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Only care about games, couldn't care less about the GAA, takes more than a free wind breaker to buy my loyalty. If you think the well paid GAA hierarchy are the doing a great job, that's fine, but clearly my standards are much higher."]I agree. There should be quite a bit more innovation. In this pandemic year, there is a path of least resistence to try ANY alternative AI SFC structure other than the one chosen - but a LITTLE courage does not exist - as one former US President put it - "there is nothing to fear, but FEAR itself !""]I think that's a little harsh to be fair. The association has recently made some large changes around the calendar and championship formats. Given the pandemic the onus just has to be on getting a competition together. Having a regionalised championship moving onto the All Ireland makes perfect sense for this year. They'll reevaluate then going forward I'd imagine."]You'll still be imaging, I imagine :) They could/should have tried something novel as a one off - even as a 5-round KO, Open Draw or even the old regionalized North 16/ South 16, if they didn't want teams travelling the length of the country. Inertia reigns, even when there would be less resistence in 2021 to try something new. Look - I think they did well with the County/Club season split - I like it - but the AI SFC format is still a mess - don't like the League Championship 5-3-1-1 KO proposal at all - and it might just be voted in because there is momentum to change to "anything else." Inspired by your 8-8-16 idea - how about after the 4x8 NFL (in 2022 and beyond), have NFL bottom 0-2-5-5 to AIC Rd 1; top 4-2-0-0 to Rd 3; and the rest to Rd 2 (that is 6-14-12). omahant (USA) - Posts: 2573 - 11/05/2021 20:42:09 2341169 Link 1 |
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Only care about games, couldn't care less about the GAA, takes more than a free wind breaker to buy my loyalty. If you think the well paid GAA hierarchy are the doing a great job, that's fine, but clearly my standards are much higher."]I agree. There should be quite a bit more innovation. In this pandemic year, there is a path of least resistence to try ANY alternative AI SFC structure other than the one chosen - but a LITTLE courage does not exist - as one former US President put it - "there is nothing to fear, but FEAR itself !""]I think that's a little harsh to be fair. The association has recently made some large changes around the calendar and championship formats. Given the pandemic the onus just has to be on getting a competition together. Having a regionalised championship moving onto the All Ireland makes perfect sense for this year. They'll reevaluate then going forward I'd imagine."]You'll still be imaging, I imagine :) They could/should have tried something novel as a one off - even as a 5-round KO, Open Draw or even the old regionalized North 16/ South 16, if they didn't want teams travelling the length of the country. Inertia reigns, even when there would be less resistence in 2021 to try something new. Look - I think they did well with the County/Club season split - I like it - but the AI SFC format is still a mess - don't like the League Championship 5-3-1-1 KO proposal at all - and it might just be voted in because there is momentum to change to "anything else." Inspired by your 8-8-16 idea - how about after the 4x8 NFL (in 2022 and beyond), have NFL bottom 0-2-5-5 to AIC Rd 1; top 4-2-0-0 to Rd 3; and the rest to Rd 2 (that is 6-14-12)."]They set up a task force to look at fixtures and competition formats. They're not doing nothing. We only had 2 seasons worth of a change of the championship. There's plenty to criticise the GAA on but they actually have implemented significant recent changes to both of their flagship competitions. Whammo86 (Antrim) - Posts: 4210 - 11/05/2021 21:58:55 2341180 Link 2 |
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Only care about games, couldn't care less about the GAA, takes more than a free wind breaker to buy my loyalty. If you think the well paid GAA hierarchy are the doing a great job, that's fine, but clearly my standards are much higher."]I agree. There should be quite a bit more innovation. In this pandemic year, there is a path of least resistence to try ANY alternative AI SFC structure other than the one chosen - but a LITTLE courage does not exist - as one former US President put it - "there is nothing to fear, but FEAR itself !""]I think that's a little harsh to be fair. The association has recently made some large changes around the calendar and championship formats. Given the pandemic the onus just has to be on getting a competition together. Having a regionalised championship moving onto the All Ireland makes perfect sense for this year. They'll reevaluate then going forward I'd imagine."]You'll still be imaging, I imagine :) They could/should have tried something novel as a one off - even as a 5-round KO, Open Draw or even the old regionalized North 16/ South 16, if they didn't want teams travelling the length of the country. Inertia reigns, even when there would be less resistence in 2021 to try something new. Look - I think they did well with the County/Club season split - I like it - but the AI SFC format is still a mess - don't like the League Championship 5-3-1-1 KO proposal at all - and it might just be voted in because there is momentum to change to "anything else." Inspired by your 8-8-16 idea - how about after the 4x8 NFL (in 2022 and beyond), have NFL bottom 0-2-5-5 to AIC Rd 1; top 4-2-0-0 to Rd 3; and the rest to Rd 2 (that is 6-14-12)."]They set up a task force to look at fixtures and competition formats. They're not doing nothing. We only had 2 seasons worth of a change of the championship. There's plenty to criticise the GAA on but they actually have implemented significant recent changes to both of their flagship competitions."]Are you talking about 2021 ? NFL groups of 4 with unbalance within each div and re-implementation of the old stale AI structure ? I want a decent League Championship going forward = maybe 6 NFL divs (1 to 6, of 5,6,5,5,6,5 teams) leading to AIC = gives more teams a chance of winning silverware. 5-team divs play round robin and those teams also play the 6-team div, one level above or below - for a 10-match schedule for all - 1 up, 1 down. AIC = bottom 0-0-1-3-4-4 to Rd 1; top 4-2-0-0-0-0 to Rd 3; and 14 others to Rd 2. Provs played as stand alone. omahant (USA) - Posts: 2573 - 12/05/2021 02:44:47 2341201 Link 1 |
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OR, just a conventional 3 NFL divs of 12, 10, 10 (3 up / 3 down). omahant (USA) - Posts: 2573 - 13/05/2021 05:04:07 2341385 Link 0 |