Going by the Sam Maguire thread, you seem to be a big fan of GAA.
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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.
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.
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.
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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
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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?
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As can basketball. Who likes that??Originally Posted by jinxy lilywhite
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.
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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.
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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
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