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So our new condensed 15 week season begins this weekend. shaggykev (Donegal) - Posts: 184 - 13/04/2022 11:04:20 2410800 Link 0 |
Is the Donegal/Armagh game not even going to be televised?
MurphBalls (Donegal) - Posts: 178 - 13/04/2022 12:27:30 2410826 Link 0 |
The Provincial Football Championship is a very poor product. I guess poor products are hard to sell.. Ban (Westmeath) - Posts: 1410 - 13/04/2022 13:32:31 2410832 Link 1 |
RTE does not have a monopoly on broadcasting GAA games. Sky are showing: USFC Fermanagh v Tyrone USFC Monaghan v Down LSFC Dublin v Offaly/Wexford MSFC Cork v Kerry GAAGO USFC Fermanagh V Tyrone As for the Leinster Hurling Championship, Sky is showing 4 games. Cockney_Cat (UK) - Posts: 2419 - 13/04/2022 13:32:37 2410833 Link 1 |
75% Hurling seems to be a very lop sized coverage of our games. yew_tree (Mayo) - Posts: 11219 - 13/04/2022 13:49:03 2410836 Link 2 |
Id imagine and hope that BBC Sport NI will be showing more Ulster Championship games whilst RTE shows mostly the Munster Football. macca999 (Fermanagh) - Posts: 1090 - 13/04/2022 14:22:25 2410842 Link 0 |
I asked a question a few weeks back about coverage for my elderly parents..tg4 have nothing..RTÉ seem to have Sunday only..so we are left with sky covering Saturday games..they have Tyrone/ Fermanagh Saturday and Wexford/Dublin in hurling..be interesting to see what is shown on 24th,big hurling in munster with donegal/ Armagh and Mayo/Galway also on..there are a lot of big games which just havnt a hope of been shown..are matches on GAA go?? CTGAA10 (Limerick) - Posts: 2175 - 13/04/2022 14:34:49 2410843 Link 0 |
The Ulster Championship is hardly a poor product? In Munster, you have Kerry. In Leinster you have Dublin. In Connaught you have Mayo and Galway. And in Ulster, you have 5 teams that can win it. Armagh and Donegal being probably the biggest provincial game of the lot along with Mayo and Galway you would expect should be a must televised game.
MurphBalls (Donegal) - Posts: 178 - 13/04/2022 15:05:28 2410855 Link 0 |
Last 6 Connacht Titles - Ros, Galway and Mayo 2 each. Neutrals will watch the SHC in large numbers esp Munster. Only very interested people would watch a live football match any more. Seanfanbocht (Roscommon) - Posts: 1331 - 13/04/2022 15:48:18 2410862 Link 6 |
Division 1 of the league is extremely competitive and the winners of the All-Ireland usually come from this division. Yet we have what will be a very competitive clash between Donegal and Armagh not covered by RTE. This is so wrong. I think this first round clash will be the outstanding game of the opening rounds. Byanthon (Tyrone) - Posts: 1780 - 13/04/2022 16:05:02 2410868 Link 2 |
Could be on sky or BBC or tg4?
Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 11475 - 13/04/2022 16:57:55 2410875 Link 0 |
Bit unfair on Roscommon but a fair point otherwise.
Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 11475 - 13/04/2022 16:59:57 2410876 Link 2 |
over the season there are a lot more football games available to be shown compared to hurling. Once the hurling round robins are finished the hurling fixtures get scarce. There are plenty games available to watch in my opinion, after all we still need supporters to actually go to the games and create an atmosphere.
Clubgaa (Limerick) - Posts: 879 - 13/04/2022 18:22:45 2410887 Link 2 |
I must be in a minority…I prefer watching football over hurling. yew_tree (Mayo) - Posts: 11219 - 13/04/2022 18:46:21 2410892 Link 8 |
Rte are showing 18 football championship games and 17 hurling championship games. As always (and rightly so) the schedule is top heavy with hurling in the early part of the championship and top heavy with football in the later part. And football is not being neglected in the early part as many of the Ulster championship games will be covered by BBC Ulster. RTE have got to do a balancing act between coverage of hurling and football and imo they've got the balance right PoolSturgeon (Galway) - Posts: 1898 - 13/04/2022 20:05:50 2410903 Link 2 |
I'd say 50% of the posts on this forum over the last 5 years are ones giving out about the public batterings that take place during the provincial championship. I agree with you in that its not all bad, but the viewing figures must be poor in order for RTE to sway away from it. Advertisement is a big part of their revenue stream and they will show what people are more likely to watch in order to attract adds. Ban (Westmeath) - Posts: 1410 - 14/04/2022 08:08:16 2410917 Link 0 |
I'm the same. Hurling is amazing don't get me wrong, but it means nothing to me coming from a football county as I'm sure football would mean very little to those in hurling strongholds. It actually is hard to blame rte in this regard, and I would usually be the first to do so. The football product is not good in the initial stages, apart from the Ulster championship perhaps and sporadic games in the other provinces. There was a chance to meaningfully change this at congress and it was shot down. On the other hand I watched live streams of the u20 connacht football last night from tg4, it was actually decent coverage for a one camera operation and blissfully no pundits, it was great! Leitrim_12 (USA) - Posts: 207 - 14/04/2022 09:45:50 2410928 Link 0 |
Was going to point this out myself. With 18 football and 17 hurling games to be shown overall, that means that if there's an imbalance in favour of hurling in the early stages, there must be a corresponding imbalance in favour of football later on. As regards a point from another poster about the Tailteann Cup "only" having the semi-finals and final shown live - strikes me that's roughly the same or even better than any of the provincial championships? And in fairness, the first round of the Tailteann Cup is to be played over the same weekend as the four provincial football finals. Assuming there has to be some limit to what can be shown live, it'd be hard to argue that Tailteann Cup first round should take precedence over any of those. Pikeman96 (Wexford) - Posts: 2185 - 14/04/2022 14:33:10 2410996 Link 0 |
I'm in the same boat as you. And I dont believe its as much a minority as you think. Both codes have their own strong points and weak points . Both codes have good and bad games. Its hard to be too dogmatic about it and its difficult to be objective, but to put some numbers on it, in 2019 ( last year not impacted by Covid) , total championship attendances in Hurling was about 680K , football about 900K. I know this is not an apples versus apples comparison and that the football numbers were swelled by an AI final replay. Because of this and other factors that swell the football numbers in comparison to hurling , I am not suggesting that these figures imply that more people prefer watching football to hurling , but the figures do strongly suggest ,at the very least, that football is comparable to hurling in terms of people's desire to watch it. The bottom line is that these are personal preferences , mine is football, but many others prefer hurling , and more importantly most GAA supporters enjoy both. anotheralias (Galway) - Posts: 830 - 14/04/2022 15:28:35 2411015 Link 0 |
The worst part of RTÉ Gaa coverage used to be Kerry mauling Waterford or Clare in the first round of the championship. It would be competitive for 10 minutes. I prefer the hurling as it's more competitive. carlovia (None) - Posts: 1517 - 14/04/2022 15:39:28 2411019 Link 3 |