Or P Joyce
You’d be amazed where money can be found sometimes. The larger counties will be fine, any country with big industry is laughing. There will obviously be a drop off that will need to be subsidied at first the further down the pecking order you go. The league will trump the Championship too, that will fall to FA Cup status soon enough I’d say.
It’s been heading in one direction the last 20 years and that’s professionalism, anyone with eyes can see this. Sooner the better too, not right to be asking lads to sacrifice the bulk of their lives for little or no reward beyond recieving abuse from online forums and maybe the odd trip to Sandy Lane or wherever. If you want community stick to your club, the Inter County has morphed into a different beast altogether
I agree, I don’t see an issue with this. Who coached him though?
I’m not getting into a big stats based argument. But football is a far far more popular game by every measure than hurling. Attendances, playing numbers, teams. Numbers arent dropping in one and rising in the other in any area. I prefer hurling by the way.
The GAA to me is about volunteers. Volunteering in terms of playing, organising, logistics etc. No payment. Ever.
We now have a situation where a footballer ,who is fortunate enough to have been part of a team to win five All Irelands in a row, is selling his expertise to other players.
Of course this has been a track well worn. Managers being paid ‘wink wink’, demands been placed on players that wouldn’t be placed on professionals, GAA ‘celebrities’ having agents to take their bookings for presenting medals.
It’s rotten. But the whole organisation is rotten. When it looked as if the Championship would be cancelled, the GAA tried to change the terms of contract with those who have saved money to have season tickets to say they are non-refundable. I know someone who has seats in Croke Park and there hasn’t been a peep out of the GAA in terms of a refund.
So there will still be the people all over the 32 counties and abroad holding up the entire organisation by really engaging in volunteering while the rest of it has just been let run amok.
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You have a point but you have 8 strong hurling teams and about 8 strong football teams. These teams play home and away every year, after a while in my opinion the novelty will wear off. Professionalism is not sustainable in my opinion with so few teams. You can say their is 32 footballing counties but the vast majority are extremely poor.
I have no problem with rock making a few quid but the prices seem huge. I doubt he will be too busy with customers.
Nobody outside of the Irish or descendants of Irish give a shit about Gaelic football or the wonderful hurling so many people waffle on about.
Professionalism? Fuck sake we need to get a grip of ourselves.
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Totally agree.
I do. It’s not right. There should be a code of practice for players not to engage in such carry on.
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No one should have a fixed fee for medal presentations. If they don’t want to do it, then don’t do it.
You shouldn’t be a higher ‘value’ just because you have been fortunate enough to win a few All Irelands.
From many anedotes I have heard Kilkenny hurlers, and Cody, are admirable in relation to this area. Nothing other than travel expenses accepted.
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Dean Rock should have called it a free taking summer camp and no one would have batted an eyelid
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As the fella once said. Oh denial Oh denial.
It’s happening brother in front of your very eyes too, just open them
You are not hearing to my point . My point is that football is going through a bad period . We all know it is more popular than hurling
How so?
Dublin are an exceptional team.
Just because they are dominating it doesn’t mean football is in a bad period.
Look at the attendances in Munster and Leinster . Interest is dropping . If Mayo decline further Connaught will follow . Dublin are operating at another level to all opponents . The game is ruined with too much lateral hand passings . The game was a far better spectacle in the 00s & 90s imho
For me the issue is the situation with how the draw is set up. Again typical poor management from the GAA centrally. Afraid to grasp the nettle and as a result there is the truly unique situation where you have a kind of knock out between the provincials and the qualifiers which then leads into a group situation in the Super 8s. And why do the Super 8s exist? Money.
Then a half assed second tier championship proposal.
The elephant in the room are the Provinicals. They have to go. Simple as that. You’re right, the attendances are woeful but that is because that model is dead. And has been for years.
Football has moved on. I enjoyed the two All Irelands and Dublin Mayo semi from last year and the 2017 Al Ireland final between Dublin and Mayo is probably the best I have ever seen.
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I agree with all you typed there
You’re always banging this drum and it just doesn’t add up. Mayo and Kerry could and possibly should have beaten Dublin on 3 occassions each in the last 5 years. Dublin were not operating at a different level then and certainly not now.
The last 15 minutes of the drawn final Kerry were noticeably gassed . Kerry and Mayo are fabulous teams and raised their game on certain days but Dublin are far better . Dublin comfortably won the replay last year .