Replying To 3rdmidfielder:  ""County board spending is well monitored ". 325k is a crazy money to spend on managing amateur sports teams. It's not just Roscommon either btw. It's obvious where the bulk of that money went. Value for money?"

Replying To omahant:  "As you stated, I also don't think 'decoupling' Prov SFCs would get approved (e.g. Ulster says NO! in particular). My AILC neither fully couples nor decouples - with no Sam guarantee, Prov match pts are kind of a halfway house. The 'alternating week' schedule though is a good one. Given a total playing calendar of about 40 weeks (say, start-Feb to mid-Nov) - I suppose to be objectively fair - the inter-county and club should allocate evenly - each get 20 weeks, maybe split into 4 windows. That would require a smaller inter-county footprint - maybe with league reduced to 4-6 games. As the league with its '4 divs of 8' is so popular - it could be left in place - a Swiss System could reduce the schedule from 7 games. Say, for scheduling only - teams are ranked 1-8 in each div - 6-game schedule, A1458 v B2367, and in each group (A or B), 'best & worst v mid 2' (i.e. A18 v A45 & B27 v B36). For 5 games, A1458 v B2367, and in each group teams 'with a seeding difference of 4', play the extra game (i.e. A1vA5, A4vA8, B2vB6 & B3vB7). For 4 games, it's just A1458 v B2367."