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.
Just to make it even easier for you to find that breakdown than @TsuDhoNimh did:
https://online.fliphtml5.com/fhqhq/rxbl/index.html#p=114
Financial statements for 2023 start on the exact page I've linked to.
Go away out of it. Rugby is a city game with some token rural clubs in the lower divisions.
Connacht has 26 clubs and most in Galway. Leitrim has 1 think and I'm not sure Roscommon has any.
Even strongholds like Limerick the club numbers are dwarfed by GAA.
To put all my cards on the table I don't know much about soccer but I assume the FAI pay their international players for playing for Ireland. Other costs like away games in the Nations League and Euro Qualifiers or paying opposition teams to play them in friendlies are unlikely to come cheaply either but I don't know how that makes up 50m a year
Yes the GAA has over 2,000 clubs across the country Vs the rugby's ~400, it's a great achievement, but shouldn't that mean that broadcasting games Free-To-Air makes more sense because you then have a larger viewing audience?
No it shouldn't.
And it's not just a great achievement it's why the GAA cost more to run and needs higher revenue.
But then does it not also make more in club membership and ticket sales because of its vast size?
I know you're only going to say no so my question is rhetorical
All clubs in sport get grants from HQ. So one with way more clubs needs way .ore money.
You doubted the GAA would have higher overheads and when shown to be wrong you just insinuated something was up with the numbers.
That's urc so you should be looking the league prices in gaa. European game would be higher but Munster have zero chance of getting that far. Lots complaining about the price of Ireland games because they can't afford to go.
Sounds like they will be showing club games as well ? Will county boards lose out ?
Where you getting this?
Good post.
Whatever else we say about it, this step has to be welcomed. Better late than never I suppose.
Somehow trying to give the impression that GAAGO and RTE were in competition for games - while RTE owned 50% of GAAGO - was an insult to people's intelligence.
Rugby isn't a city game with any token clubs. And far from rural clubs just in lower divisions. Stop showing a complete lack of any form of knowledge on rugby and it's clubs and the club scene.
RRoscommon Has creggs and few 0thers are close by.
Creggs is technically in Galway 😝
And you being a big rugby fan are just letting your bias affect your reasoning. You are obviously a fan of one of the few non city clubs but being honest you know they are one of the few. How many trips will Nenagh make to non urban areas in this year's AIL ?
Any separation of GAAGo and RTE raises some interesting questions about the TV Games schedule going forward.
Will the GAA continue to just say to RTE 'these are your 31 games, like it lump it'. Or will there be negotiation, alternate first picks each week, alternate overall picks etc? If the GAA try to just hand RTE pre-selected games will anyone in RTE say "we've zero interest in the Munster/Leinster football finals, we want Cork v Limerick hurling and an extra football R12/quarter final instead.". RTE, now acting as a totally independent entity, should be willing to go 'nuclear' and threaten to walk away totally if the deal they are offered is unacceptable to them. Though I understand this would be politically difficult for them after the handout they received. But neither should they just meekly accept what they are given because with Sky and VM off the radar at the moment, RTE are in a relatively strong position.
It will be no different to before.
Same as when it was Sky or TV3 showing games.
It could/should be different is kinda my point though, as RTE now have a great negotiating position if they only realise it.
Remember Sky walked away for reasons that aren't clear, but being 'dolled out' mediocre games by the GAA was plausibly a factor.
Are the annual passes not available to buy? Like I would think there is a massive market for this as a present for the father/brother/mother/sister who is hard to buy for at Christmas? I know what they are showing is up in the air slightly but I don't think a willing customer in the main would mind.
A large part of why Sky walked away was that they wanted exclusivity over throw-in times, similar to what they have with Premier League soccer in England - e.g. if they were to show a match beginning at 4 p.m. on a Sunday, no other match anywhere in the country could clash with it.
In effect, it means no other match could start any later than about 2.15 p.m., in order to be well finished by the time of the televised match. Or if going later in the day, it would have to wait for the televised match to be over.
GAA rightly regarded this as a red line and negotiations broke down soon afterwards.
I spoke to someone in gaago. New year supposedly. Missed window of opportunity.
Typical of the GAA though.
I bought the annual pass last year (live in Oz). I found it a good service but I probably don't watch enough games and didn't get value from it. I just saw that the cost to get another year is $185 AUD (was doing some subscription management).
You can stop complaining about GAA Go and RTE since the GAA have bought out RTE
Get ready to start complaining about GAA+
Meet the new plus. Same as the old plus.
They should give a discount to Season Ticket Holders among others
Wonder will they combine with 'Clubber' and just have the one platform
There will be very little change to the service or the matches other than "+" replacing "go" and maybe a subscription price increase
They already give a discount for GAA Members. Get your discount code off foireann
They should have specific things, e.g. a season ticket holder can replay games.
If they took the the various platforms under their wing, then you offer a deal for all your club and county games for one county, with a discount for season ticket holders.
CCPC have a problem with RTÉ being a terrestrial and pay provider. And yet Virgin Media can own TV3? @TsuDhoNimh
Yup. Virgin Media (Liberty Global) - https://www.ccpc.ie/business/mergers-acquisitions/merger-notifications/m15039-liberty-global-tv3/ GAAGO approval for international markets - https://www.ccpc.ie/business/mergers-acquisitions/merger-notifications/m17034-gaago-media-jvrte-gaa/ Issues with GAAGO's Irish ventures - https://www.rdj.ie/insights/ccpc-notification-requirements-for-full-function-joint-ventures/ One of the key phrases for GAAGO in their original international approval there would be "… will not be to substantially lessen competition in any market for goods or services in the State". RTÉ having control of the rights to all GAA Championship games in Ireland (TG4 only offer league coverage) would obviously clash with that. Whereas a company owning a couple of TV channels in a market with plenty of others (<20% of the television market share in '22, even less in Irish mobile/broadband markets) would be far less of an issue for them.
Your still dealing with the same kind of market, with TV3 clearly able to make a market gain and then to be able to takeover UTV Ireland while providing a Pay Sports channel at the time? I think the CCPC might have more of an issue about the fact that RTÉ get 85% of the license fee than their 2 TV channels, one of which has less than 7% of the market and the one that gets the lions share of their sports coverage.
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