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read somewhere where the sale of programs are way down over the last few years, is it any wonder they are brutal, just pages of adverts, no effort to include any reading material, it would be so easy to fill a few pages, say the wicklow v wexford league game, 3 or 4 old match reports some going back to 30 or 40s, interviews with x players of memories of past games, a summery of league results over 130 years, so easy to do, no end of material, there is no attempt to make the program people will want to buy, they not trying to sell them Stmunnsriver (Wexford) - Posts: 2927 - 27/02/2025 11:31:26 2593470 Link
Replying To Stmunnsriver: "read somewhere where the sale of programs are way down over the last few years, is it any wonder they are brutal, just pages of adverts, no effort to include any reading material, it would be so easy to fill a few pages, say the wicklow v wexford league game, 3 or 4 old match reports some going back to 30 or 40s, interviews with x players of memories of past games, a summery of league results over 130 years, so easy to do, no end of material, there is no attempt to make the program people will want to buy, they not trying to sell them" The quality has dipped substantially over the years. I keep buying them for the sake of the collection but they're not a patch on what they were in the 90s Doylerwex (Wexford) - Posts: 3400 - 27/02/2025 11:55:33 2593474 Link
Replying To Stmunnsriver: "read somewhere where the sale of programs are way down over the last few years, is it any wonder they are brutal, just pages of adverts, no effort to include any reading material, it would be so easy to fill a few pages, say the wicklow v wexford league game, 3 or 4 old match reports some going back to 30 or 40s, interviews with x players of memories of past games, a summery of league results over 130 years, so easy to do, no end of material, there is no attempt to make the program people will want to buy, they not trying to sell them" First off, I agree that many programmes have too many ads. Here in Wexford, it seems to be particularly bad. 32 pages in the recent programmes for hurling v Kilkenny and football v Carlow, for example, and 21 of them were adverts. Having said that, a few years ago I used to give the County PRO of the time a hand with doing programmes for county finals. Have you any real idea of the amount of time it'd take to do up everything you suggest? And then do it for seven or eight different "home" programmes during the nine weeks or so of the Leagues, all in somebody's spare time? Pikeman96 (Wexford) - Posts: 2710 - 27/02/2025 12:32:54 2593484 Link
It seems to vary madly by county. Last weekend Meath had an 80 page match programme covering both Hurling League Round 4 against Down and Football League Round 4 against Roscommon. Top quality production. Tyrone also regularly churn out quality stuff. You'd think by now they would have centralised it rather than letting each county do it's own thing, often with fairly pathetic end result. LongfordgaaAbú (Longford) - Posts: 593 - 27/02/2025 12:47:52 2593489 Link
The GAA match programme is a busted flush for a whole range of reasons: 1. Players wont do interviews - no reason why every player on the panel could'nt have a 2 pager about him - 30 man panel - have 3 per match programme. They could be done in December and a short paragraph to update for the game in the programme. 2. Team in programme never matches the selected team - could be fixed by everyone having a squad number for the season - programme could just show who is available to play in each position that week - the programme could speculate on upcoming selection based on previous weeks selection 3. Have it on an app - where the team selection could be updated the morning of the match - a short paragraph on the changes (and reasoning) could be included. 4. Have more content added after the match - like an interview or two - maybe even a score or two - All of the above would want those not attending the game to buy the online programme, complete with updates The 1990's programme were great, but the world has moved on - time for the GAA to also tirawleybaron (Mayo) - Posts: 1231 - 27/02/2025 12:54:53 2593493 Link
Just don't buy them, a waste of money . Bon (Kildare) - Posts: 2164 - 27/02/2025 13:15:00 2593496 Link