Quote from: armaghniac on May 24, 2024, 05:22:50 PMQuote from: weareros on May 24, 2024, 03:07:42 PMI can understand provincial winners getting a home advantage first game but asking Ros to play Dublin and then a rested Mayo following Saturday is not a level playing field in the group stages. But then again sure that's nothing to be complainin' about - have you heard a Cork hurling game was not free to air and they had to watch on GAAGo? The tyranny.
The issue here is a that all Provincial finals are not on the same weekend and that is because they are all guaranteed to be on TV and in theory people want to see them. of course, people have an interest in the Ulster final most years, and the Connacht final some years, the other two are not very interesting.
They should put Leinster and Munster finals on the Sat, and Connacht and Ulster on the Sun of the same weekend.
Possible clashes with big Munster hurling games, but that seems to be inevitable regardless.