Things are really starting to heat up in the football Championship with this weekend being the first weekend of the group stage. Believe it or not though, the attendances at some of the weekend’s games was extremely poor to say the least ..
Killing provincial championships will kill Football
Big crowd at Connacht rugby v a team from South Africa (On Tv Rte & Premier sports) 15k at Leinster v Ulster
Look at madness of Gaa Monaghan Cavan & Derry fans and expected to travel for afternoon Sat games. They didn’t & won’tTeams out again twice in 3 weeks and guaranteed that one of them two will play the week after that again
Money only goes so far. Derry to Galway is probably an over night stay
Monaghan to Galway definitely is.
The championship is so tight it hasn’t a chance to breathe
It doesn’t help when we know with almost certainty who is going to qualify out of each group. Top 2 into 1/4s would make it more interesting
1/ Have you measured the GAAGo viewership?
2/ Kerry fans don’t even turn up at Croker for SF’s.
3/ And where is the infrastructure? Derry -> Salthill or Monaghan -> Kenmare. That’s roughly 4 hrs , no?
Derry Galway was a brilliant match.
There advertising of the games and promotions of the games is appalling always has been in the GAA that’s one problem hype the shit out of these games even if we know the results not one add would you see on tv about these games shocking
It’s not the format.. football can’t be looked at.. this sideways passing and blanket defence is brutal