What difference does the Stadium make to Championship restructuring?
Donât you worry about it. Its probably too complex for you.
You are scurrying around after me alot these days.
I asked you a question Kev. Iâm intrigued to know how the building of a Stadium could stop a rethink on Championship structures.
Think about it. Its actually quite logical. And i canât be fucked explaining it out to someone who will just crank anyway.
Bizarre, I read over on PROC that there was a âhugeâ crowd.
Sounds like a shit game really. Club hurling is shit in Cork. TBF its been that for a like time now. Referees blow for absolutely everything, a world apart from the stuff we saw last weekend in the AI semis. Iâve been to loads of club games in Cork and besides the odd local derby you wouldnât remember most of them.
Youâd remember the ones you played in a lot more than the ones you watched.
A lad I work with got sent off for nothing over the weekend. Tbf to the ref he went by the letter of the law (hurl to the head) but it wasnât intentional and wasnât malicious. Around 10 yellows dished out the same game. Heâs saying the standard of reffing is very bad for all club games.
Its really really awful. Undescribable at this stage
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I think thatâs a lot of it, I remember when there would be 100âs if not thousands at west limerick junior A hurling matches because they were absolute war. Now itâs pure stop start with the free taker the most important man on the field. In the good old days youâd have to be maimed to get a free.
I also mentioned this on the Limerick GAA thread but they were charging âŹ7 in to see a shit junior b hurling match the other evening at which there were literally a handful in attendance. Two or three lads âon the gateâ then claiming expenses, so they actually lost money by charging. The worst of it was there was no stands at the pitch and it lashed rain, so the poor souls that paid in got drowned. I think if you are charging then you should at least have the decency to play it in a field with a stand.
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who gets pd expenses for collecting at the gate of their local club? Tell me thats not a thing?
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Board officials get expenses the club have nothing to do with it.
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Thats hilarious shenannigans.
You could write a book about the West Board. They wonât merge the junior championships in Limerick into an all county setup just so they can cling to their last vestiges of power. Despite the fact that its completely lobsided, thankfully it has righted itself somewhat in the last few years as several West teams have gone up and a few from other divisions have come down, but at one stage there was 12 teams in the west and something like 4 in the south and 5 in the east with 2 coming from each for the quarters
so a board official comes out and does the gate? doesnt happen at my club anywaysâŚthats bizarre
Ya thats not the norm at all.
Yup. The board get the money and pay the club a %.
Wow, dodgy!!!
What happened to a lad with a biscuit tin looking for a fiver and being told to fuck off here is 2 quid.
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Whatâs the set up in Cork then? Gate receipts from county championship games would ordinarily go to the county board irrespective of where the game is played, as @Julio_Geordio mentions here. Theyâre in charge of the competitions and theyâre one of the main income generators to cover their costs (main ones being to fund county teams). Are the Cork chaps suggesting that host clubs get to keep gate receipts there? That seems bizarre.
No, I think theyâre suggesting that its odd to send a board man to run a gate in the Club. Generally the gate will be taken in by the Club, theyâll keep a percentage and send the majority to the CB then.
Thats how it is in Laois anyway.
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Oh right, sure thatâs rife for the host club to record a lower gate than actually attended and keep a load of cash themselves. Much better to get the honest to goodness county board lads (treasurer, any other willing officers and loyal team of gate men) to oversee matters like in progressive GAA counties such as Limerick and Wexford.
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