This is a woeful attitude.
Also the inter county product is all but crap now. How many millions are spent training these teams country wide and people are losing interest.
Two of the three best hurling games this season were underage games.
Thereâs not an engine either side of the split season to rival this.
Its a total joke.
To make any impact at Senior Intercounty level now you need to be âin the systemâ from a very young age and spend 2 or 3 years just on the Senior Panel training away/doing the S&C before youâll be deemed âreadyâ to play.
The Rubbyisation of GAA is being cheered on by these split season zealots.
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I donât really care about the intercounty product
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Its easy say that but the GAA is going to go broke very quickly if it canât arrest the current slide.
Even last year, Dublin v Mayo and Dublin v Monaghan bucked the trend and sold out. This year gate revenue from the corresponding Quarter and Semi final fixtures will be down millions and by all accounts GoGo TV has bombed even more spectacularly this year than anyone could imagine.
Something is going to have to plug a hole somewhere or the whole thing is doomed.
Theyâll move the quarter finals out of croke park and try get concerts in.
The GAA was sinking after Italia 90 until the Dublin v Meath replays revived the GAA.
Now there would be a penalty shoot out.
No one will be playing GAA in 10 years.
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The residents wont allow it.
Coldplay will probably just about keep things ticking over this year.
Youâre right .the gahliban are predicting the financial demise of Irish rugby for 20 years and here we areâŚtheir beloved GGA will be looking for a government bail out soon so that the same 30 odd intercounty managers can keep moving around the systemâŚ
How many cumulative years do Jack, Mickey, mcgeeney, McGuiness, Farrell, Joyce have between em?
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Fair going given all that was on in Dublin at the weekend. A sure sign of the enduring appeal and love the people of Ireland have with the GAA.
So what if the Gaa goes broke? I am fairly sure it wonât affect club teams.
Are you on fucking drugs? Have you any involvement with a GAA Club at all?
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Clubâs fundraise without any help from Croke Park. My own club has got nothing off them.
Youâre a bunch of fucking idiots then.
Are any clubs still signing up for that National Draw thing? A Dacia Sandero is a piss poor prize for an organisation of the GAAâs standing
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Some counties go hard on it. Depends whats already in situ. Laois have the All Club Draw which takes care of everyone.
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The 2017 hurling semis were both on Sundays for starters and a week apart so thereâs a sense of build up and occasion.
Saturday matches which involve travelling to neutral grounds for supporters will invariably take a hit. Parents are flat out Saturdays with kids and kids sports so you are alienating a big chunk of that demographic on a Saturday in a way that you wouldnât on a Sunday.
2017 was just iconic. So many storylines.
The rumours coming out of Tipp were unbelievable after the Cork game.
The Diarmuid Connolly fiasco, Tadhg De Burca, Austin Gleeson. The GAA was front and centre everywhere.
It was the summer of the Buff.
Joe Cannings Hollywood point.
10,000 people packed in to Pairc Ui Rinn for a hastily arranged Munster Minor Hurling Semi Final replay on a Monday night.
Mayo were their own box office selves culminating in the single greatest GAA occasion ever held on September 17th that year.
And then they went and ruined it the following year with Round Robins, Super 8s, U17/20s and All Ireland Finals in August.
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