Replying To Whammo86: "[quote=Pikeman96: "Wouldn't have got them played in March this year anyway, with the weather we had!
But the bigger issue is how you've only got four months (July/Aug/Sept/Oct) for inter-county. Basically, you're just pushing the current inter-county championship window back by three months, from April-July to July-October.
No National Leagues, or else a very condensed version of both League & Championship?
And either way, not much time for inter-county managers to have their sides ready to go in early July, after club county finals are played towards the end of June?"
I do think Inter county needs to be reduced down. For everyone's sake.
There's too many low impact games and it's hurting club football and inter county football in my opinion. Fewer games but have them more meaningful would be a big win.
Playing club in parallel with intercounty would be more time efficient than a split season."
With all due respect, you're doing what often happens in these type of discussions - i.e. talking in broad strokes, but without any specifics.
For example, given that you're only allowing a four-month inter-county window, what do you mean by "fewer games but have them more meaningful"?
Do away with the National Leagues and run championship only, because championship is more meaningful?
Or keep some form of the Leagues and revert to a straight knock-out championship, so that every championship game is as meaningful as can be?"]That's a fair criticism.
I didn't really flesh this particular idea out because I don't really like it.
But a championship based on 2 groups of 8 per tier with 6 teams going through to the knockout rounds could be played in 15 weeks with breaks.
10 for the group stage. 5 for the knockout stages.