The GAA figures have sent the rubby set over the edge.
Can you revise your list so with the new criteria and we see what it looks like? As with the AFL and Australia yesterday, you have an awful habit of introducing information that you quickly declare is irrelevant in this discussion.
I feel shocking bad for sparking this
I didn’t make any list.
Much like the AFL point, you didn’t read the full thread.
That looked suspiciously like a list to me.
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Possibly but at the same time most rural lads would always choose a GAA match over a soccer game. The local soccer scene is very casual bar the top divisions whereas you’d have Junior hurling or football clubs training 3 times a week from early February. Ask any casual sports fan to name 5 Dublin GAA players and they’d do it easily, ask them to name 5 Bohs or St. Pats players and they’d seriously struggle.
I gave a few more names of lads after someone else started a list. I said there were others too, which there are.
Not a like for like comparison. Ask them to name Premier League players.
You are an odd sort Tim. I really hope that viewing figures for Irelands rugby world cup quarter final defeat this year are huge, I’d not like to see you this upset again at the start of 2024.
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Yep and I’m correct. Putting up a CUS player. 
All over the shop
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Goodness me, I don’t read all his posts because it would be detrimental to ones IQ but these viewing figures have had a woeful effect on poor @Tim_Riggins. Let’s hope the country pulls on the green jersey this year and get the rugby figures up somewhere close to what the GAA achieve so we don’t have to witness this type of unravelling again.
I just made some posts on terrible GGA ratings. Like for like with other countries and all the advantages it has the ratings should be tipping near 2m. As it happens, the top ratings are dominated by football and rugby, a point of concern for the GGA for years.
It’s unfortunate for the Galliban that 100 years of sectarian support that the popularity is so miserable. Still today it relies on propaganda to distort popularity. Going by sports interest, both GGA sports are stuck now battling rugby for interest. Well below football.
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I thought TV ratings are for saps, what are you still doing here?
Making a list, checking it twice
How do the ratings for these big gaa/afl/NFL etc games measure up when taken as a percentage of the population of the country and as a percentage of those watching tv at the time? The crowd actually at all the games could be included too. This is genuine, not rhetorical (?) question btw.
a big Irish Football game gets well over a 1.25 million views despite 1000s upon 1000s watching in the pub & it been watched on other channels
A spud hockey game gets 3/4 of million
Yeah I’d say soccer is more popular in general than gaa. It’s the same in nearly every country it’s played widely. It’s a massive multi billion euro international juggernaut though it’s not really comparing like with like. Gaa doing well to even nearly compete for viewership, playing numbers etc. Not sure there are many comparable indigenous amateur sports worldwide. Especially in countries where soccer is so popular
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Bit of a stretch calling GAA amateur. Everybody is getting paid. Junior clubs have backroom teams of 10 or 12 lads these days. The money is incredible
Club players would make up a majority cohort and don’t get paid. I’d agree on club managers, inter-county managers, inter-county players alright but certainly not everyone.