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People Can't Understand Leitrim GAA's Decision To Ban Fans From Club Games

People Can't Understand Leitrim GAA's Decision To Ban Fans From Club Games
Gary Connaughton
By Gary Connaughton
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Lower crowd numbers at club GAA matches are far from ideal, especially when you consider the level of interest being shown in the sport at the moment.

Due to Government guidelines, clubs are able to cater for no more than 50 or 60 supporters at each game. While many games are being streamed live by county boards in order to appease those unable to attend, it still isn't the same as seeing a match in the flesh.

That's what makes this decision by the Leitrim County Board so bizarre. they have opting to ban supporters from all remaining games in their senior, intermediate, and junior football championships.

In a statement on their website, Leitrim GAA explained that they took this decision in order to ease the pressure on clubs when it came to choosing who would be given tickets.

While this is a decision that is bound to register immediate shock, there is a strong rationale behind it. It is widely recognised that when arriving at the concluding stages of any competition, interest levels rise accordingly.

Interest in our games at group stages has been heightened in the very fact that there was such a long layoff from sporting activity and we also believe that interest levels will have risen sufficiently high enough to ensure that the current restriction of a maximum of 200 people per venue, inclusive of players and officials, will not be near enough to satisfy demand.

This, almost certainly, will place club officials and county officials in a near-impossible situation as regards who will gain access to the limited number of ‘golden tickets’ in match situations which would, in all practicality, see the number of tickets available to supporters reduce from a heretofore 60 per club to a number at most 50 and probably even less when one considers the various interested parties who will naturally look to attend as our competitions move towards a conclusion.

With the current crowd restrictions, it is viewed as being the fairest solution to all concerned to allow access to no supporters as distinct to having to cater for an impractical situation that would arise at the local level with regard to the distribution of these few precious tickets.

Unsurprisingly, this decision has not gone down well.

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