The Sunday Game

[AZOffaly]

Why are highlights limited to an hour?

[Jinxy]

That can't be right.

[Minder]

Was hoping to see some of Armagh v Tipp.

Yeah winner takes all game and no fckn camera at it apparently.

[Beffs]

Why are highlights limited to an hour?

To keep Eir and TG4 happy and keep them willing to pony up the cash for the live games.

[southtyronegael]

rte a f**king disgrace. 30 mins to wrap up all the football matches and 1 hour for hurling? pathetic excuse for a programme.

[twohands!!!]

Sooner the GAA have their own TV channel the better.

[moysider]

rte a f**king disgrace. 30 mins to wrap up all the football matches and 1 hour for hurling? pathetic excuse for a programme.

It's nuts to have hurling and football still lumped in together.
How big is the crossover audience anybody? 20%

[armaghniac]

Sooner the GAA have their own TV channel the better.

Does the GAA have a proper plan? Your have 2 problems here, RTE are constrained, they have half a dozen stations on Saorview but are not allowed show additional programmes when they could show complete games during the week. The other problem is that the GAA look on rights as purely a money game, and undervalue having more coverage, for instance when UTV had a magazine programme but could not get the clips to show on it.

[Lone Shark]

Not showing Tipp vs Armagh was bad, not showing anything of Offaly vs Laois was criminal - they had the cameras in the ground for the hurling, so there was no additional cost whatsoever. If it turned out to be a drab procession for one team or another fair enough, but instead it was one of the best games of the day. Up there with Armagh and Tipp.....

[moysider]

Sooner the GAA have their own TV channel the better.

Does the GAA have a proper plan? Your have 2 problems here, RTE are constrained, they have half a dozen stations on Saorview but are not allowed show additional programmes when they could show complete games during the week. The other problem is that the GAA look on rights as purely a money game, and undervalue having more coverage, for instance when UTV had a magazine programme but could not get the clips to show on it.

I dunno but back in the day RTE did not seem to regard GAA as worthy. There was defo. more horse racing live. Rugby, hockey and showjumping would have got more attention and exposure. The AI replay between Dublin and Mayo in 85 was not live. Neither was Roscommon v Armagh in '77. There is no footage of the Roscommon v Mayo Connacht Final in 79. I remember that because Joe McGrath scored 2-5 from play, got an All-Star, but only player that got an All-Star that there was no video clip for.
In '91 I think only the last game of the Dublin v Meath epic was shown live. It was probably well into the 90's before all provisional finals even were live matches.

[seafoid]

Not showing Tipp vs Armagh was bad, not showing anything of Offaly vs Laois was criminal - they had the cameras in the ground for the hurling, so there was no additional cost whatsoever. If it turned out to be a drab procession for one team or another fair enough, but instead it was one of the best games of the day. Up there with Armagh and Tipp.....

RTE are not very fluirseach at the moment. I think budgets are very tight . They lost €20 million last year.

[seafoid]

Sooner the GAA have their own TV channel the better.

Does the GAA have a proper plan? Your have 2 problems here, RTE are constrained, they have half a dozen stations on Saorview but are not allowed show additional programmes when they could show complete games during the week. The other problem is that the GAA look on rights as purely a money game, and undervalue having more coverage, for instance when UTV had a magazine programme but could not get the clips to show on it.

I dunno but back in the day RTE did not seem to regard GAA as worthy. There was defo. more horse racing live. Rugby, hockey and showjumping would have got more attention and exposure. The AI replay between Dublin and Mayo in 85 was not live. Neither was Roscommon v Armagh in '77. There is no footage of the Roscommon v Mayo Connacht Final in 79. I remember that because Joe McGrath scored 2-5 from play, got an All-Star, but only player that got an All-Star that there was no video clip for.
In '91 I think only the last game of the Dublin v Meath epic was shown live. It was probably well into the 90's before all provisional finals even were live matches.

They only showed 10 live matches back in the good old days and it didn't include provincial finals.
Maybe Ros vs Armagh was deleted. That was a big problem 40 years ago

http://www.irishtimes.com/sport/gaelic-games/the-seasons-of-sundays-in-their-own-words-1.1476526

[seafoid]

They should probably make an exception for round 7 of the league when deciding highlights contracts. There were at least 6 very important football matches on yesterday plus 3 decent hurling matches and people have been starved of GAA  since September.

[From the Bunker]

Colm O'Rourke, Ciaran Whelan, Martin Carney, Pat Spillane, Colm Cooper, Dessie Dolan, Oisin McConville, Tomás Ó Sé and Martin McHugh (missing from photo: Joe Brolly).

Leinster = 3
Kerry = 3
Ulster = 3 and 3/4
Connacht 1/4



A very balanced panel. Martin Carney the only fraction (about a quarter Mayo) to give a Connacht perspective.

[An Fhairche Abu]

Kerry mafia in even fuller effect now.