Super 8s

[Rossfan]

Jury's still out for me.
However " my tweaks" would give it another chance to convince
My gut instinct is a Round Robin should be for everyone and then the best teams contest the knock out stages with every team having got 3 chances to prove their worthiness.

If and that's a big the Tier 2 comes in and another big IF it works then there might be scope for a Top 16 in 4 Groups of 4 each headed by a Provincial Champion.....
Sin scéal eile.....

[Zulu]

Well that's it. There are certainly better formats IMO but we can only deal with the options in front of us. I wouldn't favour getting rid of the super 8's to go back to the old format.

[Dinny Breen]

Kildare were well on top in the first half but did fade away badly to be fair. It was a smaller defeat than one suffered in the quarter finals a few years ago.

Kildare had a mathematical chance of qualifying. A ridiculous red card followed by another ridiculous black from a referee responding to the baying animals did for us in the end.

[kerryforsam19]

Kildare were well on top in the first half but did fade away badly to be fair. It was a smaller defeat than one suffered in the quarter finals a few years ago.

Kildare had a mathematical chance of qualifying. A ridiculous red card followed by another ridiculous black from a referee responding to the baying animals did for us in the end.

The black card was harsh but Neil Flynn deserved to get the line.

[Dinny Breen]

Tyrone naming a B team for Sunday. Super 8s meh!.

[GalwayBayBoy]

Any system that leads to pre season sides being named in August is not long for this world.

[themac_23]

the tyrone team thats been named for tomorrow is enough reason to bin the super 8s, championship is about winning not fulfilling fixtures, its the business time of the season

[yellowcard]

The Super 8's were never 'super' to begin with. Despite the best attempts to hype these league games up by of a whole host of media pundits who rely on more games for more work, the public have become totally disengaged by them. When ultra establishment man Dick Clerkin steadfastly defends them he is really defending his own interests. More games = more work for these pundits. The public are not fools though. They are flat, often predictable and boring. The best weekend of the year used to be the quarter finals over the August bank holiday with real cut and thrust games.

The inter county game is no longer of any great interest to a lot of good club people and I can only see this getting worse as the bean counters in HQ appear to measure success by the amount of revenue generated. 

[ardtole]

Very hard to disagree with any of that yellow card

[BennyCake]

The Super 8's were never 'super' to begin with. Despite the best attempts to hype these league games up by of a whole host of media pundits who rely on more games for more work, the public have become totally disengaged by them. When ultra establishment man Dick Clerkin steadfastly defends them he is really defending his own interests. More games = more work for these pundits. The public are not fools though. They are flat, often predictable and boring. The best weekend of the year used to be the quarter finals over the August bank holiday with real cut and thrust games.

The inter county game is no longer of any great interest to a lot of good club people and I can only see this getting worse as the bean counters in HQ appear to measure success by the amount of revenue generated.

Hard to disagree with any of that.

The qualifiers diluted the knockout nature of c'ship football, and the Super 8 has diluted it further. Yes, you might get the odd good game like Kerry Donegal, but all it is, is a cynical money-spinning exercise. Fans, players, managers, club players and managers don't matter here - it's all about money.

But the GAA will not get rid of their summer cash cow. It's here to stay.

[Zulu]

The Super 8's were never 'super' to begin with. Despite the best attempts to hype these league games up by of a whole host of media pundits who rely on more games for more work, the public have become totally disengaged by them. When ultra establishment man Dick Clerkin steadfastly defends them he is really defending his own interests. More games = more work for these pundits. The public are not fools though. They are flat, often predictable and boring. The best weekend of the year used to be the quarter finals over the August bank holiday with real cut and thrust games.

The inter county game is no longer of any great interest to a lot of good club people and I can only see this getting worse as the bean counters in HQ appear to measure success by the amount of revenue generated.

Hard to disagree with any of that.

The qualifiers diluted the knockout nature of c'ship football, and the Super 8 has diluted it further. Yes, you might get the odd good game like Kerry Donegal, but all it is, is a cynical money-spinning exercise. Fans, players, managers, club players and managers don't matter here - it's all about money.

But the GAA will not get rid of their summer cash cow. It's here to stay.

What a load of nonsense in fairness. Managers, players and fans don't want more games? Has the super 8's negatively impacted upon club players or managers. According to some posters here there are loads of league games going on in counties. You're an odd bunch to be complaining about more games.

[thejuice]

Meath 0-05
Kerry 0-05

15 mins

[thejuice]

Meath 0-05
Kerry 1-05

Goal Kerry

[thejuice]

Meath 1-06
Kerry 1-05

[thejuice]

Meath 1-06
Kerry 1-07