Just the 10 hours of URC Rugby action from South Africa amongst other places on Irish Television today with no GAA action on Irish Terrestrial Television. In the middle of the Inter County season.
This is what the split season zealots wanted though remember.
Youāll get all the milking done yourself, no bother
Iām hearing of one Tipp club who got 30 terrace tickets for the Clare match next week and have sent them all back due to lack of interest.
This is the reality of the split season on the ground.
Or the reality of ye not being great
Clubs only get allocated tickets if the club secretary requests them, and that is done through Ticketmaster codes.
Tickets went on general sale a couple of weeks ago so the few loyal Tipp supporters that wanted them probably got them then.
In fairness I switched on TG4 last night and they were showing Glasgow vs Dragons with the commentary as Gaeilge. Iād say the amount of people watching that could be counted on the fingers of one hand.
Would be a cracking day for some club championship
No each club gets an allocation and Club Secretary then accepts/refuses.
Maybe itās different in Tipp, thatās not how it works in Limerick.
There is obviously a limit but club specifies requirements and receives Ticketmaster codes to share with club members.
Savage round of Laygue last night and this evening in Laois, fabulous entertainment
Just from talking to people in Waterford GAA circles over the past week, very slow uptake on tickets for the Limerick match next Sunday in Thurles and a very small Waterford crowd is expected.
I brought the young fellow here down to the corresponding fixture in Limerick last yea. There was a very small Waterford crowd at that one as well and that at a time when Waterford were League champions, with a bit of supposed hype about them and identified by many as Limerickās closest challengers.
Waterford have a fierce bandwagon support, moreso than most other counties
Erra in fairness, ye canāt be throwing stones regarding bandwagon support after the absolutely appallingly small number of Tipp supporters in the Gaelic grounds last year vs the All Ireland champions. It was embarassing for Tipp as a county even.
From memory even Paudie Maher gave out stink over it on twitter. Ye didnāt back your own at all.
Mate Iām a Limerick man living in Tipp. I follow the club game in Tipp due to geography but other than that you wonāt find any Tipp pyjamas in my wardrobe
Wexford had 40,000-50,000 supporters at an All Ireland semi final at the end of July 2019. Roll on 3 years to their next knock out fixture in the All Ireland series, in the inaugural year of the split season, a lunchtime Saturday throw in a quarter final in Thurles (played off in a graveyard shift slot to avoid a clash with RTEās showpiece live sporting action of the day - Northern Transvaal v Western Stormers in South African Currie Cup rugby) and there was about 400-500 Wexford supporters in Thurles.
Iāll say one thing about the split season, itās done some job in sucking any life, interest or sense of occasion out of the inter-county championships.
The long and the short of it is there is very little interest in these round robin games played off in April.
The away games in particular are for a very niche number of die hards.
So youāre saying itās a South East thing?
Look mate, surely more hurling matches is better than less. I do think the championship could and should be pushed forward 3 weeks. It wouldnt impact the club game at all in Tipp either really anyway.
No i firmly believe that less is more when it comes to Championship.
Club teams have barely picked up a Hurley in training until last weekend as well. Lads breaking for exams soon and then holiday season.
Hurling will be largely extinct in ten years.