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Replying To Viking66:  "Must be"
Seanie Johnston played 90 seconds of hurling with a Kildare club to facilitate an intercounty football transfer. What relevance has that to the Clontarf motion?

sligo joe (Dublin) - Posts: 1109 - 27/02/2026 12:26:45    2658873

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Replying To sligo joe:  "Seanie Johnston played 90 seconds of hurling with a Kildare club to facilitate an intercounty football transfer. What relevance has that to the Clontarf motion?"
Goes back to the possible unintended consequence of the Clontarf motion that I wrote about, and Viking's response to it.

Could lead to a footballer who doesn't normally play hurling having to tog off for a couple of hurling matches, to make up the eight-game quota, if he's short of club matches played.

Or similarly, a hurler who doesn't normally play football might have to tog off for a football match or two.

Much like what Séanie Johnston had to do.

Pikeman96 (Wexford) - Posts: 3445 - 27/02/2026 14:12:06    2658893

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Clontarf motion withdrawn. Will have to go back to the drawing board. Not sure how much good a task force will do but I suppose if the right people are brought in including a recent intercounty manager, recent county championship winning manager at least and a GPA representative - possibly something positive could come out of it.

legendzxix (Kerry) - Posts: 9595 - 28/02/2026 11:50:14    2659005

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Replying To legendzxix:  "Clontarf motion withdrawn. Will have to go back to the drawing board. Not sure how much good a task force will do but I suppose if the right people are brought in including a recent intercounty manager, recent county championship winning manager at least and a GPA representative - possibly something positive could come out of it."
For it to pass, and work in a practical way, every county would have to provide more club games in the club window, as some already do. As many as any motion that got passed determined. Maybe compromise at 6? That should be doable in 16 weeks for every county.

Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 18941 - 28/02/2026 13:01:07    2659020

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Replying To Viking66:  "For it to pass, and work in a practical way, every county would have to provide more club games in the club window, as some already do. As many as any motion that got passed determined. Maybe compromise at 6? That should be doable in 16 weeks for every county."
County players from All Ireland club finalists, after a reasonable break and an understanding county manager, are likely to be available for 2 rounds of football league, minimum 1 provincial knockout and minimum 2 All Ireland rounds. The county player after an All Ireland club final might only play 5 inter county games in that year. This should be factored into the equation as well. Possibly 6 is an agreeable number. Should be given over to a strong and broad task force to tease out with good dialogue.

legendzxix (Kerry) - Posts: 9595 - 28/02/2026 14:32:10    2659048

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Replying To legendzxix:  "County players from All Ireland club finalists, after a reasonable break and an understanding county manager, are likely to be available for 2 rounds of football league, minimum 1 provincial knockout and minimum 2 All Ireland rounds. The county player after an All Ireland club final might only play 5 inter county games in that year. This should be factored into the equation as well. Possibly 6 is an agreeable number. Should be given over to a strong and broad task force to tease out with good dialogue."
Im not sure we should be arranging fixtures/structures to suit such a small amount of lads. Assuming the Junior and Intermediate finalists in both codes have an average of 1 intercounty starter each, which is on the generous side really unless clubs from lower tier counties make the finals, and the 4 Senior finalists average 3 intercounry starters each, thats still only 16 players.

Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 18941 - 28/02/2026 15:10:28    2659053

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Just realised nobody has commented on this one since the motion was again withdrawn at Congress.

It was the right thing to do. As previously stated and illustrated, the motion was both unnecessary and unworkable, and any county that feels a problem with its inter-county players not getting enough club games already has both the power and means to do something about it themselves anyway.

Pikeman96 (Wexford) - Posts: 3445 - 02/03/2026 13:47:21    2659497

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Replying To Pikeman96:  "Just realised nobody has commented on this one since the motion was again withdrawn at Congress.

It was the right thing to do. As previously stated and illustrated, the motion was both unnecessary and unworkable, and any county that feels a problem with its inter-county players not getting enough club games already has both the power and means to do something about it themselves anyway."
Viking and myself actually were commenting on it! All over to cobbling together a taskforce for whatever good that will do..

legendzxix (Kerry) - Posts: 9595 - 03/03/2026 07:24:23    2659651

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