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2 traditional counties roscommon and Galway only manage 15k for a final replay. Jack_Goff (Meath) - Posts: 2920 - 17/07/2016 17:56:19 1884818 Link 0 |
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Not really. Ulster GAA is in a unique situation -- for the most part it doesn't have to deal with the challenge of rugby. Rugby is mostly a unionist game up north and so has little appeal to GAA people (therefore attendance's stay up) but in the republic it is the growing sport and inexorably becoming the number one while GAA is being pushed into the background...in years to come the best team in Ulster will be the team to beat in the championship because even by that stage Dublin will have lost interest in winning.
PoolSturgeon (Galway) - Posts: 1904 - 17/07/2016 18:37:31 1884862 Link 0 |
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what a daft statement! how many Unionists do you think care less about GAA? and given the fact they make up roughly 50% of the population in the 6 counties and the promotion of rugby and soccer that filters into Nationalist communities having an influence on our youngsters who may otherwise play GAA but have easier access to other sports. But sure whatever you have to tell yourself...
SaffronDon (Antrim) - Posts: 2386 - 17/07/2016 19:01:36 1884887 Link 1 |
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If we are all honest football and hurling are in a bad place at the moment. tireoghainabu (Tyrone) - Posts: 276 - 17/07/2016 19:15:47 1884902 Link 0 |
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So attendances are higher because >50 percent of the population are not GAA people - have to admit you have me on that logic ?
ruanua (Donegal) - Posts: 4966 - 17/07/2016 19:18:13 1884904 Link 0 |
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When it came to this game, it's more like, "Jesus slept"... as I am sure that is what he did during every Gaelic football game....
murrax (Wexford) - Posts: 90 - 17/07/2016 19:22:45 1884912 Link 0 |
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That was a brilliant, tense, grueling, tactical Ulster Final today with some superb tackling and unbelievable scores. Other two finals were over after 50mins, I turned over the Dublin game on 50 mins as I was bored out of my skull. The Ulster Final was gripping. Brolly (Monaghan) - Posts: 4472 - 17/07/2016 19:23:46 1884915 Link 0 |
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Most sports have poor finals. Look at the fa cup, the recent euros and the low scoring world cup final in new Zealand. Even the all Ireland final last year was rubbish not to mention the the duck shoot that has been lenister the past few years. This is not a new thing. Usually teams have so much at stake in finals that games are tense.......that and have you ever considered by the time 2 teams make it to a final they are usually the 2 most well matched in that competition resulting in tight drawn out affairs? Imagine two evenly matched teams in a final!!!!! Go watch something else if you are bored. DoireCityFC (Derry) - Posts: 1580 - 17/07/2016 19:46:59 1884941 Link 0 |
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Of the 40,000 at the Leinster final how many were Dub supporters? I don't think many travelled from Westmeath. There was talk of us resting players for the qualifiers! XPAC (Westmeath) - Posts: 86 - 17/07/2016 19:50:21 1884943 Link 0 |
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The Ulster final was exciting because it was close with nothing between the teams. There were fine footballers on view and some excellent scores. However it is difficult to come to terms with the style of play adopted by boh teams. Colm O Rourke likened it to armies machine forward in a line as they attacked and then retreating in line as the other side fought back. When we were young boys, we all raced after the ball wherever it happened to be. I remember a primary school teacher trying, unsuccessfully, to stop us doing this and attempting to put some kind of structure on how we played. He was probably afraid of accidents. If today''s game is anything to go by we seem to be reverting back to this type of approach, where everybody on the pitch has to be in close proximity to where the ball is. It does not make for easy viewing. (Having heard the result of the Connaught final, it seems that Galway must have kept the ball to themselves and not allowed the Roscommon boys to play with it) neverright (Roscommon) - Posts: 1648 - 17/07/2016 19:52:54 1884947 Link 0 |
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I agree with most posts here ,the football is brutal ,mostly from Donegal ,I though if Tyrone were playing an open team they wouldn't be just as defensive and im glad they won ,but it was only watchable near the end because we had no clue what way it was going to go ,The GAA would do us all a favour if they done two things : 1. get all the games back on rte and stop selling the thousands of people that watched /volunteered to the gaa all there lives and this will get interest back in the game and 2. find away to stop the defensive type of football ,it needs to be attractive and exciting and its not , defensive games aside , I had no interest watching Dublin v Westmeath either ,and you cant blame Dublin there is no team in leinster fit to give them some bit of a game ,it just proves there's a major overhaul needed of the championship for both reasons , at this rate the all Ireland final could well be another disaster . bisto kid (Cavan) - Posts: 492 - 17/07/2016 20:13:16 1884972 Link 0 |
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I disagree with the statement that is the name of this thread. tyroneed (Tyrone) - Posts: 753 - 17/07/2016 20:14:13 1884974 Link 0 |
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Saffron Don, I might be able to answer you if I knew the point you were trying to make. "How many Unionists do you think care less about the Gaa?" for starters, leaves me scratching my head since surely almost all Unionists have no interest in the GAA ? It's a syllogism. And, sorry for saying it, but that's the most intelligent part of your response.
PoolSturgeon (Galway) - Posts: 1904 - 17/07/2016 20:35:34 1884996 Link 2 |
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I wouldn't lecture about intelligence if your scratching your head at a very basic question. Correct, little to no interest from unionists in Ulster. Now how many unionists in comparison do you have in your own province or the other two for that matter? very little. So how can you say rugby doesn't have an influence in the north with GAA people? watch the news up north and you'll see they show GAA news after soccer and rugby every time, those sports are promoted twice as much as GAA, and if many non unionist in the south are turning to rugby, why would that not be the same in the north? your making daft assumptions without anything to back it up.
SaffronDon (Antrim) - Posts: 2386 - 17/07/2016 21:27:39 1885043 Link 0 |
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The Game today in Ulster was horrible as I predicted, I refused to go to it and watched it on play back fast forwarding through most of it. I have not given up hope for the game, just even more convinced that Donegal matches should always be avoided. The opposition simply have no choice but to play their brand of football and it's truly horrible. Tyrone enjoy open football and have played so in all games before today. Don't hate the game just avoid watching the men from the hills and their idea of how to play the game. cacsmckilly (Tyrone) - Posts: 1294 - 17/07/2016 21:57:28 1885067 Link 1 |
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You seem to bring politics into sport more often than Id like. The 2 shouldn't be mixed unless its for bidding for an event, security at games etc. People political views are their own and shouldn't be open to discussion in a sports page
DoireCityFC (Derry) - Posts: 1580 - 17/07/2016 23:08:38 1885101 Link 1 |
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Don't talk naive waffle. Sport and politics have always been intermingled from the days of the Ancient Greeks and Romans and probably even before that AND always will be.
Ulsterman (Antrim) - Posts: 9706 - 17/07/2016 23:31:18 1885116 Link 1 |
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I'm taking it you watch a lot of Tyrone matches on fast forward if that's a genuine assessment of their style - unless your looking st Betamax's of Frank mcguigan
ruanua (Donegal) - Posts: 4966 - 17/07/2016 23:32:19 1885121 Link 0 |
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tell me where i made a political 'view' please?
SaffronDon (Antrim) - Posts: 2386 - 17/07/2016 23:33:21 1885124 Link 0 |
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Well done today but if you genuinely think Tyrone play attacking football- your dulisional my friend...
eunans4ever (Donegal) - Posts: 1595 - 17/07/2016 23:42:23 1885136 Link 0 |