Congress

[didlyi]

Sure whats new up North. When was the last time Donegal voted yes for anything?

[Captain Obvious]

Sure whats new up North. When was the last time Donegal voted yes for anything?

For Dublin to not have two home games in the Super 8s? Now that proposal B is defeated any room on the split season calendar for the McKenna Cup next January?

[BennyCake]

Damien Duff was right. Dinosaurs the lot of them.

You should be banned for mentioning that wee pricks name on a GAA thread.

[Louther]

A good day for Gaelic Football, all told. As Keith Duggan said in today's Irish Times, the proposal was bonkers. B for bonkers.

Now to abolish the Tailteann Cup and the split season.

What a take. Why don't we get the Bishop back to throw in the ball too.

[Solo_run]

Excellent news. It was a shite idea.

[Rossfan]

The proposal gained a simple majority but not the 60% needed. Si it was some sort of moral victory that change is needed. Expect that it will come back again next year in a slightly modified format after another year of provincial turkey shoots. I wonder do they release the breakdown of the votes. I think players, coaches and GAA members deserve to know how their delegates used their vote.

Secret ballot I think

8 ulster counties against , Down for the motion!

Yes, but you don't know the delegates actually voted

There was a motion a few years ago to identify who voted for/ against but it was roundly defeated.
So a delegate can vote against their mandate and no one will know.
I suppose we can now all get back to our favourite winter pastime of suggesting new AI systems and structures.

[Eire90]

so is next season a backdoor system for only division 1 and 2 will there not be time to change format is congress is in February so will there not be any changes now to 2023

[Eire90]

if there so concerned about the dilluation of ulster champiosnhip then they should be talking about keeping the same system that was prior 2001 the question should be how many ulster titles would u swap for one all ireland  3 5 or 10

[sid waddell]

A good day for Gaelic Football, all told. As Keith Duggan said in today's Irish Times, the proposal was bonkers. B for bonkers.

Now to abolish the Tailteann Cup and the split season.

What a take. Why don't we get the Bishop back to throw in the ball too.

Or why don't we make the League more equitable in terms of format and redistribute funds to enable currently weaker counties to compete better, thus giving us a better League and a better Championship?

This is not some pipe dream, it's obvious stuff.

[BennyCake]

In the current format, rank the provinces.

Ulster winners get to an AI semi final. The rest get to a QF.

[Louther]

A good day for Gaelic Football, all told. As Keith Duggan said in today's Irish Times, the proposal was bonkers. B for bonkers.

Now to abolish the Tailteann Cup and the split season.

What a take. Why don't we get the Bishop back to throw in the ball too.

Or why don't we make the League more equitable in terms of format and redistribute funds to enable currently weaker counties to compete better, thus giving us a better League and a better Championship?

This is not some pipe dream, it's obvious stuff.

Sharing of funds is a pipe dream. A very bad one. It would take massive injections of cash, not just sharing what is there. If what Dublin, Mayo, Kerry etc are doing the right thing do we:

A: Fund every county in exact manner as this so that in 10/12 years we have developed all these players over time to be at same level. This will take huge injections of funds while the money from Inter county game will start dwindle. Or
B: Cut the money into these counties and redistribute it round to every other county in equal amounts for football and hurling. Waterford footballers and Kilkenny Hurlers to receive exact same funding.

Yeah. That's happening.

[Eire90]

ulster is not as competitive as some people make it out to be either tyrone or donegal have been involved in every ulster final since 2009 and it bet a lot of those years where they were not playing each other in the final they played each other before it.

[seafoid]

It's only the beginning

[Eire90]

maybe people should boycott intercounty  untill they get their act together there is simple solutions but they will never do it because of greed isnt intercounty not suppose to be like the representative game anyway where you only play for them  few times a year and clubs was suppose to be the main focus but intercounty is where the money and casual fans are so it is that.

[lenny]

A good day for Gaelic Football, all told. As Keith Duggan said in today's Irish Times, the proposal was bonkers. B for bonkers.

Now to abolish the Tailteann Cup and the split season.

What a take. Why don't we get the Bishop back to throw in the ball too.

Or why don't we make the League more equitable in terms of format and redistribute funds to enable currently weaker counties to compete better, thus giving us a better League and a better Championship?

This is not some pipe dream, it's obvious stuff.

You can give all the funds to Carlow, Leitrim and Fermanagh and Kilkenny footballers and they're still not getting anywhere close to even a provincial title. It's not about funding, it's about numbers and that's where the big counties have the advantage. There will be a good number of county players who won't bother next year because of this ridiculous, backwards decision. Change will come though over the next few years. Players like Mickey Quinn deserve to have several championship games in the summer against teams of similar standard so that they can develop.