I know from bitter personal experience that lashing out at @backinatracksuit wonât end well for him.
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What the fuck are you on about now?
Like getting savaged by a sheep.
Alright, Iâm out, twee and weird it is to enjoy the success of a neighbour
Thanks. Iâm struggling a bit at work today. Iâve been tetchy for ages, edging towards permanently grumpy. God knows why. Iâve all I could ever want, and more *
*not strictly true.
Work is like wading through treacle.
Iâm booking to travel home for the league match vs limerick so I have something to look forward to.
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Backtrack, and again, read slowly what I wrote, or maybe get someone to read it to you.
cool the jets mate
this new you is so tetchy
OK mate.
@mikehunt has struck a series of solid blows against the harmless members of the pro rugby football crowd this morning but heâs yet to land anything on @Tim_Riggins. The latterâs central point holds true - the GGA has failed abysmally to expand their games internationally.
Whatâs their main international event? Something like the Asian Games played on a gravel pit in Singapore or somewhere and being filmed on a hand held camera by Jerome Quinn standing on a step ladder.
A series of menâs and womenâs 7 a-side games comprised of teams full of micks whoâve travelled from Bahrain, Dubai, Saudi Arabia and the likes for a weekend on the piss. Fintan McDrinkyourbollix originally from Ferbane might get a shift off Breda, a Nenagh born nurse based in Kingâs Hospital Riyadh, on the Sunday night but nobody else gives a fuck about the event.
The GAA is dying.
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Fintan is on a serious wedge over there
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Apologies chaps -I was trying a little bit too hard there. I went to get my haircut at lunchtime but the queue was prohibitive so I retreated to a coffee shop for refuge, put on my âBandageâ cloak and started to touch my phone screen.
Where was that argument made?
I just responded to a delusional poster stating that the IRFU could learn from their failed WC bid from the GGA.
The central point is that the GGA have failed to export their game well and their efforts have failed miserably. I find it laughable that the IRFU are being told to learn from them when the GGA have failed to penetrate any international market well.
Meanwhile rugby has been growing internationally and the IRFU have contributed to that along with improving their own brand abroad.
The IRFU lost a bid against France and South Africa. These are two nations who have hosted other major sporting events in the last 10 years. Remember one of the key reasons the bid failed was due to the deplorable state of GGA stadiums. Now the quick response is here that the IRFU needed the GGAâs stadiums. Of course they did- there are very few nations in the world which have enough high quality stadiums for just one sport. Many have municipal stadiums, but the bigots in the GGA have blocked that all the way. Countries the world over regularly use stadiums of other codes for major championships, like for example SA used Loftus Versfeld Stadium in the 2010 WC. GGA types laughing at the IRFU (and formerly the IRFU) over that bid should be conscious that it is their majorly state funded barns that came in for heaviest criticism from World Rugby authorities.
So what exactly can the IRFU learn from the GGA with their WC? An organization whose stadiums were ridiculed and have no track record of popular international events? I would say the IRFU could actually learn from other countries like Australia in how to lobby for multi sport facilities. The Football codes there just negotiated a funding windfall from Government there. That allows Australia to host big events in the future. I understand this isnât as big a deal for the GGA as they have failed so badly to expand their sport abroad, but the IRFU certainly donât need to learn anything from them.
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You say the Womenâs World Cup was bigger. According to @TheUlteriorMotive (my thumbs are too sore to verify) cc @gilgamboa, more people attended the GAA Ladies Football final than the whole of the Womenâs World Cup which consisted of 30 matches
The GAA would have the competence and humility to acknowledge Ireland is not capable of hosting an international event, even one so small as a Rugby World Cup. The GAA certainly wouldnât have fallen for the KPMG yarn of âyes, we can do thisâ while handing them over hundreds of thousands in consultantâs fees.
You keep going onto me about the GGA getting attendances for finals of local sports fixtures with local teams. I asked you to provide me with a comparable international event the GGA has hosted to the WRWC and you couldnât. I asked you to show me any event the GGA have held which got comparable tv viewers and you couldnât
Listen the reality is that the GGA have utterly failed abroad. Despite have millions of Irish overseas and multiple generations, their efforts in places like Australia, the UK and the US have failed.
In the UK, there is a London team. There are 900k âethnicallyâ Irish in London with millions more with heritage there. What are the tv ratings like on Sky? What are attendances like for the London team? Remember the GGA utterly sold out Irish viewers to Sky such was their desperation to get on tv over there. The GGA have tried to give those rights away for years â Channel 4 showed it once upon a time. Compare this to the NFL. The NFL gave their rights away to Channel 4 in the 80s and had a number of well attended games there in the 80s and 90s. From 2007, they have played annual sold out games there and have increased the number to such a level that Tottenham Hotspur actively considered NFL games when deciding to rebuild their stadium. Irish GGA heads are so desperate for it to be accepted theyâll get a few Brits tweeting about how strange it is to validate themselves â they have utterly failed.
In Australia they gave the rights to 7, who quickly dumped them as nobody watches. International Rules attendances there are shocking. Viewership is poor. People actively turn off their tvs the more âgaelic footballâ the product theyâre digesting. The only interest they have in the Irish players there are a couple who might be good enough for their sport. Again, there is an enormous population of Irish there and those with Irish heritage â no interest in the game. Once again, failure by the GGA despite their best efforts.
I wonât go into the US as it is just as bad â though I did credit the GGA for the Polo Grounds attendance in 1947. A whole 70 years ago â now they canât fill one of the smallest MLB grounds in the largest Irish American City in the world. When they have the backing of AIG.
The GGA these days canât host a successful overseas event, canât get international viewers for their product and their stadiums are deemed too poor for major international events â what exactly can the IRFU learn from them about hosting a World Cup so?
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He has been unfairly criticized for putting womenâs rugby in high profile slots given the game obviously is of huge significance.
That must have taken you most of your lunch break to type.
ok guys, lets focus on GGA clubs robbing kids to pay managers and S&C coaches
thats an incredible post
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