GAAGo and other gripes

[Hound]

will there be no knockout games on rte if on saturday

It seems that RTE will only have 2 of the 4 prelim knockout games and only 2 of the 4 quarter finals.

[seafoid]

And half of the round robin football games

[seafoid]

Interesting thread on Twitter today about IFA clubs agreeing to raise their prices by a pound for next season.

The responses were of general dismay, plus extreme disappointment about pricing kids out of games.

People love a moan. The sport doesn't matter.

Inflation is jacking up the price of everything. Soccer fans generally wouldn't have much spare cash.

https://www.irishtimes.com/life-style/2023/05/13/is-the-cost-of-living-crisis-getting-worse-grocery-prices-are-rising-interest-rates-are-rising-and-energy-bills-wont-drop/
In early 2022, it seemed gloomy in the extreme to suggest Irish consumers would be worse off by €2,000 as a result of soaring prices. But we now know that such predictions – made here by this writer – were wildly, almost comically, optimistic.
The reality of the cost-of-living crisis has proven to be much, much worse than that and, for many, the final bill for the crisis this year alone is likely to come close to €10,000.

[full moon]

GAA Go didn't have replays for Cavan Laois. Fairly sure McKenna Cup and local club matches even have replays, thoughts ??

[Hound]

GAA Go didn't have replays for Cavan Laois. Fairly sure McKenna Cup and local club matches even have replays, thoughts ??

GAAgo is a mediocre (at best) service. But despite the 'cost of living crisis' there are enough people with excess cash to pay for this poor service, which ensures it will be a success and we will be stuck with it. Whereas if everyone just boycotted it, it would be gone and we'd get the 2 Saturday games back on TV.
The English put up with soccer games on Sky and BT, but refused to accept games on PPV.

[marty34]

Camera work isn't great in GAA Go.  They don't zoom in when there's action. Seems just to be a wide shot and a real close up shot.

[Saffrongael]

Camera work isn't great in GAA Go.  They don't zoom in when there's action. Seems just to be a wide shot and a real close up shot.

Antrim v KK last week was a "one camera" setup. It was brutal

[Sheedy]

GAA Go didn't have replays for Cavan Laois. Fairly sure McKenna Cup and local club matches even have replays, thoughts ??

GAAgo is a mediocre (at best) service. But despite the 'cost of living crisis' there are enough people with excess cash to pay for this poor service, which ensures it will be a success and we will be stuck with it. Whereas if everyone just boycotted it, it would be gone and we'd get the 2 Saturday games back on TV.
The English put up with soccer games on Sky and BT, but refused to accept games on PPV.

they refused to accept PPV because they were already paying for sky and bt and now Amazon. If gaago disappeared would those games suddenly be shown by rte or would it be more likely a lot wouldn't be shown at all. Can't imagine Cavan v Laois being shown on rte.

[seafoid]

Malachy Clerkin said RTE were not expecting Sky to exit the GAA market recently and that GAAGO was rolled out somewhat prematurely.

[giveherlong]

Just looking at the pricing on the GAA GO website
e79 for season pass and then e150 for a club season pass and e300 for commercial/bar
What GAA club or pub are going to be paying the extra?
It's hardly like the GAA have inspections like Sky used to do

[armaghniac]

Get each club to inspect the pubs in their area.

[giveherlong]

Get each club to inspect the pubs in their area.

😂😂😂

[armaghniac]

Get each club to inspect the pubs in their area.

😂😂😂

How about directing 50% of the revenue from GAAGo in each area to the local club?

[DhoireTheas]

I'll wait for the illegal streams start coming up just like how I stream my movies.

[markl121]

First experience of gaa go in a pub at the weekend. Absolute disaster, two tvs on the go, one was 30 seconds behind the other. Eventually got the synced only for one ti freeze for a second and throw the whole thing into chaos again.