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The Corona Virus And Possible Effects To GAA Matches

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Replying To galwayford:  "The Govt and their media allies are making a joke of the GAA. They are allowing inter pro rugby, but will not allow inter county GAA. Time for GAA to stand up."
Not sure what planet you came from but its the GAAs decision to play club first. Inter-county could be played today if they wanted to.

zinny (Wexford) - Posts: 1956 - 12/08/2020 10:59:14    2287326

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Replying To ConnollyDub:  "
Replying To timmyhogan:  "The GAA need to finish the National league at least

Well said - this point can't be repeated often enough. Of the many issues facing the country along with Covid & its economic impact; Brexit, a border poll , the rise of Sinn Fein etc its important that the primary issue facing the nation [completion of the NFL
is kept front & centre in the national debate.
Thankfully certain Galway posters on HS are doing their bit in this regard.

ps Remind us again lads, what's so important about the NFL this year?"
''Of the many issues facing the country along with Covid & its economic impact; Brexit, a border poll , the rise of Sinn Fein "

So the rise of a different political party (other than the same two parties FF/FG for the last 100 years) to act as a formidable opposition to the government, and to righty hold them to account ......this is a bad thing? Surely this is a good thing for democracy in Ireland?"]Perhaps I worded it badly, Connolly Dub. Thats not a bad thing at all - a much better thing would be
a strong SF majority Govt to straighten out the 26 county polity and after that ......

Will that do!

timmyhogan (UK) - Posts: 290 - 12/08/2020 11:17:28    2287330

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Replying To galwayford:  "The Govt and their media allies are making a joke of the GAA. They are allowing inter pro rugby, but will not allow inter county GAA. Time for GAA to stand up."
Media allies? Save it for the 4chan conspiracy chat rooms Ford

Breezy (Limerick) - Posts: 1236 - 12/08/2020 11:33:10    2287333

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Replying To Breezy:  "Media allies? Save it for the 4chan conspiracy chat rooms Ford"
I struggle to believe that anyone who consumes sports media and who has access to internet boards like this could possibly believe that there is a Government and/or media agenda against the G.A.A.

Half the politicians in this country are elected because they did a good job at corner back in the 1980s.

SurelyToGod (Donegal) - Posts: 452 - 12/08/2020 12:45:34    2287355

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Replying To zinny:  "Interesting to see Aukland now in a lockdown over the new cases there. Reading about it, no clue where it came from and the dad in the family had has the symptoms for five days before the test. They went 102 days without any local transmission and yet they get one where they have no idea where it came from. Even with a Vaccine this virus will be with us forever."
I have faith that human ingenuity coupled with massive financial reward will eventually lead us to some sort of vaccine or effective treatment. Until then it will be a case of living with the virus as best we can unfortunately.

On a lighter note - I was discussing dinosaurs and their demise with my young fella the other day. I know there is a widely held view that some sort of massive asteroid or big bang wiped them out. But what if it was a pandemic? It would have been an impossible job to get the bauld T-Rex to social distance!

Lockjaw (Donegal) - Posts: 9748 - 12/08/2020 13:25:00    2287361

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Replying To SurelyToGod:  "I struggle to believe that anyone who consumes sports media and who has access to internet boards like this could possibly believe that there is a Government and/or media agenda against the G.A.A.

Half the politicians in this country are elected because they did a good job at corner back in the 1980s."
There seems to be a conspiracy theory for everything nowadays

Breezy (Limerick) - Posts: 1236 - 12/08/2020 21:01:10    2287390

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Replying To SurelyToGod:  "I struggle to believe that anyone who consumes sports media and who has access to internet boards like this could possibly believe that there is a Government and/or media agenda against the G.A.A.

Half the politicians in this country are elected because they did a good job at corner back in the 1980s."
The Dáil has 160 members; The Seanad 60.

According to your reckoning, that's 110 former GAA corner backs from the 1980's in the current Oireachtas.

Cockney_Cat (UK) - Posts: 2745 - 13/08/2020 21:10:28    2287470

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Replying To Lockjaw:  "I have faith that human ingenuity coupled with massive financial reward will eventually lead us to some sort of vaccine or effective treatment. Until then it will be a case of living with the virus as best we can unfortunately.

On a lighter note - I was discussing dinosaurs and their demise with my young fella the other day. I know there is a widely held view that some sort of massive asteroid or big bang wiped them out. But what if it was a pandemic? It would have been an impossible job to get the bauld T-Rex to social distance!"
I think he might easily be classed as a super spreader

zinny (Wexford) - Posts: 1956 - 14/08/2020 09:50:47    2287493

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Replying To SurelyToGod:  "I struggle to believe that anyone who consumes sports media and who has access to internet boards like this could possibly believe that there is a Government and/or media agenda against the G.A.A.

Half the politicians in this country are elected because they did a good job at corner back in the 1980s."
I am anti Rugby. I am not proud of this but there are reasons. Hope I am pro GAA though. How many senior Govt ministers were involved in the GAA. Maybe one or two. Not that many.

galwayford (Galway) - Posts: 2614 - 14/08/2020 12:33:42    2287517

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I have banged on a lot about the "big bad" Rugby bogey man. But understand I am only expressing concern hopefully about the GAA sponsors. Who will surely pull out if there is no inter county matches.

galwayford (Galway) - Posts: 2614 - 14/08/2020 12:37:15    2287519

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Replying To Cockney_Cat:  "The Dáil has 160 members; The Seanad 60.

According to your reckoning, that's 110 former GAA corner backs from the 1980's in the current Oireachtas."
Maybe I under-estimated

SurelyToGod (Donegal) - Posts: 452 - 14/08/2020 14:42:01    2287547

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Im seeing an indomitable amount of posts on this thread that ultimately add up to nothing other than to give anyone with a brain cell a good chuckle.
The anti-rugby and anti-soccer agenda is very small, granted, but it's inception is linked simply with the pluralism of interest that many GAA people rightly have with other sports, and the appreciation of Irish talent who arent Gaelic sports players. There is no grand secret society in power who want to further any sport above the other. The GAA is strictly amateur and operates in practice on a different planet to professional sports. The wearing of masks is an empty formula which will not magically protect anyone from any virus or sickness on a damp terrace at a match on a cold October night, but is better than nothing and has benefits up and to a point. Social distancing in public places isn't possible as im sure everyone else has seen in our society over the last few months. No one, including myself, has any inkling as to what will really happen as of yet, but it is a consequence of the very uncertain times we're living in, nothing more.

Young_gael (Meath) - Posts: 597 - 14/08/2020 18:53:58    2287580

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Replying To galwayford:  "I am anti Rugby. I am not proud of this but there are reasons. Hope I am pro GAA though. How many senior Govt ministers were involved in the GAA. Maybe one or two. Not that many."
I like both (GAA and Rugby) but I just keep them separate. I love almost all sports. I try to leave politics and the past out of it. It makes it more enjoyable for me. I respect your preferences though.

Trump2020 (Galway) - Posts: 2493 - 14/08/2020 22:55:53    2287603

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One effect is this:

https://tyronegaa.ie/tyronegaatv/

I'm mighty glad of it!

essmac (Tyrone) - Posts: 1141 - 15/08/2020 21:58:13    2287696

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Probably more of a reflection of regulations in England but crazy that there is a 200 limit of outdoor matches in the the republic of ireland but 300 spectators are allowed in the crucible for the snooker world final, its mind boggling.

bostonredsox (Wexford) - Posts: 4368 - 16/08/2020 01:54:01    2287713

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Replying To essmac:  "One effect is this:

https://tyronegaa.ie/tyronegaatv/

I'm mighty glad of it!"
I would say that more people have seen club GAA games live albeit streamed or on TV than any year before. Interest in club games I would say has massively gone up this year. Ok some of that may be because its the only game in town but I think it will force a rethink by the GAA of the season and even the local county boards on how they run the club championships. Why did it take the pandemic for them to realize that there is an appetite for live streamed games? I don't think even streaming it free would impact club games attendance but would continue to build the popularity of the game.

zinny (Wexford) - Posts: 1956 - 16/08/2020 09:16:09    2287720

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Replying To zinny:  "I would say that more people have seen club GAA games live albeit streamed or on TV than any year before. Interest in club games I would say has massively gone up this year. Ok some of that may be because its the only game in town but I think it will force a rethink by the GAA of the season and even the local county boards on how they run the club championships. Why did it take the pandemic for them to realize that there is an appetite for live streamed games? I don't think even streaming it free would impact club games attendance but would continue to build the popularity of the game."
Its fantastic to be able to see these club games. I've found them very enjoyable .

Bon (Kildare) - Posts: 2299 - 16/08/2020 11:37:47    2287736

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Replying To zinny:  "I would say that more people have seen club GAA games live albeit streamed or on TV than any year before. Interest in club games I would say has massively gone up this year. Ok some of that may be because its the only game in town but I think it will force a rethink by the GAA of the season and even the local county boards on how they run the club championships. Why did it take the pandemic for them to realize that there is an appetite for live streamed games? I don't think even streaming it free would impact club games attendance but would continue to build the popularity of the game."
For someone like me living in England it's been great. I watched James Stephens v O'Loughlin Gaels live on https://www.beosport.live/products for £6 on Friday evening. The quality of sound and picture was excellent, with good informed commentary.

I don't know the cost of putting on these games for the clubs and county, and how many viewers the require to break even. Plus, if continued when games are back to normal, they could have a negative effect on attendances.

But with hundreds of thousands of GAA fans around the world, if they could at least continue broadcasting outside of Ireland, they might be on to something.

Cockney_Cat (UK) - Posts: 2745 - 16/08/2020 15:29:09    2287769

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Replying To Cockney_Cat:  "For someone like me living in England it's been great. I watched James Stephens v O'Loughlin Gaels live on https://www.beosport.live/products for £6 on Friday evening. The quality of sound and picture was excellent, with good informed commentary.

I don't know the cost of putting on these games for the clubs and county, and how many viewers the require to break even. Plus, if continued when games are back to normal, they could have a negative effect on attendances.

But with hundreds of thousands of GAA fans around the world, if they could at least continue broadcasting outside of Ireland, they might be on to something."
GAAGO is a great service for overseas but they rely on national broadcaster to do it. All the recent club games bar the ones covered by TG4 are individual counties doing their own live streams which are also accessible overseas. The are basic stuff but fill a massive gap. I am not so sure that keeping these would impact attendance, Gaelic Football and Hurling unlike say Rugby is best seen live where you can see what else is going on around the pitch. With these streams you don't get that so I still think people will go to the games if they had a choice. My pitch on having these (and even free ) is that the GAA is losing a battle in Urban areas where some kids will never have seen a club game live even if they know some of the players. Give them access and perhaps they may get off their computers and watch it, they wouldn't have to watch the whole thing, 10-15mins will do. We have to start engaging with these kids and charging them to see games won't do that. Let them see what they could be. Even go as far as to produce club highlight videos and get them out on social media. The best tool we have to increase participation and engagement from the population are the games themselves.

zinny (Wexford) - Posts: 1956 - 17/08/2020 08:35:28    2287832

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GAAGO is a great service for overseas but they rely on national broadcaster to do it. All the recent club games bar the ones covered by TG4 are individual counties doing their own live streams which are also accessible overseas. The are basic stuff but fill a massive gap. I am not so sure that keeping these would impact attendance, Gaelic Football and Hurling unlike say Rugby is best seen live where you can see what else is going on around the pitch. With these streams you don't get that so I still think people will go to the games if they had a choice. My pitch on having these (and even free ) is that the GAA is losing a battle in Urban areas where some kids will never have seen a club game live even if they know some of the players. Give them access and perhaps they may get off their computers and watch it, they wouldn't have to watch the whole thing, 10-15mins will do. We have to start engaging with these kids and charging them to see games won't do that. Let them see what they could be. Even go as far as to produce club highlight videos and get them out on social media. The best tool we have to increase participation and engagement from the population are the games themselves.
zinny (Wexford) - Posts: 833 - 17/08/2020 08:35:28 Rugby is also best seen live so you can see running lines, defensive structures you wont necessarily see live on tv.

KillingFields (Limerick) - Posts: 3747 - 17/08/2020 11:54:20    2287864

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