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For me the answer is open draw knock-out Senior, Intermediate and Junior All Ireland's, same as clubs.  Lots of lads on here will have proudly won a Junior or Intermediate with their club and it's a stepping stone to the next level.  All Ireland B, Tailteann Cup etc just don't get me interested but if my county was in the Junior level and aiming for an All Ireland final in Croke Park then I'd be looking forward to it, plus can enjoy the big teams in the Senior as well knocking bells out of each other.  Keep the Provincials as separate competitions and use the leagues to determine who is at what level.

No. This definitely not the answer. We want more evenly matched games. Not less.

Don't think you've read it right, or else I haven't explained myself - 3 tiers, junior, intermediate and senior = more evenly matched games.

But still open draw knock out? Tyrone draw Dublin 1st round and one of them is out? Season over?

Tyrone get to play a full national league, likely in Div 1, an Ulster Championship (at least one game), and then All Ireland (at least one game), and with the thrill of knock out football and open draws - I'm ready for that, and it's at least one game more than most counties enjoy on a regular basis, plus very few hammerings.  Just my tuppence worth.

For me the answer is open draw knock-out Senior, Intermediate and Junior All Ireland's, same as clubs.  Lots of lads on here will have proudly won a Junior or Intermediate with their club and it's a stepping stone to the next level.  All Ireland B, Tailteann Cup etc just don't get me interested but if my county was in the Junior level and aiming for an All Ireland final in Croke Park then I'd be looking forward to it, plus can enjoy the big teams in the Senior as well knocking bells out of each other.  Keep the Provincials as separate competitions and use the leagues to determine who is at what level.

No. This definitely not the answer. We want more evenly matched games. Not less.

Don't think you've read it right, or else I haven't explained myself - 3 tiers, junior, intermediate and senior = more evenly matched games.

For me the answer is open draw knock-out Senior, Intermediate and Junior All Ireland's, same as clubs.  Lots of lads on here will have proudly won a Junior or Intermediate with their club and it's a stepping stone to the next level.  All Ireland B, Tailteann Cup etc just don't get me interested but if my county was in the Junior level and aiming for an All Ireland final in Croke Park then I'd be looking forward to it, plus can enjoy the big teams in the Senior as well knocking bells out of each other.  Keep the Provincials as separate competitions and use the leagues to determine who is at what level.

Boring and unwatchable.

I don't give a shite about the Dub's process.  That crap is unwatchable and frustrating for any viewer - surely even for the Dubs.  Passing the ball about between them, between midfield and the oppositions 21 is not worth watching.  They get away with it because of their fitness, but also because of the fear of the opposition who will rarely do what Flynn did and show bravery and conviction and tear into them.  Only Mayo and Kerry have done it in recent years at a team level.

People talk about Ciaran Kilkenny.  For the same reason people admire him, I find him to personify the entire Dublin approach.  Take no risks; solo on the spot and always give the 100% pass.  Boring, boring crap.

The media fawning over them for the last 10 years has been excruciating. They get too much respect from everyone; referees, other players, media, commenators, pundits!! These boring f**ckers have emasculated the rest of Leinster.  Mayo or Kerry urgently need to beat them.

You do realise the reason Dublin were boring and unwatchable today was because Kildare dropped 14 men back into their own half. They didn't press up on Dublin, even when Flynn got the goal after the water break to cut it back to a five point deficit.

Kildare didn't come into this one hoping for a win, just damage limitation and not wanting to put a sour note on a successful campaign. Completely understandable but you can't blame Dublin for playing keep ball and baiting Kildare to come out and tackle them.

I do - they have been emasculated. They stood off them and showed them too much respect. 
My problem is not just with Dublin, its that teams don't take the fight to them. 
It is the antithesis of competition.
They are boring and the opposition increasingly tends to be gutless.

I had thought about getting into a conversation about financial fair play as part of that, but that's for another day.

I should add,
I know my original post was somewhat irrational, but that surely is most long term GAA followers' gut reaction to watching the last 25 minutes of that game.  Anger, frustration, sickened that the game has come to this.

I know where you are coming from, but to their credit they killed off Donegal and Tyrone whose 'systems' would have been a disaster altogether for Gaelic football and to be fair some of their finals against Mayo and Kerry have been fantastic. 

If Tyrone have everyone back in the dressing room you'd think it would be a big boost, and after getting whipped in Killarney, they've the opportunity to turn it into a tight game and make Kerry doubt themselves.  But, will Tyrone's backs end up chasing shadows?

Professor of Immunology at Maynooth University, Paul Moynagh, said the pandemic could be changing course in vaccinated nations.

"I think we're getting very close, the number of countries like ourselves, like the UK and most countries in Europe, I think we're getting very close to the end of the pandemic phase,"

"We'll probably move more into an endemic phase where the virus will be circulating in the background but thankfully, most of us will be protected by either vaccination or natural immunity through infection so that will prevent us from getting very ill, very sick."

That would be amazing.

Every time I see the UK or US media go bananas about a great baseball or cricket catch, I think of Joe Canning - that one where he does a hand pass out the backdoor and puts a player away in space - magic.

Football evolves as coaches innovate.  Surely Jim gets that!

It seems 15 years of blanket has produced a generation of backs who just can't defend unless half the team are within 20 yards helping them.  Jim is reaping what he sewed.  I'd take the Armagh Monaghan game any day rather than half-backs running up the sideline unchallenged, and then going back round on the loop when they eventually see an opponent in front of them.

We do need to squeeze every drop out of McRory football.  A handful of SW clubs benefit.  A Belfast Combined  Schools team - why not?  If we're playing hurling in Leinster why can't we think outside the box on that one.

Resources yes, but they don't grow on trees. Would be interested to hear what other county squads are getting that we don't.

But we really do need to be honest about what's happening at club level.  The standard of minor teams  is poor enough currently bar a few and I've noticed a lot of clubs where the standard just seems to have flat lined or regressed as teams have moved up through U12s, U14, U16 (17).  Is coaching poor, are the lads not that bothered because we aren't a glamour county?  I don't know but we seem to be losing ground every year.  I thought that minor squad were doing ok in previous years in development squad tournaments?  Can't understand how they got hammered although sounds like nothing went right on the night.

Unfortunately we didn't have the Delta variant running riot last year.  On the current trajectory, September onwards will be a big mess of positive cases and people isolating with a lot of clubs potentially disrupted.

at last someone else who is living in 2021 - the format is super its just wrong year for it - championships need run off as quickly as we can and players understanD as they dont want unfinished championships

Wake up people

Send in your proposals and format with a new draw, you could possibly video it just show being fair

Its just a bit of debate and genuine comment.  No need to be patronising.

Most of your posts in fairness are sly digs at people in Gaelfast or county committees. 

If that was aimed at me, you're getting mixed up. The more ideas and suggestions are thrown into the mix the better.  Nobody across our county has anything to lose from that and maybe some good ideas might emerge - imagine.

Not you in the slightest was my post aimed at, you've reasonably put across many a decent debate with no major axe to grind over the years

Spot on.  Sorry, I picked you up wrong.

Unfortunately we didn't have the Delta variant running riot last year.  On the current trajectory, September onwards will be a big mess of positive cases and people isolating with a lot of clubs potentially disrupted.

at last someone else who is living in 2021 - the format is super its just wrong year for it - championships need run off as quickly as we can and players understanD as they dont want unfinished championships

Wake up people

Send in your proposals and format with a new draw, you could possibly video it just show being fair

Its just a bit of debate and genuine comment.  No need to be patronising.

Most of your posts in fairness are sly digs at people in Gaelfast or county committees. 

If that was aimed at me, you're getting mixed up. The more ideas and suggestions are thrown into the mix the better.  Nobody across our county has anything to lose from that and maybe some good ideas might emerge - imagine.

Unfortunately we didn't have the Delta variant running riot last year.  On the current trajectory, September onwards will be a big mess of positive cases and people isolating with a lot of clubs potentially disrupted.

at last someone else who is living in 2021 - the format is super its just wrong year for it - championships need run off as quickly as we can and players understanD as they dont want unfinished championships

Wake up people

Send in your proposals and format with a new draw, you could possibly video it just show being fair

Its just a bit of debate and genuine comment.  No need to be patronising. 

Unfortunately we didn't have the Delta variant running riot last year.  On the current trajectory, September onwards will be a big mess of positive cases and people isolating with a lot of clubs potentially disrupted.

Run the competitions off quickly, Senior and Underage would be my view as covid disruption is on the way, especially when the schools go back.  Why run into the same problem as last year when some underage finals were postponed and never got played.