Quote from: Wildweasel74 on May 13, 2024, 10:38:17 PMIf the GAA worried about money, they shouldn't done away with Replays, they should spaced out there season better to allow people less expense in short periods of time, the should left the nfl season ticket, with free final included,1st round ticket free, not put games on. with great distance involved not on, in the evenings.
In 2021 congress passed the 'split season' without a vote due to the high volume of support, via the GPA 87% of players were in favour, as a result the Club Players Association disbanded as their objective had been achieved, therefore there was no longer space for replays in the inter county calendar.
There are now extra competitions (eg Tailteann Cup), with extra games (eg the Munster hurling championship in 1998 had 5 games, this year there are 11).
It is not possible that all these games, or even all the good games, or all the games involving the current All Ireland champions in either code can be shown free to air.
Between RTE, BBC, TG4, GAAGO, Clubber (and potentially others) there are now nearly more games available to view than there are hours in the day.
The Cork Limerick thing is just a populist bandwagon, however in all the noise I would agree with Donal Óg (never thought I would say that) in relation to the lesser hurling competitions and there coverage on the 2 main platforms, if the politicians were actually interested in hurling and its growth that's where they would be looking, I don't believe any hurling outside of the Liam McCarthy teams has been shown this year to date, that is a viable argument to get behind imo.