Reducing the size of the SFC

[recyclebin]

I hope this gets voted through for the sake of Laois Football.

[SCFC]

Laois GAA proposal for the new Senior and Intermediate football championship structure

https://laoisgaa.ie/laois-football-championships-proposed-restructure/?fbclid=IwY2xjawNUfopleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHs5sRcdCdkJoD_QfhGQH2lv1WxdLiTp1Aqdk4YJ41XNGRv5xZfNxVLIRuhaz_aem_uJgrmrf13EOsNHa32RqedQ

Looks a well thought out proposal.
Anyone who thinks we should retain 16 senior clubs in Laois football is doting.
However, getting this through is another day's work. A lot of middling senior clubs and most of intermediate clubs might see it as raising the bar too much for them.
But, honestly, what's the point of just hanging on in senior, year in, year out?

[Saint88]

This is a no brainer really. Any club that votes against it is only looking after their own status as a senior club or they don't want a competitive intermediate championship.

Having said that bigger things has to change in this county for us to improve and become more competitive. The urban areas where the population is growing are not being managed at all. Time to wake up at the top level. Population of Laois will hit 100k soon. We can't claim small county status anymore. We aren't optimising our population or anywhere near it.

Population 1991 - 52k
Population 2025 - 92k

[tiempo]

If you haven't people making it a life priority over 20-30-40 years you've no chance of competing at the top table I'm afraid, downsides of that, the people inclined to do it are few and far between, also eventually people clash, keeping things on track requires nothing short of alchemy, look at Tyrone and Derry as an example, Derry have now appointed their third Tyrone man in a row to manage their seniors, for the pool of talent they have across the board its embarrassing but they can't stop the self-sabotage, whereas Tyrone are much less erratic and able to focus on targets in the short and medium term as the 30-40-50 year foundation has established and holds the weight of the whole shop, those who build the foundation were the visionaries, there are no shortcuts

[Karate kid]

Well lads, started this back months ago because I was sickened with the gulf between your best and worst teams in the Championship. Looks like the county board are in agreement and have presented in my opinion a good, tidy and viable way to reducing the number of teams.

Talking to a couple lads from Ballyfin, they are nearly relieved to have gone down because they say that nearly every game in the past two years is like groundhog day and next year they will get a good crack at winning something and will certainly compete.

I am actually posting this to get a feel of what the want for this is like in clubs. I am hopeful most will realise trying to cling on to senior status by keeping it at 16 really is cowardly in my opinion and anyone with a bit of ambition should be striving to leave their mark on the championship not just a game of survival, but I know that type are out there. Let me know what everyone thinks, only a few weeks out from the vote now.

[Heshs Umpire]

Be good to see this getting through. The SFC lacks a bit of jeopardy and has done for a good few years now.