Thank God for hurling

[johnneycool]

Not like you'd know it was on. Or even Championship time. I saw an ad or two for the Cork Tipp game all right, I saw nothing for the Waterford Clare game. Ya I haven't been watching much tv, but feck it like I saw enough ads for the world cup. Still there's been little or no promotion of it. And yes it's hard to compare it to something like the world cup, but I could tell ya who's playing in the first match of the WC, and like I said, I saw nothing for the Waterford and Clare game. I'd much rather watch Waterford against Clare than Mexico against South Africa.

The GAA talks about promoting the game, and well being of it, and all that jazz, but you rarely know when there's a hurling game on if you've no interest, yet you know who's playing on in the soccer in England, and the world cup has ads every break on the tv, it's supposed to be wanting to contest against these lads, but they're not even giving it a go.

And never mind the underage games, some of the recent Cork Tipp games at Minor and U21 level have been fantastic, replays, extra time..etc. Yet they've had zero publicity. The GAA cuts it's nose off despite it's face when it comes to publicity of the games.

Do you think it's the suits above up in Croke Park who are at fault?

Certainly they are part of the problem as it's their games they need to promote, yet seem happy to be leaving it up to the national broadcaster to do their promotional work for them. RTE don't help themselves either as you'd have thought they'd be trying to maximise their viewing audience to in turn sell advertising during whatever intervals are available during the broadcast.

What about the games which aren't on TV at all? They're not promoted or advertised anywhere and only those in the know will have a clue when and where they are on. At least you may get the odd tourist through the gates if it's better publicised.

The GAA seem happy to let their main sponsors do the advertising for them especially Guinness when they sponsored the Hurling who know the importance of product placement. You'll get the odd AIB, Etihad or whoever add, but its not sustained.

[dowling]

Reillers how did you manage to use this thread to put the boot into Kilkenny supporters?

Mother of God your endless wumming is beyond tiring. Get over this personal obsession you have.

I was actually reading your previous post agreeing with most of what you were saying and then bang, in goes the boot to Kilkenny. Now I'm sure other counties have fairweather supporters so I have to question your vindictive attitude towards Kilkenny. But further than that you question promotion and use a positive thread like this to take cheap shots and show disunity among hurlers. You want to catch yourself on!