The split season

Krazy gang

Lot of nonsense here about how it's only the media and armchair supporters who are against the split season. I genuinely have met very few people who like it even though I love the club games. It just feels so rushed, week on week with no time for rest or injuries to heal. As someone said to me last week the beauty of sport is when you win a match you get time to enjoy it, that's all gone now. Back onto the merry go round. Of course the monster that is the intercounty season is a big cause of this rushed season.

I would like to see reduction in the amount of league games. Interest usually tapers off after 3 or 4 rounds. Play 2 rounds of club championship in april like before. That was always done in kilkenny and other counties and was very successful. Would mean less congestion when resuming after the all Ireland's. This nonsense of clubs playing 10/12 weeks in a row is madness for amateur players , you need recovery time. So much going on every weekend it's impossible for local media to cover it all.

legendary.xix

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You make a fair point there. Ideally championship games should be every second week. Money as we know can be an influence otherwise.

The profile of the provincial club championships seems lower that what it should be under the split season. TG4 are great but is there anything to be said for a highlights programme on RTE on Sunday nights once the club championships get to the provincial stage?

Krazy gang

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Just feels like there's too many matches in every sport nowadays. At least soccer and rugby players have proper rest and recovery.

A highlight show on Sunday evenings on rté would be brilliant for the profile of the club games. Tg4 is grand but if it was on rté would really give it a whole new exposure excitement.

awaywithyou

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the problem imo is not the intercounty team or manager.. its the inept county board administrators who are incapable of carrying out their roles… during brian codys tenure as KK manager.. the club scene in KK ran successfully alongside the intercounty without any issues…

personally i would to like see all ire finals in late august but no later.. have to say its great to be driving back to Kerry from Croker in daylight…

Uncle Pierre

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Yes, but for most of Brian Cody's reign, his Kilkenny side only had to play maybe four matches per year, even in making it to the All-Ireland Final. I'm talking from 1999 up to when the round-robin system in the provincial championships was introduced in 2018.

Kilkenny typically had a Leinster semi-final around middle of June, then a three or four week break before a Leinster Final, then sometimes as long as a five-week break before an All-Ireland semi-final, and maybe three or four weeks then before the All-Ireland.

Kilkenny didn't worry too much about fitting a club football championship into those gap weeks either.

And considering that this year, Kilkenny didn't start their Senior Hurling League/Championship until August, is their County Board now "inept" too?

Uncle Pierre

@awaywithyou - anyway, here's a puzzle for you. Here are Wexford's inter-county football & hurling championship fixtures from this year (including Tailteann Cup). Bear in mind that 90% or more of players here are dual players at club level, have a look at the dates below, and tell me how our "inept" County Board should have done things differently?

• April 7: Football v Carlow
• April 14: Football v Louth
• April 21: Hurling v Dublin
• April 27: Hurling v Antrim
• May 4: Hurling v Galway
• May 11: Football v Sligo
• May 18: Football v Antrim
• May 19: Hurling v Carlow
• May 26: Hurling v Kilkenny
• June 1: Football v Tipperary
• June 15: Hurling v Laois
• June 22: Hurling v Clare
• July 5: Start of County Championships.