Wombatman wrote: » Nope. If we go by hospital admissions, because they are more reliable: April 2020: 34 admissions per day average (average daily cases: 503) March 2021: 22 admissions per day average (average daily cases: 538) So 600 cases today would see the same number hospitalized as 388 cases last April.
blue note wrote: » I'd say you're underestimating how many watch the league games. The ones on tg4 would still get 6 figure viewership I'd say. Depending on who is in he league final you could get 4 or 5 hundred thousand viewers. Being on terrestrial TV makes all the difference. I don't think the league should go ahead to be honest. The championship would be enough. But it's not accurate to say that it's not widely watched. You've also got all the radio discussion on it too, newspaper articles, league Sunday is one of the most watched programmes of the week. It's a valuable outlet for a lot of people.
bustercherry wrote: » You can't just expected intercounty players to pick up and resume without proper training. It's just not feasible. Inter country training would be classed under elite amateur status, so effectively club golf and intercounty GAA is not equivalent. If they allow intercounty and don't open up golf to elite amateurs, then people can moan all they like then
blue note wrote: » Cases are twice what they were last year. And you have these new variants. But you have the vaccines. Overall we are probably in a worse position than this time last year and we're talking about easing rather than increasing restrictions. Maybe a further lockdown is what's needed until the vaccines actually come in. People are talking about a raft of restrictions being lifted and individually you wouldn't really criticise any of them. But combined, maybe it's not such a good idea. We'll see do the government take the easy option and relax restrictions or the ballsy one and keep them.
The Big Easy wrote: » Maybe they'll allow tracksuit bottoms initially upon reopening
Ivefoundgod wrote: » Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't the GAA schedule for 2021 starting with the leagues? Which isn't widely watched with a lot of games on Eir Sports rather than terrestrial TV. If it was the All Ireland that they were allowing GAA back for I'd say fair enough but that's not the case. Rugby is professional only though isn't it? So those players are in bubbles and that still didn't prevent French rugby having an outbreak during the 6 nations. I'm not against the GAA coming back if it was for the All Ireland as that would be a genuine boost to a huge amount of people across the country but bringing it back now to allow the leagues is ridiculous if its at the expense of sports with much larger participation amongst the general public. I take your point around outdoor sports in general but I think its harder to justify a large group of people gathering to play GAA than it is tennis or golf.
Kiith wrote: » I've to order new clothes to fit the additional bulk this lockdown has forced on me :pac:
blue note wrote: » Cases are twice what they were last year. And you have these new variants. But you have the vaccines.Overall we are probably in a worse position than this time last year and we're talking about easing rather than increasing restrictions. Maybe a further lockdown is what's needed until the vaccines actually come in. People are talking about a raft of restrictions being lifted and individually you wouldn't really criticise any of them. But combined, maybe it's not such a good idea. We'll see do the government take the easy option and relax restrictions or the ballsy one and keep them.
Frisbee wrote: » Haven't bought any equipment as was supposed to get fitted for new clubs the day after the new restrictions came in so still holding off for that. I can tell you one thing though, when we do go back I will definitely look the part with the amount of new golf clothing I have bought.
blue note wrote: » Allowing intercounty is entirely for the masses. The idea is that you let a couple thousand people compete under strict guidelines and hundreds of thousands will watch them on TV each week and have something to follow. But I expect as before most people here will ignore that, talk about "GAA being open" as opposed to .1% of GAA being open. It's amazing how much people can see what they want to see.
blue note wrote: » The reality is that even with contact, there were no outbreaks from teams training and playing matches. This is even true in rugby, where players are getting into rucks together. The outbreaks were from people doing things that they weren't allowed to do, i.e. celebrating after wins. So if you think that the government should solely look at the danger of allowing the activity and not the other stuff that will happen if you allow it, it's hard to argue that all outdoor sports shouldn't be allowed to open up immediately.
Ivefoundgod wrote: » I fail to see any logic in this? Say a panel of 30 in each county, all contact training multiple times a week and presumably matches as well mixing with another 30 not including coaches/physios. All of those are amateurs and will be mixing in the community as well as part of their day jobs. Now how could that be deemed safer than golf where there is social distancing by nature? In addition to that you have the fact that this benefits nobody outside of those players, how is that logical? Golf and tennis would benefit a far greater number of people while also being safer, sorry but there is absolutely no logic behind inter county GAA getting the nod ahead of golf and tennis.
RGS wrote: » Inter county training is for the elite in the sport not for the masses.
benji79 wrote: » My two sport’s are gaa and golf. I’d have both open But the inter county GAA is the easiest to police of them, club GAA and golf isn’t as easy. Inter county it’s the same panel together, same place, set nights. The actual numbers in the country would be very small Club gaa and golf would be huge numbers wise in comparison so I could understand the logic behind inter county getting go ahead but not golf. Not saying I agree just I understand it
ForeRight wrote: » Ain’t golfers no different to any cohort of general society. For cases to stay down to a very low level you need approx 80% compliance. I think any golf club has that. The few “woke” plonkers the likes of you see in here are the same you see across the board in society. They are not even intelligent enough to realise they are not very intelligent unfortunately and it’s the 80% that babysit them thru life.
Ivefoundgod wrote: » I've picked up a load of random stuff during lockdown, looking forward to trying them all out and seeing what I like. Also have a new carry bag and a motocaddy cube. Hoping to use the carry bag more, fingers crossed for good weather.
dan_ep82 wrote: » I was lucky enough to change job before this lockdown so bought a few bits. Just added it up and after a putter,wedges,gps trolley,shoes and other clothes and bits I've come to the conclusion I have to burn my bank statments incase she gets curious
RoadRunner wrote: » Sadly there's evidence of golfers in this forum claiming to have never worn a mask, refusal to use sanitiser, reject belief in non-symptomatic transfer, rejecting germ science and wanting only to get back out again with literally no care or thought for anything else. I don't want to quote the original post, but I'm stunned. It not just one person and I may have been wrong in my prior statements that golf should have returned long ago. That this forum is the most viewed public forum for golf in Ireland and it's showing evidence that there's super-spreaders without care or thought waiting to arrive on the course may have already changed the outcome of high level discussions :mad: I'm disappointed and angry.
benji79 wrote: » My two sport’s are gaa and golf. I’d have both open But the inter county GAA is the easiest to police of them, club GAA and golf isn’t as easy.
rickis tache wrote: » https://m.independent.ie/videos/golfers-go-for-midnight-tee-off-as-outdoor-fitness-clubs-reopen-in-england-40250038.html This is what the clubs here will have to do should they only allow 2balls.
Kiith wrote: » Course wasn't even open yet "Sources" have said NPHET are recommending another 6 weeks of lvl5. And of course their word is law according to our "leaders". It would be hilarious if they opened inter county GAA, but not golf. All pretense of this being about safety would immediately be gone.
