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Post by stevekk87(Admin) on Jan 8, 2015 9:49:46 GMT
"The National League should start in January and finish in March, the Championship should start in April and finish at the end of June. "Then you have got June to December for the clubs. That would be a bold statement but it's what we need. "It'll set out a basis for the restoration of the GAA." www.independent.ie/…/joe-brolly-likens-gaa-stars-to-… |
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Post by kkcatexile on Jan 22, 2015 15:33:03 GMT
"The National League should start in January and finish in March, the Championship should start in April and finish at the end of June. "Then you have got June to December for the clubs. That would be a bold statement but it's what we need. "It'll set out a basis for the restoration of the GAA." www.independent.ie/…/joe-brolly-likens-gaa-stars-to-…Joe is full of his ideas these days. They definitely need to shorten the inter-county season, but probably not to the extent that the window during which GAA is the main sport in the media is excessively shortened. That being said, I'm a big NFL fan (which has a surprisingly short season) and one of the things that makes that so appealing and intense is that there are games on every single week during the few months of the season. I'm not sure that amateurs can be expected to play every single week like that, although if the season is much shorter it might also help in terms of burnout issues. |
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Post by theblackandamber on Jan 23, 2015 15:58:51 GMT
I agree with it in principle, that is it would be a defined season for inter-county and clubs. But there would have to be a bit of crossover in the inter county and club seasons for it to work.
For example, if you ran the inter-county Hurling season from February to July and could have counties play their football championships during that time. Then when the football county championships are finished you run the inter-county Football from June until October, and with the inter-county hurling season over the hurling county championships could start in July.
By the time mid-October came around, the GAA season is over until January, giving players decent break.
Not only would it allow for clubs to field hurling and football sides without one code superseding the code other for players, it would give a defined club season so players are playing all year round, all with a minimal crossover of player between club and county.
The only downsides to that system is it means there will be no inter-county dual players at all (gone that way anyway), anybody who plays inter-county in one code almost certainly wouldn't be able to play for his club in the other code, and (though no a downside in my opinion) you would almost definitely have to scrap the current provincial structure in inter-county seasons in favour of a more set and settled championship.
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