R.E sligolifer
County: Sligo
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i 100% agree, he is being very bigoted in his assessment of NY and personally think he's looking for an excuse to not have NY particpate in the championship anymore. He is hoping that the footballers go the same route as the hurlers, win a game not be able to travel due to immigration policy. Also, how does he know that a weak team would travel? Has he checked all their papers and done his homework? I think not. In addition, it makes no sense to have only Roscommon particpate in the qualifiers. Why should NY not be allowed to do the same? Whats good for one, is good for all

the problem with this arguement is alot of the new york team are illegally living in the us and as such can only play in the us. meaning if they were in the qualifiers then they could be winning games against weaker losing provincial teams and might get through a few qualifiers, which would force county teams to put in money for trips to the states instead of putting the money where it is needed into the grass roots of the gaa ie your local club.
its bad enough roscommon have to pay for a trip to the states last week, and a holiday for the boys after that result. the money would have been better spent buying hurls and promoting hurling in the county where roscommon have gone back along way in the last 15 years. back in the 90's roscommon were putting it up to galway in the connacht hurling chamionship, now they can barely put it up to mayo. in the last 15 years dublin has put huge time and money into hurling in the county and look how it has paid off yesterday.
i personally believe new york should be scraped from the connacht championship, instead i believe the railway cup should be played as an alternative to the game in new york, with connacht, ulster , lenster,and munster and a usa team made up of the best players in the usa as a whole not just players from one city( which is a bias to the gaa in new york and a let down to players who play in the likes of boston, chicago san francisco etc) and this would save the interprovincial series as well

hurling4life (Donegal) - Posts: 76 - 02/05/2011 08:53:54    921799

Yesterdays result proves once again that this annual foray for New York is merely window candy and a day out for most folk. Occassionally New York put it up to the visitors from Connacht but what is gained from this venture. And the bottom line is if New York do win in these early rounds who will they send to Ireland for the next match.

lostintime (USA) - Posts: 533 - 02/05/2011 13:32:17    921958

What did people think of the game?? Only saw highlights on Tg4 but and have to say from what I saw Roscommon dominated from start to finish...

What I would say though is that I was pleasantly surprised by the large crowd in attendance at Gaelic Park and thought the carnival atmosphere in the area was great. I think the interest generated in NY for this game proves that New York deserve to be part of the championship as there is a great need to continue to promote our national games across the world. The news of the Iberian Gaa Championships was very encouraging recently...

I think if NY were able to participate in the league like London do then we would see a huge increase in their standard, although I admit this is close to impossible due to travel difficulties etc.

marketeer (Wicklow) - Posts: 57 - 03/05/2011 18:21:05    922914

Ah for the love of jaysus, what sort of a way was that to the start the championship? I honestly didn't even know till just a few minutes ago that this game had been played because I had ignored this thread up until now! Anyway slow hand clap for the GAA, well done lads on another fantastic championship opener.

Htaem (Meath) - Posts: 8657 - 03/05/2011 18:31:47    922924

Ah sure the game serves some purpose. It wouldn't be the GAA if there wasn't some form of false opener before the proper business kicks off.

legendzxix (Kerry) - Posts: 8772 - 05/05/2011 21:02:26    924671

I'd love to see more teams from abroad competing in competitions in Ireland. Even if they are too weak for the main All-Ireland, we should have several teams competing in the lower competitions. If financially possible, it would be nice to see games being played in France, England, America, and all the other countries in Europe that have GAA teams who don't get many games. Maybe it would be possible for teams from Europe to play a tournament in Europe comprising of several matches each, all played in the same location over a week and the winner competes in the All-Ireland.

gaelicman94 (Wexford) - Posts: 90 - 06/05/2011 19:47:38    925351

Having foreign teams entering is not practical in any sense whatsoever. People who suggest playing teams from Shanghai and Brisbane and the South Pole in the championship seem to ignore the figures like the €18'000 needed to play a match only over in London, and the €90'000 needed to play New York. Even if the foreign teams are to play each other to produce a single entrant, where are the funds going to come from for an australian team to play a french team, or an american team to play a polish one? if an irish county board struggles to pay it, how would a relatively tiny entity manage?

CastleBravo (Meath) - Posts: 1677 - 06/05/2011 20:15:31    925366

That's a good point. I meant it would be good to see IF it was financially possible.

gaelicman94 (Wexford) - Posts: 90 - 06/05/2011 21:28:50    925417