Gaa split season,killing Meath football since 2011

[Thomas_Brady]

Nearly 4 million people live in Munster and Leinster and they couldn’t sell more than 29k tickets for the rubby yesterday. The GAA is flourishing in comparison

[ChairmanDan]

An Ulster Final spring challenge in the middle of May to be decided on the lottery of a penalty shoot out.

Could they not have had a replay?

The split season zealots will be telling us that this is all in the name of progress.

[Thomas_Brady]

It’s only bogball mate

[Tassotti]

This soccer shootout shite has no business in the GAA

[Cheasty]

RTE unwilling to take the risk of Captaen Doire mentioning he who shall not be named. It’s on BBC.

[Perez2017]

I hold my hands up, i got rugby attendance wrong yesterday. It was 26,795. They couldn’t even sell 29,000 tickets.

[BruidheanChaorthainn]

OurGame.ie

[myboyblue]

Did you get the 15% off?

[Perez2017]

@BruidheanChaorthainn

https://twitter.com/ourgamehq/status/1658025762337718273?s=46&t=3dkoDtDtBjNbfb6fbNY8_Q

You cant play club championship games in February and March and have club fields empty all summer. Plus county managers will still have control of the players.

[BruidheanChaorthainn]

Start inter county in September. Club finals august bank holiday.

[Special_Olympiakos]

Can’t they just play them concurrently in the height of summer. If county boards don’t want to release the IC lads who aren’t being paid it’s on them . If the IC player loves his club so much as referenced in every program Q&A then he’ll gladly play club matches instead of IC training sessions.

It’s an amateur sport

[myboyblue]

We need rid of these intercounty managers. Get it back to a few lads picking a squad a few days ahead of championship. Properly based on club form. Mighty stuff.

[BruidheanChaorthainn]

That’s the way it’s going unfortunately.

[Fagan_ODowd]

@Cheasty

Has any other major sporting organisation ever permanently shifted its major fixtures to a different time window in the year like this?

Like, could you imagine if the NFL decided the Superbowl would be played in November or the October Classic of World Series baseball moved to July? Or the AFL Grand Final moved to December?

Rugby League might be the best comparison I can think of when they moved to summer. I lost pretty much all interest in that sport after that. Rugby League in England used to have a good platform with regular live games on Saturday afternoons on BBC1 through the winter, and the Challenge Cup final at the end of April/early May wasn’t that far off the FA Cup in terms of the national exposure it gave the game. Ashes Series were a big deal. All that ended when Super League came along. The game sold its soul.

Yes professional golf condensed the Majors season a couple of years ago for the sake of the FedEx cup

[TreatyStones]

The manager of the team that wins the county championship becomes the inter county manager for that year. They get 2 weeks to get their house in order before a champions league type championship begins.

[myboyblue]

@TreatyStones

The manager of the team that wins the county championship becomes the inter county manager for that year. They get 2 weeks to get their house in order before a champions league type championship begins.

And he has to start 4 of his county final winning team.

[Tim_Riggins]

@Perez2017

I hold my hands up, i got rugby attendance wrong yesterday. It was 26,795. They couldn’t even sell 29,000 tickets.

Do you have a link to that statement you referenced?

[gilgamboa]

@Tim_Riggins

Do you have a link to that statement you referenced?

Did you know the Leinster final attendance has halved in a decade?

[Tim_Riggins]

The Dubs don’t seem to be much of a cash cow anymore. With the significantly lower prices that the GGA charge they need far higher attendances.

Tbf I do think that the model of selling a couple of thousand €10 tickets and the rest high priced should be revisited by Leinster.

[Cheasty]

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