John Arnold

They weren't manufactured.

They started off with some club when they were six years old.

There are probably no average Alden players in their 20s.

So for 12, 14, 16 years, club people, volunteers, volunteers, no one paid, trained them and brought them up and honed them and then they're good enough to play with the county and we're all delighted when we have a club man playing with the county and then we're deprived of seeing him.

And I know the J will say, because I know the workings of the J, the J will say, look,

the money we get from subscriptions, the money we get from RT, the money we get from J Plus and J Go, it goes back into the J and so much of it trickles down, the very most of it goes down through clubs, yeah.

And I'm not arguing that point, but just the ethos of...

You can't compare it with soccer or rugby because, look, they're professional games.

The players are sold, they're bought, they're paid.

The managers are paid multi-huge amounts.

We are technically supposed to be an amateur organisation based on volunteerism.

And I just think the more and more things we put behind the paywall, we are going further and further away from the people on grassroots.

And I don't feel myself...

I mean, I'm involved, and I know heaps of people are involved at 50 or 60 years, but how would it feel now with the workload, and there's a huge workload now, and there's an awful lot of things like, you know, data protection and GDPR, that would we get a new bunch of volunteers coming forward?

And, like, one of the things we always had, at least you'd be saying, you'd be very proud of whether you were at home every weekend, and you could turn on the television, and then not debating whether RT is right or wrong, or buying and how much you should give them.

But, like, the one thing you'd be saying, those big matches...

And even, I know there was difficulties with the streams, I'm not a bit technical, I'm kind of a loader, how to wear into them or get into them and all that, even if that's all solved, to the principle, to the principle, I'm just against, and it's not the amount of money, and I mean, to deny, and it's like, that Kerry Donegal match, I presume it'll be sold out probably in Killarney, the Cockwater match is sold out, so it isn't as if,

And in order, Jay, you have to have a balance between what you give free.

If you give every match free, if every single match was on television free, maybe in 10 years there'd be nobody going to matches.

Maybe they wouldn't even though that probably isn't true because, I mean, give me the choice of cock and tip and topless.