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Are you suggesting the All Ireland final will be played in July??? That will never happen. Bringing it forward to August is a good move and frees up sept and Oct for the club championships and most counties will be able to start their club championships in August if they want to but it's up to each individual county boards to decide on when to start county championships. Iv'e been involved in club championships that didn't start until end of Sept/early Oct and this is what needs to be stopped. If you know at the beginning of the season that club championship starts the first weekend of Sept then you can make plans around this to gear training towards this and even to plan holidays etc. I think people are expecting too much."]Aug bank holiday. Only a couple more weeks earlier than next years"]I think that's far to early. You're condensing the star attraction of the GAA into a tiny season. Why would you do that? More games on at the same time means less games televised etc. Get as much publicity as possible for them."]Exactly, I think what they've suggested for next year is a massive improvement. The provincial championships take too long to play out so they're being condensed for 2018. There is no way you can have the flagship competition over by the August Bank holiday IMO
Mobot (Donegal) - Posts: 459 - 06/10/2017 13:34:45 2053569 Link 0 |
Short can be very sweet. Whammo86 (Antrim) - Posts: 4172 - 06/10/2017 14:19:45 2053585 Link 0 |
I just think things would be better for the game if there was a better season provided for everyone. Whammo86 (Antrim) - Posts: 4172 - 06/10/2017 14:25:27 2053587 Link 0 |
NBA season goes from October to June. You think that's a short season?
gotmilk (Fermanagh) - Posts: 4971 - 06/10/2017 14:30:15 2053588 Link 0 |
Sorry typo. Meant NFL season. I was also thinking NCAA March Madness for basketball. In the NBA their season is very much dominated by the playoffs which are played off very quickly. Whammo86 (Antrim) - Posts: 4172 - 06/10/2017 14:39:22 2053594 Link 0 |
Playoffs are three months, April to June. March madness is the college game. Again like the sigerson it's all rushed through. I don't think the championship should be rushed off as soon as possible. It's insane from a publicity perspective if nothing else. gotmilk (Fermanagh) - Posts: 4971 - 06/10/2017 14:53:40 2053599 Link 0 |
That's what I'm saying, I don't think it'd be bad from a publicity point of view. There's a lot to be said for saturation. The NCAA is not like the Sigerson in any shape or form. It's big business, despite the players not being paid. March Madness is played quickly for its effect. NBA playoffs have lots of games coming thick and fast. I don't get the link between duration of an event and it being a great promotional tool. The soccer World Cup is the biggest event in sport and it's played off over 5 weeks. I'm talking about making some sort of 1 League and championship linked competition. You'd still be talking about 18 weeks of matches by adding April into the mix. Higher profile for league which is gets little exposure right now. Only 50 games are shown a season. That can be maintained in an 18 week season, its less than 3 a weekend. Plus you'd be talking about having more games between the top teams. It's just a short season in timeframe to not impinge on club activity. Whammo86 (Antrim) - Posts: 4172 - 06/10/2017 15:18:22 2053605 Link 0 |