Whether the new schedules work or not needs data-driven analysis, not a series of unco-ordinated reactions
With impeccable timing, we are within a week of the 10th anniversary of a previous row about the commercial letting of Croke Park: the great Limerick migratory scandal of 2014 when Kerry and Mayo supporters had to go to the Gaelic Grounds for that year’s All-Ireland semi-final replay.
“The list goes on, extending into games development, player welfare, and the development of club and county grounds. It is a financial fact of life for the association that it must put Croke Park to use in the necessity to increase our funding base. It’s a long time since the GAA would have been comfortable bumping the sister organisations out of their dates and the imminence of integration in four years makes it impossible. There are the Saturdays, which could facilitate double All-Ireland weekends, as happened in the winter championships of 2020.
On Saturday, one decision that is expected is acceptance of a new football championship format, eliminating the All-Ireland round-robin structure and replacing it with a repurposed schedule of knockout matches more akin to the old qualifiers.
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