The County Board Complaints Thread

[BossHogg]

Colm O'Driscoll transfer refused by Cork County Board

Former Cork footballer is planning on moving to O'Donovan Rossa

www.echolive.ie

 

[Hoggys White Helmet]

https://twitter.com/x/status/2023643889400525120

Anyone hear what way we'll vote at Congress from tonights meeting.....

Cork are voting against it and so are Kerry

 

[Hallbopping]

Cork are voting against it and so are Kerry

Interestingly the Executive recommended a vote in favour. To be honest hurling wouldn’t have benefited much, it would have been mostly football as you’d have had a 2 week gap between the hurling and football finals.

 

[Franno]

What reason have the executive to support/recommend it? They have nothing to gain from it.
An even tighter schedule?
A certain man didn't want to have his tail between his legs when he goes back up to Croke Park?

Also, the way delegates vote on these things should be recorded and shared.

 

[St fachtna]

Interestingly the Executive recommended a vote in favour. To be honest hurling wouldn’t have benefited much, it would have been mostly football as you’d have had a 2 week gap between the hurling and football finals.

I’d say delegates voted against it because county championships would go back 2 weeks meaning club football would not start until mid August and hurling second week in aug presuming cork in both finals . That then would have a knock on affect for dual clubs to have breaks between matches in the groups

 

[St fachtna]

Cork are voting against it and so are Kerry

There was never all Irelands in August

 

[Hallbopping]

There was never all Irelands in August

There was. 18, 19 and 21 were all in August.

 

[red&blue]

I’d say delegates voted against it because county championships would go back 2 weeks meaning club football would not start until mid August and hurling second week in aug presuming cork in both finals . That then would have a knock on affect for dual clubs to have breaks between matches in the groups

spot on, the split season has been brilliant for the club players, if we start eating into their season we are going to see the end of dual players and possibly eventually the end of dual clubs

 

[leeside_rebel]

The issue too is that it could turn into more over time. In another few years there could be another proposal looking for another couple of weeks.
What we have now is brilliant. Important to keep it that way.

 

[Jukka]

I’d like to see AI finals in August, I think it’s a gawling loss to the Irish summer to be honest and the GAA’s importance to it. However I think the hurling should be flipped past the football, and move forward the ridiculously early start of the Munster and Leinster championships.

My experience at club level is the players aren’t fussed if club championship starts in July or into August. What clubs only ever wanted was certainty and a fair window to play championships are reasonable pace.

The thing nobody is calling out here is the weight being placed on the club provincials and AI series, something that’s of importance to a fraction of clubs and players. That whole thing should be ran off as a weekend competition in my view, with better breathing room given to County championships to be run off properly.

More to the point, Cork and also the likes of Dublin and Galway, should be looking for their county champions to enter those competitions at a later stage, in recognition of the challenges faced by large dual counties, skipping the provincial stage even.

I’d be supportive if Cork just withdrew from nominating clubs for those competitions to be honest. More than half our clubs are in competitions where the winners don’t enter them anyway.