Quote from: Truthsayer on May 04, 2024, 10:45:45 AMQuote from: Captain Scarlet on May 03, 2024, 04:39:25 PMIn Gaelic football in general there is always a need to ne seen to want to change it. Change the rules and a good county manager will find a new way to play and negate it.That's the failure in this. It seemed to have been changed so clubs wudnt be playing championship in the muck of winter but club championship time remained the same. Now for August-September is club league games a very diluted competition compared to county or club championship. Loads county players just head to US for those months... indeed July as most county teams eliminated by start of July
Change the season, change the format. Even at club level sometimes there is a system that works and then it gets thrown out for no reason, other than to be seen to do something.
I think that the split season has to stay but tweaks and more time needed. At county level the provincials are the biggest issue.
The league tends to be good, and look at all the finals produced somme kind of excitement. In the Provinces Leinster and Munster Finals are going to be terrible. Connacht is tighter but no side is flying.
Ulster is competetive, but then when the teams don't go all the way the provincials are blamed for being so hard to get through...
Also, when it comes to the clubs, the vast majority can start their championship in July when their county side are out anyway. That was a big issue pre split.
A team gets kncoked out in July and yet no serious club games till end of August for no reason...
That's it in a nutshell! But you'll never hear that from the player's representatives because it's easier to lay the blame at the structures and the GAA.
It's is a complete joke that despite the split season, CBs are still running off leagues in December. It is also very questionable where the demand is for round robin championship structures at club level. It just creates loads of meaningless games, further dilutes the relevance of leagues and reinforces the notion that the real action doesn't start until about mid-September in many counties.
Given what has been sacrificed at county level (giving up the entire summer), with a more intense season for county players, and limited benefits at club level, you'd have ask what was the point?