I agree, we should milk the soccer/rugby cash cow as long as possible, but the money has to be filtered back to club level. The ordinary club man is still forking out for club facilities, not Croke Park as they would have you believe. My own club had to go scrounging to the English lotto for funds for a 1/2 size training pitch cos the "grant" from GAA wouldn't have paid for the posts!
We all pay over the odds for County tickets and are getting very little return where it's needed most. I agree that the plans for Omagh are welcome, but why is the bulk of meaningful Croker grants stopping at county level?
If a programme to fund clubs properly was started then the "where does the money go" and "should we open Croker" debates would disappear very quickly.
After all, the ordinary clubmen in this country paid for Croke Park in the first place, now the dividends should go back to the investors.
We all pay over the odds for County tickets and are getting very little return where it's needed most. I agree that the plans for Omagh are welcome, but why is the bulk of meaningful Croker grants stopping at county level?
If a programme to fund clubs properly was started then the "where does the money go" and "should we open Croker" debates would disappear very quickly.
After all, the ordinary clubmen in this country paid for Croke Park in the first place, now the dividends should go back to the investors.