alan barry back for the final

fionnmccool wrote:

Rumour has it Niall "Nuxer" Buckley is lining out for the Sash in an attempt to increase ticket sales for the extortionist County Board.

i heard he is gonna sing a few songs at half time

thats only a rumour.jumpin johnny peters is singing 3 songs at half time

I dont think its fair to have a go at aAlan Barry for getting around these fools. These people are put in place to enforce the rules, its not Alan's fault if they are incapable. He obviously found a loop hole and made the most of it, good on him.
I fancy Alan to be man of the match today, too many lightweights on this Moorefield team.
Today will show that!

Newbridgefan wrote:

I dont think its fair to have a go at aAlan Barry for getting around these fools. These people are put in place to enforce the rules, its not Alan's fault if they are incapable. He obviously found a loop hole and made the most of it, good on him.
I fancy Alan to be man of the match today, too many lightweights on this Moorefield team.
Today will show that!

and as the black eyed peas sang. TONIGHT GOING TO BE A GOOD NIGHT.Im off out to celebrate enjoy the night

I see The Nationalist this week has a full page from The Supporter regarding the return of Alan Barry for the County Final....

It beggars belief to be honest, I know these committees are there to make sure decisions are correctly made and to allow players and clubs the opportunity to have these decisons reviewed. Lets face it, I think if a smaller player or club was in at this meeting last week they wouldn't have got a chance of getting the decision overturned. Likewise if Sarsfields were beaten in the semi final, this issued would never have arisen.

If a committee are there to review/confirm or overturn these decisions, their findings should be made public as soon as they've finished the meeting. The whole drama that unfolded since their decision has left a bitter taste in alot of people's mouths. There will be more regarding this story and really it doesn't do the game any good. In year of poor decisions on the field, the poor decision in this case came from off the field.

Great write up in the nationalist about this.

Yeh the Supporter in the Nationalist certainly pulled no punches had a right pop at Sarsfields, and Tommy Callaghan also visited it on the Leader, in fairness to Tommy he also questioned the county boards pricing structure suggesting that many neutrals stayed at home.
A little over 4,000 thousand paying customers for both the senior and minor, seemed like a bit more to me, while the crowd was ok, but surely for a county football final between such arch rivals it would have attracted a lot more paying customers?.

perhaps they saw the price at the gate, turned around and headed for the pub for 4 pints, you ouldnt begrudge them that KC would you??

Loads of Pints wrote:

perhaps they saw the price at the gate, turned around and headed for the pub for 4 pints, you ouldnt begrudge them that KC would you??

Not at all loads of pints, but where I drink you get 5 pints for your €20, you must be quoting Naas prices?

Hmm the population of Newbridge is 20,000 odd, both Newbridge teams playing, match in Newbridge... don't think you can blame the neutrals when less than 1/5th of the town only bothered (not accounting for the minor support). That's alarming

Fair enough point stonecold, but we can safely say that a few hundred more attended that were not included in the official figure.

Is 4000 the official figure. Wasn't it said that there were 8,000 at the Antrim game earlier in the year, was there really twice as many people in the ground that day?

Stonecold wrote:

Hmm the population of Newbridge is 20,000 odd, both Newbridge teams playing, match in Newbridge... don't think you can blame the neutrals when less than 1/5th of the town only bothered (not accounting for the minor support). That's alarming

There seemed to be quite alot of support for the minors from Celbridge & Athy, all the stands were pretty much full - I'd say easily 1,000 went from the minor clubs so support for the senior match would seem alot poorer & definitely didn't look as full as last year. Though to be fair with both clubs green it was difficult to work out which club had the most support.

I heard it while in Newbridge on Sunday that the official attendance was 4,049 (official source).... It's very easy to think from the stand there's a big crowd but look at it. There was no one behind the Kilcullen goal. The terrace on the Liffey side was hardly half full and there was a good bit of room down the Kilcullen end of the stand. Go back 4-5 years ago and I think there was around 10,000 at a qualifier. I'd say it will be a long time before we'll see crowds like that again in St. Conleths Park... Bet the county board are happy now that they didn't move!!!!!

The ccc are the ones who deal with the contents of referees report and I am absolutely sure there is a Moorefield man on this committee, as a matter of fact there is a least 10 clubs reps on the committee. A guy from my own club was involved in a issue like this earlier in the year which involved a him being wrongly named in a referees report, he had 7-8 witnesses who stated the ref had made a mistake but the ref would not amend his report so it was no use, without video evidence he could not be cleared as the Gaa rules do not allow, he appeled the decision tothe CHC and Leinster and lost. The only way something like this can be won is if the referee amends his report on request or does not include it in the first place.

I would safley say he feels badly let down now

There is no point in having referee's if they are not going to put items in their report if they see them.

Also there were 5 members available on the committee last week. 1 each from the two clubs in the final which left 3 other's. These three adjudicated on this issue last week..... Aside from this issue, the committee concerned should release it's findings to the club or clubs involved within 24 hours and to the public soon after. The fact no one knows what their findings were, this clouded the whole issue. The behind the door talk will continue to go on and the rumour mill will keep spinning as long as there are veils of secrecy within the County Board....

That veil is a problem throughout the GAA and I don't see it changing anytime soon

True.... Ballyboy.... True.... Cute hoorism........

Double Dip Recession, High unemployment and €20 on the gate. I know a good few supporters from my own club who just didnt have the money.

€20 is a lot to someone out of work.

The GAA are seriously lacking in economic know how and business know how. If they dropped the price to €15 there would have been a far bigger attendance leading to the county board earning more money and the match having a better atmosphere. €20 was very steep esp since it turned out to be a poor match overall, although the Moores did give us a grandstand finish!

Its a widespread issue, look at how many full houses there were in Croker this year. Prob just the final. Yet the ticket prices were never in any danger of being lowered. The GAA is such a poorly run & greedy organisation.

Promotion , promotion , promotion, the GAA just don't do it. That Match should have been promoted to the hilt as it's supposed to be the jewel in the crown of the local club scene.
Yet it was just another game of football, no extra's or razzmatazz.
Any play or local concert have posters, flyers, radio adverts and road bill boards all around where it takes place. In the GAA it's seems to be a case of no new comers welcome.

Only people within in the GAA community know exactly when and where things are happening.
What chance do people who may be willing to try and get involved or just go to a one off game.

In today's economic environment you need to give people a very good reason to spend their money.
One of the best is to get the kids wanting to go by giving them a reason to pester their parents so much that they will eventually cave in and end up paying €20 or €40 quid for the pleasure.
On Sunday, there was nothing drawing the kids in. Where there are kids, there are parents and therefore money.

Basically, you will always get in and around the same hardcore attendance with no promotion, it's the other 5,000 in the County that should be targeted.

can anyone remember what the price was back in 2007.just watched some highlights today from that game and it had a much larger crowd

Good post by JME,
Tommy Callaghan made a good point as regards family tickets on the Leader, a lot more wives and girlfriendslike to attend gaelic games these days, something the Kildare county board might like to take on board for future reference!.

A now come on, thats a step to far you surely don't expect the Gaa to welcome women in, sur who'd be at home to wash the jerseys and make the sangwichs