The Sunday Game

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I'm an avid GAA fan and an avid watcher of The Sunday Game and I'm fully aware that no one can please all of the people all of the time but I do have some observations about last Sunday's edition (May 26th).

You covered four Leinster quarter-finals in football. The entire package on the Laois/Westmeath match was 2 mins 44 secs. The Kildare/Longford package was 3 mins 40 secs. The Carlow/Meath package was 4 mins 53 secs and the Dublin/Louth package was 7 mins 6 secs.

Quite a disparity and, given that Dublin will progress through to late summer while most, if not all, of the other teams in Leinster will have one or two more outings maximum, would it not be worthwhile giving the weight of time to those teams before they disappear from the championship?

And, please, don't fob me off with the notion that because the first two matches mentioned were on Sunday you had a shortage of editing time!

Part of the Dublin/Louth package was a piece on Dublin fans travelling to Portlaoise - less than an hour down the road - as if it were a trip to Antarctica. What about the fans who travel throughout the summer to Croke Park for Dublin's plethora of (effectively) home games?

Stolen from the Kildare Forum

Why did he want to watch more of those games? Was it part of his penance from confessions?

Seriously I argue that teams who play games at their own level that they know they can win would abandon negative defensive tactics and go out to score and win. That's the issue. Teams play defensively not to get stuffed but play attacking football to win.
Leinster would benefit, Fermanagh would Benefit and TV would benefit. The games would be more attractive and more people would want to watch them.

There are a plethora of Round one game in the back door with teams of a similar level playing each other, a almost mirror image of a 2nd tier championship. And Nobody cares. There will be no live TV and the crowds will be small.

But they're only fulfilling fixtures. They're not going to win an AI. Why would you bother to watch it? Tier the championship and give them something to play for.

[From the Bunker]

I'm an avid GAA fan and an avid watcher of The Sunday Game and I'm fully aware that no one can please all of the people all of the time but I do have some observations about last Sunday's edition (May 26th).

You covered four Leinster quarter-finals in football. The entire package on the Laois/Westmeath match was 2 mins 44 secs. The Kildare/Longford package was 3 mins 40 secs. The Carlow/Meath package was 4 mins 53 secs and the Dublin/Louth package was 7 mins 6 secs.

Quite a disparity and, given that Dublin will progress through to late summer while most, if not all, of the other teams in Leinster will have one or two more outings maximum, would it not be worthwhile giving the weight of time to those teams before they disappear from the championship?

And, please, don't fob me off with the notion that because the first two matches mentioned were on Sunday you had a shortage of editing time!

Part of the Dublin/Louth package was a piece on Dublin fans travelling to Portlaoise - less than an hour down the road - as if it were a trip to Antarctica. What about the fans who travel throughout the summer to Croke Park for Dublin's plethora of (effectively) home games?

Stolen from the Kildare Forum

Why did he want to watch more of those games? Was it part of his penance from confessions?

Seriously I argue that teams who play games at their own level that they know they can win would abandon negative defensive tactics and go out to score and win. That's the issue. Teams play defensively not to get stuffed but play attacking football to win.
Leinster would benefit, Fermanagh would Benefit and TV would benefit. The games would be more attractive and more people would want to watch them.

There are a plethora of Round one game in the back door with teams of a similar level playing each other, a almost mirror image of a 2nd tier championship. And Nobody cares. There will be no live TV and the crowds will be small.

But they're only fulfilling fixtures. They're not going to win an AI. Why would you bother to watch it? Tier the championship and give them something to play for.

They'll only be fulfilling fixtures in a 'B' Competition as well and they are not going to win an AI!

[giveballaghback]

Rte has made a blunder by concentrating nearly exclusively on hurling for their live games, what a damp squib the last few weeks have been and meanwhile all the close games and the excitement is in the football championship on sky and deferred on the bbc. Already the sheen has worn off the round robin system in hurling with very one sided games and even that Galway Wexford drawn game last week was like watching paint dry.

[From the Bunker]

Rte has made a blunder by concentrating nearly exclusively on hurling for their live games, what a damp squib the last few weeks have been and meanwhile all the close games and the excitement is in the football championship on sky and deferred on the bbc. Already the sheen has worn off the round robin system in hurling with very one sided games and even that Galway Wexford drawn game last week was like watching paint dry.

They certainly have not! Hurling is the noble entertaining game. The Big Ball game has no excitement and we have to all wait until we get to the Super Duper 8's before our fragile eyes will be able to cope with such a spectacle. 

[Captain Obvious]

Pat Spillane taking down Kerry for their laboured win v a decent Clare team even though the game was won at half time and talking up Cork for recent wins in challenges and hammering a Division four Limerick was hilarious.

[From the Bunker]

Pat Spillane taking down Kerry for their laboured win v a decent Clare team even though the game was won at half time and talking up Cork for recent wins in challenges and hammering a Division four Limerick was hilarious.

In fairness I thought Spillane talked Kerry up. Whelan who called out doubts about them.

[BennyHarp]

So Pat Spillane reckons Armagh are a very disciplined tackling team - do they even bother watching the games at RTE these days?

[imtommygunn]

So Pat Spillane reckons Armagh are a very disciplined tackling team - do they even bother watching the games at RTE these days?

Did he watch James Morgan for the brief period of time he was on lol.

[TheOptimist]

The Limerick Manager talking about a tiered system. They were hammered by Cork who would be in tier 2 in a 2 tiered system 

[Rossfan]

Under current proposals Cork wouldn't as they've reached the Provincial Final

[Maiden1]

Under current proposals Cork wouldn't as they've reached the Provincial Final

https://twitter.com/TheSundayGame/status/1021154352692523010

[Rossfan]

Bit of a difference between GAA proposals under discussion and sh1te from Brolly and Ó Sé

[Jayop]

The Limerick Manager talking about a tiered system. They were hammered by Cork who would be in tier 2 in a 2 tiered system 

Ah they would be now but really Cork are a tier one team and wouldn't spend too many years in the second tier.

[Blowitupref]

The Limerick Manager talking about a tiered system. They were hammered by Cork who would be in tier 2 in a 2 tiered system 

Ah they would be now but really Cork are a tier one team and wouldn't spend too many years in the second tier.

Don't know about that, same was said when Cork was relegated to Div 2 in 2016. Too good will bounce straight back was the view but next year they will play in Div 3.

[larryin89]

Cork might surprise us all and beat Kerry