Quote from: tyrone08 on Today at 10:10:52 AMQuote from: JoG2 on Today at 09:47:33 AMQuote from: tyrone08 on Today at 09:34:29 AMSean said he missed the word amateur as in they are a very rich amateur group.
Burns is turning into a politician. Of course they gaa are rich, whatever the offical figure is they are far richer.
Where do you think all the money comes from for brown envelopes
This makes zero sense. Have to seen the turnover figures and the amijbt that is required in the next while?
What brown envelopes to to who are you talking about?
The point is for an amateur organization to have cash reserves of tens of millions of pounds they can hardly call themselves poor.
If they care about raising revenue then wouldnt it be easier to drop the ticket prices a bit to encourage more attendance.
The brown envelopes are the payements made to every manager in the gaa, these arent exactly going through the books now are they.
I actually dont have an issue with paying for some games but for Burns to come out and justify it by saying we need the money while having large cash reserves is just wrong.
But surely its all relative, while (as far as I can see) at the end of 2023 there was 'cash' of circa €45,000,000 there are proposal capital projects of circa €500,000,000 in the coming years (if Burns is to be believed), as such having cash in the bank is irrelevant.
As intommygunn say, the brown envelope issue is a local issue and unfoirtunately all (or 99%) of our clubs (assuming most of us are members) are involved.