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New GAA president Aogán Ó Fearghail insists the debate over media rights is over and hinted the number of televised games could be reduced further in future. jimbodub (Dublin) - Posts: 20587 - 02/03/2015 16:18:39 1698408 Link 0 |
completely disagree...those willing to watch games should not be punished just because those will only support their county or club when it suits fabio8 (USA) - Posts: 2182 - 02/03/2015 16:23:57 1698411 Link 0 |
Ah no, I hope this isn't an indication of where the GAA is going to go over the next few years. Its too easy to scapegoat TV for falling attendances. Might be more beneficial to look at the constant chopping and changing done to championship and league structures, the constant bad ideas that are adopted for our competition formats, a provincial model that's out of date, especially for hurling, knockout games that aren't knock out, Ring/Rackard/Meaghar cups played off before the championship starts, stadiums with archaic features (no roof, seat design that could have been dreamed up by the Spanish inquisition) etc, these are all more likely to have an impact on attendances. Marlon_JD (Tipperary) - Posts: 1823 - 02/03/2015 17:27:02 1698446 Link 0 |
If they want to bolster attendances then they should look at the pricing system and the level of comfort at county grounds, I never believed TV really affected match attendances at club or county games. Richieq (Meath) - Posts: 3734 - 02/03/2015 17:30:22 1698450 Link 0 |
exactly marlon..always looking for the easiest way out instead of the real problem which is the the scheduling of the season fabio8 (USA) - Posts: 2182 - 02/03/2015 17:34:22 1698452 Link 0 |
What will the poor old guy do?? You know the guy in talking about the guy who lives to watch rte matches, the same guy that those nasty murdochs and English tried to destroy. Will this move have the anti sky group up in arms? Will we see protests in Cavan? royaldunne (Meath) - Posts: 19449 - 02/03/2015 18:02:46 1698463 Link 0 |
Is there an argument to say that cutting live TV games will encourage tv channels to show other sports instead. This could then have the opposite effect of encouraging people to play these games rather than GAA. The structure of the games, the timing and location of games are bigger problems. Comfort and safety are important issues for families too. Even in the league. On Sunday past I travelled to Limerick to watch Armagh play. The game was switched to Kilmallock with 6 days notice. The facilities were terrible for a county ground. As I had already booked a hotel in Limerick city based on the fixtures I had even more travelling to do. I attended the Gaelic Grounds on the Saturday night for the Fitzgibbon and the pitch was in much better shape than the one in Kilmallock. The Armagh support outnumbered Limerick by about 15 to 1. My overall impression coming away from the match was that the GAA did everything to discourage people going to the match. Nothing to do with GAA on TG4. Armaghball (Armagh) - Posts: 96 - 02/03/2015 19:20:44 1698481 Link 0 |
well said royal...what about the poor old guy?.evil sky fabio8 (USA) - Posts: 2182 - 02/03/2015 19:23:40 1698484 Link 0 |
Attendences hit an all time high in the 2000's when everyone thought they had lots of money. Current attendences are still better than they were in the 80's and 90's when there was f#%k all GAA on the TV. tirawleybaron (Mayo) - Posts: 1091 - 02/03/2015 19:28:42 1698486 Link 0 |
What will the poor old guy do?? You know the guy in talking about the guy who lives to watch rte matches, the same guy that those nasty murdochs and English tried to destroy. Will this move have the anti sky group up in arms? Will we see protests in Cavan? Marlon_JD (Tipperary) - Posts: 1823 - 02/03/2015 20:20:36 1698508 Link 0 |
marlon think he is referring to the general outrage..your reasons were a lot more sensible and reasoned..most people were giving out about an english company and couldnt come up with logical reasons against the deal..the premier sports point for instance which most people dont even have when they already would have sky for the soccer and rugby! fabio8 (USA) - Posts: 2182 - 02/03/2015 20:32:45 1698515 Link 0 |
All about disposable income. besidetheditch (Dublin) - Posts: 81 - 02/03/2015 20:44:08 1698519 Link 0 |
Marlin wasn't personally aimed at you. But plenty of anti sky/English. Brigade were using those type of nonsensical arguments to justify their position. I for one want to see more gaa on tv. Heres a simple idea to bring more people to matches, leave the davin stand or a complete portion of it to family tickets only , and not have a situation where you are lumped in with guys who have too much drink and are not very family friendly at all, and turns kids off going to matches and their parents not wanting to bring them to have the smell of cheep vodka been breathed onto their children royaldunne (Meath) - Posts: 19449 - 02/03/2015 20:55:40 1698528 Link 0 |
it reduces the exposure of our games...who puts these people in charge?..they are so out of touch its unbelievable fabio8 (USA) - Posts: 2182 - 02/03/2015 20:58:11 1698529 Link 0 |
have to say i agree with a reduction of live games myself hill16no1man (Dublin) - Posts: 12665 - 02/03/2015 21:20:32 1698543 Link 0 |
Where do they get these Presidents from - all spoken like a true backwater club chairman!! And the reason there was no discussion at Congress?? I cant believe what i just read. Heaven help us. arock (Dublin) - Posts: 4892 - 03/03/2015 10:40:45 1698593 Link 0 |
Backward step from the GAA. The public have indicated that they enjoy televised matches, so the Assoiation acknowledge this by reducing the number of such games available. It's a typical, conservative Irish attutude of telling people what they should want, rather than giving them what they actually want. Thomas Clarke (Tyrone) - Posts: 1002 - 03/03/2015 11:29:37 1698615 Link 0 |
The reason why match attendances are down is because ticket prices are too dear, the recession has hit everybody but the GAA seem oblivious to that, they must think we have millions hidden away to spend on their matches, i don't know what world they are living in. I guarantee if next weekend games both football and hurling are free entry there will be massive crowds at games also some teams are too far apart travelling wise especially in div 1, only dedicated fans will travel from donegal/derry to cork/kerry and vice versa. With some counties improving and doing well this problem will happen and nothing you can really do about it only have games at neutral venues but counties, fans and businesses wouldn't agree to that. The sky deal wasn't thought out properly, all televised games should be shown on irish terestrial tv like rte, tv3 and tg4 and sky can show as many games as they like overseas, simple as that. Nobody complained at congress about it? no wonder when 99% of those old farts don't represent club and county members. They speak for themselves and eyeing up a top job sometime in the future, an example was the mayo county board convention, only 2 people spoke out about the shamble of the interview process for the new management, like i said they don't speak for anybody else but themselves riverboys (Mayo) - Posts: 1389 - 03/03/2015 19:58:21 1698936 Link 0 |
They could kill two birds with the one stone if they started putting provincial double headers together and making a proper event out of our summer Sundays. I know its done at the round of 16 stage but what's wrong with putting two Ulster quarter finals etc on the same day at the same venue, less fixture congestion, greater attendance and a justifiable ticket price, everyone's a winner. SaffronDon (Antrim) - Posts: 2385 - 04/03/2015 09:16:06 1699016 Link 0 |
rmaghball Oldtourman (Limerick) - Posts: 4285 - 04/03/2015 09:29:31 1699020 Link 0 |