I seen an article this morning about how the Quarter finals used to all be played over the Bank Holiday weekend. The four games were usually titantic battles and was the weekend of the Championship. Since the introduction of a A and B system in the Qualifers where one section is clearly top heavy very average teams are making the Quarter finals. It is putting the weakest into one section and allowing them to build momentium to take on tired provincal losers. The end result though is pretty easy Quarter finals for the winners of Leinster and Munster and the ruining of the Quarter finals. Today has been a disaster for the football championship.è

sam1884 (UK) - Posts: 999 - 02/08/2015 15:22:32    1762441

Forget that. It's long past time to scrap the entire system. It's totally uneven, inherently unfair. Every year Ulster teams are slitting each offer throats while Kerry are just clearing theirs. We need a Heineken Cup-style open draw

Count_Awesome (Kildare) - Posts: 736 - 02/08/2015 15:31:25    1762444

So give counties an excuse not to improve??

Where you saying that after Kildare beat Cork last week??

ziggy32001 (Meath) - Posts: 8354 - 02/08/2015 15:35:13    1762451

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Forget that. It's long past time to scrap the entire system. It's totally uneven, inherently unfair. Every year Ulster teams are slitting each offer throats while Kerry are just clearing theirs. We need a Heineken Cup-style open draw

ulster makes no difference.If Kerry were in Ulster they'd win that to.

We need to divisionalise the championship.

Imagine how much more exciting the championship was if it was like the league and you had different tiers with teams of equal ability playing each other resulting in more close competitive games and not continual turkey shoots .

We need the best teams to be playing each other more often which is what happens in the league and what happens in other sports.

uibhfhaili1986 (Offaly) - Posts: 1296 - 02/08/2015 15:37:56    1762455

I am not sure coming into Croker and getting beat by 20+ plus points will improve anybody.

sam1884 (UK) - Posts: 999 - 02/08/2015 15:42:33    1762459

Have to agree with you sam that the splitting of the qualifiers into an A and B section has been a disaster. It used to be really exciting with an open draw for the quater finals.

The biggest curse in gaelic football is these one sided matches. Hopefully Fermanagh can put up a good show.

JimTheLegend (Donegal) - Posts: 247 - 02/08/2015 15:49:19    1762465

While the AI strucyure is unbalanced, I ghink the A B split has a few advantages - facilitates better club scheduling and a better spacing between one intercounty match and the next.
The imbance between A and B thisbyear was the result of the random draw - perhaps the A B split could be managed to give ovrrall balance - say 8 plelin rd losers from 4 prov join 8 Ulster teams inA.

omahant (USA) - Posts: 2590 - 02/08/2015 15:49:43    1762466

Ziggy I literally don't understand what you're saying there. I understand each word in isolation but when you string them together in that order......nothing


But yes, I have held this view for several years and often expressed it here if you want to check

Count_Awesome (Kildare) - Posts: 736 - 02/08/2015 16:11:24    1762495

Count_awesome totally agree. Anyone still arguing to keep the current championship setup mustn't be watching the championship. It's one mismatch after another with no impact on who wins the competition.

Time for a serious new competition.

tyroneed (Tyrone) - Posts: 753 - 02/08/2015 17:03:41    1762517