GAA Response to Coronavirus

[johnnycool]

What's going to be the protocol for the return of the league/championship?

Have they any testing systems for county teams like they do in the pro sports?

You'd imagine teams should be tested twice weekly to see if any players are positive? How feasible that is for the GAA I don't know but they should be funding something along these lines.

Rapid testing it seems.

https://www.rte.ie/sport/gaa/2020/0925/1167526-gaa-looking-to-introduce-rapid-testing-programme/

They'd need something as I can't see intercounty going ahead without the use of the changing rooms.

[armaghniac]

What's going to be the protocol for the return of the league/championship?

Have they any testing systems for county teams like they do in the pro sports?

You'd imagine teams should be tested twice weekly to see if any players are positive? How feasible that is for the GAA I don't know but they should be funding something along these lines.

Rapid testing it seems.

https://www.rte.ie/sport/gaa/2020/0925/1167526-gaa-looking-to-introduce-rapid-testing-programme/

They'd need something as I can't see intercounty going ahead without the use of the changing rooms.

They seem resistant to routine testing, this is only testing if there is a case in the squad.
No doubt the Dubs will have a fleet of mobile homes to provide each player with their own changing room, just him and his own physio.

[seafoid]

https://www.irishtimes.com/sport/gaelic-games/malachy-clerkin-nothing-compares-to-rich-tapestry-of-sound-offered-up-by-gaa-match-1.4365719
Think about it. The braying of an NFL goon squad is surely as nothing compared to the rich tapestry of sound offered up by a GAA champo crowd in full cry. It's not just roaring, you know. Well, a lot of it is but there's roaring and there's roaring.
There's Parade Roaring, for which you need a panoramic 360-degree sound effect, lifting and listing in waves as the players march around the pitch. It will need to be long and sustained and if you wish to throw in archive footage of Jack McCaffrey smiling at the crowd, knock yourself out. No, he won't be there this year but the crowds won't either so they cancel each other out. Underlay it with some brass parping from the Artane Band and you're away.
There's First Score Roaring, which has its own sub-categories, depending on the context. You'll need a button for First Score By An Underdog and one for First Score By A Favourite. There'll have to be separate buttons for First Score - Goal, First Score - Point, First Goal - Free. And of course, First Score - After Four Wides And The Concession Of An Own Goal. Space will be tight so for brevity, just call that the Mayo button.
In general play, you'll need a button for Throw-In Roaring, preceded always by F**king Throw It In Ref Roaring. You won't get by without a button for the roar that rises behind a goalkeeper's nets if he's taking too long over a kick-out. Nor will you retain a lot of credibility unless you have one for the roar when a freetaker is stealing yards or when a time-wasting defender kicks the ball away. This will be important in Tyrone games.
It's not all noise, either. There's plenty of nuance in the silence of a GAA crowd too
On the disciplinary side of things, that specific off-camera roar that greets an off-the-ball jab in the ribs is a must. In fact, you'll need two roars here - one that says the lad on the ground is the worst actor since De Niro tried comedy and another conveying the need for the birch to be brought back to deal with the brute standing over him. Actually, come to think of it, you'll need three more on top - one for a yellow card, one for a red and one for the cop-out yellow apiece.
And let's not by coy about it. We're all grown-ups here, realists in all things. There'll have to be some boo buttons too. The championship won't be complete without the righteous anger of the Hill 16 purists who will accept the ball being passed backwards only if Ciarán Kilkenny does it. Or the howls of the Kilkenny cognoscenti who have blind-eyed 20 years of Brian Cody coursing referees but by God they won't be putting up with Davy Fitz's oul' shite on the line.
It's not all noise, either. There's plenty of nuance in the silence of a GAA crowd too. There's the quiet of the 20th minute in an Ulster football game, with two teams looking at each other across the Clones grass with nothing to say, like a bad first date.
And if you have a button for that, you're going to need one for the last 60 minutes of a Dublin game in Leinster. Indeed, this year's Leinster football final is likely to be the only fixture in world sport where the crowd will actually be louder than it was in the 2019 equivalent, due to the stamping of feet we'll need to do to keep warm as another massacre is played out before us.
Five weeks, lads and lassies. If there aren't whole departments in RTÉ and Sky beavering away on this already, Croke Park need to have a word.

[twohands!!!]

https://www.irishtimes.com/sport/gaelic-games/malachy-clerkin-nothing-compares-to-rich-tapestry-of-sound-offered-up-by-gaa-match-1.4365719
Think about it. The braying of an NFL goon squad is surely as nothing compared to the rich tapestry of sound offered up by a GAA champo crowd in full cry. It's not just roaring, you know. Well, a lot of it is but there's roaring and there's roaring.
There's Parade Roaring, for which you need a panoramic 360-degree sound effect, lifting and listing in waves as the players march around the pitch. It will need to be long and sustained and if you wish to throw in archive footage of Jack McCaffrey smiling at the crowd, knock yourself out. No, he won't be there this year but the crowds won't either so they cancel each other out. Underlay it with some brass parping from the Artane Band and you're away.
There's First Score Roaring, which has its own sub-categories, depending on the context. You'll need a button for First Score By An Underdog and one for First Score By A Favourite. There'll have to be separate buttons for First Score - Goal, First Score - Point, First Goal - Free. And of course, First Score - After Four Wides And The Concession Of An Own Goal. Space will be tight so for brevity, just call that the Mayo button.
In general play, you'll need a button for Throw-In Roaring, preceded always by F**king Throw It In Ref Roaring. You won't get by without a button for the roar that rises behind a goalkeeper's nets if he's taking too long over a kick-out. Nor will you retain a lot of credibility unless you have one for the roar when a freetaker is stealing yards or when a time-wasting defender kicks the ball away. This will be important in Tyrone games.
It's not all noise, either. There's plenty of nuance in the silence of a GAA crowd too
On the disciplinary side of things, that specific off-camera roar that greets an off-the-ball jab in the ribs is a must. In fact, you'll need two roars here - one that says the lad on the ground is the worst actor since De Niro tried comedy and another conveying the need for the birch to be brought back to deal with the brute standing over him. Actually, come to think of it, you'll need three more on top - one for a yellow card, one for a red and one for the cop-out yellow apiece.
And let's not by coy about it. We're all grown-ups here, realists in all things. There'll have to be some boo buttons too. The championship won't be complete without the righteous anger of the Hill 16 purists who will accept the ball being passed backwards only if Ciarán Kilkenny does it. Or the howls of the Kilkenny cognoscenti who have blind-eyed 20 years of Brian Cody coursing referees but by God they won't be putting up with Davy Fitz's oul' shite on the line.
It's not all noise, either. There's plenty of nuance in the silence of a GAA crowd too. There's the quiet of the 20th minute in an Ulster football game, with two teams looking at each other across the Clones grass with nothing to say, like a bad first date.
And if you have a button for that, you're going to need one for the last 60 minutes of a Dublin game in Leinster. Indeed, this year's Leinster football final is likely to be the only fixture in world sport where the crowd will actually be louder than it was in the 2019 equivalent, due to the stamping of feet we'll need to do to keep warm as another massacre is played out before us.
Five weeks, lads and lassies. If there aren't whole departments in RTÉ and Sky beavering away on this already, Croke Park need to have a word.

The typo? here makes for a fairly scary mental image.
Don't be giving him ideas as the man says.

[Smokin Joe]

No spectators at sporting events in the Derry and Strabane council area

[armaghniac]

No spectators at sporting events in the Derry and Strabane council area

Will the Derry footballers notice?

[sensethetone]

No spectators at sporting events in the Derry and Strabane council area

Will the Derry footballers notice?

[Derry Optimist]

With the rapid  daily growth of the coronavirus throughout the whole country but especially in  Ulster, I would think that the likelihood of either the National Leagues or Provincial and All Ireland championships taking place this year are disappearing fast. Most counties who have not yet completed their county championships in both codes will be lucky to do so.

[sid waddell]

With the rapid  daily growth of the coronavirus throughout the whole country but especially in  Ulster, I would think that the likelihood of either the National Leagues or Provincial and All Ireland championships taking place this year are disappearing fast. Most counties who have not yet completed their county championships in both codes will be lucky to do so.

Maybe they could just play it off this weekend?

Forget about matches and go straight to penalties - a 32 team knockout penalty shoot out competition for the All-Ireland

It'd be box office

[Captain Obvious]

With the rapid  daily growth of the coronavirus throughout the whole country but especially in  Ulster, I would think that the likelihood of either the National Leagues or Provincial and All Ireland championships taking place this year are disappearing fast. Most counties who have not yet completed their county championships in both codes will be lucky to do so.

Maybe they could just play it off this weekend?

Forget about matches and go straight to penalties - a 32 team knockout penalty shoot out competition for the All-Ireland

It'd be box office

Let's use rock, paper, scissors to find All Ireland winner this year.

[Harold Disgracey]

Swift, and correct, response from Armagh.

**Statement from Armagh GAA: All club activity suspended until further notice**

Following a meeting of Armagh County Management Committee this evening (Friday 2 October), the decision has been taken with immediate effect, to suspend all club activity until further notice.

Armagh GAA Chairperson, Michael Savage commented,
"Following an update today on the significant rise in cases across the north combined with a number of our clubs adversely impacted.

"This decision has not been taken lightly but we believe this is the right and responsible decision to safeguard our members and our communities. 

"We will review this situation in consultation with Ulster GAA in the coming days and we urge all members to continue to follow the public health advice."

[armaghniac]

With the rapid  daily growth of the coronavirus throughout the whole country but especially in  Ulster, I would think that the likelihood of either the National Leagues or Provincial and All Ireland championships taking place this year are disappearing fast. Most counties who have not yet completed their county championships in both codes will be lucky to do so.

And that from an optimist!

Kerry will isolate on the Blasket Islands and will emerge unscathed and reclaim what is rightly theirs.

[sid waddell]

With the rapid  daily growth of the coronavirus throughout the whole country but especially in  Ulster, I would think that the likelihood of either the National Leagues or Provincial and All Ireland championships taking place this year are disappearing fast. Most counties who have not yet completed their county championships in both codes will be lucky to do so.

Maybe they could just play it off this weekend?

Forget about matches and go straight to penalties - a 32 team knockout penalty shoot out competition for the All-Ireland

It'd be box office

Let's use rock, paper, scissors to find All Ireland winner this year.

Rock has been used to decide the All-Ireland winner in six of the last seven years

[Captain Obvious]

With the rapid  daily growth of the coronavirus throughout the whole country but especially in  Ulster, I would think that the likelihood of either the National Leagues or Provincial and All Ireland championships taking place this year are disappearing fast. Most counties who have not yet completed their county championships in both codes will be lucky to do so.

Maybe they could just play it off this weekend?

Forget about matches and go straight to penalties - a 32 team knockout penalty shoot out competition for the All-Ireland

It'd be box office

Let's use rock, paper, scissors to find All Ireland winner this year.

Rock has been used to decide the All-Ireland winner in six of the last seven years

Paper beats rock, GPS trackers do not.

[sid waddell]

With the rapid  daily growth of the coronavirus throughout the whole country but especially in  Ulster, I would think that the likelihood of either the National Leagues or Provincial and All Ireland championships taking place this year are disappearing fast. Most counties who have not yet completed their county championships in both codes will be lucky to do so.

Maybe they could just play it off this weekend?

Forget about matches and go straight to penalties - a 32 team knockout penalty shoot out competition for the All-Ireland

It'd be box office

Let's use rock, paper, scissors to find All Ireland winner this year.

Rock has been used to decide the All-Ireland winner in six of the last seven years

Paper beats rock, GPS trackers do not.

No wonder Dublin players never spoke to the press during the Championship