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Firstly I have no issue with ticket pricing but your above comment technically is untrue. 2 tickets have dropped from 180 to 120 and from 120 to 70. You cant pick and choose different type tickets to make the saving even greater haha
Kingofthehill100 (Mayo) - Posts: 68 - 03/09/2019 11:51:47 2232313 Link 0 |
So basically one really entertaining and high quality game in this years championship (+ 2 or 3 partially entertaining games) means all is right with gaelic football ? Oh yeah, the overall standard of gaelic "football" is so high....the massive skill it take to pass the ball ad nauseum across the field and backwards makes it SO much better than it used to be. Most of the time watching the modern game is better for insomnia than taking sleeping tablets.
PoolSturgeon (Galway) - Posts: 1898 - 03/09/2019 15:49:21 2232449 Link 1 |
You didnt watch a whole of this year's Championship then?
Sindar (Roscommon) - Posts: 348 - 03/09/2019 16:55:03 2232471 Link 1 |
If it goes to a fifth replay, we'll know there's a profiteering conspiracy. lionofludesch (Down) - Posts: 475 - 03/09/2019 17:08:59 2232474 Link 0 |
There will be extra time if it's a draw in normal time. But if that's tied is it a replay or penalties? Should give it to the team who scores most from play. GreenandRed (Mayo) - Posts: 7290 - 03/09/2019 18:26:42 2232504 Link 8 |
I'm fairly sure All Ireland Finals are exempt from any penalty shoot outs so we'd have to do it all over again. Not sure why you'd choose points from play. Points from frees are just as valid - a player fouled in front of goal as he's about to pull the trigger. Is that score not as valid as one scored from play? It's all immaterial anyway as the rules can't be changed in the middle of a championship Sindar (Roscommon) - Posts: 348 - 03/09/2019 21:55:52 2232569 Link 1 |
I'd prefer to see more scores from play that's all. They're no more valid from play than from free for sure. Either way they're hard got in a final.
GreenandRed (Mayo) - Posts: 7290 - 03/09/2019 22:45:56 2232587 Link 8 |
No, as I said above I used it as a sleeping aid!
PoolSturgeon (Galway) - Posts: 1898 - 04/09/2019 01:09:56 2232609 Link 0 |
Off the top of my head, here are some of the thoroughly entertaining and enjoyable games that I have watched this year: Armagh v Down, Armagh v Cavan (draw and replay), Mayo v Roscommon, Kerry v Cork, Mayo v Down, Mayo v Armagh, Cork v Dublin, Donegal v Kerry, Donegal v Mayo, Kerry v Dublin. Games of similar quality were quite rare in the 80s and anytime there was a half-decent championship game, the media would gush over it for weeks afterwards. If you can find complete footage of the Connacht finals of 1986 or 1987, I challenge you to watch it all - it is truly dreadful stuff and you will probably be scarred for life!
Gaillimh_Abu (Galway) - Posts: 996 - 04/09/2019 07:41:49 2232622 Link 1 |
That's true, but poor games 30 years ago don't make good games now. There are a lot more championship games now and players are a lot more dedicated now and coaching developments since then plus nutrituon, better pitches and facilitiues, technology etc has brought improvements. Thankfully the numbers of games with blanket defence tactics seems to dipping. I wonder do players from 30 years ago, knowing the commitments of intercounty players look on their diets, training schedule, drink bans, gym work, paralysis by analysis and think 'we didn't play as fast, we didn't play more games, maybe they're quicker, maybe they're more skilful, but we hadn't media at us, we had no flutes on social media taking aim at us, we enjoyed the game more when it wasn't quite so pressured.' GreenandRed (Mayo) - Posts: 7290 - 04/09/2019 11:42:15 2232678 Link 7 |
On the heading of the thread re. profit on replay. Ashrules (Dublin) - Posts: 518 - 04/09/2019 12:05:20 2232690 Link 0 |
Oh dear Gaillimh.You say you date from the late 70s.Well, I was at the Connacht final of 1948,Mayo v Galway.Enough said.
worple (Roscommon) - Posts: 339 - 04/09/2019 12:24:34 2232699 Link 0 |
Absolutely not
Whammo86 (Antrim) - Posts: 4172 - 04/09/2019 17:27:01 2232820 Link 8 |
Pay increases in line with GAA Inflation probably coming next for all the executive management at all levels in top echelons of the organisation, so a large slice will have to be kept for that & the GPA will soon be looking for a bigger slice. Transparency on salaries would be the way forward but just as in the GPA, we might be shocked at certain levels of renumeration, so easier to fudge by giving the overall figure. moc.dna (Galway) - Posts: 1212 - 05/09/2019 10:36:18 2232958 Link 0 |
Absolutely crazy idea. Apart altogether from the how sums wouldn't stack up, consider the precedent it would set. Somebody in the 2020 final in the same situation as Dean Rock was last week, with a free to win it in injury time. But this fella and his other half are struggling to save money to buy a house. He starts thinking...."Put this over the bar, and we win an All-Ireland Final. But if I miss it and there's a replay, we'll get a load of money for the house, and we might win the replay anyway. And then if there's another replay - will I get more money then too? Might be able to change the car as well……" Pikeman96 (Wexford) - Posts: 2185 - 05/09/2019 16:33:48 2233093 Link 0 |