All Ireland Senior Hurling Championship 2023 ( Munster And Leinster Championships,Liam McCarthy Cup)

Anyone beginning to wonder if rosita is..donal og the same pretentious smug arrogance and anti leinster bias

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Have great games with Galway in Croker. Focus should be on Offaly at this point.

Seen on twitter that theres been 7 or 8 thousand tickets sold already for the Offaly v Tipperary game. Couldnt find any info on Dublin v Carlow.

What is the story with the Leinster Championship attendances? I have looked and cannot get attendances for every game. Anyone know where to get them? What I have seen is poor. Remember the attention Tipps support drew last year, this is worse as its across the board and across multiple years now.

From highlights id say if Wexford had 3 or 4 thousand at their games between Antrim and Westmeath it would be generous. Galways looked poor too, maybe 7k at the Wexford game and possible 5k or 6k at the Antrim game.

Kilkenny v Galway in Nowlan Park pulled about 11k and was the highest attended round robin game in Leinster. In contrast Waterford v Clare with Waterford basically already out, a hammering expected, having to travel 1.5 hrs to their "home game" and being outnumbered 5 to 1 by Clare supporters managed 14K in Semple stadium.

Basically Leinster Championship Round Robin games are pulling an equivalent crowd to Munster counties in Munster League or National League games. James Skehill indicated a form of apathy in Galway about it at the moment without saying as much.

This was all capped off with only 24K in Croker for the Leinster final. I didnt see it live, but watched it back and it was a really really good game but the empty stadium did detract from it as a spectacle and I would imagine as an event as a whole for the fans. Hard to generate a buzz in a stadium that large with an average crowd. My first though was how good it would have looked in Portlaoise, jammed to the rafters with colour and noise everywhere.

Looking back it seems to be a lower crowd than typical, 30+K pulled by these two a few years ago.

Half of the problem with the narrative in Leinster I feel is that the grounds are 75% empty for nearly every match and it brings about a challenge match atmosphere which deflates the buzz. I think ticket prices need to drop drastically and perhaps rather than giving some teams 3 home games and some teams 2 every year maybe it should be 2 home each and 1 neutral so the fans have a shorter distance to travel?

Pairc Ui Caoimh is now also bearing the reality that albeit a fantastic facility, its location geographically within Munster and also withing the confines of the Cork City area, it is not an attractive location for many fans across many game pairings. No pairing of Galway v Tipp/Offaly or Clare v Dublin/Carlow makes sense to be played down there. I understand their frustration as its a top class ground but they got 3 big games this year, the same as the Gaelic Grounds. Limerick have had 3 big games pulling in 115K spectators, Thurles when including the U20/minor double header has had 117k across 5 games and Cork got 3 big games this year with only 83K through the gates. They also had a Cork v Kerry football game. Its a sinking ship without HQ stepping in because of the debt but if they do the fans will not turn up if the location makes no sense.

Wexford have been in 2 leinster finals in the last decade which got 60 and 52k, without them in it won't break the 40k mark, few over the last decade have been in and around 35k