Damning comments from former GAA President, Liam OâNeill about the split season. Liam has acknowledged that the GAA were frogmarched into it by the media and people saying that clubs had to be looked after more. The GAA have given away August and September to other sports. Liam concludes that the GAA had a good system, which he felt worked well, somehow it was changed and it has to be admitted now that the new system hasnât worked.
Will definetely go forward 2 or 3 weeks next year. The like of Spillage and Cusack hold massive sway in the Gaa.
How can a former GAA president be so out of touch
Itâll be a ten month inter county season with the clubs folding left, right and centre around the
Country for the next decade thanks to the split season.
The number of games the inter county teams played needed to be halved. No split season was required.
Oh youâd be surprised.
It was that fucking idiot Colm Parkinson that started this rubbish.
When?
Few armchair sports fans on here who never knew the concept of basing their year on whether the county manager allowed games to go ahead or whether they won the first round of the championship.
I remember going to games not knowing whether I would be playing the weekend after or going on the razz after, it was a complete mess but the armchair fan doesnât realise this and is instead worried about the next big event on Sky sports.
Time to lock this thread until the end of the inter county year.
We do realise it. We donât care. You donât matter. Itâs inter-county that matters.
About time you admitted this after wasting months talking shite in this thread
Thereâs nothing to âadmitâ. Iâve always been clear that inter-county is what matters above all. And this fact is blatantly obvious to anybody who approaches this debate honestly.
It is the inter-county championships which drive public interest in the GAA and thus the overall health of the organisation.
Itâs you lot who should be admitting you want to downsize inter-county and thus the GAA as a whole.
Hmmm, very strange.
This is not accurate.
90% of GAA discussion on this forum is about inter-county. Because thatâs where the interest is.
Other sports do not schedule their prime fixtures around the whims of local park players.
The public interest of who?
Something people always get wrong is trying to look at club attendances in isolation and then saying nobody cares about it. Its a completely stupid metric. As an example when the Tipp championships are on there will be 24 games on between the 3 top grades. The attendances at those games will range from a few hundred probably up to about a thousand for group games. Weâll say 7 or 8,000 people overall. Was there 8,000 Tipp people at any Tipp match this year? I strongly doubt it
So why do virtually no county finals draw more than 6-7k at most?
Why are attendances at provincial club matches usually derisory?
Why do All-Ireland club finals draw only 16-17k?
Because these matches are almost exclusively of narrow local interest, whereas inter-county isnât. Inter-county is a mass spectator event which draws intense national interest.
Hereâs the reality. After the All-Ireland football final on July 24th youâll have two or three days of post-mortems.
Then from around July 27th, youâll have virtually zero media attention on GAA until October, when the county finals get the usual minor media interest.
August and September, the GAAâs prime months, and the months which are by far best suited to dominating the media landscape, will be a GAA wasteland, and GAA will continue to play third or at best second fiddle in terms of media coverage until the weekend after the 2023 Champions League final, which will be June 17th/18th, 2023.
So you need the media interest, to attract players to the game, which will then lose those players just as fast because the system is a mess?