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A ‘Pissed-off GAA fan’ writes:
Over the past few weeks there have been some class GAA matches on. If you live outside of Ireland it means you need to access GAAGO to watch them legally. You can pay €79 for all games – hurling and football, which is fine if you’re into both sports and you have the cash.
If, on the other hand, you just wish to watch choice hurling or football matches it costs €10 a game. Last Saturday there were three hurling games back to back. That would have been a whopping €30 to see all three games – what is this, the UFC?
This weekend, Tipperary vs Galway and Clare vs Waterford will cost €14 each! A €4 increase per match for whatever reason.
Can both the GAA and GAAGO realise that not every Irish person abroad is raking it in tax-free in Dubai, particularly students or now unemployed gastronomy workers like myself.
Under normal circumstances people could probably chip in and watch the games together, but eh, maximum household rules and all that. Irish sports bars are also shut.
I get that there are no ticket sales this year, but it’s largely an amateur sport and we’re paying extortionate prices to watch the games online abroad.
My county, Tipperary, will play an historic Munster final on Sunday, but there’s no way I’m forking out more for that. I’ll do what I did for the Leinster hurling final…listen to it on the wireless. Get with the times GAAGO.
Anyone?/Fight!
Feck sake
They’d want to pay me to watch Clare and Galway
As the saying goes;
if they were playing in the back garden I’d draw the curtains
Tony Kelly is wasted there in the Banner
All I need to do is watch the 2017 MHF again to enjoy his kinda class
everyone rakes it in except the players.
The volunteers aren’t raking it in either.
Pay for 1 lad to stream them all, and then he can stream his stream of the matches to you for free
I know this isn’t the angle you want but Dublin v goal crazy 9/1 Meath actually has the makings of a decent game IMO
It’d be nice to see Dublin get a game in Leinster.
Agreed.
I thought WM were decent in patches but Dublin stepped it up a gear towards half time.
Laois the same but you never felt like Dublin got out of 3rd gear.
(fair play to Ross Munnelly all the same, some career)
How is Ross Munnelly still playing? I’m sure he lined out in the Leinster minor semi-final(s) against Westmeath in 2000! 20 years and still going strong.
I’m not sure if it says more about him or what’s available to Laois.
no one would love a strong Meath more than Dublin fans to be fair. Maybe not too strong for this year though…
Expensive in recent years, yes, but when you’re a Dub there is a return on investment.
* socially distanced fist bump *
I’d make an argument about other counties giving better value for money, specifically one country i have in mind that consistently brings their glorious fans through huge ranges of emotions, repeatedly, on a yearly basis, but i’m not going to.
Paid a fiver for the Wexford Clare match on Saturday that was 2 minutesbehindthe radio coverage and stalled quite a lot. That’s a huge jump in charges, but expected from the Grab All Association.
There should be a national boycott of the Grab All Association as they use those
players for nothing with no reward,then, charge everyone else the full whack
Then we have the spectacle of well paid sports hacks indulging in verbal exhuberance
and print extraganza on fixtures, then last Sunday there was the inclusion of
a spectator audio feed to the match broadcast from RTE when in fact there were
no spectators there at all, Trump would not even try to pull that one off: