Championship countdown clocks

[Bord na Mona man]

[red exile]

Hard to believe it's only 2 weeks till we head for portlaoise for championship football again. And I pray to god that I don't go through the horrors I did 12 months ago when we sent out lambs to the slaughter on the same pitch

[Bord na Mona man]

Hard to believe it's only 2 weeks till we head for portlaoise for championship football again. And I pray to god that I don't go through the horrors I did 12 months ago when we sent out lambs to the slaughter on the same pitch

Last year it went like:
16:00 Offaly vs. Kildare throws in.
16:10 Game over.

[Thereorthereabouts]

Lads, Is that match in Navan or Portlaoise?

[Bord na Mona man]

Lads, Is that match in Navan or Portlaoise?

Portleix.

[leinsterman]

won't be long now for the footballers, can't wait for the hurlers to run out next sunday in parnell park think it could be a long year.

[Efan]

I discovered (by accident) at the football yesterday that the Leinster Council had moved the Antrim/Offaly v Wexford/Galway hurling games from Saturday evening the 19th June to the following day. It will now be a double header with Kilkenny v Dublin/Laois. I realise that the changes were made to facilitate TV coverage but I cannot for the life of me understand the purpose in issuing one set of fixtures and then moving these at a later date. Lots of people like me will try and plan around dates and it’s a killer for foresight to be a disadvantage.

I would also really wonder about the logic of a double header in Corke Park . The Leinster council have been bang on the button by taking the games from this setting and heading down to the provincial grounds over the last number of seasons. Best case scenario 30-35k in Croke Park … 33-40% full. Cue the “I thought it was not economic to open Croke Park for this amount of people” and “It looks awful to see so few people in the stadium for a live TV game” comments.