Attendances are they up or Down?

[dcfcsteve]

Ya! end of Sligo Rovers!

I think paying €2k a week for players may have more to do with the demise of Sligo than the particular season in which the club plays.....

[Rovers Maniac]

I think paying €2k a week for players may have more to do with the demise of Sligo than the particular season in which the club plays.....

Steve hi, first of all he is not on that money but second he his not costing the club anything during the playing season.

[GuisaSaigon]

Steve hi, first of all he is not on that money but second he his not costing the club anything during the playing season.

Do ye just pay him during the off season?

[red bellied]

Do ye just pay him during the off season?

Business people are covering his wages, he is not on 2,000 grand a week either.

[bennocelt]

Because of the amouont of GAA on the tv on sunday and saturday afternoons they are now playing their club and underage games on fri/sat nights leaving sunday/sat mornings free for travelling to games, this does affect the crowds in Sligo and other places.

my point was how can anyone rationally choose a muck game like Ga over football?

[superfrank]

Going by the Sam Maguire thread, you seem to be a big fan of GAA.

[Rovers fan]

Boco at Sligo apparently on€2k a week

Yeah why not make things up to prove your point.How would you know what he's on anyway? He's not on 2k a week nor has that figure even been mentioned before.At the start of the season it was rumoured that he's on 1.5k a week but it is actually less than that and the club don't even pay his wages.

[GuisaSaigon]

the club don't even pay his wages.

Is that allowed? how does it fit in to the 65% wage cap rule?

[trevy]

Attendances at Waterford United this season have been terrible and worse than when we had winter soccer. I remember going to 1st division games back in the 90's in worse weather and much worse facilities at the RSC and the crowds were bigger. Clubs must be so frustrated that they've improved facilities,tried to improve standards and still crowds are poor.

[jinxy lilywhite]

my point was how can anyone rationally choose a muck game like Ga over football?

i don't know how anyone can call GAA a muck game. Soccer is so slow compared to it. A Gaa game can change in seconds.

[Rovers fan]

Is that allowed? how does it fit in to the 65% wage cap rule?

Well it's just like getting funding and using it to pay wages,it would still be part of the 65%.

[Mr A]

As far as attendance figures go I think we can all agree that when they are up they are up, when they are down they are down and when they are only halfway up they are neither up nor down.

[bennocelt]

Going by the Sam Maguire thread, you seem to be a big fan of GAA.

Well football is number one
Everyother sport pales in significance, but i still watch them all
Jesus i even spent 4 hours watching the golf yesterday

[bennocelt]

i don't know how anyone can call GAA a muck game. Soccer is so slow compared to it. A Gaa game can change in seconds.

Really!
I find it the other way around, hand passing around and around the field, hopping it off the ground, hitting wides in front of the post, and all the running with no particular plan, and absolutely NO SKILL
No way would the GA EVER come before Football

Hurling I could get your idea, but def not Ga

[GuisaSaigon]

Well it's just like getting funding and using it to pay wages,it would still be part of the 65%.

Sorry for dragging this off topic but I'm confused.The club raise money from local businessmen and spend it on player wages. I don't see how Sligo are not paying his wages. Sure, the money originally comes from these donors but is the money not given to Sligo Rovers? these business men are hardly paying Boco's wages directly into his bank account are they?

[jinxy lilywhite]

Really!
I find it the other way around, hand passing around and around the field, hopping it off the ground, hitting wides in front of the post, and all the running with no particular plan, and absolutely NO SKILL

Thats sounds like a very bad day in Oriel

[mypost]

i don't know how anyone can call GAA a muck game. Soccer is so slow compared to it. A Gaa game can change in seconds.

As can basketball. Who likes that??

Every summer we have the attendances whinge. Attendances are a year-round problem, be it a pre-season friendly in Monaghan in February, the cup final in December, or Rovers-Pats in July. For as long as I've been watching the LOI, attendances have been permanently poor. Winter or summer football is not to blame. It's the Irish sporting culture.

Attendances can be improved, by the elimination of Friday night games, later kos, and a reduction in prices. But still, low crowds is something we just have to accept in this country. Only the top leagues sell out.

[BohDiddley]

my point was how can anyone rationally choose a muck game like Ga over football?

They don't. It springs from decades of propaganda and conditioning, followed by more decades of sheer habit, all fertilised by tons of interminable hype served up by our media, which often won't even call football football.

Forget about the history and the rivalry. GAA football is ugly, pure and simple. It is the antithesis of how good foothball is played, and in objective terms is pointless, because scoring is facile.

No one in their right mind making an informed decision would choose to follow GAA. The problem for football is that choosing a sport is rarely a rational decision.

[Spoons]

Well said BOHDIDDLEY!!

[jinxy lilywhite]

They don't. It springs from decades of propaganda and conditioning, followed by more decades of sheer habit, all fertilised by tons of interminable hype served up by our media, which often won't even call football football.

Forget about the history and the rivalry. GAA football is ugly, pure and simple. It is the antithesis of how good foothball is played, and in objective terms is pointless, because scoring is facile.

No one in their right mind making an informed decision would choose to follow GAA. The problem for football is that choosing a sport is rarely a rational decision.

Thats complete rubbish. By your reckoning all GAA is crap and it is only popular because of decades of being brain washed by the auhtories. Cop on. The GAA is so popular because it is so well organised. There is a GAA club in every parish in the country. This is main difference between the two. Soccer in this country is supposed to be professional run but is run by a shower of amateurs who only ever seem to be involved because of their own interest not for the love of the game, while Gaelic is amateur but is probably the most professional sporting organisation in the world.
If the FAI could try to do half what the GAA has done football in this country would be 10 times better