The Christy Ring final between Westmeath and Carlow has been fixed for Friday night at 7.30pm in Corke Park. It’s the dumbest most insulting decision I’ve seen all year from the GAA and they’ve already had a lot of bad ones. They’ve been giving the two fingers to Antrim, Laois and Dublin all year and now the top two teams in the second tier of hurling are getting the same treatment.
Both camps are raging over the decision and rightly so.
How the hell do they expect the people of Westmeath and Carlow to get up to Croke Park on a Friday night. Would they ask Kilkenny or Cork to do it? - Not a chance. The GAA top brass led by Nicky Brennan are constantly bleating on about the state of hurling yet when it boils down to making the calls they just do everything to suit the top teams and kick the rest out the door. I’d consider Nicky Brennan a failure as president and it’s even worse that he comes from a hurling county. He’ll be followed by a Cork man and it’s hard to see things getting any better under him.
The sensible thing to do would be to have the final before the Kilkenny Cork or Tipperary Waterford games. It would get some decent exposure, the ground wouldn’t be empty and it’s a reasonable hour for the fans.
I don’t know, I just can’t get over the stupidity of it. Seems like the guys in charge only care about their precious Kilkennys, Corks and Tipperarys.
UPDATE JULY 30th: Fair play to the GAA, they responded to the uproar and rearranged the game for Sunday at 6pm in Tullamore.
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