Read the Pat Spillane headline and wondered what thripe this would be, but after a couple of lines it actually makes sense. Just wondering what other peoples opinions are on it i think it would work as long as stronger counties cannot poach the best players from the weaker counties and the same with clubs.

Tarismelting22 (Roscommon) - Posts: 760 - 20/02/2018 13:09:33    2078712

Cupotay (Donegal) - Posts: 31 - 20/02/2018 14:38:00    2078747

This post has been incorporated here as it is the same subject matter.
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Structured Transfer Proposal
Interesting recommendation by Pat Spillane to give more players a chance at inter-county. Sounds good. I wonder though would he be in favor of Kerry lads transferring to other counties?

Administrator (None) - Posts: 2274 - 20/02/2018 14:59:11    2078752

Only a matter of time but it won't happen soon and the club scene is equally disproportioned and in need of an injection of transfer and/or player cross-over.

GerryD (Monaghan) - Posts: 335 - 20/02/2018 15:36:09    2078765

Would make you wonder about all the great Kerry players that never got a sniff of county action in the 70s and 80s. If only some of the weaker counties had access to them, the unbridgeable chasm would never have opened up.

Breffni40 (Cavan) - Posts: 12115 - 20/02/2018 15:44:16    2078766

Tarismelting22 (Roscommon) - Posts: 760 - 20/02/2018 15:50:53    2078770

Its an alternative to the split Dublin one that does the rounds every year but this would be completely unworkable.

The club vs county split would be enormous and would you seriously expect the county board of the players club to give a monkeys if a lad is lining out for another county.

Cant see it working without some kind of semi-pro element and some form of contract so I'd say its a non-starter.

duckula20 (Antrim) - Posts: 175 - 20/02/2018 15:56:54    2078772

I know it's probably unworkable and a completely different sport and professional set up but I have great admiration for the American football model whereby every team has the same wage cap for players and staff and each team can only spend the same amount each year in running the team.

Each year the new recruits coming through the college systems are ranked from 1 - 1000 (I think) and the NFL team with the worst season the previous year gets first picks of the best players and the team that wind the super bowl gets last pick. The whole sport is designed so that no one team will ever dominate.

Make things fairer in GAA not some stupid transfer system. Teams have a cap in how much they can spend would be a start. How is it fair that Dublin get €1,500,000 from AIG one of the worlds biggest insurers and my county get €15,000 from a hotel as sponsorship? How can we compete? It's probably impossible too but somehow pool all the money together and divide it equally amongst all competing counties, at least it would make things fair.

leitrim4sam (Leitrim) - Posts: 643 - 20/02/2018 16:15:11    2078777

yerra kerry give us a lend of some of the 4 in a row minor team. Just think all the lads they that wont get into senior panel of 30? Clare,Limerick and Tipperary be delighted to get them lads too

BartMcQueen (Cork) - Posts: 196 - 20/02/2018 16:25:36    2078778

I think it's a good idea but as Cupotay suggests it would need to policed to stop some players being incentivised to go to some counties.

Maybe a draft system offering the bottom teams in the league the first option on the best prospects in the draft. Could be the 37th man on the Dublin, Tyrone, Donegal or Kerry squads and have job or studies flexibility to move and play for Carliw, Waterford or Limerick and work, play and/or study there. Unfortunately I think, as Super 8 looms, that the GAA top brass have little interest and don't want to make any effort to bridge the widening gap in standards between Division 4 and Division 1.

GreenandRed (Mayo) - Posts: 7326 - 20/02/2018 16:44:04    2078780

the 2 Dublin solution would be much simpler, not that I like it but the rest of Leinster is so lame

maroondiesel (Mayo) - Posts: 1196 - 20/02/2018 17:01:14    2078786

GreenandRed (Mayo) - Posts: 7326 - 20/02/2018 17:22:19    2078793

maroondiesel (Mayo) - Posts: 1196 - 20/02/2018 17:42:32    2078803

Pat must have given up all hope of Kerry being able to beat Dublin for another decade if he's suggesting this.

greatpoint (USA) - Posts: 427 - 20/02/2018 18:05:09    2078807

MesAmis (Dublin) - Posts: 13703 - 20/02/2018 18:30:51    2078815

Bernardo (Monaghan) - Posts: 594 - 20/02/2018 19:47:53    2078835

I can't see it working. There are way to many issues with it to even go into detail on it.

Maybe rather than falsely improve counties, we could try some regional teams, It works at club level

Barrowsider (Carlow) - Posts: 1591 - 21/02/2018 13:24:27    2078975

kildare73 (Kildare) - Posts: 854 - 21/02/2018 13:47:25    2078983

was there no ta version of this tried in hurling in recent years where a limited no of players from a McCarthy county who weren't making their own squad could play for a county that didn't play at McCarthy Cup level. I seem to recall the recent and relative improvements in Kildare and Kerry hurling (possibly others) being underpinned by Tipp and Clare based players playing under this rule. It wasn't a great success as geography seemed to be a natural limitation as to how far these players would venture from their home/base county

downredhand (Tyrone) - Posts: 567 - 21/02/2018 14:13:16    2078987

Unworkable and unwanted in my County. Gaelic football comes 4th after Hurling, rugby and soccer. The small crowd that follows Gaelic football would get even smaller if some of the team were outsiders coming into a county of 200,000 people.

PeggyShippen (Limerick) - Posts: 300 - 21/02/2018 14:19:28    2078990