That’ll be alright for this year but they’ll take a serious hit next year
Very lucky with the hurling this year with the clashes and results.
I’d say they are sick there’s no replay next Saturday.
They absolutely weren’t. Newbridge if not fit for purpose is a different argument.
You are that cunt in the pub who screams and shouts for his doubles, but has no interest in who picks up the tab at the end of the session. Vermin
Events being the operative word. And it has always been that way.
Pairings, circumstances and venues make for high attendances and good atmospheres, which makes an event.
Limerick v Clare was always going to sell out Thurles because they hadn’t played each other in a Munster final for 27 years and Limerick are top dogs and Clare were gunning for them.
Whereas Tipp and Waterford grew full sick of playing each other in Munster finals and so did everybody else.
Armagh v Tyrone in Armagh is a massive derby, especially with Tyrone being the champions.
That was always going to be a plum fixture.
But if you’d taken it to, say, a hypothetically newly built Casement Park, not so much.
Kildare v Mayo 2018 had a huge buzz because of the venue and the circumstances. Kildare v Mayo 2022 will have all the buzz of a dead wasp lying on the ground at the back of the upper tier of the Davin Stand.
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Yikes.
Bastards were charging 40 euro for a stand ticket
They were drawn at home. Of course they were right.
Calm down on the dehumanising language, buddy. 
There has to be certain standards and crowd capacity for serious games, otherwise we’d be as well playing games in O Toole Park.
Another triple vodka for @Cheasty barman
There are standards, buddy, that’s why health and safety exists. They go around different grounds and set safe capacities based on the space available and the entrance/exit points.
They should toss for it, or have the higher ranked team at home or something. Croke Park is awful for these type of matches.
Kildare v Dublin in the 1994 Leinster Football Championship on the same day that Eire faced Italy in the 1994 soccer World Cup was possibly one of the first Saturday Championship fixtures?
And crowd capacity?
Should Munster Round Robin home matches be taken from Clare and Waterford if there’s more demand for tickets than their grounds can hold?
This is the paradox of venue selection. By restricting supply you create scarcity, which creates demand, which creates buzz. If people know a game will have a good atmosphere they’re more likely to want to be there.
By creating vast over supply in an inconvenient venue you create a lack of buzz which acts as a pull down factor on demand. If people know a game will have a shit atmosphere they’re less likely to want to be there.
A classic example of this was when Fortress Aughrim was deemed unsuitable for Wicklow to host Kerry in the 2002 qualifiers (despite having hosted Galway the previous year), due to an idiotic GAA rule that qualifiers could not be all ticket.
The game was moved to Portlaoise and nobody turned up because the potential USP of the game had been removed.
One of the best things about the Munster round robin has been the return of championship hurling to smaller grounds. Ennis has become a proper fortress for Clare and even if Walsh Park hasn’t been for Waterford, full terraces still create a much better spectacle. However round robin matches look lost in Thurles.
This should all be very obvious stuff but a surprising amount of people still don’t get it.
Depends on the crowd and demand. A previously mentioned championship knockout tie between Kildare and Mayo in front of 8,000 is just wrong
Premium tickets and boxes are sold with a gauranteed number of games
The GAA should really look into selling Croke Park and making a new prime spot elsewhere in the country. The days when a trip to the ‘big smoke’ was a highlight and a treat are long gone, except maybe for a few hicks from up north.
It doesn’t make sense that essentially a rural organisation has no interest in spreading the shekels throughout different parts of the country, instead of filling the coffers of the eye gouging hoteliers and publicans in that city.
On top of everything, Dublin people, north and south, from the ‘saaaalt of de eaaarth’ proletariat to the Leinster supporting, bay swimming D4 types, are utterly obnoxious.
Time to make O’Moore Park the home of the GAA.
After seeing 46k people trying to get out of Thurles. I’d hate to see 80k trying to escape it’s clutches. Lar Corbett would have to knock into a few houses to accomodate the crowds and the Greyhound track would become the most profitable Greyhound track in the World
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Shur the Motorway is right beside the stadium in Portlaoise. Its a no brainer