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The Connacht Council can well afford the annual junket. An American championship would have to be funded for to be meaningful so funding the travel expenses of a New York team is hardly any big deal. There's lots of money in New York GAA circles anyhow... see how much we raised out there this year with minimal effort.
Square_B (Leitrim) - Posts: 844 - 19/04/2022 13:58:11 2411570 Link 1 |
Teams that travels out makes a lot more money than the expense it is to travel out and i believe the Connacht GAA partly fund it. Gaa_lover (USA) - Posts: 3347 - 19/04/2022 15:20:33 2411608 Link 2 |
Wouldn't that money be better placed towards installing floodlights in Carrick, Sligo or Roscommon though? Perhaps there should be funding towards a North American championship. If they want to grow the game to Americans with little or no knowledge of gaelic games it would be a better option than the current set up
Leitrim_12 (USA) - Posts: 207 - 19/04/2022 15:23:04 2411611 Link 1 |
Do you people ever sit back and do any research? There aren't enough clubs in America to sustain an American championship. Maybe Boston but that is it. Connacht counties won't give up the NY cash cow. Any money lost in travel is recouped by fundraising over there.
Rolo2010 (Donegal) - Posts: 739 - 19/04/2022 16:38:58 2411630 Link 1 |
The only two cities with enough clubs are Boston and NY. USGAA already has national competitions for clubs but American champ isn't sustainable. I'd like to see an annual Boston v NY match. Any talk of removing NY must go along with alternative matches such as sending the All-Ireland champions out in both codes.
Rolo2010 (Donegal) - Posts: 739 - 19/04/2022 16:44:51 2411631 Link 1 |
Sligo and Roscommon would have floodlights years ago but for protests from residents.
Yondu (UK) - Posts: 845 - 19/04/2022 17:01:49 2411635 Link 5 |
In the grand scale of the GAA budget it's small beer and it's a small price to pay to keep the games alive stateside. The amount of investment needed to grow the game in America would be far beyond what the GAA could fund at the moment. Certainly there's an argument for advancing the hurling game stateside but as I've said, it's beyond the resources of the GAA at the minute. Anyhow, decent foodlights in Carrick would cost many multiples of 60k (which is roughly what it costs to send a team to NY).
Square_B (Leitrim) - Posts: 844 - 19/04/2022 17:01:54 2411636 Link 1 |
u must have cavan roots? your a bit obsessed with costs and money
Stmunnsriver (Wexford) - Posts: 2844 - 19/04/2022 17:13:22 2411639 Link 2 |
I was under the impression that New York GAA had to pay for the costs of the travelling teams but got all of the gate receipts from their annual championship game? Gleebo (Mayo) - Posts: 2208 - 20/04/2022 10:31:52 2411717 Link 0 |
What do you mean by Cavan roots? Do you reckon an amateur organisation can spend money as it likes without any thought? Do you understand how a forum works? Bit of a silly post.
Leitrim_12 (USA) - Posts: 207 - 20/04/2022 10:36:41 2411722 Link 1 |
Average cost of a team going to New York is 100k, Connacht council stump up 50 or 60k, not sure which, County board finance the rest. Teams generally make alot of money while out there to off set expense reffingmad (Roscommon) - Posts: 371 - 20/04/2022 14:19:05 2411833 Link 1 |
How can you be from Ireland and not know about Cavan people and being tight with money.
Rolo2010 (Donegal) - Posts: 739 - 20/04/2022 15:55:10 2411879 Link 1 |
exactly, theres clubs in all the major cities but some only have 1 or two clubs where it would be junior C standard, NY teams would wipe the floor with them due to better resources and more homegrown players mixed with imports. be great if the smaller cities could compete with NY but like leitrim winning an ireland, it aint gonna happen and the gaa dont have the cash for a center of excellence type setup everywhere in the US gaelsboy (Leitrim) - Posts: 460 - 21/04/2022 14:34:19 2412098 Link 0 |
Theyre not as bad as the Scots in fairness
Galway9801 (Galway) - Posts: 1712 - 21/04/2022 15:49:41 2412118 Link 0 |
They aren't tighter with money than Donegal people for example in my experience. It is just a lazy throwaway remark.
Leitrim_12 (USA) - Posts: 207 - 21/04/2022 19:56:28 2412163 Link 0 |
We're talking a max of 4 games here from Connacht to Tailteann. So let's say 400k. NY can easily raise that through fundraising at home and in Ireland.
Rolo2010 (Donegal) - Posts: 739 - 21/04/2022 20:31:48 2412170 Link 0 |
I would honestly love to see NY or London make an impact on the Tailtean cup even at the expense of Leitrim if needs be, they had a raw deal of it with covid yet acquitted themselves well so far this year, and yes with the amount of irish and irish descendants in both cities there should not be a bother raising funds to run a county team as good as any other team in it. of course it needs to be invested right too and not wasted for a jollier/ get together for the old lads on the county boards
gaelsboy (Leitrim) - Posts: 460 - 22/04/2022 13:16:27 2412261 Link 0 |
They are. A Donegal man will happily buy a pint for a friend.
Rolo2010 (Donegal) - Posts: 739 - 22/04/2022 16:51:10 2412328 Link 0 |
Go away with your facts. How would yer man be able to justify his passion for removing New York from the championship without his flimsy reasoning for it to happen?
Tydavnet (Monaghan) - Posts: 16 - 30/04/2022 16:44:38 2414212 Link 1 |
Will this be the first time New York play a team outside of Connacht ? brisbane (Galway) - Posts: 674 - 29/05/2022 19:41:54 2420858 Link 0 |