Big game cameras put discipline in focus

It wasn’t very long after Galway and Kilkenny had fought out their dramatic draw yesterday week when we got word in Tullamore that the replay wouldn’t be televised.

This prompted a good deal of chat about the GAA’s need to market its games, the unexpected complications to a crowded fixture list thrown up by replays and the irony of a top game not being broadcast on live TV just a few short months after a good deal of nonsense was being spouted about the scope of, well, broadcasting deals.

There are a couple of interesting angles here.