You're deluded if you think that Sky don't need exclusive matches. I'm a Sky customer but I don't have the sports or movies packages. They've tried everything in recent months to sign the likes of me up for 1 of these packages. They've also undertaken serious customer surveys of their existing customers in Ireland to understand their motivations & interests and having exclusive Gaelic games coverage is one major selling point.

keeper7 (Longford) - Posts: 4088 - 03/04/2014 21:57:36    1570199

Think it will be great for the lads who have a few bob but don't attend games. The type who you find looking for tickets for the All-Ireland final when their own county gets there. Maybe that's the GAA's cunning plan as they know they get little revenue from these types now.

These lads will be able to come on here with their analysis, straight from Sky, every Monday morning instead of from the Indo as they do now.

opa01 (Cavan) - Posts: 503 - 04/04/2014 08:34:37    1570206

Very interesting interview on Pat Kenny's Newstalk programme this morning with the head of Sky Ireland (he's Irish, by the way). Some very exciting coverage features in prospect! Check out the podcast.

keeper7 (Longford) - Posts: 4088 - 04/04/2014 11:43:45    1570281

Ulsterman I read in the Irish News yesterday that they will not be blocking coverage in the North

bumpernut (Antrim) - Posts: 1852 - 04/04/2014 12:23:05    1570303

If you look at ice hockey in North America, initially Canada was the main hub for the game. Now, mainly thanks to the American sports networks, every major city in the US has a team/franchise. It's massive. Maybe something similar could happen for our games. Particularly for hurling this could be huge. Let's face it - the football-dominated counties like my own would never allow that to happen if the status quo remains...

keeper7 (Longford) - Posts: 4088 - 04/04/2014 13:11:35    1570333

Opa01
I like it :-) and you are spot on, I bet a lot of the pro sky posters on this forum don't go to matches unless there team is in the final. Sure how would they manage if a pundit wasn't telling what they should be thinking!

KingdomBoy1 (Kerry) - Posts: 14092 - 04/04/2014 14:53:56    1570390

Kingdomboy - there was a few on here after the AI Final last year who struggled with the Manc derby on the same day. Sure now they'll be able to have a split screen and watch both.

opa01 (Cavan) - Posts: 503 - 04/04/2014 18:23:44    1570486

Utter nonsense kingdomboy. The amount of matches I've Missed since 1980 you could count on your fingers and I'm not just talking championship I'm talking league and O'Byrnetoo and iI'm in favour of this deal. I'm old enough not to fear change, rather to embrace it. I accept peoples concerns but for majority of my life only 6 games were shown live on TV . So I think its a great idea. These forums were not around when gaa was muted to be expanding coverage in the early 90s but I recall plenty of people saying it was death of amateur status then too and that games would be empty why go when you can watch it at home was argument, same applied to the back door , non of these things along with opening up of Croke park ended or eroded our sports. I am positive same will apply to this and I really think people should hold their council until we all see what unfolds. But I am in favour of it 100% and I go to all games.

royaldunne (Meath) - Posts: 19449 - 04/04/2014 18:41:07    1570491

I'm with you Royaldunne.

keeper7 (Longford) - Posts: 4088 - 04/04/2014 19:02:37    1570496

KingdomBoy1
County: Kerry
Posts: 1880

1570390
Opa01
I like it :-) and you are spot on, I bet a lot of the pro sky posters on this forum don't go to matches unless there team is in the final. Sure how would they manage if a pundit wasn't telling what they should be thinking!

Ah now kingdomboy, you are losing touch with reality now altogether.

Sure RTE is wall to wall with bloody pundits on every live game they show.

As for not going to matches, I'd say you are well wide of the mark there. The very fact that someone would go to the bother of commenting here would indicate to me that they are big into GAA & would therefore by definition go to games.

Look the deal is done & won't be undone. It will certainly make for an interesting summer & at worst if it doesn't work out then we can go back to the status quo in 3 years time.

MuckrossHead (Donegal) - Posts: 5028 - 04/04/2014 20:06:07    1570507

MuckrossHead
County: Donegal
As for not going to matches, I'd say you are well wide of the mark there. The very fact that someone would go to the bother of commenting here would indicate to me that they are big into GAA & would therefore by definition go to games.

Really? That's not what you were saying before...

01/04/2014 21:21:41
MuckrossHead
County: Donegal
Posts: 2314
The vast majority of people who will bitch about this are the armchair "supporters" who if they won't support their county team certainly don't support their club team. They won't even go to the pub in case they have to buy a pint!!!
I'm sorry but these are the very people who drive the GAA to do deals with the likes of SKY because the grounds are mostly empty for most of the year & even AI QF double headers can't fill Croke Park.
Get up off your behinds & go to the games, fill the grounds & then there will be no need to go cap in hand to SKY.

Marlon_JD (Tipperary) - Posts: 1823 - 04/04/2014 20:24:55    1570513

it's unbelievable that people are so deluded as to think that this deal is going to behefit our games...this is nonsense...fewer people get to see the games therefore it has an impact...if i want to watch cork play kerry in the championship, I will not get in the car and drive all the way down to cork to watch a game...i also do not want to bring my family into a pub to watch a game...at this stage of their lives i feel it is wrong to expose to them an environment where alcohol is prevalent...oh i though that actually was an im of the GAA as well...oh is ee, it actually isn't now..we don't care if our young people watch games in a pub environment...

mayotyroneman (Tyrone) - Posts: 1821 - 04/04/2014 21:20:15    1570541

Look the deal is done & won't be undone. It will certainly make for an interesting summer & at worst if it doesn't work out then we can go back to the status quo in 3 years time.

What kind of an attitude is this?...the reality is that SKY will look to renegotiate this deal next year...they will not accept 14 games..they will be looking for a 50% increase int heir share..and a decrease in the terrestrial share...there is no going back to the status quo...the GAA have sold out, and we will be bearing the consequences in 10 years time...

mayotyroneman (Tyrone) - Posts: 1821 - 04/04/2014 21:27:19    1570546

People aren't going to see games, the rural farmer has no sky etc, etcetc

look in 1993 Derry won their first and only all-ireland - can any one tell me how many matches rte televisied live 21yrs ago..... very few, yes there has been improvements- but not every game is televisiedand not every game is televisied - noe apart from the final - if you want to go to a game you can.... yes there are those who are sick etc, but i'm totally in favour of sky coverage

cuchulainn35 (Armagh) - Posts: 1676 - 04/04/2014 21:33:05    1570550

mayotyroneman
County: Tyrone
Posts: 1114

1570541 it's unbelievable that people are so deluded as to think that this deal is going to behefit our games...this is nonsense...fewer people get to see the games therefore it has an impact...if i want to watch cork play kerry in the championship, I will not get in the car and drive all the way down to cork to watch a game...i also do not want to bring my family into a pub to watch a game...at this stage of their lives i feel it is wrong to expose to them an environment where alcohol is prevalent...oh i though that actually was an im of the GAA as well...oh is ee, it actually isn't now..we don't care if our young people watch games in a pub environment...

Why would you not get to see Cork v Kerry on TV.

AthCliath (Dublin) - Posts: 4347 - 04/04/2014 21:34:04    1570552

"What kind of an attitude is this?...the reality is that SKY will look to renegotiate this deal next year...they will not accept 14 games..they will be looking for a 50% increase int heir share..and a decrease in the terrestrial share...there is no going back to the status quo...the GAA have sold out, and we will be bearing the consequences in 10 years time..."

The deal struck is a 3 year one so it can be renegotiated...in 3 years!

keeper7 (Longford) - Posts: 4088 - 04/04/2014 21:36:16    1570555

In Armagh we have Armagh TV, which shows live coverage of club champonship , league, schools etc from the Athletic Grounds, in Armagh City. Initially it was free, but it £1.00 per game, some think its a disgrace to charge, but its a service which generates an income, and offers a service for Armagh Gaels around the world, its the GAA embracing technology for the 21st Century... in 2013 the Armagh Co. Hurling Final Replay had more people watching it in Australia than actually at the match.....if you wanted to go to the game you could still go....

we will always have people complaining....

cuchulainn35 (Armagh) - Posts: 1676 - 04/04/2014 21:42:10    1570558

Can't see a situation where no games will be shown on normal TV - look at the outcry when 9 games have been taken away. Imagine if a further 30 were to go !!

Former_Poster (Meath) - Posts: 394 - 04/04/2014 21:42:56    1570559

mayotyroneman
County: Tyrone
Posts: 1115

1570546 Look the deal is done & won't be undone. It will certainly make for an interesting summer & at worst if it doesn't work out then we can go back to the status quo in 3 years time.

What kind of an attitude is this?...the reality is that SKY will look to renegotiate this deal next year...they will not accept 14 games..they will be looking for a 50% increase int heir share..and a decrease in the terrestrial share...there is no going back to the status quo...the GAA have sold out, and we will be bearing the consequences in 10 years time...

You like the rest of us havent a clue what will happen down the road, people have opinions , yet you seem to think you know the reality . give me a break

AthCliath (Dublin) - Posts: 4347 - 04/04/2014 21:44:17    1570562

the reality is that SKY will seek to renegotiate the deal next year...this is how they work....it is so niaive to think that SKY are in this for the benefit of gaelic games...the opposite is true...some people still don't seem to be able to get it that if I want to watch a game at the other ed of the country, i am not going to drive 300 miles..instead the kids and i would like to watch it on TV, and I don't want them watching it in a pub

mayotyroneman (Tyrone) - Posts: 1821 - 04/04/2014 21:46:39    1570565