All Ireland GAA final & All Ireland LGFA final

 Why arent they supporting their teams?

They have no interest that's why.

These games will never get the same crowd, they are not the best teams as any of the men's teams would beat them.

However, the LGFA made a huge mistake by changing their season to shadow the male game. Had they left their final in September than they would have had significant media limelight for 6 weeks. In the last two weeks with the All Ireland hurling and football finals involving relatively novel teams there is only so much opportunity left for the ladies game to get publicity.

And in practical terms, Galway people not going to trek to Dublin this week again, especially as they are likely to be disappointed again. Kerry is a long way from Dublin, the cost of the tickets are only part of the cost of the day.

For me it stems from the Club game rather than the County game.

If you're not in the 'circle' you wouldn't know what's going on at all. Hard to get involved as a fan of the County team when you barely follow the sport as it is (compared to Hurling/Men's Gaelic Football which have massive coverage).

It's a long-term project obviously but they really really have to up things Marketing-wise and get as many eyes on the product as possible, while also trying to make the product exciting to watch for new viewers. Funnily enough, a lot of people think having it on TG4 is great for it, but we know ourselves, casual viewers of a younger age won't stick around on TG4.

Two more things - A) Lack of decent Social Media from LGFA (and Camogie Association) doesn't help…and B) Like the GAA, not using a Data Provider leaves the information on their webites boring and basic. There's Irish Data providers to Clubs and Counties that have thousands upon thousands of data points and these archaic organisations don't want to use them.

No, no their not. They're miles off. A good minor boys club team would beat them and that's the reality. Great to see women's sport progressing but if people want to see big crowds then women need to attend the games and support it in the same numbers as men support the mens codes. There will be a handful who went to last week's game and again to Sundays.

No point comparing them to olympians either as anyone competing for honours at that level is an absolute unicorn. Freakishly athletic in their given discipline to be in the conversation at world level.

You're right about the Lidl advert. Its very condescending. You'd swear someone had issued an edict preventing people from attending.

The geographical spread of the counties contending all of the finals really hurt the attendance this year. When Meath and Dublin were playing it was very easy for even casual fans to head in for the matches.

A few years ago I found the ladies game quite entertaining, but now with teams adopting the same tactics as the mens game it is a poor spectacle. As the ladies cant kick the ball as far as the men defensive coaches can really pack the area around the D to stifle their opponents attacking play.

I commented about the Lidl ad around a couple of weeks ago.

It's woke nonsense. It's not inequality, the truth is the majority of people just don't give a damn about women's football or camogie. The 2 camogie senior semi-finals were on in Nolan Park last weekend. If I said the stadium was 1/5th full, I would probably be generous.

Anyone have the attendance numbers for today's trio of finals? Didn't watch it but heard Off The Ball describe Kerry's first goal in the first half from a nothing looping ball in. Which connects to my next point.

"The games are just as good as the mens games."

🤣 No they're not. The standard is tripe.

I have today's attendance. 30,340. That's pathetic. What's the excuse? 3 finals, tickets cheap as chips, being given away in some instances, heavily promoted. Do these matches cost the GAA money?

The games are nowhere near as good as the men's. That's why people aren't attending.

Give me a shout in a few years time when the next "good" game happens.