GAA Response to Coronavirus

[Rossfan]

Be interesting to see how this plans out bearing in kind Horan's comnents today

https://www.rte.ie/sport/gaa/2020/0823/1160834-dublin-gaa-club-forfeits-match-over-covid-19-concerns/

[Eire90]

disgraceful scenes some clown that look to be an old or middle age man decided to start throwing punches at a player.

[Itchy]

disgraceful scenes some clown that look to be an old or middle age man decided to start throwing punches at a player.

Sure that was in Monaghan, it is part of their culture. If they met Covid they'd fist fight it too.

[Cunny Funt]

Hmm 🤔

https://www.the42.ie/taoiseach-gaa-championship-2020-5184294-Aug2020/

[Blowitupref]

The Cavan county board chairman Kieran Callaghan didn't hold back on his opinion on not allowing supporters attend club games. I don't agree with all he said but he talked some sense here.

It's actually creating so many other unsafe situations and I urge spectators not to put themselves or anyone else at risk," says Callaghan.

"At the weekend, we had people on roofs of sheds, people on other properties. We had numerous incidents with people trying to see the games.

"Along the N3 on a busy Saturday evening, we had cars parked on both sides of the road where people went into adjacent properties to watch a game.

"It was so dangerous. This is actually worse than anything because we are driving people away from a safe environment and towards unsafe environments.

"The games are being streamed now and we have people congregating in public houses and hotels to watch them – we are actually driving people indoors instead of outdoors.

[rodney trotter]

He has some points, but they are providing a streaming service for a reason so people can see the games. Not to sit on the roof of a shed.
The Rugby returned last week with the provinces, with each Squad being tested.
Gaa are lucky there is games at all with no testing.

[Blowitupref]

He has some points, but they are providing a streaming service for a reason so people can see the games. Not to sit on the roof of a shed.
The Rugby returned last week with the provinces, with each Squad being tested.
Gaa are lucky there is games at all with no testing.

The aim of testing rugby players and any other sport team players is to have minimal disruption of games. All team sports are allowed to be played on this island on the advice of medical experts so nothing lucky about it

[thewobbler]

He has some points, but they are providing a streaming service for a reason so people can see the games. Not to sit on the roof of a shed.
The Rugby returned last week with the provinces, with each Squad being tested.
Gaa are lucky there is games at all with no testing.

You cannot compare professional organisations, whose stadiums are purposely built to minimise the potential for gate jumpers, with small GAA clubs whose playing fields bump uglies with, among other things: community centres, railway lines, factories, beaches, apartment blocks, commercial buildings, back country roads, soccer fields, council play parks, rolling drumlins and housing estates. All of which can on some occasions provide an opportunity for watching a game while not entering the grounds (sometimes with the aid of a hoist of some description), or an entry point to the grounds that is difficult to block off.

This is the Cavan chairman's point. There is no rugby angle here. Unless you're talking about club rugby grounds.

[Baile Brigín 2]

This is the Cavan chairman's point. There is no rugby angle here. Unless you're talking about club rugby grounds.

I think the point as made earlier in the thread is that rugby and soccer fans are staying at home and watching streams, presumably because they know the club will lash them out of it if they physically present. So they don't. The GAA seem not to be able to get this message across.

[thewobbler]

This is the Cavan chairman's point. There is no rugby angle here. Unless you're talking about club rugby grounds.

I think the point as made earlier in the thread is that rugby and soccer fans are staying at home and watching streams, presumably because they know the club will lash them out of it if they physically present. So they don't. The GAA seem not to be able to get this message across.

You're not comparing like with like and you know it. Which is why you're ignoring the other point I made above. Closing a stadium is much easier than closing a playing field.

[smelmoth]

The lesson for all of us is that we can follow some nuanced rules even if we don't like or understand them all or we can be given 1 very simple rule to follow. Better to work with what we have

[rodney trotter]

He has some points, but they are providing a streaming service for a reason so people can see the games. Not to sit on the roof of a shed.
The Rugby returned last week with the provinces, with each Squad being tested.
Gaa are lucky there is games at all with no testing.

The aim of testing rugby players and any other sport team players is to have minimal disruption of games. All team sports are allowed to be played on this island on the advice of medical experts so nothing lucky about it

He has some points, but they are providing a streaming service for a reason so people can see the games. Not to sit on the roof of a shed.
The Rugby returned last week with the provinces, with each Squad being tested.
Gaa are lucky there is games at all with no testing.

The aim of testing rugby players and any other sport team players is to have minimal disruption of games. All team sports are allowed to be played on this island on the advice of medical experts so nothing lucky about it

There has been cases of clubs not reporting cases just so games could to be played.
The medical experts will be at work in October, players arriving to games in cars and travelling back home an hour after playing a game without showering. That's how the inter County championships is looking like

Medical experts only offer advicee, they don't insist games should be played.

[Baile Brigín 2]

This is the Cavan chairman's point. There is no rugby angle here. Unless you're talking about club rugby grounds.

I think the point as made earlier in the thread is that rugby and soccer fans are staying at home and watching streams, presumably because they know the club will lash them out of it if they physically present. So they don't. The GAA seem not to be able to get this message across.

You're not comparing like with like and you know it. Which is why you're ignoring the other point I made above. Closing a stadium is much easier than closing a playing field.

But none of us are hearing about soccer and rugby clubs just shrugging ther shoulders and letting people in.

[Blowitupref]

Medical experts only offer advicee, they don't insist games should be played.

That advice is what this current government base its decisions and current restrictions on.

From acting CMO Ronan Glynn

We're saying sport can continue.

Sport and physical activity has a fundamental role to play in our society generally but particularly at a time like what we're going through at the moment and we haven't had significant issues arising out of sport per se. So you'll note that the measures that were recommended were not aimed at stopping sport

[thewobbler]

This is the Cavan chairman's point. There is no rugby angle here. Unless you're talking about club rugby grounds.

I think the point as made earlier in the thread is that rugby and soccer fans are staying at home and watching streams, presumably because they know the club will lash them out of it if they physically present. So they don't. The GAA seem not to be able to get this message across.

You're not comparing like with like and you know it. Which is why you're ignoring the other point I made above. Closing a stadium is much easier than closing a playing field.

But none of us are hearing about soccer and rugby clubs just shrugging ther shoulders and letting people in.

And only one of us is comparing professional rugby to club GAA.

Wait until the junior and intermediate soccer leagues are underway, and All Ireland club rugby is underway. At that point you'll have a valid comparison on the capacity of volunteers in non-enclosed playing fields.