Tv figures way higher for bogball
Both actually.
Itâs even within clubs
Iâd say all bar Limerick, Cork, Wexford and Wicklow
I can tell you for a fact from working with various players that at least 5 footballing counties are not taking it seriously.
Only the very competitive are keeping players interested.
County squads have lads walking all over the shop
What has that got to do with anything?
We talking about tv schedules yeah?
Yeah but Kev has worked with 7 lads from the RTĂ sports dept and can tell you for a factâŚ
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We are talking about counties taking game seriously
Can you Mexicans get BBC iplayer?
This monthâs high-profile Ulster SFC clash between Monaghan and Tyrone will not be televised live, The Irish News understands.
The meeting of two of the countryâs top six teams has been eagerly anticipated since the draw was made at the end of last year, even more so in light of the fine league campaign enjoyed by Malachy OâRourkeâs side.
But there is now likely to be a ticket scramble for a spot in the 18,500-capacity Healy Park on May 20, with none of RTĂ, Sky Sports or BBC NI set to broadcast the game live, with the latter set to broadcast full deferred coverage of the game that evening.
The live coverage of this yearâs Ulster championship will be cut back drastically on the whole. Having broadcast seven of its eight games live last year, RTĂ are set to show just two live games in the province this summer.
The Irish News understands that alongside the Ulster final on June 24, RTĂ will only show the first Ulster semi-final between Armagh/Fermanagh and Tyrone/Monaghan, which takes place on June 3. Both games will also be live on BBC NI.
The provincial round meeting of Donegal and Cavan, all four quarter-finals and the second semi-final are set to be ignored by the primary rights holders amid a greatly condensed championship programme.
An additional eight games in the football championship, all of them at the All-Ireland quarter-final stage, and a further five games in hurling brings the number of games in total to 87.
The revamp of the hurling championshipâs structure, with a greater volume of games in the Munster and Leinster championships at the expense of the qualifiers, will pique greater interest in the provincial seriesâ, especially given how wide-open the race for the Liam McCarthy Cup looks.
But the GAAâs decision to only allow the usual 45 live games across the season (31 on RTĂ and 14 on Sky Sports) means that the broadcasters have had to be more picky than usual.
Sky Sports have seemingly indicated that they are keen to focus on the latter stages of the All-Ireland series, although The Irish News understands they will still be contractually obliged to show a certain number of games from the earlier rounds.
In all, there will be 22 games in the latter part of the All-Ireland seriesâ across both codes, and not all of them will be broadcast live.
For example, on the final weekend of the football round-robin quarter-finals, games will have to throw-in at the same time to avoid an unfair competitive advantage being handed to any of the teams involved. That will automatically mean certain games will not be televised.
The first four of those round-robin games also take place on the weekend of July 14/15, and with the All-Ireland hurling quarter-finals set for July 15 (on which date the World Cup final will also take place at 4pm), there will inevitably be big games that will not be broadcast live that weekend.
The condensed schedule has also left no wiggle room for BBC NI, who are only able to broadcast games live when they are in direct partnership with RTĂ.
A resistance on the GAAâs behalf towards relaxing the rule that prohibits two broadcasters showing games at the same time has meant inevitable clashes of big games.
That has been a cornerstone of their contractual negotiations in recent years, and falls into line with other major sporting organisations including soccerâs English Premier League, where broadcasters cannot show games in direct competition with each other, or at 3pm on Saturdays for fear of the impact on attendances at games.
Mayoâs eagerly awaited tie with National League finalists Galway takes place at 4pm on May 13, the same time as Donegal meet Cavan in the Ulster preliminary round, meaning that live television coverage for the latter was never an option.
Tyroneâs game with Monaghan goes directly up against Clareâs meeting with Cork in the Munster SHC, though it remains to be seen whether Sky Sports have chosen to broadcast the hurling tie instead, or ignore both in favour of games later in the year.
June 10 sees two Munster SHC games throw-in at the same time, with Limerick v Waterford and Tipperary v Clare both at 2pm. On the same day, the second Ulster SFC semi-final and the second Leinster SFC semi-final, most likely involving Dublin, will both throw-in at 4pm.
Moving the Munster football final forward to the evening of Saturday, June 23 ensures that there are no provincial final clashes, with rights for all six expected remain in RTĂâs possession.
The Munster Hurling Championship is Box-Office.
Nobody gives a shit about hurling.
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RTE obviously do buddy
Yes. RTĂ. The broadcaster who show live womenâs rugby.
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Licence fee payers in Eire outside of Donegal, Monaghan and Cavan donât give a shit about the Ulster Football Championship.
An unmerciful pile of bollox is what it is
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Football not played by galway kerry and of late dublin is utter bollox
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I dont mind a good game of football. Youd often get a fine game of club football thats v enjoyable. The ulster stuff is absolute dirge though.
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Ryle is gone now buddy