There has been dross every year… The first round of
qualifiers were almost always pointless.
Some serious misty eyed nonsense being spouted.
The reason we ended up with this format is people were complaining about the other formats. It’s as simple as that.
Straight ko meant some teams only had one championship game and that was seen, correctly, as ridiculous.
The backdoor meant teams only had two games. People complained about that.
The current system is far from perfect. But at least in the hurling the group is at the start. The football championship is ridiculous, a group half way through and 3 from 4 get through. So much pointlessness
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I couldn’t believe 3 from 4 get through 
Genuinely thought that was a joke to annoy me. Who comes up with this shit?
I even heard of people saying that the hurling groups should have 4 come out… I mean what would be the fucking point of that.
Not soft Eamon cregan.
You left out diplomatic immunity mate.
Probably? 
And Shefflin is doing it for charity.
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Look over there.
FFS, just seen there that Clare v Tipp isn’t live on TV next Sunday. It’s only on GAAGO.
RTE have Limerick v Waterford at 2pm and then Galway v Roscommon in football after at 4pm.
Ah fuck
I was trying to explain this to the father and he cant get his head around it. (He also can’t get his head around Munster Champioship in April but anyway) The Tipp v Cork game in a few weeks isn’t on TV either.
I don’t mind paying the 79 euro for GAAGO (its only money) but if I’m not around to set up the Laptop/HDMI for him at the time of throw in, its not worth a shit.
How they couldn’t just stick it on the Skybox as Channel 523 or something I’ll never know.
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The Leinster hurling championship TV coverage is of all Kilkenny games, and that is it. Fcuking jokeshop devised by a rubby fan no doubt.
I’m expecting a similar call from my dad (a Tipp man) imminently
Throw on tipp FM like ye did in the good old days and quit your bellyaching.
Christ last week the round robin was the worst thing that ever happened the game and this week you can’t find a place to watch the round robin game that interests you.
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It’s brutal. Clare have one televised MSHC match.
Need to investigate record functionality on the Firestick, I haven’t used it before.
GAAGO Exclusive Matches
Sat 8 April
CSFC New York v Leitrim (10pm Irish)
Sat 22 April
USFC Cavan v Antrim/Armagh, Breffni Park / Corrigan Park (6pm)
LSHC Galway v Wexford (5pm)
MSFC Tipperary/Waterford v Kerry (time tbc)
Sun 23 April
MSHC Clare v Tipperary (4pm)
LSFC Dublin v Wexford/Laois (time tbc)
Sat 29 April
USFC Ferm/Der v Tyr/Mon (5pm)
MSHC Limerick v Clare (7pm)
Sun 30 April
LSFC Semi Finals (2 x games) (time tbc)
Sat 6 May
MSHC Cork v Tipperary (7pm)
LSHC Dublin v Wexford (5pm)
Sun 7 May
LSHC Antrim v Kilkenny (time tbc)
Sat 13 May MSHC Waterford v Clare (6pm)
Tailteann R1 ‘Game of the Week’ (time tbc)
Sat 20 May
SFC Rd1 (2 x games) (time tbc)
LSHC Kilkenny v Dublin (6pm)
Tailteann Cup Rd2 ‘Game of the Week’ (time tbc)
Sat 27 May
SFC Rd1 (2 x games) (times tbc)
Sun 28 May
MSHC / LSHC round robin (1 x game) (time tbc)
Sat 3 June
SFC Round 2 (2 x games) (time tbc)
Sun 4 June
SFC Rd2 (1 x game) (time tbc)
Tailteann Cup Rd 3 ‘Game of the Week’ (time tbc)
Sat 10 June
Tailteann Preliminary Quarter Finals (2 x games) (time tbc)
Sat 17 June
SFC Rd 3 (Simultaneous T/I times) (2 x games) (time tbc)
Sun 18 June
SFC Rd 3 (2 x games) (time tbc)
Tailteann Cup Quarter Finals (2 x games) (time tbc)
Sat 24 June
SFC Prelim Quarter Finals (2 x games) (time tbc)
Sat 1 July
SFC Quarter Finals (2 x games) (time tbc
You can now watch most of your county underage matches on clubber.ie or other streaming sites. But if a non-televised senior championship game isn’t selected for GGAGO either then there’s no alternative streaming option allowed. So I could watch Wexford play some diddy U17 football game or something online but Galway-Wexford in senior hurling isn’t available. This split season is an absolute farce. Thankfully Wexford will be eliminated early so the clay court style club hurling since can be completed before Wimbledon finishes.
Edit: Galway-Wexford is available on GAAGO. I withdraw my above tirade.
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That’s what he’ll end up doing.
People are going to stop caring completely very soon. The Championship’s will pass people by.
I appreciate that they can’t show every game on terrestrial TV, and I guess the extra streaming options are good but it does seem like a missed opportunity not to have brought TG4 into the mix.
Even if it was one game a weekend.
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Looks like no televised broadcast at all on Saturday week.
Sat 29 April
USFC Semi-Final 1 GAAGO
MSHC Limerick v Clare GAAGO
Sun 30 April
LSFC Semi Finals x 2 GAAGO
LSHC Kilkenny v Galway RTÉ
MSHC Cork v Waterford RTÉ
There are no Televised games on Saturday’s at all going forward is my understanding bar maybe a BBC Broadcast while the Ulster Championships are going ahead.