If lads spent a little less time on the INTERNET and made the occasional visit to their local GAA pitch their whole worldview would be shaken, itâs a step that would take great bravery.
A very enjoyable game yesterday between London and New York without an Irish born man among them. I thought President Burns made a rare error when he spoke of them being sons of Irish emigrants, there were a number of lads playing who had no Irish heritage at all but just love the game. Was it this weekend the French fellas were in Dublin, how did they get on?
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So cork being plucky underdogs is now your thing.
Lols.
In the last great Championship of 2017, even before the Semi Final Replay between Kerry and Mayo which attracted 53k to Croke Park on a balmy Saturday afternoon, there were 148k in attendance between the two traditional semi finals.
This weekend we had just 122k across both games and its being sold as some kind of success by these split season zealots.
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Youâve been defeated mate, move on
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The Dubs always impact attendances. What were the attendances at the semifinals the last time the Dubs werenât there?
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Complaining about ânegativityâ, are we? 
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No I havenât.
Youâve had 3 of the 4 semi finalists for the past three years and the plucky underdogs cork. Who lost the same amount of games as Waterford but are in an all Ireland final.
He hates his club and he hates Ulster.
A fanboy of the nine month inter county season is all he is.
The Dubs were there in the last season pre the split season and the attendance was still below the 2 this weekend
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That was when the country was on its knees in the middle of a recession.
And far less people watching and far less media coverage.
They were also two average games at best. Maybe a little bit better than average but the last ten minutes of Galway v Donegal should have been epic stuff but it just fizzled out as the players looked so tired.
This is a bit like how I imagine @Halfpipe, but Iâm not sure the character is dour and miserable enough.
Anybody defending this inter county season/structure can only hate the gaa and particularly the club game.
There is absolutely no need for it at all. Either league goes or the round robin goes. Something has to give.
Theyâd remind you of the paid pro-Joe Biden Twitterbots who think any time Biden doesnât fall over is a great success that will propel him to victory in the election.
Luckily affluent Donegal and Armagh were involved this weekend! Was it 2008 they put the replayed semi-final on alongside the other semi as a double-header in an effort to fill the place?
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Again middle of recession stuff.
The GAA came out of that recession and was building incredibly strongly from about 2012 right through to 2017 after which they went and ruined it.
He has more in common with Sebastian Cockworth in Stillorgan than he does with GAA people in the North.
Northern Catholic inferiority complexes can go one of two ways.
The usual way it goes is to blame southerners for all their ills, as epitomised by a former poster here. Youâd at least have some sort of respect for that viewpoint because itâs ultimately not a self-hating one, itâs one that directs anger outwards.
But this guy loathes himself and where he comes from and the people he was born into and everything about them. A sort of Ulster GAA Ruth Dudley Edwards wannabe.
What happened in 2017?
They went and brought in the Super 8âs in Football and Hurling Provincial Round Robins for 2018 completely bloating the calendar with a ridiculous number of extra games in a tighter calendar.
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Nothing to do with the split season then?
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