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What is the earliest you seen matches start and the latest  do they have matches throw in at 11am on saturdays  have you seen matches throw in at 9pm


I am not a fan of the late sunday throw in example 7pm on a sunday tho i i think friday evening is a good time for throw in.


Saturday at 12pm or 1pm is a good time to start a game gives u plenty of time to wake up and be fresh


id imagine it be hard for those working non 9 to 5 shift patterns  to play gaa tho even  if they dont work weekends cause there sleep pattern be all over the place

When will tg4 start broadcasting club championship matches will it be next month and do tg4 do friday night games i think it be good to watch some friday night  gaa under the  lights in the autumn

im not familar with this part i am assuming matches are free to enter except for maybe county finals and you would have to pay to get into provincial club mathes and then the all ireland semi finals what prices are tickets for club matches

The best thing about the Super 8s has been bringing big championship matches out to grounds that don't usually get them later in the summer. As disappointing as last year was, having Ballybofey host a massive championship match in July with an All-Ireland semi-final at stake was magic for the town.

I'm not sure on the format myself and think it drags things a little bit, but if there's one thing the GAA should take from it, it's to bring more big games out around the country.

One way of keeping that and to stop the current dragged out system would be to go back to stand alone knock out All Ireland quarter finals and give home advantage to the provincial winner. (For Dublin Parnell park and if deemed not big enough they can choose a neutral venue other than Croke Park)

i always that should have been the rule home advantage to provincial champions made more sense and gives another reason to win provincial title

The summer 8s  i meant to say the super 8s

The super 8s are a drag if they played the quarter finals and semis over 1 weekend each  like two quarter finals on saturday then the other two on a sunday then the semi finals a week or two earlier as either a double header on a sunday or one on saturday and sunday they could have the all ireland all wrapped up by august

Unless they play the summer 8s a week with midweek games on a tuesday and wednesday but that would never happen

Gives a team a bit more incentive to qualify  in 1st place example would dublin try harder now  against tyrone if they knew a defeat means they have to travel up to ballybofey/castlebar or go down to killarney same with tyrone would tyrone try harder if they knew a win means they dont have to potentially go down to killaney or face  a pumped up mayo crowd on a warm saturday afternoon

The way to avoid a dead rubber in the last game is for the winners of round 1 to play each other in round 2 and the same for the losers. If there is a draw in round one then there can be no dead rubber.
Anyway while the dubs are at the level they are at the competition is a joke.
If I had a preference it would be back to the old straight knockout system and no back door. Nothing like Russian roulette to sharpen the mind. Currently Mayo are still in it having lost 2 games, the whole thing is farcical and signs on it people are voting with their feet.
Change is needed and quick.

That would be a good idea and probably the best solution if there going to continue with super 8 group stage you can still get half dead rubbers tho with a team already qualified and might play a weak team but they might come 2nd in group if they get beat but a lot of the time it does not matter if you come 1st or 2nd in group

another system i thought of was the 4 provincial champions play each other in a preliminary quarter finals the 2 winners into semi finals 2 losers meet two teams from the qualifiers in the quarter finals that would mean an extra qualifier round to cut the 4 teams to two teams

i think the super 8s are too long and drawing out get rid  of them unless you play them over the space of a week but the gaa wont do midweek games

if they went back to a knockout quarter final they could wrap the all ireland up by august have the quarter finals played over two days

why does this happen a lot team down 3 points with  a minute  to go and they go for a point

what would be the two closest clubs that play in different counties any ideas and do these clubs ever play each other in challange matches


The one i can think of is strabane and lifford

was reading the biggest club rivalry thread so got me thinking what gaa clubs are very near each other and what is the closest derby in gaa   

if a goal keeper tips a ball over the bar he cant handle for a point does it go down as an own point or does the player who kicked the ball get awarded the point