Hi Everyone,
I'm new on this site. So I should tell you something about myself.
I'm 34 from Drumcullen in Offaly and I have being living in Dublin for 17 years but not for much longer moving to Wicklow very soon.
I normally go to the Offaly Clubs and County games and if Offaly are not playing I head to the Dublin games. so I have watched both 1a and 1b league games over the last few years.
I have being thinking about the league set up. The Set up at the moment if not helping anyone. The Top teams are not getting enough game. for the up and coming team every game is do or die. For teams trying to breaking into the big time i.e. Carlow, Westmeath are getting one year playing good teams, If they don't survive Its a long year till you have another shot. No second year to continuing learning.
So I came up with this mad idea of seed the league.
Odd and even going only by the league tables for this year.
So this would leave next year league A1 or A2
1a Tipperary 2a Kilkenny
3a Galway 4aWaterford
5a Clare 6a Cork
1b Dublin 2b Limerick
3b Offaly 4b Wexford
5b Antrim 6b Carlow
1c Laois 2c Westmeath
3c Kerry 4c Derry
With 7 or 8 teams in league A1 and A2.
With the top 4 teams in each division playing in a quarter-finals. Or for a shorter league the top 2 into a semi-final.
With the loser of the semi playing each other for the seeding positions 3 and 4 in the league.
With the bottom team in each division playing in a regulation play off.
With each team below the top two playing a game against the same position team in the opposite division for their seeding for the following year. ( you have to adjust this if you played q-f)
So for next year the seeding would work as follows:
League Champion Seeded No.1, and into Division A1
Runner up Seeded No.2, And Into Division A2
Semi Final Loser game: Winner No.3 and into Division A1
Semi Final Winner game: Loser No. 4. And Into Division A2
P 3 team in A1 vs. P 3 team in A2 Winner: Seeding 5 and into Division A1
P 3 team in A1 vs. P 3 team in A2 Loser: Seeding 6 And Into Division A2
And so on:
The advantage of this system would be that ever team in the league would have 3 games that they think that they can win and no matter where you ended up in the table you get an extra competitive game, against a team of equal strength.
The top two in each group would have 9 games and everyone else would have 8.
you could play the nine game in the 15 weeks between the 1 Feb to the first or second week of May. Making it that teams are playing up until 3 or 4 weeks before the Championship not the 10 or 12 weeks some team have now.
The disadvantage is that you would get mismatch but it's better to have a mismatch than no match at all.
The other disadvantage would be that the last game in the league for points could be a farce with team not trying in that game. Or teams not trying for the last game so that they get a easier group for the following year.
But even if this happen it still would give the top teams enough competitive game to keep them at their best. It would also give everyone else enough competitive game to improve and build a team.
Is this a idea crazy??? I know that games like Kerry vs. Tipp or Derry vs. Kilkenny won't be much fun for people.
But a Quarter final of: Tipperary vs. Limerick, Kilkenny vs. Dublin, Galway vs. Cork, Clare vs. Waterford played this week when the weather is improving would be nice to see.
and the most important thing is that if you have one bad year it doesn't take you 2 or 3 to recovery from it.
I'm new on this site. So I should tell you something about myself.
I'm 34 from Drumcullen in Offaly and I have being living in Dublin for 17 years but not for much longer moving to Wicklow very soon.
I normally go to the Offaly Clubs and County games and if Offaly are not playing I head to the Dublin games. so I have watched both 1a and 1b league games over the last few years.
I have being thinking about the league set up. The Set up at the moment if not helping anyone. The Top teams are not getting enough game. for the up and coming team every game is do or die. For teams trying to breaking into the big time i.e. Carlow, Westmeath are getting one year playing good teams, If they don't survive Its a long year till you have another shot. No second year to continuing learning.
So I came up with this mad idea of seed the league.
Odd and even going only by the league tables for this year.
So this would leave next year league A1 or A2
1a Tipperary 2a Kilkenny
3a Galway 4aWaterford
5a Clare 6a Cork
1b Dublin 2b Limerick
3b Offaly 4b Wexford
5b Antrim 6b Carlow
1c Laois 2c Westmeath
3c Kerry 4c Derry
With 7 or 8 teams in league A1 and A2.
With the top 4 teams in each division playing in a quarter-finals. Or for a shorter league the top 2 into a semi-final.
With the loser of the semi playing each other for the seeding positions 3 and 4 in the league.
With the bottom team in each division playing in a regulation play off.
With each team below the top two playing a game against the same position team in the opposite division for their seeding for the following year. ( you have to adjust this if you played q-f)
So for next year the seeding would work as follows:
League Champion Seeded No.1, and into Division A1
Runner up Seeded No.2, And Into Division A2
Semi Final Loser game: Winner No.3 and into Division A1
Semi Final Winner game: Loser No. 4. And Into Division A2
P 3 team in A1 vs. P 3 team in A2 Winner: Seeding 5 and into Division A1
P 3 team in A1 vs. P 3 team in A2 Loser: Seeding 6 And Into Division A2
And so on:
The advantage of this system would be that ever team in the league would have 3 games that they think that they can win and no matter where you ended up in the table you get an extra competitive game, against a team of equal strength.
The top two in each group would have 9 games and everyone else would have 8.
you could play the nine game in the 15 weeks between the 1 Feb to the first or second week of May. Making it that teams are playing up until 3 or 4 weeks before the Championship not the 10 or 12 weeks some team have now.
The disadvantage is that you would get mismatch but it's better to have a mismatch than no match at all.
The other disadvantage would be that the last game in the league for points could be a farce with team not trying in that game. Or teams not trying for the last game so that they get a easier group for the following year.
But even if this happen it still would give the top teams enough competitive game to keep them at their best. It would also give everyone else enough competitive game to improve and build a team.
Is this a idea crazy??? I know that games like Kerry vs. Tipp or Derry vs. Kilkenny won't be much fun for people.
But a Quarter final of: Tipperary vs. Limerick, Kilkenny vs. Dublin, Galway vs. Cork, Clare vs. Waterford played this week when the weather is improving would be nice to see.
and the most important thing is that if you have one bad year it doesn't take you 2 or 3 to recovery from it.