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: 2929 - 27/02/2025 11:31:26    2593470

Doylerwex (Wexford) - Posts: 3404 - 27/02/2025 11:55:33    2593474

Pikeman96 (Wexford) - Posts: 2717 - 27/02/2025 12:32:54    2593484

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

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

Just don't buy them, a waste of money .

Bon (Kildare) - Posts: 2165 - 27/02/2025 13:15:00    2593496

There's too much work involved for a part-time volunteer PRO to turn around and print a match programme complete with historical results, player interviews, match previews etc. in a week or two.

It would be no more cost-effective to produce programmes centrally becsuse do few are sold.

As a previous poster mentioned, a mobile app would be the best option where content can be added and updated quickly e.g. when team lineups change or an?interview becomes available.

The app is something that could be developed centrally and PROs would then just need to add the content.

SHCEIGHTY (Longford) - Posts: 5 - 28/02/2025 08:51:12    2593627

The level of respect given to supporters is clear for all to see when you look at current NFL programmes.
Take last Sunday in Salthill for example - We (Donegal) had a team and squad listed that was not the team and squad that was on the pitch. Only 4 players wore the correct number and many names listed were not in the match day squad.
It's pretty disgraceful treatment of paying supporters who are completely disrespected and taken for granted.

PeterQ92 (Donegal) - Posts: 128 - 28/02/2025 10:18:59    2593646

letsgetgoing (Roscommon) - Posts: 675 - 28/02/2025 11:26:58    2593664

PeterQ92 (Donegal) - Posts: 128 - 28/02/2025 15:36:43    2593722