first_touch wrote:Am I right in presuming that there will be no senior club championship games played until Offaly are out of the All Ireland championship? If so, how crazy is this? Surely it would be better to have lads playing competitive games. Not to mention how unfair it is for club players not to have an opportunity to play championship from April to end of June or July (or maybe even longer!). There are senior league fixtures taking place, are county panelists prevented from lining out in these?
Absolutely spot on. It's hard to believe that a round of championship games was played on the weekend of 10th/12th April, and a scheduled round of games fixed for last weekend was not played. We won't be out in the qualifiers until the 20th June, 3 weeks away.
Of course players would be better off playing games, particularly club players who are not involved on county panels. It's a change from the routine of training. Offaly won't feature in the later stages of the championship, so why not complete the championships, and not have us traipsing to OCP in October annually. It's a farce, and by the way the hurling championship paused on the May bank holiday weekend, 4 weeks ago, a few rounds could have been played this month.
Why don't club delegates insist on playing games in the long interval between championship games and qualifiers. I believe there is a two week delay before championship games which is fair enough, but 4 to 6 weeks no way.
God help us if we reached a Leinster final, or further.
This is a matter I cannot fathom re the long period it takes to complete a championship in a small county.