The Meaninglessness of the League

That Tik Tok video that surfaces every year around St Patrick’s Day got me thinking last week. You know the one where the elderly gentleman is vox-popped by a reporter who asks if he’ll be partaking in the celebrations and watching a parade. “I’ll stay in the back garden with my dog, it’s the greatest load of ponce and wonce,” he said, before giving an assessment of the whole spectacle that was equally hilarious and withering.

I couldn’t help thinking that he could just as easily have been talking about the League as we know it, which is so meaningless it’s not funny. From inside the team environment, the League is about finding new players, new ways of doing things and incrementally building towards the competition that really matters. Granted, it’s the secondary competition and will never enjoy a higher status than that, but surely there should be greater incentive to make it bigger and better than what it is. Two examples stood out to me recently. Waterford are off to Portugal this week, so did they ever even want to be in the shake-up for a League title at this stage? In fairness, I would say that they did on some level but the message that jetting off at this time of year sends to players and the mindset arising from it points to a take-it-or-leave-it attitud

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