What French team? What final? And no. I didnât bring Munster into it. @Fagan_ODowd did so take it up with him
And those rural counties used to sell out championship games weekly not so long ago until the interest started to fade away
I was a bit surprised it didnât break thirty. Tbf, it probably should have been in Limerick to encourage a few Clare lads to go.
The interest is gone it appears. Tbf to Limerick they generally get a bandwagon going with the rugby in the off season
There was a football qualifier played in Limerick instead yesterday. The stadium was deserted.
There needs to be joined up thinking by the GGA. Both of these games were a disaster.
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French? Fuck sake @Gman. Itâs English you cunt. You made a fuck of that.
Anyway, Iâve already lost interest in this recurring discussion. Iâd agree in principle tho, attendances are obviously down. Number of reasons for that, some in the control of the GGA, some not.
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Is it the lack of a motorway between cork and Limerick? 
Tipperary and Clare have regularly sold out the largest venue available to them too. And that largest venue is double the size of the largest venue available to Munster.
How come they didnât sell out the smaller venue yesterday so mate. Thatâs what we are trying to establish. Is the game dead
Why do Munster sell out some games and not others?
In fairness Dan, you donât even believe this argument, are you bored or something?
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Because some games are against Zebre in the 2nd tier competitor and there isnât any real interest in them.
This is the nub of the issue that we are exploring. Has interest faded away between traditionally close rivals to the extent that they couldnât get a decent crowd yesterday
Correct on both counts. Just trying to see what itâs like on the other side of the argument just being a trolling pest
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Itâs like a frogâs chorus on here if there is a glimpse of an empty seat at a rugby game
Nah the games not dead. In fact there is a valid argument there to suggest that yesterdayâs attendance was very good.
A 3PM throw in on a Saturday in July is probably the worst time you can have .
I would suggest that there was anything up to another 10k that couldnât make it due to farming commitments, particularly those involved in dairy farming. The throw in time couldnât have been worse for those people.
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Interest fluctuates in certain counties, just like Munster⢠were staying away before yer man died. Clare are staying away in their droves at the moment, despite the fact that they have the dream team management over the Golden Generationâ˘
As an example of teams on a surge, the Leinster Stick Hurling Final, a game between two counties on the up, had a bigger attendance than any Heino Cup game this year.
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Tipp and Clare had an intense rivalry from 1997 to 2001. Attendances in that era would have been a blip. Yesterdayâs attendance would have been well in line with historical norms.
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No it wouldnât have. Pure nostalgia goggles.
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Would have been a bigger crowd in Limerick
Are they? Attendances in both football and hurling appear to me to be up by quite a distance this year on the last few years.
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I was there in 2001 for Clare and tipp and it was sold out. The most spiteful atmosphere iv ever seen at a gaa game. I was in the blackrock end with the Clare crowd and they danced a jig when John Leahy was strtchered off about 2 mins after coming on
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