They actually had state & commercial broadcasters vying for rights packages so they naturally decided to reduce the amount of games to be broadcast on television, condensed them into one single telly package & stuck a raft of other games on their in-house app that nobody uses. 
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I accept your surrender
You can take on bandage now
A great return to form
In all seriousness though, I believe the gaa should see tv coverage less as a way to make money through tv rights deals and selling subscriptions and should focus more on it as a way to promote the games. The more games that are live on free to air tv the better for promoting the game to young people and outside the gaas traditional catchment area.
It’s the very fact that the gaa is NOT a professional sport is the reason they should make this decision.
Without asking rhetorical questions and making inane cryptic comments that don’t actually making sense why do you think what they are doing now is the best thing to do?
Not too many people agree with the current approach so it would be good to hear a defence of it?
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Knockout games have to be available somewhere whether its gaa plus, rte news now, tg4 player, clubber, county boards themselves.
LoI tv can manage every LoI premier and first division with the minimum one camera in certain games. It can and should be done in the year 2026. This is another scenario where bulldogs like Burns and McBennett don’t want to listen or read the rooms though
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Kerry v Kildare can’t be seen anywhere at all. And the loser will be out. Imagine Kildare pulled off a massive shock. It’s madness really.
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We just need GAA+ to broadcast more games
The reality is that there are too many games on in too short a time frame in this microwave Championship for terrestrial television to pick up all eight games in one weekend but its fucking bananas and hilarious in equal measure that Clubber can show Ballyhale Shamrocks v Mullinavat in a routine County League match down in Kilkenny tonight but the All Ireland Football Champions can play a knockout game in a complete vacuum.
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We either need to get rid of the club game or county game.
We need a poll
They worked well together for 100 years until the split season zealots decided we couldn’t have nice things anymore.
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The GAA just keep shooting themselves in the foot.
During the middle of the championship season, there should be set times for their televised matches.
On a Saturday at the peak of Sam Maguire, Tailteann Cup, Liam Mac, Joe McDonagh, u20 and minor…
there should be matches at 3pm, 5pm and 7pm.
- 3pm GAA plus
- 5pm GAA plus
- 7pm RTE
On Sunday, two matches at 2pm and 4pm
- 2pm RTE
- 4pm RTE (this is the big game of the weekend, similar to Sky putting their biggest game in the prime 4.30pm slot)
Stick other matches on TG4 or GAA plus, even if clashing at the same time.
These times don’t change. They are generally set in stone, bar exceptional circumstances. Like, this weekend RTE have no game in the main 4pm Sunday slot. Have a huge match in Munster between the two best hurling teams in the country and they stick it on at 2pm. Stupid.
The 5 time slots above give certainty. Just gives routine too, people know there’ll be matches on to watch.
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Can we keep the soccerball and shintyball to the relevant threads? Wtf has happened to this place?
The GAA are intent on downsizing. The summer is the summer and should be defined by the GAA. Nobody remembers anything that happens in April.
Then you have GAA+ which has approximately 60,000 subscribers. Less than half that probably watch a big game on it.
I know there might that many again watching via Dodgy box but the viewing figures are absolutely brutal.
Its an astonishing act of self sabotage.
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Sure when Galway brought the era of Dublin dominance to an end in 2024 literally nobody saw it.
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We just need to go back to knock out in both.
Simple
Why is Cork v Limerick at 2pm and not 4pm?
That was one of the most bizarre moments in the GAA this century.
The greatest team of all time and the reigning All Ireland Champions sent packing in a huge shock at Croke Park in front of around 30k fans and barely anybody watching on a stream.
It clashed with the All Ireland Minor Hurling Final. Just astonishingly bad fixture planning.
The Limerick bowsies would be too full of beer by 4pm and they’d be causing trouble in terrace
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