good enough!
Munster doesn't need knockout games and there's plenty of jeopardy in their group stages, it's all down to quality
ElGranSenor (National) - 08/10/2026 11:04:28
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