The 2021 All Ireland Senior Football Championship

Very hard to fault monaghan after the events of last 24 hours

A dangerous team when written off, most tipped armagh for this.

Donie Buckley a huge assist to monaghan.

Great game, best game perhaps since 2013

There is a better option available. We don't have to remove counties from the All Ireland championship to some unwanted losers league. This will end any chance of these counties being competitive in Gaelic football for ever more. Instead, we fund these counties, we give them an opportunity to increase their standards. This will work, investment leads to dramatic improvements. You want proof? Look at the Dublin hurlers, they were also rans, now after major investment, they're competing against top level opposition as we can see in the Leinster hurling final ongoing currently.

Not true. As we have seen with Dublin hurling, the results improve first at underage and that seeps through. Your option doesn't increase standards of teams demoted from the real championship. We have also seen this in hurling. Offaly got booted out and look how hard they are struggling to recover! They seem to be making some strides of a recovery with some additional funding.

Games won't improve a team if it's against inferior opposition. Your solution is a permanent removal of counties from the real championship. Maybe that is what some want? While in hurling we're always bemoaning the lack of counties competing and trying to change that, in football, some are in favour of having a select few compete and eradicate the others.

Instead of this, wouldn't it make more sense to increase the funding for 'weaker' counties so they can have a chance to compete? Standards will increase and we'll have a competition with many counties competing.

Easy solution is 16 team senior and junior championship, 4 groups of 4 etc

Two teams go up on a yearly basis and two teams go down

The solution is simple. You have every county involved in the All Ireland championship. You have groups of 4, top 2 in each group go through to the next round of the A championship, bottom 2 go to the B championship. This way everyone gets an opportunity to compete and every county get a large number of games.

Obviously funding needs to be increased to many counties, other changes such as having the Provincial championships as stand alone competitions in the early season and a few other changes will need to be discussed but removing counties possibility to compete in the real championship needs to be taken off the table.

Were Tipperary? They got a bad beating, lets kick them out. But hang on, they were Munster champions last year. Roscommon have received some bad beatings, lets kick them out. But they're regular division 1 competitors, same with Kildare, Meath, Galway etc. They've all got bad beatings recently. Do you want a championship with 6 teams in it?

I'm not saying all counties are competitive as it stands, I'm saying we fund them so they can develop structures and players so they do become competitive. That's the only solution. Removing them from the championship will permanently end the chance of those counties competing at the top level.

If you don't want to emulate the hurling championship, then you should be firmly against any tiered structure! The lack of counties competing in hurling has always been bemoaned. Why replicate that in football?

Fund the so called 'weaker' counties, let them improve their standards. Give them a chance to compete. What is wrong with letting that happen?

So the Munster and Ulster champions from last year will be booted out. If it's every team that's been receiving beatings then every Leinster county will be booted out, every Munster county apart from Kerry, every Connaught county apart from Mayo. All that will be left is Donegal, Tyrone, Monaghan, Kerry, Mayo and Dublin. A 6 team championship but Dublin keep hammering all of the others so won't they have to be removed also?

Now I don't know how Monaghan are doing it but all those other 5 breakaway counties have serious financial backing. Some more than others but why should other counties be punished just because they haven't got the resources available to them? It's clear that major change is needed in terms of capping spending and giving counties access to appropriate funding. Until that is done, removing counties from the real championship needs to be halted, especially because a lot of the calls for the removal of other counties comes from the big spenders.

That's totally accidental. Very very harsh. 2 fouls and he's off while we have corner backs with 6/7 fouls a game getting off scott free.