They brought a decent crowd to Limerick this year for league semi and final and been well supported this summer .
Galway is a funny county . Connemara all football , ditto North Galway and there is a disconnect there from the hurling part to the county . The city is soccer , theatre , a bit of rugby , a small bit of Gaelic and hippies . The hurling is largely the south and the east and there isnât a massive population centre .
The culture was always if the team were decent the semi was a day out and take if from there .
Also the club rivalry in the hurling part of county is fairly keen and occasionally poisonous . Galway is a funny county .
The first 20 or so times it was funny ⌠the next 20 or so you gave him the benefit of the doubt but the next 500 times after that was just uncalled for really.
I remember in the weeks leading up to that game, a plethora of Limerick people were all over the now defunct An Fear Rua messageboard talking about how theyâd never seen demand for tickets like it.
It was wonderfully twee.
The GAA should have thrown in a free bunch of Dutch tulips with every ticket for that final.
A hurling final is a funny animal ticket wise . It takes a while for tickets to filter through especially in 2007 when most expected a turkey shoot in the final . It takes a while for tickets from non hurling counties to filter through . This happened in 2007 allied with the fact that the minor final didnât really add to demand .