Not a big soccer fan but love the world cup looks like we are going to have to choose between them on Sunday week it's madness of gaa putting on a match same time it's real backward stuff I think.

galwayted (Galway) - Posts: 26 - 04/07/2018 10:57:20    2118367

Absolutely ridiculous. They'll be no one in Croke Park , Kerry have very little support (not a dig) and Galway have the hurlers going well and now the World Cup is on will take a lot of Galway supporters away from this game. Put it on at 5 on Saturday no?

clondalkindub (Dublin) - Posts: 9926 - 04/07/2018 11:22:27    2118380

waynoI (Dublin) - Posts: 13650 - 04/07/2018 11:22:49    2118381

gilly0512 (Galway) - Posts: 1176 - 04/07/2018 11:30:52    2118385

galwayted (Galway) - Posts: 26 - 04/07/2018 11:36:24    2118388

This is nonsense from the GAA. Never mind any tribalism about "foreign sports" or whatever, the World Cup Final is one of the biggest events in the world and to put on a round robin quarter final of the All-Ireland series clashing with it is the height of idiocy. Didn't something similar happen with the Euros?

They're on another planet completely with these fixtures, Donegal folk not getting on the road out of Dublin til 9pm on a Saturday night as well.

JoeSoap (Donegal) - Posts: 1432 - 04/07/2018 11:42:10    2118390

And Dublin always seem to get a 4pm game yet that day they'll be playing at 7pm, mysterious that.

spiritofeslin (Leitrim) - Posts: 136 - 04/07/2018 11:47:20    2118394

This is not good for gate receipts or TV market share and shows really poor judgement and planning by the grab alls. In some ways this is worse than Newbridge because its difficult for them to own up to the careless oversight. Time change now would we best option or play Saturday in the Dublin Donegal slot. Some ejects up there in GAA hierarchy. What a way to roll out the super eights, it is so embarrassing.

suckvalleypaddy (Galway) - Posts: 1667 - 04/07/2018 11:49:03    2118396

Four football games to be played over the weekend - at present they are all down for Croke Park - so two double headers only way to go. Can only imagine the outrage & crying if the first two were put down for Friday night or starting at 11 on Sunday morning. I'm as interested as the next man in the soccer world cup but hey the GAA have to look after their / our own fixtures. Sporting fixtures clash all the time, you decide which if any is the most important to you - will Wimbledon be changing the time of their mens final just because it clashes with the world cup? I doubt it unless possibly England reach the final even then its hard to see it happen.

benched (Tyrone) - Posts: 534 - 04/07/2018 12:01:38    2118401

galwayted (Galway) - Posts: 26 - 04/07/2018 12:10:00    2118407

It's almost like the GAA have been boought out by a bank and is treating players and supporters like customers with no customer care. Break their commitment to give home advantage in the qualifiers to the county drawnup out first. Schedule Croke Park as the neutral ground for Dublin v Donegal. Schedule Galway v Kerry to clash directly with the World Cup Final. They're shaping up to give all their efforts to Super 8 counties and ignore poorer standards of the rest. Similar to a bank adding in silly fees in the hope you don't notice them and even if you do they know the majority won't complain. Only a matter of time before some players and supporters get disillusioned with intercounty football and concentrate on club football or stay away and/or drift to other sports. Time to get rid of the Croke Park accountants and get some GAA people with the greater good of the game in their thoughts to shape the future

GreenandRed (Mayo) - Posts: 7337 - 04/07/2018 12:10:50    2118408

I remember in 2016 meath and dublin was changed as it clashed with the Ireland and Crance Euros game. I'd be surprised if the game was changed if Dublin weren't involved in that fixture. Likewise, irs strange alright in this situation that Dublin and Donegal is fixed for the night before

PoppinPoints (Meath) - Posts: 225 - 04/07/2018 12:23:17    2118416

Dubsfan28 (Dublin) - Posts: 2509 - 04/07/2018 12:41:51    2118424

Why couldn't they have the games at 12 and 2, that way it wouldn't clash with the world cup final. I can see them doing this as I can't see any downside.

Rocky.Road (Galway) - Posts: 374 - 04/07/2018 12:48:30    2118427

Fionn (Dublin) - Posts: 3725 - 04/07/2018 12:50:53    2118429

Fionn (Dublin) - Posts: 3725 - 04/07/2018 12:59:13    2118433

The far bigger issue here is that the Galway hurlers are due out the same Sunday if they lose this weekend. How on earth are the Galway hurlers and footballers potentially scheduled to play the same day? How was Galway Kerry not fixed for the Friday night, and Dublin Donegal for the Sunday, with that situation potentially happening?

PressureKick (UK) - Posts: 209 - 04/07/2018 13:08:03    2118438

PressureKick (UK) - Posts: 209 - 04/07/2018 13:11:32    2118440

suckvalleypaddy (Galway) - Posts: 1667 - 04/07/2018 13:38:45    2118460

I remember back in 2002 they put Donegal Derry up against Ireland Spain. According to wikipedia the attendance was 4000.

"Played under a surreal atmosphere in the first half, the game really only came alive after the break, and particularly when Derry were reduced in numbers.

The crowd was minimal because of Ireland's World Cup distractions.

The decision by the Ulster Council not to change the start time will come in for criticism."

Pantani (Dublin) - Posts: 48 - 04/07/2018 13:47:14    2118463