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Championship and Covid

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  • #62
    Joe_ Public
    Registered Users Posts: 13,023 ✭✭✭✭Joe_ Public


    Stay positive. No harm at all in it.


  • #63
    kksaints
    Registered Users Posts: 4,693 ✭✭✭kksaints


    Chalk McHugh wrote: »
    We've all agreed on here on the issue of crowds at games later on in year. Nobody thinks full houses will be permitted but a lot of us still expect to see ball being played one way or another.

    Would the GAA play behind closed doors? I'm not entirely sure but doesn't a lot of money come from gates rather than TV rights?


  • #64
    Chalk McHugh
    Registered Users Posts: 3,534 ✭✭✭Chalk McHugh


    kksaints wrote: »
    Would the GAA play behind closed doors? I'm not entirely sure but doesn't a lot of money come from gates rather than TV rights?

    Yes of course it does. Dont know the percentage but id say 80% at a guess it gate revenue. Maybe play games with max 30% capacity allowed. Maybe the tv money and advertising revenue will be much higher due to more having to watch at home. We'll just have to to wait and see how it pans out. Only another 3 weeks to go before next lockdown/restrictions notice. Yipee.


  • #65
    arctictree
    Registered Users Posts: 4,283 ✭✭✭arctictree


    Time to think outside the box here.

    What if we brought back the inter pros and hyped it up massively. Semi finals in September and finals in October?!!


  • #66
    Ray Donovan
    Registered Users Posts: 1,015 ✭✭✭Ray Donovan


    Hurling championship is going to be pretty straightforward.

    Munster and Leinster Championships to be played off as knock-out competitions with the 2 winners playing in the All Ireland Final meaning the Leinster and Munster Finals are defacto All Ireland Semi-Finals. (Interestingly would that mean that say a Limerick/Cork Munster Final would have to be played in Croke Park(if full crowds are allowed attend) as the 45,000ish that Semple holds wouldn't facilitate that sort of crowd and the GAA could be glad of a 65,000-70,000 gate?)

    This will keep the Leinster and Munster Councils sweet which has to be done as I can't see any way the provincial championships will happen in football due to the imbalance in provincial numbers.


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  • #67
    Chalk McHugh
    Registered Users Posts: 3,534 ✭✭✭Chalk McHugh


    Ray Donovan wrote: »
    Hurling championship is going to be pretty straightforward.

    Munster and Leinster Championships to be played off as knock-out competitions with the 2 winners playing in the All Ireland Final meaning the Leinster and Munster Finals are defacto All Ireland Semi-Finals. (Interestingly would that mean that say a Limerick/Cork Munster Final would have to be played in Croke Park(if full crowds are allowed attend) as the 45,000ish that Semple holds wouldn't facilitate that sort of crowd and the GAA could be glad of a 65,000-70,000 gate?)

    This will keep the Leinster and Munster Councils sweet which has to be done as I can't see any way the provincial championships will happen in football due to the imbalance in provincial numbers.

    65,000 or 70,000 at a match? Not a chance id say.


  • #68
    C__MC
    Registered Users Posts: 3,041 ✭✭✭C__MC


    If NHE cant accommodate a leaving cert to late July, they surely won't allow teams and management teams to train and congregate until then at least. 40-50 people mixing together 3-4 nights a week before that is unrealistic due to the ongoing situation

    Teams will need a month of training at least

    That would nearly be late August at best before a ball is kicked


  • #69
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 7,712 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Someone has the drawings for Croke Park out as we speak and is working out the max attendance with 2m between everyone.


  • #70
    C__MC
    Registered Users Posts: 3,041 ✭✭✭C__MC


    arctictree wrote: »
    Time to think outside the box here.

    What if we brought back the inter pros and hyped it up massively. Semi finals in September and finals in October?!!

    Na it's a dead duck

    Personally I think it's a great competition but it's done like the Australian rules


  • #71
    C__MC
    Registered Users Posts: 3,041 ✭✭✭C__MC


    Also the novelty of a knock out championship in football is utter nonsense

    People getting giddy at Dublin having to go to leitrim as some kind of romance that the championship needs

    Utter nonsense


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  • #72
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 7,712 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    C__MC wrote: »
    Also the novelty of a knock out championship in football is utter nonsense

    People getting giddy at Dublin having to go to leitrim as some kind of romance that the championship needs

    Utter nonsense

    Yeah because ties involving Dublin are the only ones that will happen.


  • #73
    BonnieSituation
    Registered Users Posts: 18,921 ✭✭✭✭BonnieSituation


    ReginaldSmythV wrote: »
    Open draw knockout would be class for one year. Might help accelerate the death of the provincials too.

    Seeded first round then open draw for the subsequent rounds.
    First round seeded on the league placings.

    No PROVINCIALS

    If need be you could run it off in 5 weeks. Not that you would do that.

    But has the bonus of NO PROVINCIALS linking into the Championship.


  • #74
    Vinnie222
    Registered Users Posts: 862 ✭✭✭Vinnie222


    ReginaldSmythV wrote: »
    Someone has the drawings for Croke Park out as we speak and is working out the max attendance with 2m between everyone.

    And what about players. Surely the 2 m rules applies to them as well.


  • #75
    Chalk McHugh
    Registered Users Posts: 3,534 ✭✭✭Chalk McHugh


    Vinnie222 wrote: »
    And what about players. Surely the 2 m rules applies to them as well.

    All players to be tested and given the all clear perhaps.


  • #76
    Vinnie222
    Registered Users Posts: 862 ✭✭✭Vinnie222


    Chalk McHugh wrote: »
    All players to be tested and given the all clear perhaps.

    That's not going to happen . We can't even test our sick atm and that's not going to change any time soon


  • #77
    Chalk McHugh
    Registered Users Posts: 3,534 ✭✭✭Chalk McHugh


    Vinnie222 wrote: »
    That's not going to happen . We can't even test our sick atm and that's not going to change any time soon

    We'll see. Its a guessing game at this moment.


  • #78
    Ferm001
    Registered Users Posts: 125 ✭✭Ferm001


    Vinnie222 wrote: »
    And what about players. Surely the 2 m rules applies to them as well.

    In my own club, a lot of our players have been adhering to this for years, especially the defenders 😀.


  • #79
    PTH2009
    Registered Users Posts: 37,751 ✭✭✭✭PTH2009


    GAA off organising committees for this

    They sure love to that


  • #80
    dobman88
    Registered Users Posts: 6,460 ✭✭✭dobman88


    PTH2009 wrote: »
    GAA off organising committees for this

    They sure love to that

    Thought the same. Why the need for all these committees. Just make a decision and go with it. No need for all the nonsense, people will just be happy if games get played


  • #81
    PCeeeee
    Registered Users Posts: 1,465 ✭✭✭PCeeeee


    Now that it's going ahead (in my head at least :D); does anyone think that the players will be less fit than normal?

    Could this have an impact on the style of play I wonder. There has been a slight shift in the football towards a less conservative game, could this accelerate that it everyone isn't at 100%?


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  • #82
    scrubs33
    Registered Users Posts: 199 ✭✭scrubs33


    PCeeeee wrote: »
    Now that it's going ahead (in my head at least :D); does anyone think that the players will be less fit than normal?

    Could this have an impact on the style of play I wonder. There has been a slight shift in the football towards a less conservative game, could this accelerate that it everyone isn't at 100%?

    Given that there will be a lead in time of 3/4 weeks and the players are ticking over with their own individual plans at the moment I think they will be every bit as fit as normal and mad for action. The first throw in for the hurling championship won’t be a place for the faint hearted!!


  • #83
    PCeeeee
    Registered Users Posts: 1,465 ✭✭✭PCeeeee


    scrubs33 wrote: »
    Given that there will be a lead in time of 3/4 weeks and the players are ticking over with their own individual plans at the moment I think they will be every bit as fit as normal and mad for action. The first throw in for the hurling championship won’t be a place for the faint hearted!!

    They won't be half as excited as me:P


  • #84
    kaizersoze
    Registered Users Posts: 7,042 ✭✭✭kaizersoze


    509365.jpg


  • #85
    Chalk McHugh
    Registered Users Posts: 3,534 ✭✭✭Chalk McHugh


    kaizersoze wrote: »
    <snipped pic>

    Yesssssssssss!!!!!!!!!!


  • #86
    kaizersoze
    Registered Users Posts: 7,042 ✭✭✭kaizersoze


    Chalk McHugh wrote: »
    Yesssssssssss!!!!!!!!!!

    I can't see any restrictions lifted before mid August in reality.
    Could be wrong though.


  • #87
    PTH2009
    Registered Users Posts: 37,751 ✭✭✭✭PTH2009


    kaizersoze wrote: »
    <snipped pic>

    I'd be thrilled with that


  • #88
    Feenie
    Registered Users Posts: 252 ✭✭Feenie


    PTH2009 wrote: »
    I'd be thrilled with that

    as another user said, I'd take two flies pucking a ball between each other!!
    this is way better than what any of us would have expected.


  • #89
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 7,712 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    If that’s all that’s out there on it, from a local radio station, then I wouldn’t be putting much stock in it just yet.


  • #90
    BonnieSituation
    Registered Users Posts: 18,921 ✭✭✭✭BonnieSituation


    I'll be thrilled when ye stop quoting pics. :P


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  • #91
    Cavan_King
    Registered Users Posts: 1,973 ✭✭✭Cavan_King


    kaizersoze wrote: »
    I can't see any restrictions lifted before mid August in reality.
    Could be wrong though.

    Exams are scheduled for late July though? Surely if exams can go ahead, games can, even if behind closed doors.


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