Looking at today's farce, and several other mismatches this summer, it strikes me that the league should be the premier competition, the games are usually very competitive and with promotion and relegation each team has something meaningful to play for, but one thing is for certain this fallacy cannot continue. It's getting boring and turning people off our games.

room2 (Monaghan) - Posts: 96 - 02/08/2015 18:39:11    1762629

Certainly next weeks quarter-finals involving division 1 teams should be very close and competitive.

Byanthon (Tyrone) - Posts: 1780 - 02/08/2015 18:49:17    1762636

That's missing the point, 2 or 3 competitive games a year is not enough, the general public need more, we need to sell our games, keep the threat from soccer and rugby at bay. Mismatches are not the way to do this. League football or something similar ir required.

room2 (Monaghan) - Posts: 96 - 02/08/2015 18:58:56    1762652

Fully agree. It's embarrassing that the GAA has come to this. And God forbid kerry or mayo go into a lean period because Dublin will never be bad again. They are the only 2 counties preventing the former Killkenny like dominance in football.

But yeah the league and championship should run alongside eachother for the year.

Jack_Goff (Meath) - Posts: 2920 - 02/08/2015 20:51:39    1762771

Its a good point but we have been listening for the past few weeks about how tired Donegal are after playing 4 championship games against a mix of Division 1 & 3 teams over 10 weeks. Are amateur players able to play the number of games a league competition requires over a summer?

Soma (UK) - Posts: 2630 - 02/08/2015 21:02:00    1762781

Teams play 7 league matches in 9 weeks. No mention of tiredness. A lot of the tiredness and injuries comes from the idiots that flog our players to death in training. Soccer has a six week pre season, rugby has a 9 week preseason and then play matches week on week. We have a 4 or 5 month pre season maybe two of them in the one year. We need to promote our games, have a league based system home and away, semi finals and finals in croke park. Something has to be done

room2 (Monaghan) - Posts: 96 - 02/08/2015 21:44:01    1762817

I agree the league should take more priority and keep the championship as it is and run it along side the league.

DoireCityFC (Derry) - Posts: 1580 - 03/08/2015 09:44:28    1762856

What I love about the league is you are playing every week or every second week. Your not hanging around for weeks on end until your first or next game. Something has to change.

yew_tree (Mayo) - Posts: 11231 - 03/08/2015 10:04:32    1762872

League would be even better played in Summer likewise the All Ireland championship would be pretty ordinary played in Winter / Spring .

crikey (Australia) - Posts: 355 - 03/08/2015 12:46:43    1763022