They had to rent a crowd from Ticketmaster to the Hurling Final and still couldnt break 80k.
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it is Julio, downside is the county hurling champonship finishes up very early in kerry now but we may have to get used to it
Ya thatâs fairly unnessecary alright. But the Kerry football championship is so ridiculously long winded between the two itâd be difficult to sort it. Other counties can be a bit more balanced
yes the fact that kerry has a football club and football county championship both round robin really puts the squeeze on hurling. clip a round out of both footballlsomehow, shove the hurling final back 2 weeks and that could sort it
but can see that happening in kerry!
From the bits of the two matches that I saw, that was a shockingly turgid split season double header in Waterford. Canât imagine the tv viewing figures were too hectic on it.
Any word on mouse lately?
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You thought they were two competitive matches in Waterford today?
Did you miss an er at the end of that?
Odd to post it in this thread
His teammates have two wins from two in Junior B football despite his absence I believe.
The split season has lead to two scenarios developing in a lot of counties.
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Rushed, dumbed down championships in places like Carlow, Wexford and Waterford. You cannot tell me a County Final in August or early September carries as much weight as one played in late October.
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Long meandering slow burner Championshipâs in places like Limerick and Dublin hurling. Dublin started their hurling Championshipâs on a Tuesday night in mid July and are will still be at Group fare in a fortnights time - mid September.
No wonder theres lads fucking off left, right and centre to Australia, UAE and Canada. The chances of lads âstaying aroundâ the Club Championship is gone. The prestige is being eroded away.
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Carlow 
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Irish people never emigrated until the split season
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Sunday August 28th is a date with a distinguished history, particularly in a Dublin context.
The date of the Lark By The Lee in '83. The date Dublin banged their heads off a Donegal brick wall and eventually knocked it down in 2011. The date Kevin McManamon levelled Peter Crowley and Dermo produced a stunning shot of pure silk into the Hill 16 end to clinch victory in the second of those classic semi-finals against Kerry.
The highlight of todayâs Sunday Sport on RTE Radio was an interview with an Irish womenâs rugby player who is originally from New Zealand, who has just announced her retirement.
She was much more interesting to listen to than any current GAA players I can think of, to be fair.
But today should have been the day Sean OâShea was breaking Dublin hearts with that kick from 55 metres. It should have been a day of days.
Instead, tumbleweed blew across the Irish sporting landscape.
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None of ye were obviously at a Cork senior championship game today. Unbelievable excitement. County champions Midleton knocked out by an unfancied Kanturk. Newtown blowing away Douglas and reaching a quarter final. Absolute cracker between Charleville and Blackrock. Have a look at Buffâs snap chat. Carlow and Waterford championships could start in 6 weeks but the problem is they are rubbish championships split season or normal season.
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Club gaa is getting unbelievably more coverage than it ever did. Rte radio one was getting live reports from around the country today on cork round robin hurling matches and Donegal SFC group games. Id say ten years ago the only mention of games like that was when Sean og o ceallachain read out the score at midnight. They would have been hard pushed to read the score out of cork or Donegal county finals let alone low profile round robin matches on rte radio on the Sunday afternoon.
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RTE can shove their Donnybrook West Brit shite up the furthest end of Claire Byrne and Ryan Tubridy combined.
There was excellent action around the country with top rate coverage by local radio live and online with previews before and reviews to come on air and by Podcast. All that from people in the know along with the local regional press later in the week.
As the arab diplomat says Lovely Hurling.
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RTE radio had reports from club games around the country this afternoon as there was little else sports wise to report on and they had to fill their 3-4 hour sports show. As @Cheasty has pointed, in the ordinary course of events, it would have been Dublin v Kerry in the All Ireland Football semi final today.
You had lads on here the other day, big supporters of the split season, complaining about the lack of media coverage for an All Ireland Hurling Final on 17 July. Canât have it every way. If you move your flagship event from a date on which it has an almost exclusive media focus on the first Sunday in September, when there are few if any other major sporting counter attractions, to the middle Sunday in July, the same day as the final round of the Open Golf at St Andrews and the Ireland rugby team is touring New Zealand, itâs inevitable there will be significantly reduced media focus and public interest in the Hurling Final.
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