I drink san Pellegrino
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Iâve yet to find a more reliable way of determining oneâs character than whether they drink San Pellegrino or not.
A noble bottled water.
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If funding was completely equal per capita, and ever county made the same effort with the same level of talent, then Dublin would win every single AI as a formality and the inter-county AI would probably have been scrapped 50+ years ago, so yes, I think money should be redirected to smaller less profitable provinces.
Ultimately I think Dublin will have to be broken up but I donât really see Dubs fans getting behind a âFingalâ or âPembrokeâ team so maybe the GAA is just fucked.
Amalgamate Cavan and monaghan etc
Same rationale to split dublin? Lot easier too
You donât split the only cash cow mate
Much easier to amalgamate.
Galway and Mayo for instance are a natural fit to field a joint team.
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Agreed
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Make multiple ones? With the latte drinkers paying subs to the southsoide and the proceeds of crime funding the salt of the earth GFC
Thatâs a reasonable point. Thereâs an inherent flaw in the county system for GAA I.e itâll never be âfairâ. It hasnât been fair though for the guts of 100 years though and everyone seemed happy enough.
My own view is that the money is put into Dublin for very good reasons - huge population with strong competition from other sports - it would be strategic madness not to.
However, that doesnât necessarily extrapolate to winning or continued domination. Just because there is correlation between this exceptional team and the development effort does not directly equate to causation. Where is the underage dominance for example? Financial âdopingâ is more likely to turn up there than at senior level.
I think itâs safe to say Dublin will always be there or thereabouts but Iâm not sure theyâll be on such winning streaks as now
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The Brazilian is a complete dickhead and Dublin will be beat but theyâre probably going to win 50% of AI from now on.
A significant percentage anyway. But sure Kerry, KK, Cork prob have similar high % and life goes on. It has never been a level playing field.
Ewanâs a headcase and wrong of course. He selectively uses amount per registered player rather than per population. Letâs pump millions in game development coaches in some hellhole in Roscommon with 200 registered players⌠every kid can have two personal coaches just dedicated to them⌠that will even up the amount per registered player. Christ, heâs an idiot.
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Surely with development coaches youâre trying to target the non-registered players in primary schools etc?
Ewan, who hates rugby, would seem to prefer more kids playing rugby, because he hates the idea even more of them being actively recruited by the GAA in Dublin.
Mostly Ewan just hates.
Is the purpose of the gaa to run a competitive championship or keep sneachta and deano away from other sports? If funding is irrelevant why did dublin look for so much?
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The purpose of the GAA is to promote and develop gaelic games in Oireland. And a lot of the country is based in Dublin. It canât get any simpler than that.
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Serious post here.
GAA funding needs to be looked at via two separate pathways - i) grass roots coaching and development and ii) inter-county.
Grass roots coaching and development funds have to be on a per capita basis - participation rates in Dublin are as important as anywhere else if the GAA is to be a genuine grass roots community organisation. Therefore of course Dublin will and should get the most as it has by far the biggest population.
At inter-county level, each team needs to provide for similar sized panels of players. This is where the equalisation of funding needs to come in, and it should be done by pooling commercial revenue to an extent, ie. each county still negotiates its own commercial deals, but maybe gets to keep 50% of the revenue with the rest being pooled into a central fund to be divided equally between each county. This would equalise to a large extent the funds available to provide for inter-county teams.
In all the talk about Dublinâs funding, whatâs largely forgotten is that a lot of it was and is aimed towards hurling. How much funding are the likes of Mayo, Roscommon, Tyrone and Monaghan allocating to hurling? Next to nothing, Iâd imagine.
I wonder where the funding for things like Kerryâs new âŹ7m centre of excellence comes into Ewanâs figures? I somehow doubt it comes in at all.
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Theyâve a role to do both but probably stronger role to âpromote gaelic gamesâ
I donât think anyone suggested funding was irrelevant - itâs clear that itâs needed to promote the games and expand player base. Iâm not sure anyone has shown causation to current success though or why money is uniquely a factor in Dublinâs success.
On a per capita basis, Roscommon gets three times the grass roots development funding that Dublin does.
Reasonable idea about separating inter county and general funding. I wonder though whether stripping money off counties that raise just inhibits them from doing it if they know their efforts will just see others benefit. Call it the local property tax effect. Maybe capped budgets would be better.