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Galway pubs relegating the Hurling over soccer

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    #122
    Starscream25
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    onefourreal wrote: »
    starscream, have you seen the soccer facilities nationally vs. the gaa's ones?

    Both seem half decent bit I'm willing to be enlightened by you.


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    #123
    onefourreal
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    anto,
    real soccer fans go to games and not just consume the sky product.


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    #124
    Starscream25
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    antoobrien wrote: »
    Not exactly true, GAA fans (that is real GAA fans) go to matches instead of whining about them not being on the TV in a soccer pub.

    Well of course your entitled to your opinion but You can't paint everyone with the same brush, loads of 'real fans' as you say, from both sports often stay in to watch the game on the box in the comfort of their own home.

    Most people go to games for different reasons, not just to see their team win, but it could be a family day out, a date or whatever or just for the fun of it,Mao not everyone who goes to games are 'real fans' as you say.


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    #125
    onefourreal
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    starscream,
    there quite poor, i would love to know if the money spent on the sky product was spent on the game here how better it would be for the participants.


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    #126
    Amirani
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    For those who are citing examples in the US and the like, I presume you've never lived there or visited for a long period of time?

    When I lived in the US, it was fairly easy to find bars that would be showing unimportant soccer matches instead of big baseball or NFL games. Why? Because every other bar is showing the baseball and NFL, they're creating a unique selling point that will allow them to hoover up all the soccer fans in the city.

    It's completely blinkered thinking to believe that every single pub in the city should be showing the same event.


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    #127
    jh79
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    Whenever I put on the GAA , stadiums are barely half full apart from the finals or when Dublin are playing. I think the popularity of football / hurling is over stated.


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    #128
    Starscream25
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    onefourreal wrote: »
    starscream,
    there quite poor, i would love to know if the money spent on the sky product was spent on the game here how better it would be for the participants.

    I agree with you,it's a fraction of what soccer gets, at the end of the day, soccer has more appeal worldwide, let's not forget its an International sport, brings all country's together and all that, galway is a very diverse place with plenty of nationalities, old age traditions are slowly disappearing, not that GAA will ever disappear but the idea that GAA should take precidence over soccer 100percent of the time is living in lalaland.


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    #129
    onefourreal
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    whats on it cant open the link?


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    #130
    eireannBEAR
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    chickendipper wrote: »
    this is worth a watch .. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yiAPvN8HG4

    Fair play to them,i think one of those guys sold me heroin before...:D


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    #131
    onefourreal
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    Starscream, not all of the time just on the ultimate and penultimate days of live coverage.


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    #132
    pleasant Co.
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    This thread has gone way off-course. Posts about different sports marketing budgets, how to make sport X better and other entirely off topic post will begin receiving infractions. This is your heads-up, don't be a twat.


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    #133
    antoobrien
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    jh79 wrote: »
    Whenever I put on the GAA , stadiums are barely half full apart from the finals or when Dublin are playing. I think the popularity of football / hurling is over stated.

    Not really, you get more people at a first round club hurling champioship match in Galway than a league of ireland match.


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    #134
    antoobrien
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    Starscream25 wrote: »
    Well of course your entitled to your opinion but You can't paint everyone with the same brush, loads of 'real fans' as you say, from both sports often stay in to watch the game on the box in the comfort of their own home.

    Most people go to games for different reasons, not just to see their team win, but it could be a family day out, a date or whatever or just for the fun of it,Mao not everyone who goes to games are 'real fans' as you say.

    I never claimed everyone going were real fans (try sitting through a club all-ireland with some spanish/italians behind you), but then the vast majority of real fans make the effort to go to matches.

    I'd say the majority of the sofa surfers are not real fans, especially given the significant upsurge in numbers going to matches in the latter stages. There were 22k people at the LHC final last year, 45,000 were looking for tickets for the AI final and I know a fair few that don't go to any matches that ended up with tickets, so don't preach to me about people that watch GAA.


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    #135
    antoobrien
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    onefourreal wrote: »
    Starscream, not all of the time just on the ultimate and penultimate days of live coverage.

    How many people were looking to view the match in the pub?


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    #136
    jh79
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    antoobrien wrote: »
    Not really, you get more people at a first round club hurling champioship match in Galway than a league of ireland match.

    Not sure on the cost difference, but League of Ireland games were ridiculously priced when I used to go.

    The point I was trying to make was that if you can barely fill Croke Park until you get to the finals of the national games then it should hardly come as a surprise that it is not the number one choice in the pubs.


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    #137
    deadeye187
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    s_carnage wrote: »
    That's just a backwards view. Just because you mightn't like a sport doesn't mean you have to come out with crap like that.


    How can an opinion be a joke or 'backwards view'?....I find GAA boring as hell and I don`t know anyone that watches it. They all think its boring as sh*t aswell...........

    Your statement is a view of a backward person!...small minded even.


    And football is the greatest game on earth, no doubt about it!


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    #138
    eireannBEAR
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    deadeye187 wrote: »
    How can an opinion be a joke or 'backwards view'?....I find GAA boring as hell and I don`t know anyone that watches it. They all think its boring as sh*t aswell...........

    Your statement is a view of a backward person!...small minded even.


    And football is the greatest game on earth, no doubt about it!

    No rugby and hurling are the greatest games on earth....but i guess man-sports scare you.


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    #139
    deadeye187
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    eireannBEAR wrote: »
    No rugby and hurling are the greatest games on earth....but i guess man-sports scare you.


    Tbh man you know nothing about me. I played rugby for 12 years, and tho I love to play it I do not like watching it. Now you probable love watching rugby but never played it, there is a big difference between me and you!....Your an armchair rugby player!

    And if you can read, look for the greatest game on earth, and it will be..........................FOOBALL.....


    U MAD BRO?


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    #140
    Starscream25
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    eireannBEAR wrote: »
    No rugby and hurling are the greatest games on earth....but i guess man-sports scare you.

    Nothing to do with man sports scaring anyone, even before the sky sports days and all the needless diving and all that in soccer, it's fair to say soccer has been the number 1 sport for the last few decades and will most likely remain so. And in my humble opinion for good reason.


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    #141
    pleasant Co.
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    infractions handed out


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    #142
    dublinbhoy88
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    deadeye187 wrote: »
    How can an opinion be a joke or 'backwards view'?....I find GAA boring as hell and I don`t know anyone that watches it. They all think its boring as sh*t aswell...........

    Your statement is a view of a backward person!...small minded even.


    And football is the greatest game on earth, no doubt about it!
    So why does almost everyone in the country only seem to support English teams,if Madrid were playing Barcelona and a pub was showing it I'm sure it would be turned over for a match between hullv stoke or similar,its English football that's the obsession in this country not football,id much rather watch a GAA match than an EPL match which has nothing to do with Irish culture, its the only thing we have left that we can call our own


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    #143
    Starscream25
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    Alright we can can all agree to disagree but it's actually a good thing how diverse sport can be. No one sport is better than the other,we all like different things. The main point to take from this is soccer is more commercial easier to sell brings more people together in this age of multi culturism and is the obvious choice for pubs and social places to make money.


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    #144
    onefourreal
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    deadeye,

    why are americans and english in awe of our games especially, hurling?
    never met anyone in awe of soccer.
    If you really played rugby you would not have such admiration for soccer, they are worlds apart.
    honesty,manliness, fair play and integrity i could go on...


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    #145
    deadeye187
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    dublinbhoy88 wrote: »
    So why does almost everyone in the country only seem to support English teams,if Madrid were playing Barcelona and a pub was showing it I'm sure it would be turned over for a match between hullv stoke or similar,its English football that's the obsession in this country not football,id much rather watch a GAA match than an EPL match which has nothing to do with Irish culture, its the only thing we have left that we can call our own



    I understand what you are saying for sure, but these football games will be on in every pub around the world that have the rights to show them. And not just in Irish ones.


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    #146
    eireannBEAR
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    dublinbhoy88 wrote: »
    So why does almost everyone in the country only seem to support English teams,if Madrid were playing Barcelona and a pub was showing it I'm sure it would be turned over for a match between hullv stoke or similar,its English football that's the obsession in this country not football,id much rather watch a GAA match than an EPL match which has nothing to do with Irish culture, its the only thing we have left that we can call our own

    Yes the PL is gone the way of glossy mags,i have no respect for it in ireland the premiere league can only be called a FAD,irish people choosing to support man utd over the local loi,gaa or rugby team is disgraceful.


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    #147
    s_carnage
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    deadeye187 wrote: »
    How can an opinion be a joke or 'backwards view'?....I find GAA boring as hell and I don`t know anyone that watches it. They all think its boring as sh*t aswell...........

    Your statement is a view of a backward person!...small minded even.


    And football is the greatest game on earth, no doubt about it!

    That's fine and that's your opinion. What you said earlier "GAA = boring." was like you saying it as fact and not your opinion and that's what I find backwards. Just think it's a bit petty when someone who doesn't like one sport comes out with a statement like you did earlier. Just smacks of playground "my dad is bigger than yours"

    Also I find it hard to believe you don't know anyone that watches GAA


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    #148
    deadeye187
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    onefourreal wrote: »
    deadeye,

    why are americans and english in awe of our games especially, hurling?
    never met anyone in awe of soccer.
    If you really played rugby you would not have such admiration for soccer, they are worlds apart.
    honesty,manliness, fair play and integrity i could go on...



    I did play for years!..just because you play one sport does not mean you can`t enjoy watching another sport more!..... Football was what I grew up watching but grew up playing rugby...to which I played 2 seasons in Division 2 B


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    #149
    onefourreal
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    eireanbear,

    i work in an office with a guy who gives me a headache about rooney/suarez and his in depth knowledge of the game.
    yet last week he would not buy a raffle ticket to support an u-12 soccer team going on a trip to scotland for the halloween break.
    therefore he is a consumer of the game and not a participant.


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    #150
    jh79
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    dublinbhoy88 wrote: »
    So why does almost everyone in the country only seem to support English teams,if Madrid were playing Barcelona and a pub was showing it I'm sure it would be turned over for a match between hullv stoke or similar,its English football that's the obsession in this country not football,id much rather watch a GAA match than an EPL match which has nothing to do with Irish culture, its the only thing we have left that we can call our own

    If you support an English team than a match between hull and stoke could have implications on your teams position in the league.


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    #151
    jh79
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    onefourreal wrote: »
    eireanbear,

    i work in an office with a guy who gives me a headache about rooney/suarez and his in depth knowledge of the game.
    yet last week he would not buy a raffle ticket to support an u-12 soccer team going on a trip to scotland for the halloween break.
    therefore he is a consumer of the game and not a participant.

    The parents should fund their kids activities.


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