Theres a huge difference between a European Championship knockout tie clashing with a Leinster Football Semi Final in the old world like 2016, and clashing with All Ireland Hurling Semi Finals.
You keep displaying a fundamental misunderstanding of how spectator sports work.
Customer is king.
If you asked any player in the Premier League if theyâd prefer a 34 or 30 game season theyâd very likely say yes. But that doesnât mean they should get it.
Ask any player on a mid ranking international team if theyâd prefer a 48 team World Cup or a 32 team World Cup, theyâll say 48, because theyâve a much better chance of playing in it.
But that doesnât mean they should have got it, because we all know a 48 team World Cup will be shit.
No offence to players but most have sod all real understanding of the real issues here.
Pointing to players is like saying a load of people vote for Trump and therefore they canât be wrong, rather than dealing with the reality that these voters are brainwashed morons.
Your mistake is looking at it solely through the lens of television viewing figures.
An odd provincial final was previously the most that was staged on the same day as aWorld Cup final.
In 2018 the GAA chanced their arm and went full clash when they staged Galway v Kerry at the same time as a World Cup final. Result: a near empty Croke Park.
If the GAA want their showpiece occasions to be relegated to also ran status in terms of coverage, let them work away.
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No im not. Iâm looking out for the good of the game.
When it comes down to it, the big World Cup/Euro games dwarf the GAA whatever way you look at it. The biggest club hurling game of all time took place in Croke Park last December in front of a paltry crowd and nobody watching on TV.
It was a very unsatisfactory situation and the GAA should be avoiding these scenarios.
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If your entire life-view is framed and defined by watching stuff on TV, itâs not surprising that you canât see beyond it.
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It was pig headed eejitry. They could easily have switched to the Saturday.
Soccer playerâs dont want to play on Stephens Day either but the FA would never scrap the Festive Fixture List because of tradition.
Again, a nonsensical insult tgat only demonstrates a total lack of argument.
The truly awful, Trump like quality of debate from the split season zealots is startling.
Itâs reminiscent of Pol Potâs mad Year Zero ideology.
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Your Trump crutch is out again
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The GAA would tell the English football authorities they can have their Boxing Day fixtures on February 26th instead and it would be exactly the same.
The Trump comparison is bugging yis because yis know itâs a very well taken one.
âyisâ is another staple crutch
It is beyond bizarre that someone of your political persuasion is so devoted to tv-watching of the whole Murdoch/EPL circus at the expense of something that is still a million more times more authentic for all itâs faults
I literally havenât watched a second of EPL action so far this season.
The word âcrutchâ is becoming an awful crutch for you, ironically.
You havenât made a point there
I think youâll find I did. Your point apparently is that anybody of a left wing political persuasion cannot and should not ever be interested in the English Premier League. An absolutely bizarre opinion.
That was the original post. You of course immediately went down the Trump rabbit-hole, and somehow claimed that you were grievously insulted somewhere.
Thereâs more to it than watching on tv was my point.
Again the Trump comparison hurts yis because itâs accurate.
There arenât any actual arguments from the solit season zealots, only culture war divide and rule tactics.
Who needs the real Dick Clerkin when have several wannabe Dick Clerkins here, towing the company line.
Sure on the topic of television letâs get rid of live television altogether, feck those who canât go to games, sure the GAA doesnât need them. Thatâs the message that has come loud and clear from the GAA this year.
Youâre claiming insult again, and making no actual point.
Youâre just trolling at this stage. To be fair the entire split season zealot argument is little more than trolling. Good night.