Armagh Club football & hurling

[Armagh18]

A really disappointing motion from Éire Óg, bordering on idiotic, but it seems to have got majority support which is even more disheartening.

I read someone from Éire Óg over on the Armagh forum try to justify it by saying they're "protecting" Junior football. Near spat my coffee out. In the 100+ year history of the Junior championship it's only been won three times by a seconds team.

It was never an issue until Clann Éireann won the JFC two years ago despite numerous clubs entering IIs teams over the last 25 years, and now after CÉ II got relegated it's suddenly sparked this great crusade to protect a competition that already limits the number of IIs team able to participate.

I can tell you as someone from one of the clubs affected that all this motion serves to do is penalise clubs who have put in the hard yards developing their youth and wanting a solid platform to develop players that are not yet ready or just not good enough for senior football.

Aside from the fact it will more than likely be CÉ and Cross battling it out for honours while the rest have nada to play for; there is the added administration required to run this new league - have new referees been sourced or will it be shoehorned in on Wednesday nights with the rest of reserve leagues?

If its on Friday nights would those teams not have been playing that?

Wouldn't think it would be on Friday nights, as some of the clubs with less playing numbers would have players playing in the traditional reserve games on Wednesday night that are often used by their senior team on a Friday night. 

That's where there'll be an argument, the bigger clubs with full on seconds teams will want games played on the weekend whereas the smaller clubs will obviously want it on the Wednesday for lads that maybe move up and down.