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Then top your group and you have the preliminary week off. Makes every game have consequences, and cuts down on dead rubbers. Players are all for it. Only opposition is from pundits and journalists who get paid to cover county games and irrational lookers on. The former wanting county football 52 weeks of the year, with no interest in our main stakeholders the club players. The latter, well I don't know how they can be helped. Maybe a backward time machine. Even the Polo Grounds doesn't exist any longer. Time moves on.
ORIELMAN85 (Monaghan) - Posts: 386 - 16/07/2024 15:53:19 2559551 Link 0 |
I was referring to the county scene… club games are going on all the time but obviously you have little or no interest in that….
ForeverBlue2 (Cavan) - Posts: 2970 - 16/07/2024 16:15:02 2559559 Link 0 |
Thankfully we have a president who can see the problems within the current system… we all know time moves on and the Polo Grounds no longer exist but it was a venue where Cavan claimed one of their All Ireland's which is something Monaghan never experienced and they never will either once the stronger teams can keep loosing games and still win the competition… Change on the way whether ORIELMAN85 likes it or not…
ForeverBlue2 (Cavan) - Posts: 2970 - 16/07/2024 16:22:02 2559562 Link 0 |
Yes I can see the incentive for topping your group and avoiding pre lim QFs , still creates an uneven playing field though for the quarter finals which could be avoided by just the top two from the four groups qualifying for QFs after a 2 week break. I wonder is there an appetite for having the 3rd team qualifying as well , I dunno. There is also the luck of the draw factor, having to travel to Killarney put you at a disadvantage from day 1.
Curlew66 (Roscommon) - Posts: 577 - 16/07/2024 16:59:52 2559570 Link 0 |
Looked close enough to 75000 to me, the hill was over 80% full, the nally was empty which is what standing for a few thousand people. Very few seats free apart from one section in the corner. It was a huge crowd for a semi not including Dublin, must be the biggest football wise without the Dubs since 2008. TheBishop (Galway) - Posts: 286 - 16/07/2024 17:38:49 2559583 Link 0 |
It's just you said the season is nearly over,, as if the club scene doesn't count.
Galway9801 (Galway) - Posts: 1942 - 16/07/2024 18:46:10 2559593 Link 0 |
He doesn't have a season. It is just whine,whine, whine, whether it be here or on the Cavan Forum. We might get a rest for a while as the Cavan Leagues are in chaos, according to him. So he will probably be off to rescue them.
ORIELMAN85 (Monaghan) - Posts: 386 - 16/07/2024 22:10:26 2559631 Link 1 |
A massive crowd for 2 counties who had to travel a distance
cuchulainn35 (Armagh) - Posts: 1684 - 16/07/2024 23:34:18 2559650 Link 0 |
There he goes again… sticking his nose in about something he knows absolutely nothing about as usual…
ForeverBlue2 (Cavan) - Posts: 2970 - 17/07/2024 09:01:58 2559674 Link 0 |
Both teams fanbases rejuvenated this season. Hopefully we get back again next season. 67k didn't surprise me under circumstances. Lots of posters were predicting 50k last week. GAA need not rest on the last two Sundays at Croke Park. They need to work harder to harness big crowds in right sized stadiums every time. shaggykev (Donegal) - Posts: 286 - 17/07/2024 19:45:53 2559797 Link 0 |