2017 Championship TV Coverage

The GAA Championships coming soon. Ha ! What a joke.

No lads, it is coming TODAY but in typical piss poor RTE fashion, there is sweet feck all on the telly !

In properly ran sports, the start of the champioship starts with a bit of a bang and razamatazz and wall to wall coverage & not the damp squib that RTE and the GAA seem to be happy with, year in and year out. Utter jokeshop !

Yeah, I know what is on tonight. That is my point.

There is some sort preview show streaming live on the Sunday Game's Facebook page. Whoop dee bleeding doo !

Can you imagine the Six Nations, or the Heineken Cup, or the Premiership, or the World Cup, having no live telly coverage on the first day of their championships? It is such a shame that RTE have exclusive rights to the free to air summer games and, that well intentioned, but out of date dinosaurs like Marty Morrisey are in charge of their GAA department. It is more than time to get someone young and vibrant in, to clean house and drag the station kicking and screaming into the 21st century world of broadcasting. It'll never happen now, more's the pity !

iDave wrote: »

The first month is a bit Ulster heavy. Is Down v Armagh on June 4 really more interesting than Louth v Meath?

RTE love the Ulster championship games as the BBC have to organise the full OBU coverage and RTE can piggyback.
Meanwhile RTE can send one man with a handheld camera to the Louth/Meath game for highlights and have fulfilled their obligations.

iDave wrote: »

Meanwhile we'll be told Ulster is special and anyone can win it at any time.

it is special as they dictate the entire football and hurling all Ireland schedule with their drawn out provincial football run off (max 1 game per week, so quarter final round which could be played on one weekend, or maybe more realistically 2, takes a month!), which in turn leaves very little wiggle room to have a properly organised club championship around the inter county scene.
(the length of the overall championship season from national leagues to all ireland finals is determined by the longest un-modifiable, sacrosanct, provincial competition, which is Ulster football)

that though is coming to an end seemingly next year with the tighter championship schedule, and with a potential hurling round robin if a special congress happens in the autumn, the TV coverage will likely be less ulster and less football biased from next year onwards.

Full list of RTE games

The Sunday Game Live - Fixtures 2017

All games live on RTÉ2

Saturday 20 May 7pm Monaghan v Fermanagh (USFC Preliminary Round)
Sunday 21 May 2pm Mayo v Sligo (CSFC Quarter final)
Sunday 21 May 4pm Cork v Tipperary (MSHC Quarter Final)
Sunday 28 May 2pm Derry v Tyrone (USFC Quarter final)
Sunday 28 May 4pm Dublin v Galway (LSHC Quarter Final)
Sunday 4 June 2pm Down v Armagh (USFC Quarter final)
Saturday 10 June 5pm Cork/Waterford v Tipperary (MSFC semi final)
Sunday 11 June 2pm Cavan v Fermanagh/Monaghan (USFC Quarter final)
Sunday 11 June 4pm Galway v Mayo/Sligo (CSFC Semi Final)
Sunday 18 June 2pm Derry/Tyrone v Donegal/Antrim (USFC Semi-Final)
Sunday 18 June 4pm Waterford v Cork/Tipperary (MSHC Semi Final)
Saturday 24 June 7pm Down / Armagh v Cavan / Monaghan / Fermanagh (USFC Semi-Final)
Sunday 25 June 4pm Carlow / Wexford / Dublin v Offaly / Westmeath (LSFC Semi Final)
Saturday 1 July 5.00pm, QUALIFIER
Sunday 2 July 2pm Munster Football Final
Sunday 2 July 4pm Leinster Hurling Final
Saturday 8 July 5.00pm, QUALIFER
Sunday 9 July 2pm Connacht Football Final
Sunday 9 July 4pm Munster Hurling Final
Sunday 16 July 2pm Ulster Football Final
Sunday 16 July 4pm Leinster Football Final
Sunday 23 July 2pm All Ireland Hurling Quarter Final
Sunday 23 July 4pm All Ireland Hurling Quarter Final
Sunday 30 July 2pm All Ireland Football Quarter Final
Sunday 30 July 4pm All Ireland Football Quarter Final
Sunday 6 August 3.30pm All Ireland Hurling Semi-Final
Sunday 13 August 3.30pm All Ireland Hurling Semi-Final
Sunday 20 August 3.30pm All Ireland Football Semi-Final
Sunday 27 August 3.30pm All Ireland Football Semi-Final
Sunday 3 September 3.30pm All Ireland Hurling Final
Sunday 17 September 3.30pm All Ireland Football Final

Realbhoy wrote: »

Not having the Clare vs Limerick game on the june bank holiday weekend is a bit of a loss to them. Local derby with new management teams in both counties would have been nice but instead big bad sky have it

I would say RTE choose the Down v Armagh game, because they can simply use the BBC NI feed. If they had the Clare v Limerick game they would have to film it themselves.

Coillte_Bhoy wrote: »

So Sky are launching their coverage with Dublin V Carlow or Wexford? Their marketing people must be drooling, what a farce the whole cship set up is

Doesn't seem like a great one to start with, but it will actually be the best of the early Leinster round games. If Wexford win which is the most likely it will be a sell out game in Wexford Park.
Even if Carlow win, it will be a packed Portlaoise for that game. So for once Skys 1st game will be in a ground that is almost sold out.
Every year they broadcast from half empty places, looks bad. The Carlow/Wexford v Dublin game will be good tv with a massive crowd & hopefully Wexford/Carlow can make it competitive for as long as possible.

thelad95 wrote: »

I really hate how cynical the analysis on RTE is, if they thought this game was such a foregone conclusion why aren't they showing one of the more competitive games in Leinster?

It's an interesting point. We do know that hat games involving the big teams are invariably one sided this time of year and you may get a better game in a less high profile fixture

But which Leinster championship game would you have picked

Laois v Longford or Carlow v Wexford ?

Fr Tod Umptious wrote: »

It's an interesting point. We do know that hat games involving the big teams are invariably one sided this time of year and you may get a better game in a less high profile fixture

But which Leinster championship game would you have picked

Laois v Longford or Carlow v Wexford ?

Carlow v Wexford probably would have invoked some curiosity given that the winner was destined to face Dublin.

I think he meant the one they used last night featuring the Artane Boys Band, marching down Jones Rd to kick off the new season of TSG broadcasts. Cue oh so hilarious hijinks from Marty Morrissey - naturally - stealing someones trombone. :rolleyes:

Cringe is being kind.

Not being used for the evening show. Thank fcuk.

I instantly mute whenever Martin Carney is on, they probably play his commentary clips in Guantanamo Bay as a form of torture. What's worse is that if Donegal or Mayo are being shown you can bet your bottom dollar that he'll be covering it.

I agree with the above poster as well, how are they not pulled up on slamming their own spectacle. They spend all week advertising their coverage, then the commentary team complain about how awful a spectacle it is, at half time, brolly and Spillane lament for the olden days and throw 'awful' and 'containment' and 'damage limitation' around.

How would any of the above maintain the casual viewers attention? It was the exact same today, Sligo actually made a good fist of it and in the end the scoreline was very flattering to Mayo. Mayo looked dreadfully undercooked for supposed all Ireland contenders, yet neither Marty nor Dessie had a positive thing to say about Sligo.

Take for example Sky Sports coverage of the premier league. Throughout the season they are obliged to show every team a minimum number of times which means at times they will have to show games which they know by their own admission are utter dross. Take for example, Middlesborough v Leicester which they showed on New Years Day this year when two struggling sides played out a horrific 0-0 draw in front of a hungover crowd. Yet still the commentators will not complain about the awful spectacle it is because they know that if they do, people will inevitably flick away from it.

Also, I heard Martin Carney use a phrase last night that Fermanagh had lost 'a bit of the jizz from their play'. Now I don't know what context he could possibly mean that in but a lot of people might take the meaning of that word slightly differently. If anything it just perfectly sums up how out of touch he is.

Don't mind the negative commentary meself. Some games are hard to watch. I'd rather someone calls it like it is, than pretend enthusiasm that you can tell is fake from a mile away.

Carney should have been put out to pasture years ago, along with the rest of the aul lad brigade. They should bring in some fresh blood. However, there is not much chance of that happening with Marty Morrissey being the head GAA honcho in Montrose.

It's all well and good having the likes of Colm Cooper, Oisin McConville etc etc on the payroll, but they are being wasted, if all they do is the studio analysis. Get them doing the game commentary too. That would be great. Dessie Dolan seems to be the only recently retired player doing that (Lord knows why he in particular, got the nod, coz he's desperately dull) but there should be more of them over all.

Thought Cooper had a good debut last night. He was nervous, but that was understandable. It was great to see at least one Kerry man give a direct answer to a question & not start & end every question with that annoying "ah shure, d'ya know, lookit I suppose...." carry on.