Play the four championships throughout the season, like the FA Cup in England, sprinkled into the fixture list every couple of weeks
was a joy. It was a raucous atmosphere, a game with a ton of turnovers, some great scores, big personalities showing up at key moments, and individual battles that swung one way and then the other.
‘We got a ring, it looked like a washer’: Irish victims lose thousands in global online shopping scam centred in Chinafought it out to the death for the first of those. And it goes without saying that the defeat would have stung a lot less, and the win would have tasted a lot less sweet, if it had been against other opposition.
I believe there’s another way. The opening weekend of the football championship should also be the opening round of the All-Ireland group stages. Ensure that Kerry and Dublin aren’t allowed to build slowly through the first couple of months of championship due to the weakness of their local rivals.If Derry or Mayo have to be ready to go straight away after the end of the league, then so too should Dublin and Kerry.
If you win your provincial championship, then you’re seeded number one for the following year’s All-Ireland championship. Apart from that, they have no impact on the race for Sam Maguire. The last rounds of the league then become a fierce fight to finish in the highest pot possible, and you’ll know exactly what you’re playing for, because the four winners from the previous year are already assured of Pot 1 status.
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