Why the drop off in interest in Irish soccer this year mate?
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1 million watched the 2 Irish teams this week
The ROI were getting a million plus last year, down to less than half that now. A crisis you could say.
The audit fail ?
His our the official figures, they average them out. Peak, average et al. Check TAM.
Between 2012-2016 in the top 20 shows in Ireland there were 5 hurling games and 11 Gaelic football games. 13 rugby football and 11 soccer games.
So the GAA scored more top twenties than Rugby & Soccer? Incredible stats.
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Are you trying to disprove your own point mate?
the GGA has 5 sports mate , so you would hope that the combined numbers were decent
The GGA have two live products to put out there. They are actually dreadful ratings.
Peak line soccer is 1.2m
Peak line rugby is 1.1m
Peak line gaelic football is 1m
Peak line hurling is 800k
25 years ago this wouldn’t have been the case.
The GGA is going backwards in Ireland.
- National Team
- All Island Team
- individual counties
- individual counties
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To disprove what exactly?
Hurling has 5 games in there. All are finals. One of the rugby games is England v Australia ffs, that outrated All Ireland semi finals ffs. Irish people would rather watch the Tans play the Criminals than watch a blockbuster GGA games between Dublin and Mayo.
Irrelevant.
As pointed out time and time again, the highest rated shows in Australia and the United States are AFL Grand Finals, NRL Grand Finals, State or Origin games and Super Bowls.
Those are “confined” to a narrow interest. Both are countries with heavy international sports calendars.
Basically the GGA’s interest among neutrals is not that high as the product is mediocre. If it was that good then the national would tune in just to see it. 20 odd years ago they did, but not anymore.
In a non world cup year more people watch Mrs Browns Boys than rugby.
There were 80,000 at both those matches as well so both are comfortably above the England vs Oztrailia match.
Actually when you factor in attendances at both the KK v Galway final & Ireland vs England then the hurling beats that as well (since there was about 30,000 more at the hurling than the rugby). Remarkable really, two county sides having more viewers than the all Island rugby team against their biggest rivals.
The GAA is unbelievably popular.
Would you mind throwing up a link to the page on tam?
Some episodes of Mrs Browns Boys have outrated hurling, gaelic football, rugby and football. Some haven’t. It’s a popular show, in the UK and Ireland. MBB’s has been the highest rated Christmas show on the BBC.
Sweep, sweep
How did that gobshite get on the television?
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Portugal vs France got more viewers than the all Ireland hurling final FFS