This thread is exactly what it says on the tin/title.
A thread to document attractive double headers.
And boy do we have one to start.
Confirmation just in that Wexford’s Tailteann Cup opener versus Limerick will be held in Chadwicks Wexford Park alongside Wexford’s Leinster senior hurling championship clash with Dublin on Saturday May 9th.
Hurling at 4pm & football at 6pm.
I suppose they were afraid the footballers would hack up the pitch.
But by right it should have been on first.
I don’t know if this kind of fixture - i.e., where one county has two games in different codes at home - truly falls into the “attractive double header” bracket. Lapsed poster @Cheasty would need to arbitrate on that.
If on the other hand you had the Wexford vs Dublin LSHC game paired with, say, Laois vs Wicklow in the Tailteann Cup, then you would absolutely have an attractive, if not “exceedingly attractive” double header.
I hate double headers, rarely work.
There’ll be a few U10 games at half time in the football match too to hack up the pitch for the 2nd half!
That’s an interesting point & one I’ll mull over for a couple of weeks.
True, they’re a pain in the hole.
If your choice of match is the first one you’ll probably get parking grand. Fair enough. But if you leave early some yahoo will probably have you double parked.
You’re in early with a good seat. Next thing a big Tipp crowd arrive in early for the second match and they’re up and down, in and out ating their flask of tea and hang sandwiches and talking about the weather.
If your choice of match is the second match. Then parking is impossible. All the good seats are gone. Amazingly the Tipp crowd who were in watching their footballers in the first match. Now decide to have their grub. Up and down, in and out again. And of course decide to leave early to beat the traffic before the end of the second match, just as it’s getting exciting.
Correct,looks like @Bandage has never actually been to a double header before.
Katie Taylor and Ed Sheeran
Perfect double header formula. Have the game with the least interest second.
Hopefully it doesnt rain for this double header or we’ll have all the @limericks pissing and moaning again about not getting into the covered stand. That was part of a double header some years back when we played Roscommon first in football and hurling after against Limerick and all the Limerick season ticket holders expecting the covered stand were told to go over to the uncovered stand much to their annoyance.
A fabled TRIPLE HEADER in Croke Park today:
At 1pm we start off with the final of the hurling competition which the GAA website is calling the “Nickey Rackard Cup”, that’s Nickey with an e.
That’s a clash between the USA and the UK as New York take on Tyrone.
Then at 3pm it’s the Michael Palin Railway Journeys Around Ireland Derby as Derry play Kerry in the Christey Ring Cup final. That’s hurling too if you were wondering.
Then at 5pm, it’s the big clash everybody is waiting for as Kerry and Tyrone go head to head in yet another underage football final which Tyrone will win. That’s the competition formerly known as the All-Ireland under 21 football championship.
I wonder how many Tyrone people will be heading in for the hurling at 1pm and then waiting around through the middle game for the football at 5.
The 1pm, 3pm and 5pm time slots here seem tightish.
Remember there is the possibility of extra time in any of these games. So if all three were to go to extra time, that adds a minimum of 42 minutes to the schedule - between gasping breath for 15 minutes after normal time, the 20 minutes plus 3 of the actual extra time and the four minutes of half time in extra time.
So if Tyrone v New York goes to extra time at 2:35pm, add 42 minutes to that to get to 3:17pm before that game finishes. That would push Derry v Kerry back to maybe 3:45pm. That game then finishes level at 5:20pm, followed by the 42 minutes of the rigmarole of extra-time to bring us up to 6:02pm before that game finishes.
Tyrone v Kerry then wouldn’t throw in until 6:30pm. That’s a 60 minute game so it probably finishes up around 7:55pm. Then add 42 minutes to take us to 8:37pm for a definitive finish to the day’s proceedings that began at 1pm.
But wait, what if we have penalties in any of the games? That’s more time. A penalty competition might conservatively be estimated to add 15 minutes to proceedings between five to six minutes of humming and hawing about who is taking the penalties and maybe nine minutes to play off the penalty competitions.
If all three games went to penalties after extra-time, add 45 minutes. That would take us to 9:22pm. And then there’s the presentation at the end of the football, which could take us to 9:40pm.
The committed Tyrone GAA follower who dutifully entered Croke Park at 12:40pm to see the warm ups of the hurling, would trundle out of Croke Park in a sunstruck state exactly nine hours later. Luckily the Mater hospital is nearby.
