RT� coverage a disgrace

**gspain** · 26/08/2004, 12:58 PM

Originally Posted by Conor74

Bit sad that 5 a side has to be included to bump up the numbers.

At a serious competitive level, where people will pay to watch and sponsors pay to finance, the GAA and football are not even on the same planet. The Cork County Hurling Championship is bigger than the eL. Look at the stadia, the attendances, the jersey sales, everything about the GAA is bigger. And with teams like Laois and Westmeath on the rise, and the Ulster teams returning to the form of the early 90s, the gap may widen. The only time the two ever really came close was when the GAA was in a slump in the late 80s and Ireland was getting hysterical over Italia 90. Since then, they've dropped a gear and moved away...

The GAA is a bigger spectator sport because football fans go to Old Trafford, Anfield etc etc.

I haven't heard 5 a side being included i nthe numbers - I'm talking sport at a competitive level -eg Junior football, Munster Senior league etc etc. Playing numbers are huge incl Cork.

As far as I'm concerned Shelbourne's game on Tuesday was bigger than all the gaa games ever played put together but then it's down to persopective. i'm sure the Cork hurling championship is importan tto a lot of people too. I couldn't name a team in it.

**pete** · 26/08/2004, 1:23 PM

Apparently Dublin has higher number of junior football clubs in any European City (not sure if based on per capita).

**max power** · 26/08/2004, 1:28 PM

Originally Posted by gspain

The GAA is a bigger spectator sport because football fans go to Old Trafford, Anfield etc etc.

I haven't heard 5 a side being included i nthe numbers - I'm talking sport at a competitive level -eg Junior football, Munster Senior league etc etc. Playing numbers are huge incl Cork.

As far as I'm concerned Shelbourne's game on Tuesday was bigger than all the gaa games ever played put together but then it's down to persopective. i'm sure the Cork hurling championship is importan tto a lot of people too. I couldn't name a team in it.

of course the local championship is big, its ur brother or neighbour playing, its the same with the championship in longford, its your local parish after all...its beat into the young fellas from an early age, how often to you see rural players switiching teams in gaa, unless there is a problem with there own club almost never....

**TonyD** · 26/08/2004, 9:06 PM

[QUOTE=eircomfan]Never said it was an EL match but it was an EL team , whether you want to believe it or not the amount of people who want to watch Irish League football is small in comparison to any other sport,

Any other sport ,eh ? How many people attended the last athletics meeting in Ireland ? Come to think of it, when was the last athletics meeting in Ireland ? Talk of the GAA is misleading here, RTE didn't interupt the match to flash across to a top GAA game, they did so to go to a sport which, Olympics or not, is definitely very much a minority sport in this country, and to a race with not even any Irish interest in it, which at least would have made some sort of sense.

Sheridan · 27/08/2004, 11:37 AM

Originally Posted by pete

Apparently Dublin has higher number of junior football clubs in any European City (not sure if based on per capita).

Not sure about that, but the FAI Junior Cup is believed to be the biggest football tournament in Europe (it's eminently possible, even famously inclusive competitions like the FA Cup fall several hundred participants short of the FAIJC figure.)

**thejollyrodger** · 27/08/2004, 2:29 PM

i emailed RTE about the shambolic coverage they have given Shelbourne and also about their CRAP sounds and CRAP graphics... i got the usually automated reply , what a waste of time.

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**pete** · 27/08/2004, 3:20 PM

Heard that alot of people were complaining to Newstalk in dublin about RTEs interruption of the game so maybe not just an eL moan...

**max power** · 27/08/2004, 3:21 PM

yeah it wasn't just off the ball either, george hook and the breakfast show as well.

**pete** · 27/08/2004, 3:31 PM

Originally Posted by max power

yeah it wasn't just off the ball either, george hook and the breakfast show as well.

I'd be surprised if anymore heard of it as shels 15mins of fame must surely be up now...?

Be interesting to see what coverage of their UEFA CUP game as Joe Public ain't gonna recognise Lille as not been in CL...

Sheridan · 27/08/2004, 3:34 PM

Originally Posted by pete

I'd be surprised if anymore heard of it as shels 15mins of fame must surely be up now...?

Be interesting to see what coverage of their UEFA CUP game as Joe Public ain't gonna recognise Lille as not been in CL...

They were ! 2001/2002, finished third in their group behind ManU and Depor.

Don't reckon the day-trippers will come out for either, though.