Tailteann Cup 2022

[thewobbler]

This year is straight knock out. Next year this competition becomes a group format.

More time wasting routines ffs! Its beyond a joke with the amount of time players are away from their clubs at the minute but now they are going to be stretching the season out further to win the second tier cup

It's a split season that allows plenty of time for those players with their clubs once the inter County season ends.

Should be a honour to represent your county and this is competition with the opportunity to win a trophy in Croke Park.

So you have them for a bit then they go away again ? Aye it's an honour like the Tommy cooper cup.. they'll be writing songs about the winners and films made about the rise from div 4 to Sam Maguire!

You complained about the provincial championships previously and now writing off the Tailteann Cup before it begins. So you want your own Antrim county players play one championship match and those players be let back to their clubs?

That's pretty what I want myself. I'd like the leagues to be finishing up around now - mid May - and used to determine championship places. And as many players returned to their clubs as quickly as possible between now and the AI final end of July. 

[Rossfan]

There will be loads of players free to rejoin clubs starting from 2 or 3 weeks time.
How many Club Championship games will those players get before the AI football Final on 24th July?

[thewobbler]

There will be loads of players free to rejoin clubs starting from 2 or 3 weeks time.
How many Club Championship games will those players get before the AI football Final on 24th July?

It's not about the 1% getting football. It's about the 99% getting football.

[FermGael]

So we now have a north section and a South section.
It looks like they are making this up as they go along .

[Dreadnought]

There will be loads of players free to rejoin clubs starting from 2 or 3 weeks time.
How many Club Championship games will those players get before the AI football Final on 24th July?

It's not about the 1% getting football. It's about the 99% getting football.

Do agree, but you need a strong jewel in the crown, your intercounty championship. And moving it away from its historic place in the calendar, playing bulk of all matches in early part of the year in poor weather, clashing with other sports, and not having many games during the actual summer months seems silly to me.

[Louther]

A farce if the proposal doing rounds is right.

The GAA is been run shockingly bad in recent years - venues, ticketing, structures, u-turns, etc etc. simple things are dragged into headlines with uncertainty and speculation before the inevitable announcement. Never seem to get ahead and their own spin in place.

Competition weeks from starting and only now has a format come into public domain via leaks. And it's not what was expected and belittling with regional format.

And you can be sure the regional nature be loose.

[GAABoardMod5]

From the GAA Master Fixture List 2022, published Dec 2021, as regards the Tailteann Cup (look at second bullet point):

• The Championship shall be played on a knock-out basis.
• Round 1 and the Quarter Finals shall be organised on a geographical basis with Northern and Southern Sections.
• The Central Competitions Control Committee shall decide on an annual basis which Counties shall be included in each Section.
• The Draws shall be conducted by the Central Competitions Control Committee.
• A Preliminary Round may be played if there are more than 16 eligible teams.
• New York, will enter the competition at the Quarter-Final stage.
• All games will be winner on the day.

[Rossfan]

Ah Mod will you stop with yer oul facts.
You'll prevent pages of outrage and moaning

[FermGael]

Wonder who will be the first county to pull out ?

[twohands!!!]

Wonder who will be the first county to pull out ?

Any team who pulls out will be suspended for the first game of next year's championship, which means they would be out of the entirety of next year's championship.

No county is going to pull out.

[tintin25]

The Northern and Southern sections is just daft

[twohands!!!]

The Northern and Southern sections is just daft

Can't help think this was dreamt up back when COVID was much more of a factor.

Also possibly an effort to save money for Division 3/4 county boards.

[full moon]

A farce if the proposal doing rounds is right.

The GAA is been run shockingly bad in recent years - venues, ticketing, structures, u-turns, etc etc. simple things are dragged into headlines with uncertainty and speculation before the inevitable announcement. Never seem to get ahead and their own spin in place.

Competition weeks from starting and only now has a format come into public domain via leaks. And it's not what was expected and belittling with regional format.

And you can be sure the regional nature be loose.

Agree. Croke Park needs total overhaul. I'm not sure is it about the current president or where the power actually lies anymore. Is it Tom Ryan the managing director? The various committees and councils making bad decisions and hiding behind anonymity.

But GAA is being ran badly for several years now and there is very little justification or transparency anymore from Croke Park. All that seems to matter is the cash coming in. Even then their ticketing farce is a case in point. About 5 different apps at this stage and falsely claiming shops are selling tickets when they aren't.

Before we get to awful scheduling, promotion or marketing etc.

[joemamas]

From the GAA Master Fixture List 2022, published Dec 2021, as regards the Tailteann Cup (look at second bullet point):

• The Championship shall be played on a knock-out basis.
• Round 1 and the Quarter Finals shall be organised on a geographical basis with Northern and Southern Sections.
• The Central Competitions Control Committee shall decide on an annual basis which Counties shall be included in each Section.
• The Draws shall be conducted by the Central Competitions Control Committee.
• A Preliminary Round may be played if there are more than 16 eligible teams.
• New York, will enter the competition at the Quarter-Final stage.
• All games will be winner on the day.

The biggest c**k up with this competition and there are many, is not playing it before the All-Ireland senior football final.
The tradition of playing the minor game (btw now U17) instead of it is daft.
As someone who typically went to watch the minor game, I now have decided that showing up at 1.15pm to watch a U17 game does not do it for me.
The place is half empty even well into the second half.

[befair]

From the GAA Master Fixture List 2022, published Dec 2021, as regards the Tailteann Cup (look at second bullet point):

• The Championship shall be played on a knock-out basis.
• Round 1 and the Quarter Finals shall be organised on a geographical basis with Northern and Southern Sections.
• The Central Competitions Control Committee shall decide on an annual basis which Counties shall be included in each Section.
• The Draws shall be conducted by the Central Competitions Control Committee.
• A Preliminary Round may be played if there are more than 16 eligible teams.
• New York, will enter the competition at the Quarter-Final stage.
• All games will be winner on the day.

The biggest c**k up with this competition and there are many, is not playing it before the All-Ireland senior football final.
The tradition of playing the minor game (btw now U17) instead of it is daft.
As someone who typically went to watch the minor game, I now have decided that showing up at 1.15pm to watch a U17 game does not do it for me.
The place is half empty even well into the second half.

I'd understood the Tailteann final was to be the curtain-raiser; has this been changed? If so, an absurd decision.