You might find that broadcasters and sponsors of a professional sport like rugby care about the URC.
As regards broadcasting, the GAA had a nice window from June to mid September when they could have pretty much all their glamour fixtures scheduled whenever they wanted as there very few other sports on.
Thatâs one of the trade offs for going head to head with the business end of the soccer and rugby season. GAA are actually lucky this year that the soccer World Cup is in November/December.
Go to split season thread. Move whole thing back 3 weeks and itâs perfect.
Yerra stay at home let ya. Them tourists wonât Rob themselves.
Cork ride ye raw every time anyway
Professional rugby is all pumped up shit. Look at the crowds for the Leinster match. I have said it here many times pro rugby will be dead in a decade. The sport is literally eating itself
Youâre one of about six generic Limerick gimps that only post about hurling and nothing else. A weird auld bunch.
Outrageous post, was posting about YouTube price rises the other day.
Next thing youâll be telling us cork donât ride ye raw every time
Weâve been hammering Cork for the last 10 years.
Hope Ur keeping well sham.
Oh here we go, book mark this and shove it in my face nxt week
Donât worry mate, weâll batter the cunts.
Thatâs not the point I was making. The GAA have taken the decision to stage their championship this year two months earlier than itâs traditional place in the sporting calendar. Inevitably theyâre going to lose out as regards scheduling and access to Primetime viewing slots because of pre-existing and long standing contractual obligation.
Itâs the GAAâs prerogative to stage their championship whenever they want. If theyâre going with All Ireland Hurling Quarter Finals on the third weekend in June, you might just end up with a 1.45 slot on a Saturday afternoon.
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Rubby shouldnt be played in the northern hemisphere after the first week of may. The fact its still on going is showing what a farce it is. Blaming the GAA for bring the shart of their competition forward to mid april doesnt close the argument. June always had championship matches, usually it was provisional games but still was front and centre.
The rugby lads down tool for pride.
A shitty observation when the GAA has been more open with more high profile personalities feelong comfortable with being open with their sexuality. All sport needs to be open but that comment shows why it os still difficult for some
Do you really believe it will be dead in 10 years time? As a geniune rugby man, Iâd be interested to hear your reasoning
Yeah i do, it is all basing funding on tv revenue and in the case of england and france backing of rich private investors. The money spent on salaries are ever growing despite salary caps to a point where the house of cards will fall if the investor or support drops, the business of the club is not viable.
The game is changing to suit tv audiences who can change very easily, particularly the goal line drop out instead of 5m scrum law. Professional rugby is increasingly more boring to watch. There isnt a market to support a professional game at this level long term, world rugby and other professional bodies believe they can get to popularity like soccer which is ridiculous, it is a minor sport in a global sense.
Look at home professionalism actually affects the grassroots. South Africa from the 70s to 90s and drop off of grassroots (another dirty saffer secret is they went pro in the 70s/80s as no one else would play them due to apartide) and Wales since 1995.
Less people actually see the game on tv due to fragmentation of tv rights and subscription services . People pay for it now but if the viewership drops the subscription services will drop them.
Add on top of this the incoming head injury claims from ex pros in the 2000s, Steve Thompson is leading this, if, and i feel they will win it will cost 10s of millions and open Pandoras box
1:45 on a Saturday is a shite time for a match and will impact the cork numbers you would think.
Clare will bring 10k or so, numbers will be slightly brought down as a couple of thousand might give it a miss with the footballers in HQ yesterday and the following week and potentially another day in HQ.
Galway will do well to bring 5k, while hard to gauge the Wexford crowd. Would be very surprised if this gets more than 35k
Clare lads hanging on for the semi
Impotence.