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14th Oct 2016

The 15 stages of insanity everyone felt during the GAA championship draw

The championship draw needs to be restructured

Conan Doherty

Don’t ask.

– “What time is the draw at?”

– “9.30.”

– “And the championship starts in…”

– “May.”

The draw for the GAA hurling and football championships – yep, 2017 – took place on Thursday night and players were all forced – a week and a half after the season had ended – to say that they would start preparations immediately and get focusing on the draw as soon as possible.

Well, they weren’t forced to but they did.

So the evening’s events annoyed a lot of people. They tickled other people and they confused most people.

The phases the Gaels of Ireland went through trying to decipher just exactly what was happening were probably the same all over the country.

Why is the championship draw on?

But it’s October.

Does this happen every year?

Something something plight of the club player.

Something something restructure.

Is it really 90 minutes long?

Why?

Jesus, get on with it.

Why is Marty Morrissey wearing jeans?

Why are we having a draw if there’s a group?

Why is the Munster hurling semi-final being drawn before the quarter-final?

Why didn’t they bother drawing some teams?

Why does Leinster even bother?

Why is Jonny Cooper saying Carlow or Wexford will be tough?

What was the point of that?

On the latest episode of the GAA Hour, Wooly chats to new Meath boss Andy McEntee about the flawed Dublin Championship and catches up with new Clare joint manager Donal Moloney. Listen below or subscribe on iTunes.

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