Corkonian1
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Cork simply have to defeat Clare away this year, too often this Cork team has made Clare look a good side, they have to stop the rot now!
They would be my 4 , Ballincollig if they have everyone on board could be dangerousAt a guess, The Barrs, Nemo , Haven and Clon ??
In the long term, that won't do them any favours.Kerry have the handiest group of all
I'd say the Dubs must be crying rather than laughing. Must be bored of their t1ts hammering teams in an empty Croke Park now facing 3 completely meaningless games against inferior opposition, and they need to lose all of to be knocked out. Their fan base has fallen off a cliff, they can't have any grá for this either.Dublin are laughing
A Mickey Mouse provincial set up
A dead rubber against Roscommon in Croker
A dead Rubber against Cavan away
And back to Croker
Dublin are laughing
A Mickey Mouse provincial set up
A dead rubber against Roscommon in Croker
A dead Rubber against Cavan away
And back to Croker
It's not mad. You might have a better idea, but to call it "mad" is inaccurate when there has been clear logical thought put into it. With the current arrangement, there's a reward for every position in the group:mad scenario of 3 to qualify
It's a mad scenario in a compressed playing season, if it was more spread out, it would be fine.It's not mad. You might have a better idea, but to call it "mad" is inaccurate when there has been clear logical thought put into it. With the current arrangement, there's a reward for every position in the group:
1st gets a quarter final against a team which is mentally and physically exhausted.
2nd gets a home preliminary quarter final
3rd is at least still in it - they get a preliminary quarter final, but it's away
4th is gone.
I don't see the problem (or at least not a madness) with having a competition where every team gets at least 3 matches, the outcome of which determines the above.
The situation with Dublin is an entirely different problem. Long term, given urbanization but not only that, if we want to achieve the following:
then those geographical areas can't be based on county-bounds set up by the Anglo-Normans or whoever. Otherwise you get far too uncompetitive a situation - the most extreme example being Dublin, who will otherwise win most All-Irelands until there's a profound failure of football in Dublin (and what GAA person wants that really).
- a properly competitive national GAA football competition amongst representative teams (i.e. teams of the best players in a broad geographical area of many clubs), and
- football successful at ground level everywhere,