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Replying To cuttothebone: "Do you want the Connacht centre of excellence rebuilt or not? Do you expect these things to just grow out of the ground? Ye don't have a hurling championship, and have smallest football championship, there's very few occasions they can make money.. Stay away if your unfortunate enough not to be able to afford it, but im sure their all ears if you have an alternative plan." Prenty said In public that separate money will be spent on the COE. What is getting rebuilt is the dome and debatable if it needed. Another storm will likely take it again.
To make money you look to attract the biggest possible crowd to attend a match, once in attendance further money can be made on programmes food etc. All the Connnacht GAA did was turn plenty away from attending awful business sense and then are complaining about losing money you really can't make it up.
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Replying To Seanfan: "Hurling
Cork v Limerick 43,369
Waterford v Tipp 11,982
Galway v Offaly 6,557
Dublin v Kildare ?????
Kilkenny v Wexford 13,576
Football
Tipp v Cork 1,755
Clare v Kerry 5,226
Mayo v Ros 15,321
Leitrim v Galway 4,843
Fermanagh v Armagh 8,931
Donegal v Down said to be full to 9k capacity." There was 5/6,000 at the Dublin/Kildare match,
BarneyGrant (Dublin) - Posts: 4323 - 28/04/2026 13:09:10
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Replying To Seanfan: "The type of people who are "confused" obviously haven't great interest in the first place.
Not defending JP but it was €5 for kids on 3 sides of the ground Sunday.
Kids tickets in Croke Park are Davin end see through the nets seats.
If due to no hurling and only 5 matches on Irish soil shouldn't the GAA have some kind of equalisation fund to help out.
Munster with its €8m hurling receipts could help out too." I agree re interest, but the reality is that attendances at matches are swelled by the casual supporter. This is the difficulty facing professional sport in particular, balancing the values of the sport with the need to drive revenue through entertainment.
Most counties have a core support of somewhere between 3,000 to maybe 12,000 at the extreme (Cork hurlers would stand alone at 20,000 plus I reckon, more than Dublin footballers) . So 6,000 to 10,000 at most matches is about where you'd expect. If you put any obstacle in the way of people outside this core they will stay away.
Eddie the Exile (Monaghan) - Posts: 1338 - 28/04/2026 17:07:14
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Replying To cuttothebone: "Do you want the Connacht centre of excellence rebuilt or not? Do you expect these things to just grow out of the ground? Ye don't have a hurling championship, and have smallest football championship, there's very few occasions they can make money.. Stay away if your unfortunate enough not to be able to afford it, but im sure their all ears if you have an alternative plan." Good luck to Westmeath on Sunday.
Saynothing (Tyrone) - Posts: 2682 - 28/04/2026 22:41:26
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Replying To cuttothebone: "Do you want the Connacht centre of excellence rebuilt or not? Do you expect these things to just grow out of the ground? Ye don't have a hurling championship, and have smallest football championship, there's very few occasions they can make money.. Stay away if your unfortunate enough not to be able to afford it, but im sure their all ears if you have an alternative plan." Fact check: Munster has a smaller football championship than Connacht.
Also, there is no "Leinster" hurling championship, Galway are actually Connacht politically.
I agree that revenue streams are limited in all provinces.
maroondiesel (Mayo) - Posts: 1277 - 29/04/2026 10:27:39
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Replying To Seanfan: "Dublin v Louth 10,312" That's dreadful. Even the fact that 7/8,000 were Dubs it shows huge loss of support and this was most important game for years.
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Replying To BarneyGrant: "That's dreadful. Even the fact that 7/8,000 were Dubs it shows huge loss of support and this was most important game for years." Looked liked there was as much Louth supporters at the game , if not more then DublinSupporters..
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Replying To DublinBrian: "Looked liked there was as much Louth supporters at the game , if not more then DublinSupporters.." 12,086 Kildare v Westmeath
20,751 Clare v Limerick hurling
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27,423 Armagh v Down.
Monaghan v Derry????? I'd estimate 10k??
Seanfan (Roscommon) - Posts: 578 - 05/05/2026 17:47:13
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Down/Armagh 30,000.
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Replying To DublinBrian: "Looked liked there was as much Louth supporters at the game , if not more then DublinSupporters.." I hear Westmeath outnumbered Kildare at least 2 to 1.
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Replying To Seanfan: "I hear Westmeath outnumbered Kildare at least 2 to 1." at least - I'd have guessed 4 to 1
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Attendances would continue to decrease this year for example in Ulster Armagh and Donegal have been keeping the turnstiles going,only for them no game in Ulster would be breaching 10K crowds apart from final.
Monaghan v Derry Ulster Semi 8k, game v Cavan 7k, not so long ago Monaghan v Cavan in any ulster game would be 15k alone.
This in a nationwide issue facing the GAA, only have to look at attendances in Connacht(ridiculous prices a factor) and even the Dubs not travelling, this has to be looked at, i know GAA admitted that Croke Park is now the main income with matches and concerts(split season rationale)but surely as organisation needs to acknowledge the dwindling crowds is concerning in terms on income, advertising and promotion of the games.
Raising ticket prices hardly helps and in terms of supporter experience nothing has improved(bar the rules), facilities/toilets still below standard, match entertainment not there,well done to Clare for their music at weekends hurling, need more of this to improve matchdays and generate atmosphere. The season ticket also provides zero incentive financially, all it does is provide convinience and for the 2 counties that reach final guarantees AI ticket, that needs to be addressed.
Another factor has been removing the minors from being in before senior games. The GAA Marketing team needs to up its game, as the trend of watching football games in half empty stadiums will continue, need creative thinking to attract people and families to go.
Id rather have 10,000 people paying a tenner in than 5,000 people paying 20 euro in
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Replying To macca999: "Attendances would continue to decrease this year for example in Ulster Armagh and Donegal have been keeping the turnstiles going,only for them no game in Ulster would be breaching 10K crowds apart from final.
Monaghan v Derry Ulster Semi 8k, game v Cavan 7k, not so long ago Monaghan v Cavan in any ulster game would be 15k alone.
This in a nationwide issue facing the GAA, only have to look at attendances in Connacht(ridiculous prices a factor) and even the Dubs not travelling, this has to be looked at, i know GAA admitted that Croke Park is now the main income with matches and concerts(split season rationale)but surely as organisation needs to acknowledge the dwindling crowds is concerning in terms on income, advertising and promotion of the games.
Raising ticket prices hardly helps and in terms of supporter experience nothing has improved(bar the rules), facilities/toilets still below standard, match entertainment not there,well done to Clare for their music at weekends hurling, need more of this to improve matchdays and generate atmosphere. The season ticket also provides zero incentive financially, all it does is provide convinience and for the 2 counties that reach final guarantees AI ticket, that needs to be addressed.
Another factor has been removing the minors from being in before senior games. The GAA Marketing team needs to up its game, as the trend of watching football games in half empty stadiums will continue, need creative thinking to attract people and families to go.
Id rather have 10,000 people paying a tenner in than 5,000 people paying 20 euro in" Having Minors before Senior games was rejected 9 to 1.
Not feasible anyway due to different formats and timing of competitions.
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Replying To macca999: "Attendances would continue to decrease this year for example in Ulster Armagh and Donegal have been keeping the turnstiles going,only for them no game in Ulster would be breaching 10K crowds apart from final.
Monaghan v Derry Ulster Semi 8k, game v Cavan 7k, not so long ago Monaghan v Cavan in any ulster game would be 15k alone.
This in a nationwide issue facing the GAA, only have to look at attendances in Connacht(ridiculous prices a factor) and even the Dubs not travelling, this has to be looked at, i know GAA admitted that Croke Park is now the main income with matches and concerts(split season rationale)but surely as organisation needs to acknowledge the dwindling crowds is concerning in terms on income, advertising and promotion of the games.
Raising ticket prices hardly helps and in terms of supporter experience nothing has improved(bar the rules), facilities/toilets still below standard, match entertainment not there,well done to Clare for their music at weekends hurling, need more of this to improve matchdays and generate atmosphere. The season ticket also provides zero incentive financially, all it does is provide convinience and for the 2 counties that reach final guarantees AI ticket, that needs to be addressed.
Another factor has been removing the minors from being in before senior games. The GAA Marketing team needs to up its game, as the trend of watching football games in half empty stadiums will continue, need creative thinking to attract people and families to go.
Id rather have 10,000 people paying a tenner in than 5,000 people paying 20 euro in" Been to a lot of Cavan/Monaghan games and I never saw 15,000 at any of them.
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Replying To ORIELMAN85: "Been to a lot of Cavan/Monaghan games and I never saw 15,000 at any of them." You weren't at the game in 2013 in clones then when attendance of 15.644 people?
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Replying To macca999: "Attendances would continue to decrease this year for example in Ulster Armagh and Donegal have been keeping the turnstiles going,only for them no game in Ulster would be breaching 10K crowds apart from final.
Monaghan v Derry Ulster Semi 8k, game v Cavan 7k, not so long ago Monaghan v Cavan in any ulster game would be 15k alone.
This in a nationwide issue facing the GAA, only have to look at attendances in Connacht(ridiculous prices a factor) and even the Dubs not travelling, this has to be looked at, i know GAA admitted that Croke Park is now the main income with matches and concerts(split season rationale)but surely as organisation needs to acknowledge the dwindling crowds is concerning in terms on income, advertising and promotion of the games.
Raising ticket prices hardly helps and in terms of supporter experience nothing has improved(bar the rules), facilities/toilets still below standard, match entertainment not there,well done to Clare for their music at weekends hurling, need more of this to improve matchdays and generate atmosphere. The season ticket also provides zero incentive financially, all it does is provide convinience and for the 2 counties that reach final guarantees AI ticket, that needs to be addressed.
Another factor has been removing the minors from being in before senior games. The GAA Marketing team needs to up its game, as the trend of watching football games in half empty stadiums will continue, need creative thinking to attract people and families to go.
Id rather have 10,000 people paying a tenner in than 5,000 people paying 20 euro in" Dwindling crowds? Where? 33,000 Munster final, Connacht final sold out, Ulster final will be sell out, Leinster final will be 45,000.
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Replying To macca999: "You weren't at the game in 2013 in clones then when attendance of 15.644 people?" Semi final and a double header. Would be 50,000 in Clones on Sunday if tickets available.
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