It's Not Kerry's Fault That the System Stinks [Eire Region]

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THE former Armagh football manager Peter Makem was beating the drum again at the weekend, calling on the GAA to abandon a flawed football championship format. We are with him on that one, but at the same time we suggest that Makem's primary motivation for changing the format, and his proposed alternative, are flawed in themselves. Makem, who led Armagh in the early 1980s, grabbed the headlines in recent weeks when he suggested that the main reason Kerry continue to thrive as a football power was because a flawed provincial system forced Ulster teams to continually reinvent themselves in the battle for the Anglo Celt Cup while Kerry, with a bye to the latter stages of the championship, waited in the long grass.

It's a tired argument with some merit to it, but not a whole pile in these backdoor days.

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It's Not Kerry's Fault That the System Stinks [Eire Region]

It is true to say that if a fairer, more balanced format was in place from the year dot, the Kingdom would not have 36 All-Irelands to their name. But it must...

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