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Replying To Temple56: "1000 people at a club game in Westmeath? What planet are you living on? Charging €10 is not strange thinking at all. GAA may be a community based sport but It needs money to run. Look at Westmeath GAA accounts for 2023 it takes a serious amount of money to run GAA within our county. Playing GAA is on of the cheapest sports in the country. Membership is very cheap compare to other sports and for the enjoyment and friends you get by being involved it is PRIZELESS!!!" 100% agree with all of this. a tenner is very fair value with the things other places are being charged. Im a student and have never been asked for ID ( despite being way older than normal student age) on the get, so the earlier post about them looking for ID from 13/15 year olds just isn't true. Bluelake (Westmeath) - Posts: 193 - 22/07/2024 19:16:25 2560753 Link
How did Ballynacargy lose that CleanShoulder (Westmeath) - Posts: 335 - 22/07/2024 21:36:08 2560768 Link
Replying To WmeathWarrior: "I still think that ticket prices are too high. Why can't we have a flat €5 entry fee and fill up venues. I know for some €10 is fine but honestly I know that €10 is too much for most, make it €20 if you're going with a partner. Entertainment doesn't have to come at such a big cost. Fill up the venues. Create a buzz. Bring people into the town. Why are we still so prehistoric in GAA. Friends of the lads on the gate getting in for free then, others being asked for ID to determine if they're 13 or 15. Madness. Championship used to be such a great occasion. But the crowds aren't there, which is a shame because the interest is certainly there. €5 in. Make double headers on the right days. Watch championships take off." Oh give up. FFS €10 is very cheap. It's 2024 not 1994. Captainfantastic (Westmeath) - Posts: 50 - 22/07/2024 23:37:57 2560793 Link
Replying To Captainfantastic: "Oh give up. FFS €10 is very cheap. It's 2024 not 1994." Oh I'll give up don't worry. I'll talk to the wall instead it's more open minded here. You're missing the point. People don't come… they would come if it was €5, it's that simple. The intake for the county board would be the same. I'm not trying to swindle the county board out of money, it would make them more. Do you get that? You are Entitled to your opinion. No problem there at all. I'd just rather be at a match with 500 people there as opposed to 50. That's really my point. Oh well. And let's be real, the Cusack Park toilets would suggest we are indeed still in 1994. I'm not disregarding the entertainment and the quality these lads on the pitch give us, that's not the issue here. People are genuinely looking at expenses to the fine detail in this day and age because they have to. I think if they trialed a €5 gate for a weekend they would be shocked at the turn out and more importantly for them, the intake. End of story lol. WmeathWarrior (Westmeath) - Posts: 65 - 23/07/2024 10:45:25 2560833 Link
Replying To WmeathWarrior: "Oh I'll give up don't worry. I'll talk to the wall instead it's more open minded here. You're missing the point. People don't come… they would come if it was €5, it's that simple. The intake for the county board would be the same. I'm not trying to swindle the county board out of money, it would make them more. Do you get that? You are Entitled to your opinion. No problem there at all. I'd just rather be at a match with 500 people there as opposed to 50. That's really my point. Oh well. And let's be real, the Cusack Park toilets would suggest we are indeed still in 1994. I'm not disregarding the entertainment and the quality these lads on the pitch give us, that's not the issue here. People are genuinely looking at expenses to the fine detail in this day and age because they have to. I think if they trialed a €5 gate for a weekend they would be shocked at the turn out and more importantly for them, the intake. End of story lol." Not sure if there's latent support out there even if price was reduced. Most clubs have a small but dedicated following who go to their championship matches, reducing the price unlikely to suddenly attract twice as many supporters. In relation to Cusack Park, matches are fixed there for clubs because clubs and especially players want to play there. Claretandblue (Westmeath) - Posts: 1972 - 23/07/2024 12:30:41 2560873 Link
Replying To WmeathWarrior: "Oh I'll give up don't worry. I'll talk to the wall instead it's more open minded here. You're missing the point. People don't come… they would come if it was €5, it's that simple. The intake for the county board would be the same. I'm not trying to swindle the county board out of money, it would make them more. Do you get that? You are Entitled to your opinion. No problem there at all. I'd just rather be at a match with 500 people there as opposed to 50. That's really my point. Oh well. And let's be real, the Cusack Park toilets would suggest we are indeed still in 1994. I'm not disregarding the entertainment and the quality these lads on the pitch give us, that's not the issue here. People are genuinely looking at expenses to the fine detail in this day and age because they have to. I think if they trialed a €5 gate for a weekend they would be shocked at the turn out and more importantly for them, the intake. End of story lol." I've never heard of anyone saying the price of club games has determined whether they go to a match or not possibly for a small minority but if the tickets are half the price theres zero evidence to suggest you will have twice the crowd. jiminycricket (Offaly) - Posts: 30 - 23/07/2024 12:52:12 2560880 Link
Round 2 Predictions Kinnegad vs Tyrrellspass St Lomans vs Tang Mullingar Shamrocks vs Moate Killucan vs Shandonagh The Downs vs St Malachys Caulry vs Athlone Redzer99 (Waterford) - Posts: 88 - 23/07/2024 13:31:12 2560902 Link
Replying To WmeathWarrior: "Oh I'll give up don't worry. I'll talk to the wall instead it's more open minded here. You're missing the point. People don't come… they would come if it was €5, it's that simple. The intake for the county board would be the same. I'm not trying to swindle the county board out of money, it would make them more. Do you get that? You are Entitled to your opinion. No problem there at all. I'd just rather be at a match with 500 people there as opposed to 50. That's really my point. Oh well. And let's be real, the Cusack Park toilets would suggest we are indeed still in 1994. I'm not disregarding the entertainment and the quality these lads on the pitch give us, that's not the issue here. People are genuinely looking at expenses to the fine detail in this day and age because they have to. I think if they trialed a €5 gate for a weekend they would be shocked at the turn out and more importantly for them, the intake. End of story lol." No offence intended. Not imho. 99% of potential customers would not be swayed by a €5 entry. What is restricting crowds at games is the insignificance of these games. Championship was built on knockout not prolonged leagues. They have lost their punch. Also too much on offer nowadays to distract potential customers from holidays to tv sport to other entertainment. Going to a league championship game is not seen as thrilling anymore. Captainfantastic (Westmeath) - Posts: 50 - 23/07/2024 13:55:22 2560913 Link
Replying To Redzer99: "Round 2 Predictions Kinnegad vs Tyrrellspass St Lomans vs Tang Mullingar Shamrocks vs Moate Killucan vs Shandonagh The Downs vs St Malachys Caulry vs Athlone" Kinnegad by 5 Lomans by 10+ Shamrocks by 2 The Downs by 5 Athlone by 3 Unfortunately, not for the life of me can St. Lomans be beaten by Tang this weekend. Lomans will be at full strength. The first game is there to take advantage of, Athlone put it up to Lomans, and Tang pipped Kinnegad, but unfortunately that rarely continues throughout the rounds. Game of the weekend will be Athlone vs Caulry and I'm Picking Athlone to build on last weekend and beat Caulry. WmeathWarrior (Westmeath) - Posts: 65 - 23/07/2024 15:19:36 2560950 Link
Replying To Redzer99: "Round 2 Predictions Kinnegad vs Tyrrellspass St Lomans vs Tang Mullingar Shamrocks vs Moate Killucan vs Shandonagh The Downs vs St Malachys Caulry vs Athlone" Kinnegad by 2 Lomans by 5 Shamrocks by 7 Killucan by 1 The Downs by 12 Caulry by 3 Bluelake (Westmeath) - Posts: 193 - 23/07/2024 18:23:42 2561031 Link
Replying To Redzer99: "Round 2 Predictions Kinnegad vs Tyrrellspass St Lomans vs Tang Mullingar Shamrocks vs Moate Killucan vs Shandonagh The Downs vs St Malachys Caulry vs Athlone" TPass by 3 Lomans by 5 Shamrocks by 4 Killucan by 2 Downs by 10 Caulry by 1 I can see the downs back competing for championship when have full squad back, Can also see shamrocks making a semi looking stronger then past few years. I think Kinnegad will struggle, be lucky to make quarter finals. It's lomans to loose Ayardout (Westmeath) - Posts: 14 - 24/07/2024 10:09:44 2561139 Link
Replying To Ayardout: "TPass by 3 Lomans by 5 Shamrocks by 4 Killucan by 2 Downs by 10 Caulry by 1 I can see the downs back competing for championship when have full squad back, Can also see shamrocks making a semi looking stronger then past few years. I think Kinnegad will struggle, be lucky to make quarter finals. It's lomans to loose" I don't seen tpass getting a win but maybe a draw be a tight game will be interesting how they setup, Lomans should win will be sunny day looks like tang will be up for it after their win Caulry will suffer against Athlone they are playing good stuff this year and showed it against lomans Grainofrice (Westmeath) - Posts: 4 - 24/07/2024 11:19:25 2561174 Link
Replying To Redzer99: "Round 2 Predictions Kinnegad vs Tyrrellspass St Lomans vs Tang Mullingar Shamrocks vs Moate Killucan vs Shandonagh The Downs vs St Malachys Caulry vs Athlone" Kinnegad vs Tyrrellspass - DRAW. St Lomans vs Tang - LOMANS BY 8. Mullingar Shamrocks vs Moate - SHAMROCKS BY 3. Killucan vs Shandonagh - KILLUCAN BY 2. The Downs vs St Malachys - DOWNS BY 7. Caulry vs Athlone - CAULRY BY 2. Meridian (Westmeath) - Posts: 664 - 24/07/2024 11:24:45 2561177 Link
Replying To Grainofrice: "I don't seen tpass getting a win but maybe a draw be a tight game will be interesting how they setup, Lomans should win will be sunny day looks like tang will be up for it after their win Caulry will suffer against Athlone they are playing good stuff this year and showed it against lomans" Is Ger Egan still out? I fancy Kinnegad to put last week behind them Redzer99 (Waterford) - Posts: 88 - 24/07/2024 11:50:33 2561184 Link
Replying To Redzer99: "Round 2 Predictions Kinnegad vs Tyrrellspass St Lomans vs Tang Mullingar Shamrocks vs Moate Killucan vs Shandonagh The Downs vs St Malachys Caulry vs Athlone" Tyrrellspass by 3 Lomans by 4 Shamrocks by 2 Killucan by 3 The Downs by 10+ Caulry/Athlone Draw mintyfresh (Westmeath) - Posts: 251 - 24/07/2024 14:16:53 2561233 Link
Senior Kinnegad vs Tyrrellspass - Kinnegad by 1 St Lomans vs Tang - Lomans by 7 Mullingar Shamrocks vs Moate - Mullingar by 4 Killucan vs Shandonagh - Draw The Downs vs St Malachys - Downs by 9 Caulry vs Athlone - Draw Intermediate Maryland vs Kilbeggen - Maryland by 2 Milltownpass Vs Milltown - Draw Castledaly V Garrycastle - Garrycastle by 12 Ballynacargy V Multyfarnham - Multy by 5 Ballymore V St Mary's - St Mary's by 3 Tubberclair V Rosemount - Draw martyW (Westmeath) - Posts: 333 - 24/07/2024 16:10:17 2561275 Link
Replying To Redzer99: "Round 2 Predictions Kinnegad vs Tyrrellspass St Lomans vs Tang Mullingar Shamrocks vs Moate Killucan vs Shandonagh The Downs vs St Malachys Caulry vs Athlone" Kinnegad by 4 Lomans by 7 Shamrocks by 2 Shandonagh by 1 Downs by 8 Caulry by 2 Midlandsman (Westmeath) - Posts: 32 - 25/07/2024 13:29:08 2561489 Link
Replying To Midlandsman: "Kinnegad by 4 Lomans by 7 Shamrocks by 2 Shandonagh by 1 Downs by 8 Caulry by 2" kinnegad will hardly score much more than 6 points so we will score 2 after scoring 2 12 against a tean containing one of the best in leinster mickcunningham (Westmeath) - Posts: 1881 - 25/07/2024 14:52:19 2561525 Link
Replying To Redzer99: "Round 2 Predictions Kinnegad vs Tyrrellspass St Lomans vs Tang Mullingar Shamrocks vs Moate Killucan vs Shandonagh The Downs vs St Malachys Caulry vs Athlone" I am not giving Predictions here but I will say its a absolute disgrace that the County board have a round of championships matches on the weekend/ day of a All Ireland final let it be football or hurling. No wonder some lads don't put themselves forward for county selection when this rubbish goes on . All Ireland final should be a free weekend for all players fixtures committee take note you are driving players away and supporters. Undertheroad (Westmeath) - Posts: 65 - 25/07/2024 14:58:28 2561527 Link
Replying To Undertheroad: "I am not giving Predictions here but I will say its a absolute disgrace that the County board have a round of championships matches on the weekend/ day of a All Ireland final let it be football or hurling. No wonder some lads don't put themselves forward for county selection when this rubbish goes on . All Ireland final should be a free weekend for all players fixtures committee take note you are driving players away and supporters." I don't see the issue with it. The competition has to be completed so lets get on with it. If the Fixture Committee had days to play with i'm sure they would give all the weekend off. I'm sure they and everyone else would rather play then and avoid having to play midweek evening matches with work etc. Also, how is this in any way driving players away from representing their County teams? Meridian (Westmeath) - Posts: 664 - 25/07/2024 15:24:45 2561529 Link