The GGA attendance thread

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Yet be a mad scramble for tickets if one of these reached an all Ireland final,laughable.

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:joy:

And these cunts slag galway fans

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No one wants to go to watch hurling

No one wants to go to watch football

Fans are turning their backs on Gaelic games. Whatever about hurling, Gaelic football is finished.

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53,501 Saturday and 30,740 yesterday for the Super 8s.

10,255 in Cork Saturday and 18.596 in Thurles yesterday.

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Shamrock Rovers fielded a second string team against a Glasgow side recently in Tallaght and pulled in more than the all Ireland hurling quarter final. Imagine if they had played their first team! As an avid gga enthusiast it pains me to admit that last weekend was an unmitigated disaster but I cling to the hope that forelock tugging to harry redknapp and Vialli as the game prostitutes itself via AIBs adverts gets us back in the spotlight.

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Indeed. It’ll be fascinating to see how Tallaght copes with the thousands that are now sure to attend the next home game against Sligo Rovers.

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The attendance at the hurling is purely down to Frank Murphy’s petulance and the GAA treating the hurling championship as a second tier competition. Limerick and Cork will draw a crowd but Galway and Clare could be a disaster.
Fuck em. If they don’t learn from it, it’s their own fucking fault

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Galway and Clare wili hit 50 k . Lk v cork 70 k .

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U sure? Saturday match . I’m not so sure

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THink it will .

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Clare fans will travel for the semi-final alright. Tough on Galway in fairness with both codes flying it.

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Aye your heart would go out to the successful bastards

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I would think only for the fairly well attended hurling championship it would be far worse .

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So they increase prices as a result. Shrewd operators. The football championship needs to be tiered. Simple as that. No one wants to see their team bate to death

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the problem for football is outside of Dublin and one or two others in a given year, there are around 12 teams of a similar standard, possibly more.

Would it be two tiers you propose? even in that two tiers you’d get hammerings

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I’d be for 3 tiers, with promotion and relegation.
12, 12 and whatever.
2 groups of 6. 2nd & 3rd from each in QFs, with top team in semi finals.

Guaranteed 5 games, against teams of a similar standard to you. 8 games max (bar replays) nice tight schedule. More teams get football in the summer etc. etc. what’s not to like.

Dublin would probably still comfortably beat the team in 12th in the first tier but at least it wouldn’t be a complete mismatch.

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promotion/demotion between tiers?

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Of all the rule changes and tweaks in football, reducing to 13 seems the most obvious solution to me. More space on the pitch should address blanket defences and more ground to cover should force teams to kick more.

It’s also an advantage to second tier teams. Some teams might have 10 to 13 players that can compete with Dublin, but they don’t have 15 or even 20. Reducing the number of players on the pitch would level the playing field for teams with lesser numbers and improve the spectacle of the sport at a stroke.

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Of course. Bottom two from each side down and finalists from division below up.

The team that finishes bottom of the third tier will be disbanded and given hurleys and made enter the lory meagher the following year