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Replying To Viking66:  "If Wexford make the Leinster Final there will be close to 60000 at it."
Speaking of 60,000 - I see the Leinster Football Final now has 60,000 tickets sold.

Gonna be a cracking atmosphere.

Fionn (Dublin) - Posts: 4229 - 09/05/2025 16:51:46    2607866

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If Longford made it there would be 61,000 at it.

dolfos (Longford) - Posts: 130 - 09/05/2025 16:56:59    2607868

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Replying To TheFlaker:  "I have said since day one there were too many games in football that don't have much at stake. Since DAY 1. You never made that point when you started arguing about this. You hijack every thread with the same stuff over and over and over. You used to say football is rubbish. Now you are admitting it might not be that simple. The new rules are great. One or two things will change to make it better again. I love hurling but it's not that competive and has one good provincial competition that hides the major flaws. It's great to watch. I never said it wasn't."
No point in arguing with that deluded soul. However can you name any major sports competition that starts with the 8 or so top teams. There is very little wrong with the competition that we have now. Of course with more games the attendances at each are likely to be down. For one I go to games for the enjoyment of the sport not just to see the top 5 or 6 teams playing each other over and over. I doubt if many of the 30,000 attendees or the 10000+ plus that cant get tickets would swap Clones on Sunday for any hurling championship game. I could never enjoy any hurling game like I do gaelic football. In fact hurling would be 3rd or 4th on my favourite sports. Not knocking hurling but it is as much of interest to me as soccer or basketball.

ORIELMAN85 (Monaghan) - Posts: 498 - 09/05/2025 17:21:36    2607874

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Replying To Cockney_Cat:  ""Galway have saved it from being a cakewalk most years."

Far from it. Kilkenny have won 11 out of 16 Leinsters since Galway joined."
Galway have won 2 All Irelands and maybe been in 2 more finals since they joined Leinster. What other team apart from Galway has made a final? Just Kilkenny. I am not sure are you agreeing with me but my overall point is Leinster is poor but Galway can compete and make finals. Just not great at the minute.

TheFlaker (Mayo) - Posts: 8376 - 09/05/2025 18:06:17    2607882

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Replying To ORIELMAN85:  "No point in arguing with that deluded soul. However can you name any major sports competition that starts with the 8 or so top teams. There is very little wrong with the competition that we have now. Of course with more games the attendances at each are likely to be down. For one I go to games for the enjoyment of the sport not just to see the top 5 or 6 teams playing each other over and over. I doubt if many of the 30,000 attendees or the 10000+ plus that cant get tickets would swap Clones on Sunday for any hurling championship game. I could never enjoy any hurling game like I do gaelic football. In fact hurling would be 3rd or 4th on my favourite sports. Not knocking hurling but it is as much of interest to me as soccer or basketball."
Just shows the dummy you are when you can't see the entertainment value and skill level that hurling provides its vast support… unlike the drab fare served up for years in football… It's little wonder they brought in a clatter of new rules and are soon to change the Championship format to try and entice people back to games… both of these things you said would never happen.. That wore well.. It's little wonder you put basketball ahead of hurling as there is very little between them the way football has became… You would be in a very very tiny minority with those preferring basketball to hurling…

ForeverBlue2 (Cavan) - Posts: 3816 - 09/05/2025 18:53:54    2607889

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Replying To Fionn:  "Speaking of 60,000 - I see the Leinster Football Final now has 60,000 tickets sold.

Gonna be a cracking atmosphere."
For sure! Great to see it too!

Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 15675 - 09/05/2025 18:54:58    2607890

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Replying To dolfos:  "If Longford made it there would be 61,000 at it."
:-D

Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 15675 - 09/05/2025 18:55:12    2607891

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