Replying To Dothesimplethingswell: "If you the papers this week you would see two articles one by a 3 time all ireland winning hurling manager, another by a 6 time all Ireland winning footballer and there are 3 current county managers weighing in with what Im referring to and Kerry county Council and others to follow just as I stated...Isn't this coming from voters if the political parties are getting involved?? You can say what you want but what I said is the complete opposite of populist its merely a reflection of what a lot of people are thinking."
There's an old saying that "paper never refused ink" and it's very true.
Those newspaper columns are just more examples of populism. Write that "all matches should be on free-to-air TV" and readers will think you're a great fella. Write that "all matches can't be on free-to-air TV because ....." and people will think you're an awful you-know-what.
Am not sure you understand the mechanics of Local Authorities either. Just because one councillor of one party proposes a motion and others from other parties support it doesn't mean it's a national policy of any of those parties, or make it any more likely to happen.
Look, I'd actually love to see every championship match on TV. But I'm realistic enough to understand why it can't happen. It's a pity certain others don't share those levels of realism.
Replying To Pikeman96: "There's an old saying that "paper never refused ink" and it's very true.
Those newspaper columns are just more examples of populism. Write that "all matches should be on free-to-air TV" and readers will think you're a great fella. Write that "all matches can't be on free-to-air TV because ....." and people will think you're an awful you-know-what.
Am not sure you understand the mechanics of Local Authorities either. Just because one councillor of one party proposes a motion and others from other parties support it doesn't mean it's a national policy of any of those parties, or make it any more likely to happen.
Look, I'd actually love to see every championship match on TV. But I'm realistic enough to understand why it can't happen. It's a pity certain others don't share those levels of realism."
I know they cant all happen and I didnt expect them all to be free and I understand that but if allowed then RTE could cover far more games... Correct me if Im wrong but dont they send cameras to the vast majority of games anyway so that they have highlights to show on the Sunday game? I didnt say it was national policy i said one county council introduced an emergency motion on this and most others are expected to follow. I said FG were pushing it too but that does not mean its national policy. The people in media and papers calling for change are much different characters to those who were promoting the sky deal...These people have nothing to gain except a return to a fairer system. I wont mention what the sky promoters gained from that deal but it was fairly obvious it was in their own interest. I listened to the GAA podcast today and 2 more very high profile recently retired players have highlighted the unfairness of the condensed season.
Replying To Pikeman96: "There's an old saying that "paper never refused ink" and it's very true.
Those newspaper columns are just more examples of populism. Write that "all matches should be on free-to-air TV" and readers will think you're a great fella. Write that "all matches can't be on free-to-air TV because ....." and people will think you're an awful you-know-what.
Am not sure you understand the mechanics of Local Authorities either. Just because one councillor of one party proposes a motion and others from other parties support it doesn't mean it's a national policy of any of those parties, or make it any more likely to happen.
Look, I'd actually love to see every championship match on TV. But I'm realistic enough to understand why it can't happen. It's a pity certain others don't share those levels of realism."
people just want all the games available if you have to pay a annual subscription. instead of just 40 games which your team may not be involved in
Replying To Pikeman96: "As Square_B pointed out above, that County Council motion is nothing but populist nonsense. And in general, County Council motions for anything outside of the county that passes them are barely worth the paper they're written on anyway.
And seems you and others of your mindset continue to overlook several key considerations, including: - Even if the GAA gave away the broadcast rights of all matches for free, how do they force RTE or any other broadcaster to actually show them? There's significant expense and logistics involved in every live broadcast.
- RTE continue to show as many or more live championship games free-to-air as they ever did. It's not the case that the extra number of matches now shown on GAA+ "used to be shown on RTE instead". Reality is that if they weren't shown on GAA+, they wouldn't be shown anywhere.
- We're in a GAA echo chamber here, but RTE - as a national public service broadcaster - would have to be mindful of the large proportion of the population who have no interest at all in watching GAA matches. Yes, they're showing wall-to-wall soccer at the moment and many of us have no great interest in soccer either, but that's for only a few weeks, every couple of years. If their schedule was full of live GAA every Saturday & Sunday from mid-April through to end of July every single year (and possibly beyond July if people who want the inter-county season extended got their way), then they'd alienate a large part of their viewership.
So again - a County Council motion demanding that all championship matches be shown live and free-to-air is nothing but populist nonsense. With no grounding whatsoever in reality."
"Even if the GAA gave away the broadcast rights of all matches for free, how do they force RTE or any other broadcaster to actually show them" They never gave the rights away they only assumed almost full control in last few years by introducing their own channel. They never "forced" RTE to show them but somehow RTE always showed them maybe not free as we pay tv licence, tax etc but they showed then and there was no further charge to watch these games..Somehow rte were able to show vast majority of games when the season was a full 8 weeks longer but with the split season I fully accept they cannot possibly achieve this. Its unlikely rte will "alienate" viewers by showing westerns on a Sat afternoon and funnily enough when rte were showing most games I never heard of viewer alienship. Its amazing to me that defending a scenario that prevailed prevailed for well over 50 years is npw labelled as populus nonsense.