Cork Footballers

[bluesball]

We will end up playing Louth sometime during the championship

 

[Cork99]

There is no groups this year.

How does it work this year
What mind boggling system did they come up with

 

[Rebel CNC]

How does it work this year
What mind boggling system did they come up with

Think of the most complicated system you could possibly envisage....and it won't come within a million miles of the complexity they've managed!!

It's here in black and white......and erm about 5 other colours for the team allocation in AI series!!

2026 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Hallbopping]

How does it work this year
What mind boggling system did they come up with

Essentially the provincial championships are even more pointless than before.

 

[Bronxrebel]

Incorrect

You are correct, I am wrong. All 8 Provincial Finalist play round 1 vs the 8 non Provincial Finalists. Kildare or Westmeath will get a home game in Round 1 for example as one of them will be in the Leinster Final. If you are going to make the Provincial Final as we expect Cork to make, you are probably better off without teams like Meath being upset.

 

[JimmyBarrySmurph]

Meath losing means some Provincial Final loser will draw them in the first round of the All Ireland Series. Imagine them coming down to Cork for a third game this year. That's get the old rivalry going again.

Play it in Clon.

 

[Cork99]

Couldn’t they just do groups with top 2 moving on

 

[JimmyBarrySmurph]

Essentially the provincial championships are even more pointless than before.

It’s a step towards finally getting rid of the provincials which are long past their best before date, bar the Northies scrapping away with each other above

 

[jams]

It’s a step towards finally getting rid of the provincials which are long past their best before date, bar the Northies scrapping away with each other above

And all of a sudden Leinster

 

[JimmyBarrySmurph]

And all of a sudden Leinster

Competitive all of a sudden for but an absolute cod now standard wise with the Dubs slipping back.
A championship with 1/3 of the teams in the country in it and the standard so low that not one of them within an arses roar of winning the AI.