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This is where crokers marketing team should be kicking into overdrive. Say there is a game in Limerick between England and Argentina the lads should be hounding media in England with info on GAA in limerick, give a bit of info on it etc. It's a brilliant opportunity to promote the game abroad. It's not hard to pull together a few videos etc. They need to be polluting the airwaves when there is an international audience. The thing is those showing the games would actually lap up this sort of information to fill a void before the Samoa Canada game. There is potential for the GAA to promote their own games here and make a few quid. No brainer for me.
gotmilk (Fermanagh) - Posts: 4971 - 15/11/2016 17:24:21 1934436 Link 2 |
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Will this be the first time a major world sporting event will be hosted by a different sport??? hill16no1man (Dublin) - Posts: 12665 - 15/11/2016 17:38:07 1934443 Link 0 |
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:-)
Offside_Rule (Antrim) - Posts: 4058 - 15/11/2016 17:49:43 1934451 Link 0 |
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No. Off the top of my head I can think of USA 94
Weary (None) - Posts: 249 - 15/11/2016 18:01:07 1934455 Link 0 |
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Bumpernut, you have a vested Interest in the proposed Casement Park, you admitted you work with the Design team for the project, you stand to profit from it going ahead and are on here promoting it. You joke about my persistence with criticising the Proposed Casement Park project, yet conveniently Ignore your own bias, and the clear bias of the Antrim posters. Reasons why I am so strongly against the Proposed Casement park project, which appears to be really corrupt. PURPOSE: This proposed Casement Park is Intended to be the Provincial Stadium of Ulster, not simply a County Ground for Antrim, and it is not fit for that Intended purpose. FACTS - SMALLER CAPACITY: Proposed Casement capacity now reduced 34,000 due to site limitations, now actually smaller than Clones with zero scope for expansion ( Proposed Capacity was recently reduced, meaning future expansion is very unlikely). Ulster will remain the only Province in Ireland with no 40,000 Capacity Stadium. - POOR PARKING: The Proposed Casement has extremely limited parking, and most fans having to use a Park & Ride facility, It has arguably worst parking than Clones!! and lack of parking provisions in planning mean Stadium designers had to add "Park & Ride" facilities to cope with crowds of GAA fans. Casement has not held matches for crowds over 30,000 in modern times, and its parking is deemed insufficient for that number of people. - TRAVEL FROM ALL 9 COUNTIES: Fans from various parts of SW/West/NW Ulster will need approximately 2 hours to travel to Casement, this has not improved on Clones. A central located Provincial Stadium could see almost all fans reach it in an hour or less. - EXCESSIVE COST: The Proposed 34,000 Capacity Casement will cost at least £77 million/€86 million, with 45,770 Capacity Pairc Ui Chaoimh in Cork costing €60 million. A central ground like Healy Park in Omagh could be expanded or upgraded for £20-25 million. - ZERO BENEFIT OF BELFAST LOCATION FOR PROVINCIAL VENUE: Arguments for why a Provincial Stadium should be located in Belfast City are severely negated when considering that - Provincial fans don't fly to matches (No need for airports), - They rarely if ever stay overnight ( No need for hotel's or B&B's etc), - They don't tend to have time on match day to take in the shopping, and post match traffic makes travelling into the City for food unattractive. WHO BENEFITS FROM THE PROPOSED CASEMENT? Sinn Fein - They will claim this as an Iconic symbol of what they have done for West Belfast, even though they played little or no part in it. IRFU/British Rugby - They need 12 Stadiums for a RWC bid, and this British funded proposal would give them a larger Belfast option than Ravenhill. Antrim GAA & Down GAA - While primarily Antrim GAA stand to benefit ( See mass Antrim support on here), It is also on Down's doorstep. GaryMc82 (Derry) - Posts: 3017 - 15/11/2016 18:03:07 1934456 Link 1 |
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How ironic, without the GAA's help the IRFU could not host a rugby world cup. An amateur organisation being relied upon for a showcase world event. Hard to believe that the rugby fraternity which is supported by predominately by the middle to upper classes is not in a position to go solo on their bid to win the staging of it. GAA should do a serious cost benefit analysis on providing the stadia. Rugby is competing for the youth of tomorrow and are becoming very successful in developing interest throughout underage levels which is not a good thing for the GAA in promoting their games. GaryMc82 (Derry) - Posts: 3017 - 15/11/2016 18:20:12 1934460 Link 0 |
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World Cup 94 used stadiums from other sports.
doratheexplorer (Cavan) - Posts: 1467 - 15/11/2016 18:26:26 1934464 Link 0 |
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Which grounds can host England. Their Anthem won't be welcome in a number of those grounds I'm sure. GaryMc82 (Derry) - Posts: 3017 - 15/11/2016 18:29:59 1934466 Link 0 |
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Yeah, an amateur { ahem } association fining a member for allowing another sport to use for summer camps, or train to help offset the huge running costs of maintaining a club and then agreeing to rent out grounds for the RUGBY world cup. Only in frikking Ireland. Has croke park asked the members of these counties that have grounds named if they agree to allow the grounds to be used or is it a case of do as I say not as I do. Considering the ban on clubs renting grounds I think the gaa knows the answer so are putting out the dictat that they are giving the permission. It's all about the money joe. How will this show case the unique games of the gaa only to show off the nice stadiums.
bulmccabe (Tyrone) - Posts: 361 - 15/11/2016 18:44:52 1934471 Link 0 |
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This is where crokers marketing team should be kicking into overdrive. Say there is a game in Limerick between England and Argentina the lads should be hounding media in England with info on GAA in limerick, give a bit of info on it etc. It's a brilliant opportunity to promote the game abroad. It's not hard to pull together a few videos etc. They need to be polluting the airwaves when there is an international audience. The thing is those showing the games would actually lap up this sort of information to fill a void before the Samoa Canada game. There is potential for the GAA to promote their own games here and make a few quid. No brainer for me. GaryMc82 (Derry) - Posts: 3017 - 15/11/2016 19:01:09 1934475 Link 0 |
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Lads, a hard Brexit could be a disaster for this. Also, would the Gaelic Grounds in Limerick not be more attractive than Thomand? keeper7 (Longford) - Posts: 4088 - 15/11/2016 19:08:10 1934478 Link 1 |
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Just heard Liam Neesons rendition of "Ready for the World" on Off The Ball.What a cringy load of nonsense.Apparently Kilbanne(is he ever off the tv/radio?) and the lads thought it was very moving.Seriously it was embarrasing and Neeson said the word " world " 18 times in the short ad.Ready for the bin more like.Please God don't give this tournament to Ireland.Between Ireland's Call and Ready for the World i cannot take much more of this. cuederocket (Dublin) - Posts: 5084 - 15/11/2016 19:13:08 1934479 Link 1 |
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Ahh come on, are we still obsessed with anthems? Jesus Christ will you look at America and see what happens when you start to discriminate against another country. Cop yourself on, its 2016 not 1916.
royaldunne (Meath) - Posts: 19449 - 15/11/2016 19:17:59 1934480 Link 1 |
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Great gesture by the Gaa, fairplay to them, I think it would be absolutely brilliant for Ireland to host the RWC and I'd be delighted if we got it. Htaem (Meath) - Posts: 8657 - 15/11/2016 19:19:03 1934481 Link 6 |
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2007 and 2015 RWCs mainly used soccer stadiums 2010 soccer world cup used rugby stadiua - blue bulls could not play their super rugby semi final and final in their home ground loftus versfeld due to it 2000 and 2008 rugby league world cup finals were in old trafford -millenium stadium cardiff, twickenham wembley were used even had games in windsor park tolka and thomond park 2015 Cricket world cup used no of rugby stadiums janesboro (Limerick) - Posts: 1502 - 15/11/2016 19:20:26 1934483 Link 0 |
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2007 and 2015 RWCs mainly used soccer stadiums 2010 soccer world cup used rugby stadiua - blue bulls could not play their super rugby semi final and final in their home ground loftus versfeld due to it 2000 and 2008 rugby league world cup finals were in old trafford -millenium stadium cardiff, twickenham wembley were used even had games in windsor park tolka and thomond park 2015 Cricket world cup used no of rugby stadiums janesboro (Limerick) - Posts: 1502 - 15/11/2016 19:21:14 1934484 Link 1 |
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Exactly, off the top of my head Kerry has only something like 6-7 rugby clubs, all of them in the main towns. We have near 80 GAA clubs. As I said Limerick city is different, for historical reasons. So what huge threat is there for the GAA,? Are 500 rugby clubs going to suddenly appear across the island in the wake of one tournament being hosted here? One observation I would make about the posts going up is that there seems to be a particular hostility by some towards rugby. Now as someone who has no real interest in soccer outside of the fortunes of the national team, I'm curious as to why some of you are so hostile to rugby and its perceived threat. For me soccer, especially underage soccer in places like my hometown of Tralee, would be a far bigger danger to the GAA than rugby ever would. Is there a bias there simply because a lot of you would consider yourself soccer supporters or do you not think soccer is a much of a threat as rugby. Just curious. TheHermit (Kerry) - Posts: 6354 - 15/11/2016 19:23:53 1934485 Link 0 |
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USA 94, and (shock, horror) the last Rugby World Cup in the UK. Despite having plenty of large rugby stadia, they used Wembley, Elland Road, St James' Park, the KP Stadium, and a couple more soccer stadia. Hosting a tournament like this is as much about the towns and cities as it is the stadia - of course the anti-rugby brigade on here would be the very same people pointing this out if it were another sport that Ireland were bidding to host. cavanman47 (Cavan) - Posts: 5012 - 15/11/2016 19:27:17 1934488 Link 0 |
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England matches probably in The Aviva or Croker because they'll have a large amount of supporters.
doratheexplorer (Cavan) - Posts: 1467 - 15/11/2016 19:29:44 1934489 Link 0 |
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Firstly there a lot of work to done in order to win the hosting rights - if we did janesboro (Limerick) - Posts: 1502 - 15/11/2016 19:39:08 1934492 Link 0 |