2016 Championship draw......A & B Qualifers

[Unlaoised]

B looks stronger but it depends on the way the games go....


Cavan have a great chance of reaching a quarter in my opinion!

[seafoid]

Serious changes needed to championship draw. The qualifiers are meaningless, a sideshow. Nobody cares. I wish the GAA would cop on and have an open draw.

me too

[Rossfan]

Serious changes needed to championship draw. The qualifiers are meaningless, a sideshow. Nobody cares. I wish the GAA would cop on and have an open draw.

me too

And what would that do?

[Dinny Breen]

Are the quarter-finals an open draw?

no

Qualifiers from group A will play the winners of Connacht & Munster

Qualifiers from group B will play the winners of Ulster & Leinster

Cheers, seems a lot more complex than necessary.

Probably although its done to guarantee a 2 week turnaround for the losers in the provincial finals son splitting them into the 2 sections is the best way of guaranteeing it.

I see a few are moaning that B is a lot stronger than A but is only because there has been 2 big shocks this year which has led to Mayo & Cork entering section B

I understand the logic but to me it would make more sense to stream line the provincial competitions

Week 1

All Provincial Preliminary Rounds


Week 3

All Provincial Quarter finals

Week 5

All Provincial Semi-finals
Round 1 Qualifiers

Week 7

Provincial Finals
Round 2 Qualifiers

Week 8

Round 3 Qualifiers

Week 9

Round 4 Qualifiers

Week 10

AI Quarter-final Weekend

Week 12

All-Ireland Semi-finals

Week 14

All Ireland Final

Extra time if necessary in all games but some latitude for replays if required. Start beginning of June. Finish middle of September. Ideally start beginning of May and give August back to clubs.

[sligoman2]

Not going to happen - too much lost tv revenue

[Rossfan]

Too logical Dinny 
Need to fit Connacht fixtures around the Secretary's family committments

[Dinny Breen]

Not going to happen - too much lost tv revenue

What are the terms of the contracts?

Can't see it affecting SKY, in fact I would suggest they would prefer it. How much do RTE pay, is it enough for them to call the tunes. Once you fill in the hurling you'd have 14 weeks of continuous GAA and probably a market for a proper highlights show on Mondays.

[BennyCake]

Serious changes needed to championship draw. The qualifiers are meaningless, a sideshow. Nobody cares. I wish the GAA would cop on and have an open draw.

me too

And what would that do?

Everyone plays same number of games to win title
Regulated fixtures
Top teams potentially knocking each other out
Club players facilitated
Fans respected
Weaker counties chance of progressing if lucky draw
Dublin/Kerry fans would see a bit of the country
Championship would start in May, not August

[sligoman2]

It's very strange that on the A side of the draw we are the only team through to round 3 a - those games are this coming weekend with round 3 the following weekend .  If I follow correctly we will play the winners of one of the following
Clare v Laois
Cavan v Carlow
Derry v Meath

[twohands!!!]

It's very strange that on the A side of the draw we are the only team through to round 3 a - those games are this coming weekend with round 3 the following weekend .  If I follow correctly we will play the winners of one of the following
Clare v Laois
Cavan v Carlow
Derry v Meath

Yup and then if you win that game, you play Tipp if Roscommon lose against Galway or if Galway lose it's a 50/50 between them and Tipp.

[barking mad]

It's very strange that on the A side of the draw we are the only team through to round 3 a - those games are this coming weekend with round 3 the following weekend .  If I follow correctly we will play the winners of one of the following
Clare v Laois
Cavan v Carlow
Derry v Meath

Yup and then if you win that game, you play Tipp if Roscommon lose against Galway or if Galway lose it's a 50/50 between them and Tipp.

If tipp win through to play either a connacht champion of Galway or Ros the connacht champions will be 1/5 favs can't see how thats 50/50
Besides tipp have lost more players to USA since Sunday I hear.

[Norf Tyrone]

It's very strange that on the A side of the draw we are the only team through to round 3 a - those games are this coming weekend with round 3 the following weekend .  If I follow correctly we will play the winners of one of the following
Clare v Laois
Cavan v Carlow
Derry v Meath

Yup and then if you win that game, you play Tipp if Roscommon lose against Galway or if Galway lose it's a 50/50 between them and Tipp.

If tipp win through to play either a connacht champion of Galway or Ros the connacht champions will be 1/5 favs can't see how thats 50/50
Besides tipp have lost more players to USA since Sunday I hear.

Whooooooosh.

He meant 50/50 in terms of the draw.

[Jinxy]

They're handing out free ham in Newbridge.

[Rossfan]

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They're handing out free ham in Newbridge.

Brady's worked anyways

[twohands!!!]

They're handing out free ham in Newbridge.

Wonder if there is any chance  a few other GAA sponsors might jump on board??