The 2024 All Ireland Senior Football Championship (Sam Maguire Cup)

I'm talking about all of 2024 and not just the semi-final.

Likewise for Padraic Joyce. Winning as Player/ Manager. Don't know if he was ever POTY though?

Ahh… I see. Mea culpa.

To be honest you can't be all for the split season while also wanting All Ireland finals later in the year. They are mutually exclusive.

As usual TG4 show highlights in their GAA shows, but not many live games AFAIK. Handball is very much a minority sport, I don't know of it's a good sport that televises well, and to get coverage of it it would have to be forced onto broadcasters as part of an overall package, as say women's rugby is.

Nostalgia ain't what it used to be as they say - while we all have memories of finals and routines with parents and grandparents, time moves on, harking back to old days does nobody any good. Kids of today will make their own memories, IF the split season is a success then the rythems of the year will evolve and change and they will become the norm.

There are many media companies and commentators pushing this agenda of 'split season bad ' I believe for 2 reasons - to extend the county season from 5 months to 9 months (9 months work instead of 5) and it's hard work having to move about the country to cover games with the same old fogies covering every game.

Let them get up off their holes, give some young lads and ladies the chance to cover the games, and have a short, sharp, intense championship of that's what works. We're still trying to cover every game with ej same tired Sunday Game format, with 3 ex players spoofing about what should have been done earlier instead of innovating and giving better, more streamlined games. It's the GAAs own fault, they tried to ride two horses bringing RTE into the GAAGO tent instead of going alone and designing a custom service for them and their members.

We gotta move on - '' The thing about the old days, they the old days" as Slim Charles once said.

Imagine if we got a mayo ref……….

On the jerseys...

There is obviously a marketing thing going on (black shirts would look better up the town with a pair of jeans than an orange one for instance) but the colour blindness thing is interesting.

I heard a guy on the radio before a recent ireland Wales rugby game. He quoted numbers, more men than women suffer it, and variations of red and green are the most common colours to cause problems. He was saying even if one team wore dark shorts and the other white it would help. He was talking about spectators mind, and tv in PARTICULAR - I have no idea what impact it has on players. It wasn't something I would have been aware of TBH.

Agree on the PR for the GAA though, is it still yer man Milton that's in charge of it? It is woefully bad alright, compare it to other sports, especially rugby, and it's shocking-every week every sport bulletin has team news of squads for forthcoming (whatever it's called nowadays Celtic?) League games at the weekend, squads of like 40 players named. You have to really actively search for details of times and tv coverage of GAA championship games, let alone results and score updates. Shockingly bad.

That Milton lad is stealing a living. A witness protection scheme would have more PR going on. Not to mention his inability to navigate bad PR. He has to be related to someone as he's certainly not being kept for his acumen.