National Football League 2023

They need to be more competitive in next years League. Playing in the Tailteann this year might or might not help. There is a bit of extra motivation for players in that the winners get into the Sam Maguire in 2024, but it could go the way of the Tommy Murphy, with counties and players losing interest. The second tier idea has had a poor record.

Ya you are right it's the runner up in D3 who lose their place to Westmeath. I completely forgot about the promoted sides.

Kildare people saying they would rather be in the Tailteann than the Sam, is up there with the Roscommon manager saying he was glad that Monaghan beat them.

Not sure about the other provinces but all it would take in Munster is Clare beating Cork in the opening round.

Those results wouldn't be a massive surprise imo

RTE interview.

Roscommon manager Davy Burke has said that one grain of solace from Sunday's defeat to Monaghan is the fact that nobody will be talking about their winning streak anymore.

Despite being considered as possible relegation candidates before the start of the 2023 Allianz Football League season, wins over Galway, Tyrone and Armagh saw talk instead turn to a potential Division 1 final appearance.

Those ambitions were tempered by the 0-14 to 0-11 loss in Clones, and for Burke that’s not entirely a bad thing.

"There’s a lot of talk, a lot of unwarranted talk. We’re a good, hard-working team, we’ve decent players, but we need to turn up every day and do it," Burke told RTÉ Sport.

"I’m glad that whatever that run was, [it] is over now, to be honest with you."

Yes, that and Westmeath's spot from winning the Tailteann Cup use up 2 of the 16 Sam Maguire spots. This leaves 14 spots, 7 for provincial finalists and 7 from the league.

Though realistically most if not all of the 7 provincial finalist spots will be held by taken by teams who finish high up in the league and so the spots will shunt downwards.

He was referring to the run Roscommon was on. I believe it was 11 league games unbeaten and hadn't lost for two years. He felt such a run was getting unwanted media attention for his honest hard working bunch of players. Of course no manager would be happy when they lose but that was the blessing in disguise he was trying to take out of the defeat.

This weekend is a huge missed opportunity.

We have the climax of the best intercounty competition we have, but all of the games are on at more or less at the same (between 1 and 2pm starts.

There is no rugby on, no EPL, so nothing on TV sport as such on all weekend. They could have Division 3 and 4 finish today, and Div 1 and 2 tomorrow, or some combination to make games accessible. There is an extra hour daylight tomorrow afternoon, so one set of games could start at 1 and the other at 3pm,to allow for tv coverage and people could go to their own game and watch another none. There are make or break games in every division that would make good tv viewing.

Hype the **** out of it, the championship is only 3 weeks away! Great chance to claim back the airwaves and the public's attention after the egg chasers had a free run in recent weeks.

Great opportunity missed.

No rugby exept RTE are showing Ireland Womens 6N and Munster and TG4 are showing Connacht at the times you mentioned.

And with the 2 slots taken tomorrow it doesn't leave much time.

Assuming....

Why be so unambitious?

Hype it. There is live feeds coming back to RTÉ/TG4 during all these games. Select one game in the given division, say the winner takes all Sligo Leitrim game in D4, show it live with inserts of other games taking place at the same time here and there..... oh, look, a goal in this game here so and so and show the goal quickly before returning to the main game. If you have to show D3 and 4 together to make up a show then do, but be ambitious and give it go.

If the product can't compete with feckin minority sports like women's rugby and Celtic league rugby then God help us all! Ambition and creativity is what's needed.... Stream it free as a once off if the channels don't want to show it, promote the sh1t out of it and and take them heads on!

Gaelic Football might be bigger than rugby but Leitrim is not bigger than Munster. Most people are not like fans dedicated enough to be here on a forum and won't watch a match that is not their team so viewership would be tiny.

But far more importantly than that it's not how TV rights work. RTE and TG4 are not gonna win the rights to anything anymore if they undermine a sport by sticking another sport on at the same time. Rugby have a deal and sells it's advertising based on that deal.

No it's a league you get your home games and away games.

But you are giving Louth a get out from their Dublin game just because it's the last game. Why don't all the other teams get a bye from their trip to Dublin ?

How do you decide who is the weaker or stronger team......on last year's placing. Would it mean that the winner of D1 last years would have seven away games this year or play the four weakest teams away.

The league is balanced if you have four home games this year you have three next year unless you are promoted or relegated whereby you fall into the one of the other team places.

There is an old saying ''hard cases make bad law''. It the same here the league works tinkering with it because of a one off occasion is a bad idea

There is an excellent thread that has compiled a rankings table on here, courtesy of @laoisman11, really great work and interesting to keep track of if that's your thing. I don't know though if games should be fixed using criteria like that though, I don't think we're there yet.

One thing that might be interesting may be to have something like a MEGA WEEKEND like they have in rugby league, where one round of games is played together in a neutral venue. Say bring all the D4 teams to Croke Park for a day, play the 4 league games there, have a bit of razzmatazz around the game, low cost tickets, music and sh1te,. Teams told have 3 home, 3 away games and the neutral game. Maybe bring games to London, NY, Glasgow, Paris, Chicago, spread the Gospel

BTW, there was Rugby and LGFA games on RTÉ and TG4 today, at the same time, so it can be done obviously.

As long as he isn't coming on to the pitch to big flame throwers and a stupid light show like over in Thomond Park I'm happy.

This is pure Undertaker rising from the coffin stuff out of WWE 😅

Times are hard 😄

Monaghan survive again.