What do you think of the new championship structure so far ?

[Angus MacGyver]

A sunny June Bank Holiday and a full slate of good fixtures to get through, football is centre stage this weekend. A few cold ones and watch Tyrone Armagh tonight, then make a long trek to Clones tomorrow. How bad?
You need matches to be relevant. So despite a few glitches, the broad concept is an improvement from half the teams in the country with no games after early May.
People say what's the point in these games yet continue to watch Spurs, Villa, Everton et al drudge through 38 games a season.

[Mario]

Provincial finalists need a longer break before the groups. There should be a round without them played first to avoid the situation where some team has 4 weeks to prepare for a provincial finalist eg monaghan or mayo putting the finalists at a big disadvantage

[Rossfan]

2 weeks is plenty for the feckers.

[RedHand88]

Provincial finalists need a longer break before the groups. There should be a round without them played first to avoid the situation where some team has 4 weeks to prepare for a provincial finalist eg monaghan or mayo putting the finalists at a big disadvantage

Then the first provincial winner to lose would complain they are at a disadvantage because of a lack of championship sharpness. And on and on the mope train goes....

[Eire90]

does the Tailteann cup give group winners home advantage sam maguire should be like that to but the gaa will want to put all 4 quarters in croke park even if they half full.

[snoopdog]

Group stages are pointless. 3 out of 4 qualify. No wonder thr crowds are poor. Nowlan pk is empty for dub v kil. Gaa made some balls of it.

[BrotherMore6592]

Shite

[Ed Ricketts]

Difficult to get too excited about any of it.

We all know what we currently have is temporary. We all know it's just another intermediate phase on the road to where we inevitably end up.

Eventually, we'll land on a three-tiered system, with full integration of League and Championship, and the compete depreciation of the provincial championship. This will be a roaring success and we'll all wonder why it took so long.

It's just a shame we have to spend these years pissing about to prove concepts and bring enough traditionalists onboard.

[Manning18]

Provincial finalists need a longer break before the groups. There should be a round without them played first to avoid the situation where some team has 4 weeks to prepare for a provincial finalist eg monaghan or mayo putting the finalists at a big disadvantage

Something needs to be done alright to make it more of an advantage to win your provincial, and punish those that don't. If you qualify in seed 3 or 4 you don't deserve the level playing field of one home, one away etc. Never mind actually having an advantage, with the 4-6 week break prior. Hard to know exactly how to construct it though

[Rossfan]

Aye, let's help Kerry and Dublin even more!!

[seafoid]

Based on this year the structure gives Kerry and Dublin more time in the competition.

[Eire90]

do people know what they want

[armaghniac]

Difficult to get too excited about any of it.

We all know what we currently have is temporary. We all know it's just another intermediate phase on the road to where we inevitably end up.

Eventually, we'll land on a three-tiered system, with full integration of League and Championship, and the compete depreciation of the provincial championship. This will be a roaring success and we'll all wonder why it took so long.

It's just a shame we have to spend these years pissing about to prove concepts and bring enough traditionalists onboard.

But what will be different in this new system? Will there only a league? Or will there be a league and something like what we have now and how will that be better than what we have this year?

In the present system 3 teams may go through, but getting though to the QF seems a worthwhile prize for topping the group and a home game seems a worthy objective for aiming for second place. THere is a significant difference between having Cork or Kildare at home rather than Kerry away.

[RedHand88]

Attendances have been shocking across the board of the warmest week of the year.

[armaghniac]

Attendances have been shocking across the board of the warmest week of the year.

An 8000 attendance at Derry v Donegal is poor. Where are all those hustling for Ulster final tickets now?