Quote from: armaghniac on April 03, 2024, 05:07:56 PMQuote from: Truthsayer on April 03, 2024, 04:58:10 PMQuote from: tonto1888 on April 03, 2024, 02:41:31 PM50% not a good stat if there were 30,000 at the first game! Lies, damn lies and statistics!Quote from: Truthsayer on April 03, 2024, 02:28:26 PMQuote from: RedHand88 on April 03, 2024, 12:20:42 PMOnly 30,000! That's quite a crowd. Would have filled Clones rightly for an Ulster final replay.Quote from: Truthsayer on April 03, 2024, 10:28:03 AMThey killed the golden goose with too many games in too short a time. Rem 2005 Tyrone replay against Down in the Marshes great game especially if you were a Down supporter! 2003 brilliant Ulster final went to a replay, Dublin-Meath epic 4 games in '91. Penalties are an aberration on Gaelic games, apeing soccer. People went to the replays.
The Tyrone- Armagh first game in 2005 got 60k.
The replay got 30k in a nearly two thirds empty Croke Park.
People did not go to the replays in anywhere near the same numbers.
or 50% of people who went to the original didnt go to the replay. Not a good stat
The first game was on Sunday, the second on Saturday. The first had a minor game, the second did not.
Replays will not be coming back (certainly at least in the early rounds of championship) so its probably pointless trying to make an argument for them based on nostalgia. We are going back to an era when you might only have 2 championship games per year and there was at least some kind of an appetite for replays in certain quarters. This is no longer the case and there is nothing as anti climactic as a draw in a big championship match knowing that you may have to expend the same time and incur the same expense one week later if you want to watch the same two teams again.