Farrell in favour of scrapping current All-Ireland provincial championship format
March 13, 2021
Dublin boss Dessie Farrell.
Dublin manager Dessie Farrell has spoken in favour of scrapping the current All-Ireland provincial championship format.
The Fixtures Calendar Review Task Force has put forward two proposals for the restructuring of the football championship which the GAA have deferred to special congress in the autumn. They involve a league based All-Ireland series and introducing a more standardised provincial system with four groups of eight counties.
Farrell guided the Dubs to their tenth successive Leinster SFC title last year, and speaking on the Ciaran s Cast podcast with Donegal native Ciaran Cannon, he said: “I would be very open to change. The one thing we shouldn’t be afraid to do in the GAA is experiment.
Congress: Split GAA season with July All-Ireland finals coming next year
February 27, 2021
Thumbs up for a split season .
The GAA have formally approved the split-season model between club and county competitions which will see All-Ireland finals taking place no later than mid-July from next year.
The Fixtures Calendar Review Task Force’s proposal that inter-county competitions begin in late February and finish up in mid-July, with the club window running from July 24-25 to the end of October received full support from delegates at Congress today.
If, in exceptional circumstances, such as the Covid-19 pandemic, Central Council has been given the authority to make other arrangements.
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There is, however, still some way to go before consensus is reached on a preferred structure.
More than half of the respondents to an in-depth survey stated they supported one of the two football championship structure proposals emanating from the Fixtures Calendar Review Task Force – or, in the case of Longford, suggested something more radical still.
That equates to 56 per cent in favour of change, with 20 per cent opposed.
Motion 18 (Proposal A) and 19 (Proposal B), from the Fixture Calendar Review Task Force (FCRTF) were chief among those 10 motions deferred until Special Congress with no immediate urgency for the GAA to decide as any new format would not come into force until 2022.
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