Quote from: marty34 on January 19, 2024, 08:32:13 PMThere is interest in it, just a much lesser competition and a great chance for lads on the fringes to exposure to a higher level in a club with second team, or for bringing young lads through.Quote from: Dreadnought on January 19, 2024, 06:40:48 PMQuote from: intheknowhow on January 19, 2024, 05:42:03 PMYes, mostly. Not for the everyday club player, but mostly. Split season the issue here overall. Glad you've finally caught upQuote from: Dreadnought on January 19, 2024, 05:28:41 PMQuote from: Ethan Tremblay on January 19, 2024, 04:25:52 PMHow are teams relegated to Intermediate and Junior championships in Cavan? I understand winning is the pathway to the level above, but how do you go about going down?1 up 1 down. Essentially the bottom 4 in the group stages play off in relegation semi finals, and then losers play relegation final when the Championship quarters, semi etc are ongoing. So overall loser relegated and replaced by below Championship winner. You have to win to move up, lose to move down
Only exception to this is when rejigging numbers, and the odd year you relegate 2 and so on. Covid also messed it here when none were relegated in 2020, but had a promotion, so 2 were relegated in 2021 and so on to rejig numbers across the 3 Championships
Your league is a farce so and handy for outside managers to make a few bob. Mess about in the league and win an odd game in champ and your grand.
Lose a few games in Monaghan and Tyrone in the league and your gone,you get found out pretty quick.
Managers still lose their jobs. Might not be as valued, but you can't lose all your games either. My own team cut their manager mid League last season.
So the league is juat a waste of time so. What's tbe point of lads playing if no interest in it.
Being a club manager in Cavan must be handy money...and no pressure.
I'd argue taking the league so seriously is a gimmick managers use to rip clubs off and charge more for their services with all the additional training and fitness stats. You cannot expect club players to be at peak from March to October. So I'd take it with a pinch of salt how tough the leagues are or at least how practical it is from a player welfare POV.
Whatever little joy is left in the club game is slowly being sucked away completely by these "professional" managerial setups and they always know how to charge regardless of results. Northern managers are notorious for it and they're picking up plenty of work in Cavan. Indeed in Dreadnought's own club it was a northern duo who unceremoniously got the gate. Seriously ignorant pair completely stuck up their own holes and extremely detrimental to player morale and development.