TV Coverage

Yes OP you are misunderstanding something.

TV broadcast rights.

TG4 own the rights to Sunday National League games.

RTE own the rights to Saturday night National League games.

Sky don't own any rights to any National League games so your conspiracy theory can stop there.

Because it's the last day with so much at stake all games start at the same time.

So TG4 can only show one.

Monaghan v Dublin is the only game that the result can create a clear cut outcome.

The loser is relegated.

All the others have various ifs and buts about them.

So because of that and because it's Dublin facing the prospect of relegation, it's as good as any to show.

Simple really,

RTÉ have the rights to Saturday games

TG4 have the rights to Sunday's games

RTÉ show 2 hours of highlights of the weekends games on a Sunday evening

Sky don't have any rights to Allianz League

Very positive reaction on social media to TG4's coverage today, hopefully The Sunday Game production team take note

Well there would have been a very negative reaction if they didn't have anything to keep people up to date with other scores and the "as it stands table"

I'd fault them though for not having the score from the other games in the top corner when they cut to those games to show a point or goal being scored.

My Irish is so so and I was not sure when they cut to the Kildare or Donegal games who was actually leading those games.

Also don't see how it translates to The Sunday Game.

Today was a rare day where so much was in play in all four games.

Such does not happen in the championship, so cutting away from Cork v Kerry in Munster to show a score from Monaghan v Tyrone in Ulster would be superfluous.

TG4 made a reasonable fist of it overall but their graphic with the league table and points difference was incorrect nearing the end of the Dublin v Monaghan game; inexcusable really:

When Dublin equalised, they put up a graphic of the table showing Dublin safe from relegation in sixth place which was incorrect. I think this was because they had the points difference for Kildare incorrect. Monaghan’s last point made no difference to Dublin, they needed to win to avoid relegation.

Had the exact same issue with TG4 on both Saturday and Sunday. I paused the live TV for a few seconds and then hit play again and it fixed it.

Good points especially about Off the Ball, their coverage and build up to their commentary games was excellent, especially for some of the lesser counties, they got great exposure

But what promotion does the Tailteann Cup need or deserve ?

It's a competition for the 16 worst teams in the country.

Unless you are from those counties there is not that much to get excited about.

Do people really like watching the teams in the bottom half of the premiership play each other ?

Your example is a poor one.

Anything other than a Saturday or Sunday is a bad time for GAA because of the amateur nature of it.

If the GAA scheduled Carlow v Leitrim for a Friday night they would be showing less respect for the Tailteann Cup than if they put it on on a Saturday or Sunday busy with other games.

You mean the qualifier model rather than the provincial model.

The provincial model will still exist, it's just what happens to teams when they lose in the provincial that's different.

The idea of the TC was to stop teams going into seasons knowing that they would get hammered and having nothing to play for.

People use the Mayo v Leitrim Connacht game in 2021 as a perfect example of why something was needed to be done.

But only half the problem is addressed.

Leitrim will still get hammered by Mayo in Connacht, but with the TC the worst they can face after that is the team that came 7th in Div 2, rather than possibly facing another top team again like Kerry, Dublin, Tyrone etc