Like the vast majority of people involved in the hurling and football championships this year they looked to have no interest.
Galways second half was very similar to mayo last week. A good 25 minutes or so and thatās it.
Henry looked like he was trying to prove to the crowd he cared in the second half.
We couldnāt train or play matches on our pitch here for all of April and most of May, the place was as wet as iv ever seen it. Iād say less than 20% of clubs here have even a half sized astro pitch, maybe you think itās just the biggest clubs with money that should survive?
No itās smallest clubs in the most rural parts of Ireland that need help.
While ye are happy to play millions of pointless inter county games Iād prefer to see the clubs properly supported.
How many of them have astro pitches?
Where exactly are you from ? Monaghan isnāt it?
No, Down but iv no idea what difference that makes to any point being made. We had a very wet spring and start to summer here, underage games were called off throughout April due to how wet pitches were.
Just looking up the average rainfall totals for various areas for another project but hadnāt gotten up to that area of the country just yet.
Well freak weather events are always going to be hard to deal with.
Thereās little or no issues with pitches in April Limerick anyway. No worse than the autumn. Itās getting particularly dry here in April and may.
We are well catered for Astro turf pitches and hurling walls. With the universityās and a few sports clubs having them too plus the country board facilities in rathkeale.
I can save you the bother by letting you know that pitches are in much better shape now than they were in April. We have the Tailteann final next week which will see the biggest Down crowd at a game in over a decade, and then 2 good senior club championships to look forward to. Iv not heard a single club player complain about the calendar up here.
The āIām alright Jackā approach.
Incorrect. You claimed the pitches were unplayable.
The pitches are perfect in the vast majority of the country.
No reason you canāt start in may or June.
If the pitches are so bad in April and may they canāt be in great shape in September and October.
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Itās also the key age bracket of say 19-24 who are being lost to the game.
No real point in doing much before exams in may because championship is three months away and then maybe youāre heading away from the summer.
I know plenty gone this summer who would have stayed if there was some championship being played but realistically there is zero point in staying around in rural Ireland.
Complete lack of interest in the league in some counties is the real killer but when you can barely
Muster 9 or 10 at training itās hard to garner interest in anything.
Thatās as idiotic a statement as iv heard in a very long time. Do you understand that land gets saturated in winter and dries out in summer? A few inches of rain in the month of April will cause a bit more bother to land than a few inches in the month of September.
You are trying to base a whole argument on a freak weather incident that occur any month realistically.
Listen you clearly have no interest in club gaa if you support this elongated 8 month insufferably boring inter county season.
You donāt have to lie.
Nothing wrong with a debate on the split season but you canāt make up your own facts. Stating that if pitches are in poor condition in April they must be poor in September as well due to the months having similar rainfall is as silly a statement as you will ever make, learn from it and move on.
You are going to get large totals of rainfalls thatāll destroy pitches in any month of the year going forward.
Yesterday in Zaragoza they about 29 mm of rain in 20 minutes or so.
The same rainfall we got in Limerick over the course of February for context.
There is no justification for this inter county season. Ye were screaming last year it was to benefit the clubs. It isnāt and everyone knows that now.
The inter inter county needs to be shortened significantly.
Inter-county GAA should be like international association football.
Hereās a mad idea. Ban shirt sponsors at inter-county level. That might take away from the professional aspect.
Although I suppose it wouldnāt sort of the issue of JP McManus.
Or else pool them together and divide them equally.
Iām fairly sure Dublin divided the sponsorships players earned amongst the squad.
The horse bolted a long time ago on that.Way too many people stealing a living training teams nowadays,itās big bidness these day