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#5026
Quote from: armaghniac on April 01, 2014, 11:09:38 PM
Quote from: Eamonnca1 on April 01, 2014, 08:43:46 PM
It's only nine games FFS! Viewers in Ireland lose 9 games, international viewers gain them all. We come out ahead overall.

It is Irish teams that are playing in these games and the people in these places that will not be able to see their county. Let the GAA provide British games to people in Britain if it wants, but stop taxing people in Ireland to facilitate foreigners.

Oh, so you lose Irish citizenship as soon as you emigrate? Am I a "foreigner" now?

#5027
Quote from: Redhand Santa on April 01, 2014, 11:08:20 PM
It was inevitable they were going to find someone in the audience to throw out the old grab all association line! Thought Brennan and Duffy dealt with it all quite well. Brennan responded to that point by throwing back that over 80 per cent of money coming in centrally is reinvested at club and county level. A lot of people dont seem to realise the cost of running an organisation like the gaa.

Sure the newspaper comments today were full of the old "nobody knows where the money goes" garbage.
#5028
GAA Discussion / Re: GAA clubs all over the world
April 01, 2014, 11:07:32 PM
Collegiate clubs in America.  (There's a lot more regular clubs.)

#5029
It's a great point. All these "die-hard fans who sacrificed everything including their lives"* are all bent out of shape about having to pay a few quid back into the organization so you can be an armchair fan?  Why aren't you at the match? 

*yes, exaggeration. But you get my point.
#5030
I just lost the Primetime feed at the commercial break.

I liked Paraic's comeback at the start. "...or go to the match."
#5031
GAA Discussion / Re: GAA clubs all over the world
April 01, 2014, 09:42:16 PM
Quote from: Hardy on April 01, 2014, 12:53:25 PM
Great clusters in Galicia and Brittany. Presumably those clubs would consist primarily of native born players?

Yes. Very little Irish involvement there.
#5032
PrimeTime's doing a piece on it.
#5033
It's only nine games FFS! Viewers in Ireland lose 9 games, international viewers gain them all. We come out ahead overall.
#5034
Paraic Duffy coming up on Newstalk at the top of the hour...
#5035
The Australian part of the deal is what caught my eye. Apparently Channel 7 is the highest rating terrestrial channel in Oz.  This is a big deal.
#5036
Quote from: armaghniac on March 31, 2014, 10:53:54 PM
As long as GAA teams abroad are a place for a few emigrants to get together, there is no real harm in them. But if they develop a life of their own then they will be outside the control of the GAA and Sky will get what they want.

Only if the GPA has their way.  All the indigenous development in the games outside of Ireland so far has been very much inside the GAA's tent.
#5037
Quote from: Black Card on March 31, 2014, 07:41:24 PM
Facts don't seem to stop you posting crap.

Well. I really don't know what to say to that.
#5038
Quote from: orangeman on March 31, 2014, 12:11:05 PM
Here's what Eugene Mc Gee had to say on the subject yesterday. It's not one of Eugene's real forceful pieces. It's a. It's a bit lukewarm but then again his hands are maybe a wee bit tied now after his success with the FRC committee but maybe I'm doing him a disservice by saying that. And while we're at it, what is the definition of a "true GAA fan"?

Giving away TV rights to Sky would be a betrayal of true GAA fans.


EUGENE MCGEE –

I have had several people on to me last week about the suggestion that the GAA is going to give one of the television championship packages, possibly 10 games, to Sky for the next few years.

The people who have contacted me are generally older people who live in rural Ireland and do not have Sky on their television simply because they cannot afford it and, indeed, most don't want it.

Young people who do not have Sky, regularly watch soccer games in local pubs, but the people I refer to won't do that because of the drink-driving laws.

These people have spent a lifetime following GAA games, very often as players, club officers or general volunteers. They will feel let down by the GAA if this proposal goes ahead and they are unable to watch big games in the summer.

Those men, and women, deserve better because when the GAA was in a far poorer state many years ago it was people like them who provided the structures on and off the field that contributed greatly to the strong Associastion of today.

Nobody doubts that, in several ways, Sky having a package of live games would be very attractive to a lot of people and those who constantly criticise RTE would be included in that.

But while there are flaws in 'The Sunday Game,' it is better than the vast majority of similar sports programmes that I have watched in many countries, so Sky fans might end up disappointed.

But the main point I want to make here is that thousands of older people will feel the GAA has let them down in their desire to rake in more money from television rights.

That is something the GAA should not treat lightly, no matter what Sky may bring to the table.

If Sky could be used to bring live games to America it would be much more important for the Irish diaspora and then the GAA could go out and challenge Irish stations to do a lot better.

They're not being "given away", Eugene. They're being sold. And not for all matches as you imply. Painting a picture of poor rural old people deprived of the ability to watch any more GAA matches on TV? You might want to cut back on the hyperbole and get a few facts straight before putting pen to paper.
#5039
So much panic.

You'd need to be bringing in a lot of money before we'd be anywhere close to going pro.  Even if the rights were sold for $10 million, that sounds like a lot of money but it's not when you reinvest it back into the association. It spreads thin over the 32 counties of Ireland and all the international units.
#5040
Quote from: armaghniac on March 31, 2014, 03:35:10 PM
However some people here seem to envisage people playing GAA in South America, Africa and Antarctica. This type of international development is not desirable, in my opinion. Fortunately is is entirely unlikely.

Why?