Tailteann Cup 2022

[snoopdog]

GAA have fixed virtually no football next weekend but squashed all 4 Provincial football finals and the Tailteann Cup first round games all on the same weekend. I think the Champions League final also on that day. Madness. Tailteann will get no coverage or attendances that weekend.

Munster Final at 3 and Leinster Final at 5 on the day of Champions League final.

Why would the GAA worry about the chanpions league final?? Or the heineken Cup for that matter.

[Rossfan]

Real fans will go to the games.
What people watch on TV is the TV Companies' business.

[full moon]

Real fans will go to the games.
What people watch on TV is the TV Companies' business.

It's very much the GAAs business how they do and for the prosperity of the sport. Real fans do indeed go to games, but most will only attend their own counties and clubs matches.So TV coverage is very important for the games.

[full moon]

GAA have fixed virtually no football next weekend but squashed all 4 Provincial football finals and the Tailteann Cup first round games all on the same weekend. I think the Champions League final also on that day. Madness. Tailteann will get no coverage or attendances that weekend.

Munster Final at 3 and Leinster Final at 5 on the day of Champions League final.

Why would the GAA worry about the chanpions league final?? Or the heineken Cup for that matter.

It means their own matches will not attract the media coverage or attendances.

But my issue is more the Tailteann in particular will be competing directly against the provincial finals.

The point remains the attendances and cmedia overage  of Tailteann Cup will be non existent in 2 weeks. This competition needed to start well it it had any hope and with all the nonsense so far it's hard to give it a chance of succeeding.

[Blowitupref]

Preliminary rounds

Wexford v Offaly
Wicklow v Waterford

1st round

Southern Section

Wexford or Offaly v Wicklow or Waterford
Carlow v Tipperary
Laois v Westmeath

Northern Section

Longford v Fermanagh
Leitrim v Antrim
Sligo v London
Cavan v Down

[Dreadnought]

So we get Wexford and Offaly again? So many match ups we see so often. This is why that split is so disappointing

[Rossfan]

Unfair making the Prelims  Southern Section only to facilitate fkn New York!

[Blowitupref]

According to the GAA president, the North and South sections are to cut down on travelling expenses and to keep local rivalries going.

Des Cahill said the semi finals would be played in Croke Park i thought it was the final only?

[Eire90]

is it because casuals only care about the top tier of any sport if you promote it as a day to get drunk casuals might get on board some casuals might  go to final as excuse to get drunk.

[snoopdog]

Preliminary rounds

Wexford v Offaly
Wicklow v Waterford

1st round

Southern Section

Wexford or Offaly v Wicklow or Waterford
Carlow v Tipperary
Laois v Westmeath

Northern Section

Longford v Fermanagh
Leitrim v Antrim
Sligo v London
Cavan v Down

Handy for Down. That will be the summer over.

[Dreadnought]

Unfair making the Prelims  Southern Section only to facilitate fkn New York!

Was that not the luck of the draw, there were more teams from the South in the preliminary draw? And how it went determined the line drawn for North and South. Or have I got that wrong?

[Cavan19]

Are the Semi finals open draw or is it the remaining two teams in each section?

[Eire90]

i think its open

[tintin25]

'To keep local rivalries going' lol...they haven't a clue and just making it up as they go along

[Eire90]

its suppose to be an all Ireland competition not  some regional thing they get local rivalries in the provincial championships