Thatâs almost as bad as the Sunday last summer that they cleared the decks to promote the Timmy Tailspin Cup semi-finals in Croke Park. No other games only Westmeath v someone & someone v someone else. Baffling.
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The GAA need to pull all resources out of Wexford, itâs lost to us now, and reinvest elsewhere. Take Gav out as well and get him into another county, say a Kildare maybe
The championships are fizzling out already.
I think next weekâs offering is Dublin v Louth and the Ulster Final.
Split season zealots: No one is going to the games and no one cares about the games
Also split season zealots: we canât watch the games we donât want to see anyway
Never knew Dick Clerkin posted here.
Theyâll have to do this with the camogie as well. It makes no sense for the remedial counties to get centre stage but not the women. Play the menâs All-Ireland hurling semi-finals as a very attractive double header at 1:15pm in Thurles and 3:45pm in Pairc Ui Chaoimh on Saturday July 1st, one of them live on GAAGO only, and then the two All-Ireland camogie semi-finals on the Sunday in Croke Park, live and exclusive to RTE television as the main event.
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10% off when you pay your club membership still I think. All the lads here have a Foireann login Iâm sure?
I listened to a bit of it there.
Jeez it was some evisceration of the split season and a very depressing listen for a Wexford man. I found myself nodding in agreement with everything he said.
Is that an internal rule in Wexford about 18 year oldâs?
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Money going back into the grassroots.
Or Dublin GAA
Not worth a shit to anyone who doesnât have perfect Wi-Fi or to anyone elderly and isnât tech savvy.
Its been a complete disaster.
When is the football championship starting?
I will never not find the comparison of the Wexford club hurling championship to the clay court tennis season childishly amusing.
It has me thinking of Eurosportâs coverage of the Swiss Open from Gstaad, or Sky Sportsâ brief pre-Premier League dalliance with the Italian Open from the Foro Italico.
It has me imagining Wexford GAA building a new Roland Garros style facility with 18 clay court pitches, and South East FM going to @Wexford1996 out on Court 14 for an update on the group stage clash of Oylegate-Glenbrien and Rathnure, before coming back into Dean Goodison on Court 5 watching the Junior Championship opener between Craanford and Crossabeg-Ballymurn. Then itâs back to Liam Spratt on Centre Court (Wexford Park) for the big battle between Faythe Harriers and Oulart The Ballagh. âThat clay court surface suits the sluggers out there, Tom.â
The crowd could sit in the Centre Court stand eating Wexford strawberries and cream, or rissoles from the Premier take away mobile van if itâs a bit colder and windier. 20 volunteers would always have to be on standby to pull the tarpaulin across should rain stop play.
You could even have umpires in a high chair on the half way line instead of referees. â15-14 Oulartâ. I donât know where that leaves the GAA umpires. Maybe theyâd be replaced by ballgirls.
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Semi final stage usually
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Crossabeg-Ballymurn are a senior dual club nowadays. Rose the ranks very steadily. Bellefield will become the Wexford equivalent of Roland Garros.
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Limerick v Clare is exactly the sort of game that inspires kids to head out into their gardens or greens to start practising or keep practising.
I remember being inspired by eoin mulligans goal v Dublin and spending hours trying to replicate it.
Every single sport that has moved behind a paywall has suffered. The idea of streaming games is just pie in the sky stuff.
Weâve taken all the inter county players away from the clubs too for no reason.
We will feel the pain of these decisions in 10/15 years.
Thereâll be 5 or 6 gaa clubs in counties. Itâll be like rugby.
Rip Hurling.
The biggest trump card the GAA possess in a marketing sense is âManchester Cityâ, because theyâre incredibly boring, nobody in Ireland supports them or has any interest in them, and if they win the Premier League by 15 points every year going forward, which they probably will, people will simply zone out of the Premier League.
The Premier League depends on the proper clubs being title contenders. So does the Champions League. Football depends on certain BOX OFFICE clubs - Liverpool, Manchester United, Barcelona, to keep interest high.
Arsenalâs predictably meek collapse has been the best thing to happen the GAA this year.
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Clare beating Limerick was a huge result too. If Waterford and Clare both lost their opening two games it would have been a disaster.