Iâm sick to my hole of those smug fuckers on the TSG. Granted the Rossies are a step or 2 above us but the
banal efforts at being âpunditsâ is hole-opening. Weâll give the cunts their fill of it in 3 weeks whether McStay or any other RTE expert thinks otherwise.
I said to an old hurling pal on Saturday night over a pint, that sooner or later New York will turn someone over. Theyâve given a good account of themselves by and large in recent times. Theyâll shock someone soon enough. London could too if it wasnât such a sprawling impossible to get to training mess of a metropolis.
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London turnover is huge. About 10-15 every year. That makes it very hard. NY more settled
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It is, its an impossible ask for players to get to training. Theyâd be better training in regents Park with jumpers for posts.
I could be totally wrong, but I thought I read that only 3 who started last year for new York were starting this time around. Chap from wexford went over this year and was starting.
They and London seem to be doing great work with underage set ups tho, very much long term aspirations with them. New York team coming over to play wexford underage teams this year.
Ya maybe you are right. They just seemed settled for a while. I did not see this yearâs line out from yesterday. London seem to have alot if lads who go home. My experience of NY was there was lots if long term guys there
Both very into recruiting locals young.
Ironically the place it would be easiest grow from a read made POV is Oz
I saw an underage new York team playing in Manchester of all places last year or the year before. Theyâd raised a bundle to play the University championship, and the universities banned them as they werenât British or Irish or something. Their coach, a nice oul fella I chatted to for a good while, emphasised that it was the universities, not the teams that had done so. Anyhow, they played decent football, were a big strong side, and all seemed to be American lads.
Theyâll struggle due to lack of meaningful underage competition.
As an aside in my last match over here, I ended up marking a smallish red haired manchester lad.
I think heâd scored 2-4 by half time. Transpires the little fucker was playing for the mayo Minors off the back of playing in Manchester leagues etc. Was great to see. Great to see the back of him too. I couldnt even get close enough to get a hold of his Jersey. Completely two footed also, and it was only the laygue.
yeah there is a lot of grassroots efforts going on in Oz, well in Perth anyway. Since I was out there there are a couple of new clubs, proper intermediate competition for seconds and they have properly set up some hurling teams too. A good underage state set up too for all inclusiveness, dont have it down to the clubs to do underage, its an all encompassed set up. They do the Cul Camps there every year too, same as here. Given the amount of long term ex pats now there, I suppose it makes sense to have it and to establish it properly.
They largely made a balls of alot of it.
The intermediate league was a disaster.
Instead of building more clubs they made 2 or 3 super clubs.
Now when numbers died so did intermediate league
People will keep a club going but not a 2nd team
They play in tandem with Aussie rules season which is a mistake too. Aussie love it but obviously only going to choose AR when it comes to it.
There was also a kinda anti-Aussie playing sentiment âthe games are for irish peopleâ I got from are lot of lads. Mostly nordies of course.
Which of course is dumb as shit
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nobody in Queensland has heard of the GGA.
You would get a few pasty oirish playing but they are transient and cant assimilate
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Nobody outside TFK has heard of the GGA mate
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Many of them donât even know how to spell GGA
Not one provincial football game being shown.
Sky 2018 GAA Championship Fixtures:
Saturday, 2 June
5pm Wexford v Galway (LSHC)
7pm Cork v Limerick (MSHC)
Saturday, 9 June
7pm Kilkenny v Wexford (LSHC)
7pm Galway v Dublin (LSHC)
Saturday, 23 June
5pm Football Rd 2 Qualifier
Saturday, 30 June
5pm Football Rd 3 Qualifier
7pm Football Rd 3 Qualifier
Saturday, 7 July
5pm Football Rd 4 Qualifier
7pm Football Rd 4 Qualifier
Saturday, 14 July
5pm AISFC Quarter Final, Rd 1
Saturday, 21 July
5pm AISFC Quarter Final, Rd 2
7pm AISFC Quarter Final, Rd 2
Saturday, 4 August
7pm AISFC Quarter Final, Rd 3
7pm AISFC Quarter Final, Rd 3
Semi Final & Final
Saturday 28, July
5.00pm All Ireland Hurling Semi Final
Sunday, 29 July
3.30pm All Ireland Hurling Semi Final
Saturday, 11 August
5.00pm All Ireland Football Semi Final
Sunday, 12 August
3.30pm All Ireland Football Semi Final
Sunday, 19 August
3.30pm All Ireland Hurling Final
Sunday, 2 September
3.30pm All Ireland Football Final
I agree, itâs great
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Numbers talk.
Hopefully now this is the at art of dismantling them for good
SKY is going to dismantle the GAA Championship.
Joe knew.
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Only seven games from this yearâs Ulster, Leinster, Munster and Connacht SFC are going to be aired live on television.
RTE are showing all four provincial finals as well as Mayo V Galway this weekend, one Ulster semi-final and one Leinster semi-final. The remainder of the 22 provincial matches played out over the course of the summer will not be broadcast live.
This is a massive reduction compared to previous years, with a Dublin match to be overlooked for the first time since 2006, while the huge Ulster first-round meeting of Tyrone and Monaghan has not been taken up by either RTE or Sky Sports.
The situation has arisen because - despite the wholesale changes to the format of the championship, with the introduction of the Super 8s in football and round-robin games in the Munster and Leinster SHCs - the existing TV rights deal of 45 games has not been revised.
Thus, RTE will show 25 games, Sky have the rights to 14 and six will be shared by both broadcasters. With so many quality hurling games early in the season and the Super 8s coming later, these matches have been selected at the expense of the provincial football games.
In the first eight weeks of the championship, starting this Sunday, there are two live games each weekend. Of those first sixteen live games, just four are football, with 12 live hurling games to be shown up until June 17.
People want to watch hurling, football is fucking hard work to watch, this is a good move from RTE
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Viewing figures suggest otherwise mate
Thatâs a surprise, I was just running my mouth off, I quite like football myself but recognise it as a shit game