I don't really see the point in drawing a line in the sand and differentiating between players who played before or after a certain time. They all go into the same hall of fame whether they finished up 40 years ago or 4. The only reason these guys would be different to players currently playing is that they will be harder to get a hold of and honour in the same way. As I've said above, I think we will either have to let the committee make the decisions as the opportunities to do this arise or else draw up a list of nominations, let everyone vote and then let the committee try to get a hold of the successful nominees over the next few years.

Is there also a chance that restricting it to two entrants a year will be a problem? Let's say for arguments sake that Duffy, Swift and Muldoon all retire this year. Who do we leave out?

Start of the Celtic League?

Well we could apply the idea to the advent of professional rugby in Ireland?

FYI I wasn't suggesting a 25 year waiting period, just saying that's the rule for the NFL as they were the example I was using.

My feeling on it is that the committee (full disclosure: I am on the committee!) should be empowered to enter a 'senior/legend player' into the Hall of Fame of their own accord, without going through the nomination/voting process. The reason for this is simply that (unlike current/retiring players) these guys will be hard to get into the Clan Bar on match day and we will probably have to jump through several hoops to get them in at all. Adding a nomination process for these guys will just add extra hoops, and realistically, there will only be a handful of guys who will make the cut, I don't think there would be too much debate about who those guys would be. Take Andrew Farley showing up in Galway as an example.

EDIT: I think the legendary player should be outside the 2 nominations from the current squad. And 25 years retired is too long, anyone not in the current squad would fit.

No where near that time of the year, but there was a bit of discussion last year about the criteria for eligibility for nomination to the Hall of Fame.

The Committee thinks that there can be a maximum of two nominations per year to the Hall of Fame, but that there should be no requirement to make any Inductions.

There was a great suggestion that one of the two nominees can be a ‘Senior’ Honouree. I’ll let umm from last years thread explain the idea as its used in the NFL:

“there is another list of "Senior" players who retired 25 years ago or more. This helps induct worthy players from an older era who might otherwise get bumped in favour of modern era players.”

And just add that I think it should be expanded to players AND coaches and the time limit reduced from 25 to 15. But that’s just my two cents.

There was a suggestion last year that it could only be awarded on retirement from playing or coaching and not simply if a player or coach was leaving the Club. (eg. Last year Mike McCarthy was nominated but would not be eligible under the new suggestion)

Any other ideas let me know. Vote here: docs.google.com/forms/d/1Q_Oi2rTYciNS_1M...zavPF_gvusE/viewform