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So 92% of members want inter county season to last no more than 7 months and 89% in favour of split season. The armchair experts on here will still argue against it though. TheFlaker (Mayo) - Posts: 8571 - 21/10/2025 15:02:45 2640971 Link 0 |
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Thats intercounty players, how do club players feel about having to play games on soft pitches in the muck and dirt this time of year?
Bon (Kildare) - Posts: 2540 - 21/10/2025 17:32:14 2640993 Link 3 |
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My favourite thing about people who argue against the split season is their lack of knowledge on what happens on the ground. An astonishing lack of knowledge on how the GPA works on display here. Bravo.
TheFlaker (Mayo) - Posts: 8571 - 21/10/2025 18:41:35 2641001 Link 0 |
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If the pitches are in great nick out here in the west, I can't imagine they're full of muck elsewhere. All club championship games I've been to so far have been played on good quality pitches. It's generally spring time that pitches at their worst and softest. Excluding December and January, which should be non-playing months for almost all clubs anyway.
WanPintWin (Galway) - Posts: 2609 - 21/10/2025 19:24:56 2641010 Link 0 |
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Are you involved in club football? I am amazed you think club footballers think differently. Do you actually think the GPA has no clue what is going on at club level?
TheFlaker (Mayo) - Posts: 8571 - 21/10/2025 20:09:38 2641011 Link 0 |
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Mowed the lawn today conditions are glorious bar last Saturday
jm25 (Galway) - Posts: 1704 - 21/10/2025 21:04:27 2641016 Link 0 |
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And by the way i am someone who wishes the All Ireland final was still on in September or even late August. But i am also seeing the massive help the split season is to everyone involved. TheFlaker (Mayo) - Posts: 8571 - 21/10/2025 21:22:04 2641018 Link 0 |
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Bon I'm surprised at you. It was the CPA not the GPA who pushed for the split season we have now. All our clubs players I've spoken to prefer the current set up to what it was like before.
Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 17301 - 21/10/2025 22:42:10 2641025 Link 0 |
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Club finals being played 6 days before winner plays provincial. BarneyGrant (Dublin) - Posts: 3748 - 21/10/2025 22:42:30 2641026 Link 0 |
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Ah look Barney is an expert on this as well. Tell me Barney, you think this is a new issue because of the split season, is that your point?
TheFlaker (Mayo) - Posts: 8571 - 22/10/2025 10:37:04 2641056 Link 0 |
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As opposed to inter-county players playing on soft pitches and muck and dirt in February and March???? Thing about the split season as it stands is that the vast majority of counties - i.e. all bar All-Ireland/Tailteann Cup semi-finalists - have just about the whole of July & August open to them for club action. They should be the best conditions of the year. If individual counties choose to implement a club championship structure that means they don't use those months for club championship action, well then, that's down to those counties themselves. Pikeman96 (Wexford) - Posts: 3166 - 22/10/2025 11:10:38 2641064 Link 0 |
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Also down to the counties themselves. They know by January in any year what date their county champions will be in provincial competition in late October or November. If they can't draw up a club championship calendar to give those county champions more than a six-day break, well, no point looking to blame anyone else for it....
Pikeman96 (Wexford) - Posts: 3166 - 22/10/2025 11:12:43 2641066 Link 0 |
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must be very few counties that will have a county final tobe played beyond this weekend, glorius day today, mild and pitches still in good knick. id say 90% of adult club players aged 21+ are finshed football and hurling for the year across ireland this week and rightly so, unless doing extras like trials for county teams or some regional tournament used as trials in some counties. rightly so, let them eat and drink and head off on weekends away and have fun etc. the year is long from late january to late october. i would think there happy out dickie10 (UK) - Posts: 896 - 22/10/2025 12:00:51 2641076 Link 0 |
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Wexford football finals not being played until next weekend (November 1st & 2nd), but that's because we have a bye in first round of Leinster Senior & Intermediate, so our champions will still have a two-week break before entering provincial competition. We did finish our Intermediate 'A' championship (where the winners go into Leinster Junior) two weeks ago, because champions there don't have a bye. We were still able to schedule things so that the winners would have a two-week break before going into Leinster. Which all goes back to what I said about it being on nobody other than the counties themselves if they can't give their champions any more than a six-day break. They'll have known since early in the year when they'll enter provincial competition, and they should be able to work around that. Pikeman96 (Wexford) - Posts: 3166 - 22/10/2025 14:04:21 2641096 Link 0 |
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The biggest take away from the report is players want a 7 month inter county window from January to end July (from starting training to All-Ireland final). They all want to play for the club too. ExiledInWex (Dublin) - Posts: 1507 - 23/10/2025 12:29:58 2641242 Link 0 |
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The big winners are the coaches who are involved with the county set up. As soon as their team exits the championship they immediately jump on the gravy train again and hook up with a club team. eoinog (Sligo) - Posts: 2257 - 23/10/2025 13:18:57 2641255 Link 0 |
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All clubs will have their management teams in place long before the end of the IC season. Many will have before the IC season starts even.
Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 17301 - 23/10/2025 14:45:19 2641276 Link 0 |
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An organisation representing.66% of all players nationally trying to dictate what competition structures should be like. Wonder has Parsons or Begley communicated much with the Leitrim club hurler lately? Claretandblue (Westmeath) - Posts: 2416 - 23/10/2025 16:35:42 2641289 Link 0 |
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You trying to say there's a huge amount of players not happy?
TheFlaker (Mayo) - Posts: 8571 - 23/10/2025 18:15:09 2641298 Link 0 |
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The club players made their views very clear through the Club Players Association and demanded the split season with early All Ireland Finals. They achieved their objective and then disbanded. To suggest anything different is incorrect.
sligo joe (Dublin) - Posts: 1021 - 23/10/2025 18:49:47 2641300 Link 1 |