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Replying To tirawleybaron:  "Its just another convoluted structure to try to make up for the biggest problem - the lopsided provincial championship.
It will last a few years but go again in another 2-3 years.

The final fix is below - when the next generation take over congress

1. Move provincials to start of season
2. Adjust the leagues back to div 1/2 (A&B) model from the 2000's
3. Have 3 divisions in All Ireland (Senior, Intermediate and Junior - just like every club championship)
4. Senior (12 teams), Intermediate (12 teams), Junior (8-10 teams depending on NY/Kilkenny etc)
5. 4 groups of 3 (provincial winners seeded) - top 2 in each group advance - bottom teams into relegation play offs -
6. Intermediate and junior finalists get promoted for following year - relegation play off losers get relegated."
That's an awful lot of games to squeeze into not many weekends.

Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 14873 - 24/02/2025 18:06:58    2592986

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Replying To ORIELMAN85:  "Two dead rubbers in two years. Cop on."
So much for your view that the football championship was perfect and no changes would be made to the format or the playing rules…. that aged well… Thank goodness the top brass pay more heed to real football people like me and want rid of needless dead rubber games rather than a delusional fool like yourself…. Jog along now good lad..!

ForeverBlue2 (Cavan) - Posts: 3498 - 24/02/2025 21:29:06    2593023

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Unbeaten provincial winners should be kept apart in Round 2A. I've sent correspondence Croke Park's direction on the matter.

legendzxix (Kerry) - Posts: 8538 - 25/02/2025 06:27:26    2593067

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