GAC, GAA, Weaker counties and money

whassupp2

What do you think of the above and how they all work together?????

Flukey

How long have you got?

stepbar

Whats your own opinion?

DUB

Exactly you'll have to start the ball rolling!

thirdmantackle

GAC take their direction from the money men in the GAA, who don't really give a flying fcuk about the smaller counties.

bums on seats is what it seems to be all about now

stepbar

The GAA is a business, Croke Park has to be payed for and will be soon enough thanks to the shrewd management of finances. The GAA can look to the future with a sound financial footing. Would we rather a suitation like our fellow friends in the IRFU / FAI ? OP there must be a reason behind the posting of this message, I think its time your true feelings on the subject surface.....

whassupp2

Ok.
The reason i started this thread was because of the GAC's decision to play the Laois/Mayo game in Croker on Sunday and to move the minor match.
Ticketmaster had already been selling tickets for the match and people had booked hotel accomodation and arranged transport to the minor game both from Meath and Roscommon.
The minor game will now be played on the 27th which is the same day the Dubs are playin and Tommy Murphy final.
How are the 7,000 supporters for each of Roscommon and Meath that would have went this Sunday supposed to get tickets now??????
Its all about money for the GAA.
Laois V Mayo should have been played in Croker on Saturday and the minor match change to Saturday to act as a curtain raiser IMHO.
Its a disgrace.
Both Meath and Ros were against the switch. It is after all an All Ireland Semi final.




From the Hoganstsnd:
Fury over refixed minor match
15 August 2006


Meath and Roscommon county boards are furious over the rescheduling of the teams All-Ireland minor semi final.

The game was originally set for this Sunday August 20 and both county boards had settled with this date. Due to the replay of the Mayo-Laois match the GAA have put the game back to August 27.

It will now act as a curtain raiser to the Tommy Murphy Cup final and the semi-final clash between Dublin and Laois or Mayo.

Roscommon chairman Michael McGuire explains:

“Two members of the management team have taken annual leave. Hundreds of tickets were already sold for the match, and people were making arrangements to travel home from abroad.

“We were unhappy with some recent fixture making, but this latest decision shows that we are being treated, as our senior manager John Maughan said recently like a ’third world country’.

“We will be asking Croke Park to honour a commitment to give us 5,000 tickets,” insisted McGuire.

In Meath there is similar outrage at the new fixture arrangements as it is bound to hold up the club senior football championship.

The next club game won’t be until after the 27 August and the Meath championship has three more rounds to be played as well as quarter-finals, semi-finals and the final itself.

The Meath board are worried it will be delayed so much that the County won’t have a representative in the AIB club championship, as the final will not be played by the deadline.


Only just saw the dub ticket thread now. Apparantly Meath and Ros have been Guaranteed 5000 tickets each.

The Rooster

whassupp2 wrote:

The reason i started this thread was because of the GAC's decision to play the Laois/Mayo game in Croker on Sunday and to move the minor match.
Ticketmaster had already been selling tickets for the match and people had booked hotel accomodation and arranged transport to the minor game both from Meath and Roscommon.
The minor game will now be played on the 27th which is the same day the Dubs are playin and Tommy Murphy final.
How are the 7,000 supporters for each of Roscommon and Meath that would have went this Sunday supposed to get tickets now??????
Its all about money for the GAA.
Laois V Mayo should have been played in Croker on Saturday and the minor match change to Saturday to act as a curtain raiser IMHO.
Its a disgrace.
Both Meath and Ros were against the switch. It is after all an All Ireland Semi final.

I agree that on the fact of it it seems GAA are treating the Roscommon and Meath minor teams and fans badly. Something has to be done about people who bought tickets and now don't want to go on August 20.

However, to say "Its all about money for the GAA" is just totally ludicrous. Nonsense! By putting on more games alongside the Dubs, overall attendance and overall profits will be reduced. This decision had zero to do with money.

All in all I think the decision is one Connacht fans should be delighted about. If Mayo make the semior semi, about half the tickets will be allocated to Connacht.