GAAGO - Rebel Strike (again)

[Elmnop]

You'd like to know if there was any discussion with the Cork County Board when it was being deciding what games were going on GaaGo. I'd assume Cork Gaa were contacted before the announcement.

Cork Gaa should have stood up for Cork Gaa supporters and disagreed with 4 out of 5 Munster championship games going under a paywall. There's a good chance of another Cork football group game being on GaaGo too.

Cork Gaa supporters are getting screwed.

 

[Jukka]

I can't really justify GAAGo, and also out of stubbornness I'm refusing to take it out to be honest. With small children, summer weekends are better spend either going to games or most likely doing something else with them and then listening on the radio.

The GAA is taking the popularity of the intercounty game for granted. The rawest part of the hurling championship is behind a awkward paywall, competing with the peak of the soccer season behind a less awkward paywall, and the peak of the rugby season which on free the air. A full summer of Cork hurling will likely be on a subscription streaming service, while Munster could end up going on a playoff run in the URC.

How can't they see the threat this poses to interest in the sport? Imagine if over time more counties became as passive to the intercounty game as cork football supporters?

 

[rebel bike]

SKY is a big lost.

Sky had no interest in a condensed championship that runs from April against an already full schedule.

The big argument from RTE last year was that they simply couldn't show all the big games.

At the same time as the Cork Clare game yesterday they showed a repeat of Irelands hiddens treasures on RTE1 and the Womens AIL final on TG4.

This is about screwing more money out of people and nothing else.

TG4 is independent of RTE and TBF to them their level of coverage of league and underage GAA is far more complete and comprehensive than RTE. Last week they were showing under 20 championship nearly every evening Monday to Friday.

Anyone hazard a guess on how much RTE made out of GAA Go last year?

 

[Purple Monkey Dishwasher]

How can't they see the threat this poses to interest in the sport? Imagine if over time more counties became as passive to the intercounty game as cork football supporters?

100% this.

Viewing a particular sport is a habit.

Once its broken and you substitute it with something else who is to say you will return to it.

I had my days of following the hurlers and footballers around the country. Its a lot less practical as you get older with more responsibilities. So you'll watch it on telly.

Theres a lot here arguing that GAAGO is no big deal but I know a hell of a lot of people who like yourself won't pay for it out of principle.

Its extremely short sighted from the organisation imo. They should be doing their damnedest to grow the national audience for hurling. Instead they are letting the biggest games of the year stay behind a paywall.

Not screening the Limerick game in a fortnight is indefensible to my mind.

 

[bluesball]

if we go out of the championship after the limerick it would be very interesting to see the figures prior to our exit and after our exit.Where will GAAGO for their revenue when we are gone?

 

[Purple Monkey Dishwasher]

if we go out of the championship after the limerick it would be very interesting to see the figures prior to our exit and after our exit.Where will GAAGO for their revenue when we are gone?

John Fogarty- Examiner

Another year, another paywall cracker. And no we don’t mean dodgy boxes.
Sunday’s mesmerising Cork-Clare affair would have been a marketing dream for hurling if it was broadcast on terrestrial television.

Instead, a Galway-Kilkenny Leinster round-robin game was offered. A high-scoring draw but nothing like the rampaging 56-score carnival that was produced at SuperValu Páirc Uí Chaoimh.
The teams in Salthill weren’t going through the motions but there was a charade element to the game. They’ll meet again, don’t know where, don’t know when. And their supporters were wise to it. Just 9,631 of them turned up in contrast to a record-breaking weekend in Munster where 36,814 were in Cork and 34,475 in Limerick.


RTÉ will point out that as a public broadcasting service they have to be as democratic as possible. That followers of the Leinster SHC have to catered for like the masses engaged with the offerings in the southern province.


For that same reason, there won’t be any live hurling on TV until May 19. Just like last year, the sport goes behind a paywall for the next two weekends as the provincial football finals take precedence on RTÉ.


Last season, the issue was GAAGO. It still is to an extent but there was plenty of prior warning given that all but one of Cork hurlers’ games were going to be on the premium streaming service. Nevertheless, by the time May 19 comes around and RTÉ show their match against Tipperary, Pat Ryan’s side could be out of the championship.

The Munster SHC round-robin split between RTÉ and GAAGO is five-four this year in contrast to five-five last season (RTÉ will show one final round game but unlike 2023 GAAGO have no plans to follow suit).


Why were the Waterford-Cork or Cork-Clare games not arranged for Saturday evenings? GAAGO’s finger points to the Munster Council. “There are four Munster hurling matches and two of those are on Sunday afternoons at the same time as an RTÉ match,” said head of GAAGO and GAA marketing Noel Quinn last December.
“RTÉ made their picks and two of those four wouldn’t have been broadcast anywhere if GAAGO didn’t broadcast them so rather than go dark, better to pick them up.”


Pitting two high-profile hurling matches against one another at 2pm on Sunday afternoon was cannibalistic. Throw in the clashing Ulster SFC semi-final between Donegal and Tyrone and the most competitive of two Leinster SFC last four games and it amounted to a verified feeding frenzy.

Once upon a time, the broadcasting of two senior inter-county fixtures at the same time was prohibited and with good reason. On Sunday, four ran simultaneously – two on GAAGO, events in Celtic Park on BBC and the Pearse Stadium clash on RTÉ.


The GAA was devouring itself.

 

[rebel without a caus]

if we go out of the championship after the limerick it would be very interesting to see the figures prior to our exit and after our exit.Where will GAAGO for their revenue when we are gone?

Maybe its a good thing. Like the dubs and the animals, if keeping Cork in championship is good for business, then, the powers that be will see to that going forward.
Our national game is being pillaged and ruined by a bunch of suits. In 50 years, hurling will become like shinty or cricket. A complete minority sport in Ireland. The grass roots volunteers are keeping it alive at the moment and that goodwill will die slowly with the sport becoming elitist and monetized at every opportunity.
We should be treasuring and safegaurding the sport as part of our heritage.
We are doing the opposite.
Those involved in these decisions need to hang their heads in shame.

 

[menace404]

I can't really justify GAAGo, and also out of stubbornness I'm refusing to take it out to be honest. With small children, summer weekends are better spend either going to games or most likely doing something else with them and then listening on the radio.

The GAA is taking the popularity of the intercounty game for granted. The rawest part of the hurling championship is behind a awkward paywall, competing with the peak of the soccer season behind a less awkward paywall, and the peak of the rugby season which on free the air. A full summer of Cork hurling will likely be on a subscription streaming service, while Munster could end up going on a playoff run in the URC.

How can't they see the threat this poses to interest in the sport? Imagine if over time more counties became as passive to the intercounty game as cork football supporters?

It's even worse to justify with the poor video quality. The overall GAAgo production is very good. But broadcasting at 24 frames per second for hurling (and even football) is senseless. It was impossible to see the sliotar in the air during the match on Sunday.

 

[J.R.R. hartley]

Teach them a lesson...keep paying for it.

 

[SoundsAboutRight]

It's even worse to justify with the poor video quality. The overall GAAgo production is very good. But broadcasting at 24 frames per second for hurling (and even football) is senseless. It was impossible to see the sliotar in the air during the match on Sunday.

I thought it was shocking for the Waterford game. Very dark, zoomed out, miles away from the action.