Gaa split season,killing Meath football since 2011

[Perez2017]

@BruidheanChaorthainn

@Perez2017

Clare v Limerick June 4 2017, attendance 19,000
Clare v Limerick April 29 2023, attendance 30,000.
I thought the split season was ruining the Gaa? Attendances seem to be up.

Clare v Limerick 2022 had 43 thousand in thurles at it.

We’d the four all Ireland semi finalists from last year placing each other and 43 thousand turned up between the two games.

Clare v Limerick was hidden away on some app and nobody including myself even knew Kilkenny v Galway was on Sunday.

How do you explain the huge increase from 2017 to 2023 in attendance? 2017 was under the old system too.

[BruidheanChaorthainn]

Limerick and Clare are both going much better would be fairly obvious answer I’d imagine.

Like Limerick are verging on being the greatest team of all time. If they can’t get a crowd god help the game of hurling.

Clare have a bounce too after last year.

The 2017 game was played in a neutral venue and was live on Rte I presume. I’d say if youd the game on Rte and in Thurles Saturday 30k turns much closer to 20k.

The overall trend doesn’t look good attendance wise but we’ll see how the rest of the championship fairs out. I also don’t want to hammer this point as there is a cost of living crisis and it’s expensive to attend these games.

[Perez2017]

@BruidheanChaorthainn

Limerick and Clare are both going much better would be fairly obvious answer I’d imagine.

Like Limerick are verging on being the greatest team of all time. If they can’t get a crowd god help the game of hurling.

Clare have a bounce too after last year.

The 2017 game was played in a neutral venue and was live on Rte I presume. I’d say if youd the game on Rte and in Thurles Saturday 30k turns much closer to 20k.

The overall trend doesn’t look good attendance wise but we’ll see how the rest of the championship fairs out. I also don’t want to hammer this point as there is a cost of living crisis and it’s expensive to attend these games.

Live on Sky Sports mate.

[gilgamboa]

@BruidheanChaorthainn

Like Limerick are verging on being the greatest team of all time

[Big_Dan_Campbell]

Smaller Fish GAA

[BruidheanChaorthainn]

Listening to the radio and the mood on the ground is absolutely. People can’t watch the games and they can’t afford to go.

Some people don’t even know the games are on.

[Perez2017]

@BruidheanChaorthainn

Listening to the radio and the mood on the ground is absolutely. People can’t watch the games and they can’t afford to go.

Some people don’t even know the games Is on.

35,000 tickets sold for a game tomorrow that no one knows is on is some going.

[johnnysachs]

Limited enough availability for terrace. Think only availability for City end earlier in Centra.

[myboyblue]

Serious excitement ahead of the weekend.

[Cheasty]

I genuinely have no idea who’s playing this weekend.

Is the Ulster final on?

[peddlerscross]

The weekends Live terrestrial television offering is Galway v Sligo and Kerry v Clare

[Cheasty]

@peddlerscross

The weekends Live terrestrial television offering is Galway v Sligo and Kerry v Clare

Good grief.

[BruidheanChaorthainn]

Ah here? Is Tipp v cork not on?

[peddlerscross]

GAAGO.

The championships will have passed people by and no one will have noticed.

[myboyblue]

You’d be some mug not to have bought the GAAGO on offer a while back

[peddlerscross]

Dublin are playing Wexford in front of the seagulls in Croke Park too by the way.

It may or may not be on GAAGO.

[BruidheanChaorthainn]

Ffs and I notice now the Munster game is on at the same time so it’ll be impossible to find it in a pub in Limerick

[BruidheanChaorthainn]

How did Rte manage to lose the 3 best games of the season?

[Bandage]

I was listening to The Wexford Hurling Podcast earlier and Des Mythen, ex Wexford forward, was absolutely scathing of the split season. The Oulart-The Ballagh clubman is managing Oylegate-Glenbrien this season & spoke about the issues he’s encountering. He explained how things are exacerbated in Wexford because we’ve inexplicably gone with a clay court style 6-week club hurling season. Talk about unintended consequences. He said he can’t get enough numbers to allow for worthwhile training sessions because most of his players are focused on the local soccer season. He thinks they’ve reasoned that it makes more sense to concentrate on a 8/9 month season over a hurling blitz format. And the drop off in numbers becomes even more stark & difficult to overcome when you’re not allowed to play your best 18 year olds. He spoke about young lads drifting away in this context. Apparently there’s lads that won a Leinster minor with Wexford in 2019 that don’t even play anymore. He thinks hurling in Wexford is in massive trouble. But the clubs in Wexford voted to retain this bewildering format.

[BruidheanChaorthainn]

It’s very sad what’s happening in Wexford.

We’ll be lucky if there’s hurling in three counties in ten years time.