All-Ireland Hurling Championship 2019***

[Ashman]

That’s a cracking post .

[anon32894817]

@HBV

The 24 hrs after winning an AI is magical but then it gets watered down as every Tom dick and Harry attached themselves to it, cunts who never hit a ball or couldn’t find two club grounds in the county. It’s hard to have long term emotional attachment to it when you’ve to share it with wankers like that.
Id put winning a county minor title ahead of it.

You’d almost be bitter seeing cunts who never done s turn for their clubs celebrating as if they were on the starting team.

[Fagan_ODowd]

@HBV

The 24 hrs after winning an AI is magical but then it gets watered down as every Tom dick and Harry attached themselves to it, cunts who never hit a ball or couldn’t find two club grounds in the county. It’s hard to have long term emotional attachment to it when you’ve to share it with wankers like that.
Id put winning a county minor title ahead of it.

Yes I’d definitely rank my county medals above the inter county All Ireland and provincial medals I never won.

[Ashman]

The last day watching the Leinster final in the Strand I was astonished at how few of the Limerick supporters were watching the game .

[iron_mike]

[Sidney]

Try and write in English in future, please.

It does help when you do that.

[Sidney]

@Perez2017

I doubt the Christ ring final between Meath and down would generate as much discussion as a hurling county final in Kilkenny, tipp etc.

A very sneering attitude

I always get the impresson that a lot of people in self styled “hurling” counties would be only too happy to see the game die in traditionally weaker counties

Which is the club final that has the trophy named after a Nazi lover, again?

Tipperary, isn’t it?

[flattythehurdler]

@Lazarus

Putting club before county is backward gombeenism at its best, even worse it’s selfish. Think about the elderly who only have a short time to see their county win an All Ireland but you have lads here rather shouting for there local bogger version of Jimmy fivebellies getting to play in Croke Park. The advent of the superclub has taken the true spirit out the club game anyway and only worse thats going to get.

Does anyone really give that much of a fuck about the county winning an all ireland, genuinely really give a fuck?
It’s a grand day out and all, but I’d rather win a junior c league with the club.

[the_man_himself]

@Sidney

Inter county games obviously mean a lot more to the average person

Incorrect in a lot of places I would say. More people from my parish and most parishes in Tipperary anyway I’d wager would go to see their club play championship than to see Tipp play championship

@Sidney

Club final attendances countrywide are generally pitiful - 2k in Meath for a recent county final for instance

A terrible argument. Comparing club final attendances to intercounty attendances is ridiculous. Why would many people other than diehards go to watch teams they don’t support play? A county final is a game between two teams, often from rural areas

[Sidney]

@flattythehurdler

Does anyone really give that much of a fuck about the county winning an all ireland, genuinely really give a fuck?
It’s a grand day out and all, but I’d rather win a junior c league with the club.

You cared enough about the fortunes of your county team that you were prepared to drive around a rural area outside Galway and knock on the door of a total stranger to you who plays for the team

Sounds like you did indeed give much of a fuck

[iron_mike]

Maybe we should revert back to the days when the club represented the county. Everybody’s happy.

[Lazarus]

Anyone who thinks club is more important than county just isn’t living the real world @iron_mike

[the_man_himself]

Oh they do alright. Its sad to see, you should look on PV sometime, lads in their 30s and 40s calling young lads and refs cunts just because they’re from a different county and Tipp lads who have actually been convicted of crimes treated as heroes

[Sidney]

If these games were more important they’d get bigger attendances

Why do you think every All-Ireland final is a genuine sell out while the club finals on Paddy’s day get barely 20 or 25k?

They get such paltry attendances because they’re far less important to the average GAA person and to the public in general

Leigh Matthews the former Aussie Rules coach had a quote about the International Rules series in which he managed in 1998 that it was like the Vietnam War - that only those directly involved gave a shit about it

He might well have applied that to the vast, vast majority of GAA club matches

Why did a recent senior club football final in Meath get just 2k?

http://www.meathchronicle.ie/sport/gaa/articles/2015/10/26/4108162-omahonys-retain-keegan-cup/

[iron_mike]

Look , I’m in a kind of an awkward situation here. I’m not affiliated to a club in Limerick for obvious reasons. Having said that, I’ve been to every club final involving a Limerick team and would support them on the basis that they are a Limerick team. I was at the NAP win in 2016 as well as the Kilmallock defeat in 15 and the draw and replay last year.
The only thing I can say is that for me personally, nothing compared to the feeling I had walking out of Croker Park last August. Now let’s say for argument sake that Limerick won 5 of the next 7 AIs. Tables may turn then allright

[the_man_himself]

@Sidney

Why do you think every All-Ireland final is a genuine sell out while the club finals on Paddy’s day get barely 20 or 25k?

Simple. Intercounty All Ireland finals are generally between counties with populations of at least 100,000 people each usually. Club finals are between clubs of which there could be 100 or more within a county. Its very easy to understand really. If Tipp get to an All Ireland I’d probably go, if our club rivals down the road got to a club final I wouldn’t dream of going up to it

@Sidney

They get such paltry attendances because they’re far less important to the average GAA person and to the public in general

I would suspect more average GAA people (outside Dublin and maybe other cities) go to their own club’s games than go to their county’s games.

@Sidney

Why did a recent senior club football final in Meath get just 2k?

Because people don’t have much interest in going to see places where they don’t have an affinity to play?

You’re essentially arguing that Tipp people should go to see Kilkenny play. Why would people go to see two clubs which they don’t support play?

[iron_mike]

Kilkennys population is 99000

[the_man_himself]

A few more arrived in since the last census

[Lazarus]

@iron_mike

I’m not affiliated to a club in Limerick for obvious reasons

You’re better off buddy. Theres nothing more boorish or moronic than someone who puts their ‘parish’ club ahead of reason. Good on you

[Sidney]

But people from every county want to go to All-Ireland senior inter-county finals.

I was brought up going to matches involving counties I had no affinity to.

Neutrals go to the Munster hurling final or Ulster football final or All-Ireland semi-finals.

Loads of neutrals go to loads of championship matches. I’ve been to four Ulster football finals and several Munster hurling championship matches and Connacht championship matches and league finals and knockout stage and ordinary league matches not involving my own county.

I went all the way down to Killarney from Dublin for a qualifier not involving my own county.

The club finals are the showpiece of the club calendar, held on a day which is convenient to people from all over the country to attend as it’s a bank holiday.

Why are the attendances so routinely poor?

The answer is that the general public and the average GAA person doesn’t give a shit.

I know that’s a difficult fact to accept for some, but it’s the truth.

The women’s football final can get more than twice the regular attendance at the club finals.