The Death of the GGA

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3iLJeU0VK-U

I’m not sure what point you are trying to make here. The Women’s World Cup broke attendance records and WR were very happy with it.

I asked you to post up an equivalent event with as many eyeballs for the GGA and you have failed so far.

Using “The GGA” makes you look like a latchico who likes to stick his thumb up team mates holes.

Maube you should pull together the semi and quarter final attendances of both comps. Assume there was just a big a crowd at the camogie semis and quarters and they didnt just pad out the crowd for final with free tickets?

Absolutely not but it appears to be what @flattythehurdler and @endakenny are suggesting,
My own club has supplied a few international players in soccer and rugby that would have been huge players for the senior teams and it’s nothing but a massive source of pride.

45k in aggregate over 30 matches was attendance at the “Women’s” “Rugby “World”” Cup 2017.

You would get more kids playing on a Saturday in Kilmacud Crokes.

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46K at the women’s Gaelic football final.

Nope, people would rather see their club win a championship than watch a relative stranger play soccer. Nothing strange in that at all.
You can pretend to be as nicey nicey as you want. Your average clubman will be far more elated with his club winning a championship than some lad from the parish playing for wba.
When was the last time you see the lads from gortnabollix hire two strippers and go on a 48 hour bender cos paddy mac hoofer came on as a sub for Watford?

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Savage. New record too I believe

What was the combined attendances for the QF/SF/F of the camogie was my specific query though

What is pathetic is gleaning some sort of pride from achievement that has nothing to do with you or your immediate family.
It’s twee and a bit weird.

65k

The rugby lads trying to gain some credibility by pitching the popularity of their sport against female spud hockey. :joy:

You couldn’t make it up

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Fantastic. You just made it up though didnt you

That’s about it alright, and stick hurling is declining in most of those areas too.

The GGA are squandering loads of money trying to make stick hurling popular in Dublin, but nobody really gives a fuck as the product is so poor. There’s very little skill involved and tactically the game has been stagnant since the 1890s.

Sure even Cuala are the all-Ireland champions and most of the team only starting playing hurley in their teens and they only practice twice a week.

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That’s an odd worldview in my opinion, it goes against the whole point that you’re making as well, what if nobody from your family is on the club team, what if nobody is on the county team? Should we take any special interest in the club mates on the county team, young Hanbury springs to mind

After getting hosed comparing it to women’s football which had a bigger crowd over one game than an entire “rugby world” tournament

Take it up with mike hunt it was he made the comparison as bizarre and all as it is. Hes spent the last 24 hours googling frantically

I did.

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I thought so because my research suggests it was actually 31k

So more than the rugby.