But Central Council should revisit its rejection of the proposal to add a third tier to the football championship
The Galway county board has suggested something that not many sporting bodies do – to play fewer games. Photograph: Bryan Keane/Inpho
But change is certainly coming, and counties are being proactive in how they prepare for it. The Galway county board put out a proposal last week that grabbed my attention for a number of reasons, but primarily for the simple reason that it suggested something that not many sporting bodies do – we should play fewer games.
Many times over the course of the last few years, I’ve been tempted to ask a question not posed half enough – how many games a season do you think your county’s Gaelic football team should play? From what I can tell, that’s the question the Galway county board asked themselves, and their solutions flowed from that one question.
I have no such weighty considerations to take into account. Having watched the entire All-Ireland football championship this year, I could not point you to one single game, one single occasion in the national league this year that told us anything about how the year at Sam Maguire level would eventually finish. The league was completely and utterly beside the point. And yet, even Galway’s proposed plan devotes well over half the playing season to it.
The addition of a third tier to the football championship was one of the ideas rejected by Central Council on Saturday. Revisit that. Let the top 12 teams in the country compete for the Sam Maguire, in two groups of six.
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