Mod Note Post #1 - The 2022 All Ireland Senior Football Championship.

My theory was Brolly "analysis" was a RTÉ created gimmick to grab the attention. They had simliar with Dunphy on the soccer and Hook on the rugby. RTÉ has since moved on to get rid of such rubbish while Brolly continues to play the gimmick as he loves the attention.

It is improving though but it does need a bit of Jazzing Up - and by that I don’t mean stats for stats sake. Or controversy for controversy’s sake.

But it does seem a bit staid and formulaic at the moment.

Strangely it is a lot of the younger Kerry pundits (not Pat) like Fitzmaurice, D O’Cinnede, T’O Se who are top football analysts. Noelle Healy from Dublin presents well and is knowledgeable.

It is getting better, but slowly. Yet with some pundits we still hear lazy stuff ‘they wanted it more’ etc.

Would have been excited and actually went to Kildare's game if it was in Portlaosie or Tullamore but no way in hell am I paying through the nose to sit in a quiet and souless stadium.

And there's many more like me.

Greed will always take precendence over fairness in the Leinster Championship it seems.

Whatever Tullamore or wherever holds split the tickets , and make it televised. Accountants robbing the ordinary non Dublin GAA fan again.

I know but Hurling fan boys got the edge in the 90's. When Ulster teams finally learned that kicking possession away to other teams,was stupid it was called Puke football while Hurling was still exciting hit and hope. But Hurling is exactly the same as football now with teams recycling the sliotar rather than try a 50/50 shot. But still they maintain its the more skillful / Gaelic game. As a schoolboy I played Hurling and once you get the hang of the basics, itsno more skillful that football.

Exactly, being from Monaghan, I often went to Ulster finals no matter who were playing. I always had great craic with fans from other counties, and Clones was transformed for the day. Shops doing trade ,young people getting a few pounds for manning makeshift car parks etc. An integral part of the town and county.

I've met Dubs in Clones who were delighted to be there. Genuine football followers have no problem following their team around no matter what county they're from.

Well when Dublin were playing in Clones, plenty seemed to travel. Alot of them for the novelty as they've never been there. But they'll travel no problem. Its the accountants, imo and actuaries, doing this to justify their huge budget being spent on Dublin.

Dublin fans like travelling. GAA on the other hand like to use their HQ showpiece stadium. And also pack the crowd in and give as much fans as possible a chance to get a ticket.

The problem is if the GAA did not use CP for Dublin matches -

1) How often would CP be used? - it could be called a white elephant

2) Other counties like playing there - and could feel slighted if not given the chance - every player aspires to play in CP etc - regardless of county

3) As I already alluded to there are problems with capacity with other stadiums. Plus many others are archaic type stadiums even if they have decent capacity like Semple. Facilities wise and architecturally, they are fairly basic at best.

It would not really encourage casual fans to games. Or ‘sell’ the games to a to a televised audience.

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I do understand the barely half full CP argument v an atmospheric packed smaller stadium. But Parnell is too small for football championship demand. And a 25k/35k Dublin stadium is prohibitive due to land costs and availability alone. It would be wasted really.

Particularly with CP mostly idle are rarely 50k filled on a stand alone game - unless it is a ‘big match’. Or the Dublin support view it as an attractive game. Or Novelty. But an under utilised CP would also be madness. As it happens to be in Dublin.

Would get 40k ish - normally. And a lot less elsewhere means less tickets

So the GAA/DCB/fans/players are damned if they do and damned if they don’t. No matter where a Dublin football game is played there is always an unhappy cohort.

Ide agree with you on everything except no.3

The "casual fan" all over Ireland has had no problem with the basic stadia. I wish Limerick had the facilities of CP or the renovated PuC but it doesn't seem to stop people going.

It's that kind of attitude probably gives Dubs a bad name.

GAA stadia are such a mixed bag it's hard to call them as one thing. Some counties, Kildare and Waterford come to mind have left their stadium in an awful state but others are fine despite having "no facilities". Ennis for instance you don't really need anything as you are right in the heart of town and its a great size for most of it's games. Nowlan park is another fine no frills stadium.

Fans will go if there is something worth seeing on the pitch.

Sure there is no talking to posters who believe it is a Dub conspiracy on CP.

They are the same who believe all Dub supporters don’t travel, and Dublin supporters are mostly gougers etc and have no clue about GAA.

Those posters who Parrot that stuff, are to me are GAA ‘pub talk’ posters. Not to be taken too seriously IMO.

Not to mention the price of a pint compared to country venues! 🤨

A bit ironic that the chairman is an Offalyman.