Should club go knock out and leave the county game as is? Or should county go knock out and leave club game as is? Or should all competitions go back to knock out given how well it went in the past?
The Saw Doctors were playing at Fairview Park that evening and didn’t find out Galway had won until after the concert.
Taylor Swift was playing too.
The weather was unreal and the Dubs lost their focus.
On paper it might well have been one of the best starting 15’s Dublin ever sent out too.
Dublin: Stephen Cluxton; Eoin Murchan, Sean MacMahon, Michael Fitzsimons; John Small (0-01, 0-01m), Brian Howard, Jack McCaffrey; Brian Fenton (0-01), James McCarthy; Niall Scully, Sean Bugler (0-02), Ciarán Kilkenny (0-02); Paul Mannion (0-01), Con O’Callaghan (0-04, 0-02ms, 0-01f), Cormac Costello (0-04, 0-02fs, 0-01 45)
Is beer the actual reason? Surely you want supporters to get extra beer into them beforehand as it makes for a better atmosphere and possibly a Hugh Dallas type incident.
Knockout with one chance via a backdoor in both.
Round Robin’s need to go.
So not the way it was for 100 years? Can you go back and edit your post please
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They fucking knew alright. As did vast swathes of hefty culchies with brick red cheeks who absolutely sowed it into me in my Dublin top. Some blokes slagged me too.
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They found out when they looked at Aertel afterwards.
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Are you admitting you were totally wrong on this one?
What?
Malachy gets it. Jarlath should learn to keep his cakehole shut even occasionally
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That more gaa matches should be on free to air tv. Seems nearly everyone agrees and you didn’t come up with one counter argument. Were you just winding me up?
No. You’re dreadfully wrong. But what’s that got to do with my post you replied to?
Sorry I replied to the wrong post. Have you any argument as to why they shouldn’t show more matches on free to air tv?
You’ve yet to make an argument as to why all GAA games should be free to air. Suggesting that the GAA, an amateur organisation should pay for its games to be on the national broadcaster absolutely beats all. I’m trying to be nice to you here, so I’ll leave it at that: best of luck with your endeavours
In all seriousness, the GAA should view TV coverage less as a revenue generator through rights deals and subscriptions, and more as a powerful tool for promotion. Maximising the number of games broadcast on free-to-air television is essential for inspiring the next generation and expanding the GAA’s reach beyond its traditional strongholds. In fact, because the GAA is an amateur organisation rather than a professional sport, it has a unique responsibility to prioritise community accessibility over profit.
I think the vast majority of gaa people would agree with this.
There does have to be a balance in the real world but they have it weighted too much towards subscription tv now.
It’s taking away from what is a great championship so far
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The great Peter Alliss always made this point about the British Open and indeed all free to air tournaments, that that free to air coverage was an immense promotional tool for golf.
There are two exceptions to the rule that pay TV damages a sport and that’s the EPL, which already had a dominant position and harnessed every other lever it had to increase that dominant position. No other sport has those levers available to them.
But EPL crowds are now OLD. They’re like pensioners days out to Margate these days.
The other exception is darts which was punching way under its weight.
Eveything else suffers. The Heino is an afterthought, professional boxing is dead, the British Open is much more niche than it used to be, rugby league is all but dead, the Champions League has declined because it’s stuck behind a paywall. Horse racing has declined because it’s no longer on BBC.
The GAA really needs to be looking at how to attract immigrants and the children of immigrants because it’s going to become painfully obvious very soon if it’s not already painfully obvious that non-white faces are not filtering through in the GAA like they are in other sports - especially in Dublin. Saturation coverage on free telly is one thing you do to try and address that.
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The more i think about it the more wrong they are getting it on this one. They’ve done great work on the rules and the championship structure but they’re going to throw it all away with this self sabotage.
80k watched the saturday gane last week. Pretty low for an inhouse production. Should that be scrapped
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