• A reminder that if you give a thumbs up or similarly positive reaction to a racist comment you may also receive a ban along with the user that wrote the post.

2024 Premier Junior Football Championship

Good article on this topic https://www.echolive.ie/corksport/arid-41754822.html
cannot see this changing

Some quotes from the article:
Due to the small number of senior clubs in Kerry, the county’s 10th-best team enters the intermediate competition (it was the ninth prior to this year and will be the 11th next year due to senior restructuring).
That compares to Waterford entering their ninth-ranked club, Clare and Limerick their 13th, Tipperary their 15th, and Cork their 25th.

At junior level, Cork have played 25 matches against non-Kerry opposition and lost only one (Mullinahone’s 2006 victory over St Vincent’s).

It has been somewhat more competitive at intermediate, where Cork have 21 wins and five defeats (three to clubs from Clare, and one each from Limerick and Tipp).

Do we really think that it would be fairer if Cork put out the winners of higher-tier competitions against the clubs from those other Munster counties? If we do that, then those other counties might as well abandon the Munster club competitions altogether.
 
Because we created a mockeynah grade between Senior and prem intermediate that there was no need. It was only created so the senior clubs would vote for the proposals, keep them happy that they could call themselves a senior club.

While I don't know this for a fact, I strongly suspect that there was another reason - i.e. that it would, in comparison to the tier-naming some favour, deliver a fairer entrant into the Intermediate and Junior Munster club championships.
 
Agreed. Our grades and structures are perfect, just to rename the grades. Senior A's nane should be changed to Premier Intermediate, Premier Intermediate to Intermediate A, Intermediate A to Premier Junior and Premier Junior to Premier 2 Junior.
agreed and increase the clubs in each grade to 16 and you have the perfect ststem
 
While I don't know this for a fact, I strongly suspect that there was another reason - i.e. that it would, in comparison to the tier-naming some favour, deliver a fairer entrant into the Intermediate and Junior Munster club championships.
not really, before pretend senior was introduced there were 16 senior clubs, 16 premier intermediate clubs and 16 pretend intermediate clubs

Under that system the 1st, 17th and 33rd best teams in Cork entered the munster championship

Now the 1st, 25th and 49th best teams in Cork enter the munster championship

While Kerry keep on winning
 
agreed and increase the clubs in each grade to 16 and you have the perfect ststem
16’s too much and led to the quality being diluted previously, like how the likes of Nicks were able to survive at the top level for years despite being miles off it.

Personally think the grades are fine as is and 12 is the ideal number, the likes of Premier Intermediate hurling and Intermediate A football have been brilliant competitive championships for awhile now and other grades are following suite also, light years above what we had before.
 
What's On Today

Live Music

Ballads & Banjos

The Welcome Inn, What's On Today @ 9:30 pm

More events ▼
Top