2020/21 All Ireland Football Championship

[Rossfan]

Wrong about what?
Anyway the fixtures are all announced including Ros v London weekend 31st October ( travel restrictions allowing).

[Angelo]

I will be interested to see if the Donegal and Tyrone County boards speak up against it.

It's a farce really. Galway can make a de facto All Ireland quarter final by virtue of beating a Div 4 team in Sligo while Tyrone and Donegal go into a knockout tie at the round of 32.

I hope there is strong resistance to this by the Ulster counties.

[Angelo]

Wrong about what?

The reported proposed football Championship just suits Kerry and Dublin

Galway are the big winners in this.

[Rossfan]

Wrong about what?

The reported proposed football Championship just suits Kerry and Dublin

It still suits only Kery and Dublin.
Angelo  sure Galway have been favourites to take over from Dublin every year since 2016
On a serious note will many players opt out of Club and/or County?
Players who work in the Health Service e.g. Mc Caffrey, R Wylie or need to protect vulnerable relatives.

[Angelo]

Wrong about what?

The reported proposed football Championship just suits Kerry and Dublin

It still suits only Kery and Dublin.
Angelo  sure Galway have been favourites to take over from Dublin every year since 2016
On a serious note will many players opt out of Club and/or County?
Players who work in the Health Service e.g. Mc Caffrey, R Wylie or need to protect vulnerable relatives.

Galway only need to win 4 games to capture the All Ireland and the first one of those is against a Div 4 side who they have beaten in Connacht the previous two years by 13 and 21 points.

[Manning18]

Wrong about what?

The reported proposed football Championship just suits Kerry and Dublin

It still suits only Kery and Dublin.
Angelo  sure Galway have been favourites to take over from Dublin every year since 2016
On a serious note will many players opt out of Club and/or County?
Players who work in the Health Service e.g. Mc Caffrey, R Wylie or need to protect vulnerable relatives.

Galway only need to win 4 games to capture the All Ireland and the first one of those is against a Div 4 side who they have beaten in Connacht the previous two years by 13 and 21 points.

Connacht were due to meet Ulster in the semi and Dublin due to meet Kerry in the other. Theyve switched this to make it Leinster v Ulster. Connacht and Ulster counties should be up in arms.

Galway have an easy run to a connacht final but very tough from there. Kerry are the big winners and have by far the easiest run. Followed by Dublin

[Eire90]

once again the gaa scared of provinces provinces are destroying the game maybe should be abolished at all levels

[Eire90]

when did they switch it so they have switched it to make it easier for a dublin v kerry final if thats the case why is their not a big uproar

[Eire90]

i am very happy with the saturday final tho saturday under lights i would have all finals on a saturday if it was me.

[Itchy]

Very disappointed to see that there is no 2nd chance for teams of some sort or that zero innovation went into this plan. It stinks of we need the big games at semi final and final stage and the rest is just window dressing. I think counties will really struggle to keep their players interested this year.

[An Fhairche Abu]

when did they switch it so they have switched it to make it easier for a dublin v kerry final if thats the case why is their not a big uproar

I'm waiting for the explanation for the changes to what were the presumed semi final pairings, it matches the U20 pairings this year but seems to disregard the Senior pairings the past few years, doesn't match the way Minor has been paired either.
Last non Super 8 season was Leinster v Ulster and Connacht v Munster.

[rodney trotter]

It wouldn't have been possible to have a backdoor system unless they wanted to continue it into January. They wanted it done in  the Calendar year and then plan for 2021 season.
A knockout will be interesting for the year that's in it.  A second wave is predicted around October, so it could go belly up yet.

[GetOverTheBar]

It's the best of a bad situation.

A few months ago life as we knew it was over. Lets get on with it lads. Something positive to look forward to.

[Eire90]

32 team open knockout would have been great you would have had 16 games taking place over the country on weekend plenty of action then another 8 games the week after that then for quarter finals they could have gone 2 games saturday 2 games sunday.

[Eire90]

What time will all ireland final throw in  i personally prefer 4 or 4.30