Hurlings fans always seem to get very triggered by rugby’s efforts to grow the game.
The all blacks brand are part owned by an American company called silver lake.
I was reading earlier this was New Zealand’s highest earning game since the 2017 lions tour and they only got 40 percent of the revenue.
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Grow the game by putting the long term health of players at risk by making them play more and more matches, all to ensure that there is enough money to pay players? Seems like a good strategy
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This was the least amount of minutes the Irish players had played before a test game in something like over 30 years according to that will Slattery chap before the game.
New Zealand hadn’t played in four weeks either.
A nice effort though all the same. A little better than your Ponzi scheme effort yesterday.
It sounds like Ireland are going to be based in Boston and Chicago for the next World Cup.
I assume Fenway park can’t host rugby games so it’ll be the pats home stadium.
Gerry Thornley seething on OTB that the red carpet wasn’t rolled out for rugby and rugby journalists in Chicago.
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Like the Lions gimmick thing, it’s just a money spinner for a select few. Americans couldn’t give a fiddlers about rubby. And from the article above it doesn’t sound like they’ll be rushing to it any time soon.
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I’m bemused by the negativity from the Irish journalists mainly due to the stop start nature of the game.
This is a nation who watch the nfl where it regularly takes three hours to play out a sixty minute game.
Sure listen, they’re “growing the game” while both unions took home 80% of the proceeds between them, as the article states.
Would have thought Gerry would be delighted that they ran out of Guinness so he didn’t have to get up every 5 minutes while Hugo from KPMG went for a piss
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The hedge fund took the other 20%. Meanwhile the actual USA team, the host team of the 2031 World Cup lost 85-0 to Scotland.
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Big time. And they wouldn’t send a bag of Hurley’s up to Roscommon if they were asked
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In correct.
Teg who organised the game got 20 percent.
A few short weeks since you were telling us how much chad and brad and chip and Hunter were enjoying their trip to Dublin for the Gridiron game 
Remember the nfl came to Dublin and they couldn’t give tickets away for it.
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As I said you’d wonder what kind of half wit would pay that kind of money to see an exhibition match.
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I would say that only supports the view that the Irish sporting public are a discerning audience.
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Handicap was -48.5, that match was a thing of beauty. Pity about Ireland plus 10.5 at 4/9 though.
Correct. 47k travelled from America. 32k Irish tickets. 4.8 k didn’t sell.