Anyone subscribe to this? The website is fairly poor but it seems like you can't watch many games, but does have the facility to watch old All Ireland Finals which i'd be interested in.
I wonder did they know that they were in trouble technically with the solution.
If I recall the news broke that Sky had pulled out a few days before the news that GAA Go would be showing games.
Did the GAA have to go with GAA Go because there was no other alternative ?
Maybe they knew GAA Go would not be ready in time for the expected volume of traffic and buggy and thus didn't promote it as much as you would expect.
Maybe they had hoped for a traditional broadcaster for this round before a full rollout of GAA Go.
Looking at it now that would be a good solution , 30 euro for all thats left as most plum fixtures have happened or will have happened in next 2 weeks.
Did GAAGO even pay for the rights?
Hate is a strong word, the GAA just make questionable decisions. Ones that I quite rightly question. I do the same for our other national sports like Rugby and Soccer when they make bad calls. I was highly critical of the Rugby making the deal with Eircom TV a few years ago to give one example
I've seen that in other sports, introducing special offers for the remainder of the season as the weeks went on. It's a great idea!
Another way is to add the remainder of the season on to next years subscription at a reduced rate (probably a bit early, financially, for that to make sense)
The GAA would need the thinking caps on for that though
GAA go in previous years have both subbornly looked for full whack as the season went on, and in more recent years had an end of season deal, but they also changed it from per season to per 365 days so the real need to get a deal isnt as much as it used to be.
If you pay your €60 in Ireland, €120 abroad (and subtract gaa member discount), it'll not be great value for this season for some, but you will at least get the full league next year and start of 2024 championships .
The gambling tax is the answer to all of these woes. I wonder with that nettle be grasped at any point.
If you logged into foireann there was a discount code on the first page. I don't know how well it was advertised. I'm in foireann often enough downloading teamsheets. I suspect not all members use foireann as regular as others might do.
Clubs should be telling their members about the discount.
Yeah perhaps. To be honest I've no idea whether my own club advertised it or not. Club members may have opted out of communications etc.
RTE Player can't even handle it's primary duty of streaming one thing correctly (amazing the ads always play though🙄), there's no way on earth it successfully manages to multitask in its current iteration
Clare won't be the only county to have 3 Munster games on GaaGo in a few weeks I feel. The final round of games could easily see Tipperary on it so 3 games on GaaGo for Tipperary also. Depends on how important the final round of games will be as one is to be picked from Munster or Leinster Championship on 28th May.
Or Clare could have a fourth, ouch! It will probably be Limerick V Cork though
Kerry v Mayo will test this service.
I don't see this working smoothly.
RTE don't have to send cameras to World Cup games.
That was the reason Virgin Media gave the GAA for not wanting to show games too. Soccer and Rugby are prepackaged events.
Another weekend another munster hurling game behind the RTE paywall.
RTE's champions will be here to defend the service now.
There are 2 on RTE next weekend. It would have been 5 out of 8 if the Clare Limerick match wasn't moved at short notice.
So is the Waterford v Clare game this evening the 3rd time that Clare games have been behind a paywall with none on free to air tv so far? If it is, I don’t think that’s fair at all IMO. Must say that the way the GAA has handled this so far has been an absolute f**k up.
Would I be right in saying that Dublin Hurlers haven't had a round robin game shown on free to air since the opening fixture of 2018? Obviously the COVID championships and different formats affected how they were broadcast but that still hardly seems fair to me.
Clare Limerick was fixed for the Saturday night since the fixtures were announced in mid January. Declan McBennett was putting that out as a reason but it wasn't a great one.
pre match coverage starts 10 minutes prior to throw in.
And then Gaa go has to go to a break for 3 of those minutes.
Farcical stuff
In fairness to Gaago, the coverage itself is really good. Grainne is a good presenter and the pundits and commentators are better overall than RTE. RTE sometimes have matches where the pundits are in a different stadium. Totally farcical for hurling, where its very hard to see tactical setups etc on tv. I'd also happily pay a multiple of the annual cost not to have to listen to Marty.
GAA eating itself
Nothing is stranger than someone driving to Hyde Park to analyse a match taking place in Páirc Uí Chaoimh. At least being at the venue should be a given
Last week, Lee Keegan from Westport) traveled TO Limerick to analyze a game in Castlebar....
Not the first time I've seen this nonsense either...
What game are you on about? Build up to the Munster game last night was 45 mins prior. It clearly states on the event what is included and the start time. Most times the pre game chat is the usual stuff you've read in the paper or online. Nothing exactly ground breaking.
Its mad,
When Sky had games the GAA/RTE went out of their way to ensure only RTE could show Munster hurling games, during their tenure SKY got very very little of these games yet now its a complete flip as they try to recover some of the money theyve ploughed into this venture rather than the alternative where the games were covered and the GAA got money for the privilege.
Now we have less coverage of games and the GAA spending their own money to have it this way!
Bonkers stuff, in business terms and promotion terms its almost the exact opposite of what an organisation should do!
I missed last weekends games as there was Rugby on RTE... Did much happen?
Not sure as there was rugby on the TV and RTE had the hurling behind their pay wall.
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