Time to scrap the back door?

[gerry]

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people won't travel - they'll go to local venues but won't go long distances - look at last night in Croke Park fir instance.

72k traveled in feb. ok maybe 40k traveled 200 yards

[carnaross]

I see some of the so-called experts are calling for the scrapping of the Provincial championships. Interesting? I've been suggesting that for ages. The way I see the game moving forward to everyone's benefit would be as follows:

The eight quarter-finalists to be seeded (winners 1, runners-up 2, losing semi-finalists 3 and 4 etc). These provide the first county in each of eight gropus A - H). An open draw would then follow to fill each of the other three places in the groups. This will enable ALL counties to have a minimum of three Championship games and the winners of each group progress into the All-Ireland quarter-finals. The Provincial's could be played another time if the counties really wanted to keep them in place.

I posted this some time ago and still I see only benefits for all. 48 championship games in the leagues before the knock-out stage.

Interesting to Martin McHugh's verdict on the quality of this year's Championship. I think he must get his ideas from this board.