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Cathaoir sees a niche in being “the split season man”. It’s all about the attention economy, about carving out a “role” for yourself, making yourself “relevant”.
The pro-Israel crackpots do something similar as strategy. “Ooh, there’s my niche, to defend genocide. People will understandably push back against my insane ramblings but think of the RELEVANCE I’ll have!”
That’s what’s it all about now. Finding that ATTENTION and thus RELEVANCE. The actual merits of what you say are irrelevant, in fact all the better if what you say has NO merits and is obvious claptrap.
Look at Manchester United. They’ve never been more RELEVANT. Why? Because they are in the CONTENT CREATION business, the ATTENTION business, not the winning football matches business. Losing sells. Football without merit sells.
Look at the entire INTERNET. It’s all about your Catturds and your Libs Of Tik Toks and your Ooh Here’s Another Viral Right Wing Account Talking Shite with 8.4 million followers.
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Kilkenny-Offaly would be the most obvious merger. They would proceed under the new name “Kilkenny”.
That’s a great article. There is some amount of classic gaa type ‘everything is a problem but ive no solution’ pub scutter talked on this issue.
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A replay for a non knockout game when we already have a round robin is ridiculous
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A final decided by a ‘penalty shoot out’ is ridiculous.
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It was great theatre. All you anti split season zealots are all about the occasion and the colour and the drama and the theatre. Saturday had it all and both sides get another cut at it anyway. Everyone is happy except armchair gaa followers.
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Its almost they are being difficult on the internet to garner attention.
This is a fundamentally contradictory post.
It’s also a two fingers to GAA’s core market, the very people it needs to stay relevant.
Does any other sporting organisation do this?
They probably do, but they don’t have lemmings cheering them on.
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So you agree with Cathoir when he says the 2015 and 2016 Dublin v Mayo replays were a disaster for the GAA.
1.766 million people disagreed.
It’s not true because Cathaoir says so.
Meanwhile Gerry Thornley is telling us, correctly, that one of the major reasons Leinster played a URC semi-final in front of three men and a dog is because it was in June and the public are mentally done with rugby by June.
That’s the difference between a client journalist and and an actual one.
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Did he say that?
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Yes.
This is possibly the most stupid thing I’ve ever seen written about the GAA and christ I’ve seen some stupid stuff over the years.
Can you link it?
I just quoted it.
You split season zealots aren’t the quickest off the mark, are you?
Quite a few counties now that have adopted the 5-6 week blitz format, play the bulk of their county championship across the month of August. August is prime holiday season when a lot of the country shuts down.
In Waterford last year, all adult club hurling championships were played off across 6-7 weekends from late July with the Waterford senior final on 1 September.
It’s essentially the same this year, Waterford out of the championship third weekend in May. No hurling of any real consequence then for rest of May, June and most of July. That also accommodates the mass exodus of Waterford County player to the US and other overseas destinations for the summer.
The soccer crowd see their opportunity. Schoolboy soccer leagues in Waterford will move to calendar year from the start of 2026 like the adult soccer leagues have done over the past few years.
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Once this group of Limerick players declines or/and departs together in a year or two, Limerick will have similar problems.
There’s long been a debate whether Limerick is a hurling town or a rugby town, but in reality it’s most of all an association football town.
Actually the brightest note of optimism for Waterford is that Limerick’s decline isn’t far away.
By 2028 or 29 Munster could become an annual battle between Clare and Waterford for third place and a quarter final defeat, with Cork and Tipp lording it over the other three.
Replays were grand when it was knock out and most teams played one match a year.
Id keep them for all Ireland finals I think.
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With the greatest respect, fuck off with your ‘core market’. This isn’t fucking Amazon. The gaa’s priority should be it’s club members and in this case it is.
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