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  • #32
    Lady Chuckles
    Registered Users Posts: 9,279 ✭✭✭Lady Chuckles


    I love it! It's cute and quirky :)


  • #33
    KeithAFC
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,239 ✭✭✭✭KeithAFC


    Not a fan at all. Can't say I have seen the great skill involved on the sporting side of it either. Just my view on it.


  • #34
    humanji
    Registered Users Posts: 19,976 ✭✭✭✭humanji


    who what when wrote: »
    I know this isnt the most serious of forums but your post is so wrong i had to reply. The GAA is the most community centred organisation in ireland.
    They accept people no matter where they are from. As a case and point the wexford under 21 footballers had a lad called lee chin playing for them the other night against dublin. If the GAA are xenophobic how do you explain that?
    I think that's the point they're making, in that it closes off communities instead of widening them.

    Like all sport, if it's a team that I'm somehow connected to (like a county or country), it's a final and there's a group of people watching, then it can be fun. Otherwise it's just boring.


  • #35
    fryup
    Registered Users Posts: 18,069 ✭✭✭✭fryup


    the GAA the sport & leisure wing of Sinn Fein


  • #36
    KeithAFC
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,239 ✭✭✭✭KeithAFC


    fryup wrote: »
    the GAA the sport & leisure wing of Sinn Fein
    So you think the GAA is basically the RA at play?


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  • #37
    Badgermonkey
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,019 ✭✭✭Badgermonkey


    Traditional Irish music and our own language are incontrovertibly cultural treasures.

    Those who afford Gaelic games the same status are quite deluded imo.


  • #38
    Sykk
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,327 ✭✭✭Sykk


    Much better than that other game where you're not allowed use your hands...


  • #39
    Sea Sharp
    Registered Users Posts: 2,593 ✭✭✭Sea Sharp


    It never really appealed to me, as with most sports.


  • #40
    St.Spodo
    Registered Users Posts: 1,027 ✭✭✭St.Spodo


    There is a lot about the GAA culture I dislike, namely the backward anti-Sasanach, bogger, parochial rubbish. However, I do admire Gaelic Football as a field sport.


  • #41
    Princess Consuela Bananahammock
    Registered Users Posts: 33,015 ✭✭✭✭Princess Consuela Bananahammock


    snowgal wrote: »
    absolutely love the game, both football and hurling mad. Cant understand people that dont like it, it annoys me!! nothing more local than gaa!!

    Local can be an overrated concept...!

    Can't stand GAA, never really seen much of a tactical element to it other kick and leg it.

    Always enjoy hurling though.

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



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  • #42
    Dudess
    Closed Accounts Posts: 37,215 ✭✭✭✭Dudess


    Hurling is an excellent game to watch - and I'd have a gander at an All-Ireland hurling final if Cork was playing.

    Otherwise though, nary a bit of interest.


  • #43
    Xavi6
    Registered Users Posts: 40,858 ✭✭✭✭Xavi6


    Female version of Aussie Rules


  • #44
    cloptrop
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,923 ✭✭✭cloptrop


    Hurling on telly is **** , you cant see who has the ball.


  • #45
    Chuck Stone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,030 ✭✭✭✭Chuck Stone


    The greatest community based amateur sporting organisation in the world.

    I'm not much into it but you can't but admire its contribution to the communities where it operates.

    Someone a lot more knowledgeable on GAA than I told me that the suicide rate in rural Ireland would be far higher only for the GAA and I don't think that's an unreasonable thing to say.


  • #46
    fryup
    Registered Users Posts: 18,069 ✭✭✭✭fryup


    Ikky Poo2 wrote: »

    Can't stand GAA, never really seen much of a tactical element to it other kick and leg it.

    Always enjoy hurling though.

    contradiction:confused:


  • #47
    elefant
    Registered Users Posts: 4,647 ✭✭✭elefant


    St.Spodo wrote: »
    There is a lot about the GAA culture I dislike, namely the backward anti-Sasanach, bogger, parochial rubbish. However, I do admire Gaelic Football as a field sport.

    I play Gaelic Football, and I love the game, but I agree with you on the negative aspects of the way the petty and narrow-minded ways the sport can sometimes be championed and organised. I think, and hope, that the Gaelic Games are improving in that regard.

    I think the sports themselves are fantastic, and I am proud of hurling and gaelic football (said pride being rational or irrational is immaterial).

    Also, anyone who thinks that the skill level involved in Gaelic Football is low is egregiously misguided.

    [apologies for any offence caused to any rounders and handball aficionados; I don't really know much about those particular Gaelic Games :p]


  • #48
    RichieC
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,334 ✭✭✭RichieC


    Football's a better sport but if there's no other sports on I'll watch Dublin in the All ireland final.


  • #49
    HalloweenJack
    Registered Users Posts: 7,054 ✭✭✭HalloweenJack


    Love hurling, playing and watching, but don't have as much time for Gaelic.

    I'm from Wicklow so it doesn't really matter, my county rarely achieve anything.


  • #50
    MickySticks
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,177 ✭✭✭MickySticks


    Gaelic Football: The best game there was, is and ever will be.

    I get the impression there is a lot of nancy boys (you know, the computer nerd, music mad type that wear tight jeans or chinos) on here who were perhaps never good at GF or any sport for that matter and hold a begrudging hate for it.

    Although I've never played hurling, I've watched it loads of times and its fascinating to watch.


  • #51
    Jimmy Macnulty
    Registered Users Posts: 108 ✭✭Jimmy Macnulty


    Greatest amateur sports organisation in the world.

    Thank god it doesn't normally attract the scumbag fans you see at soccer games. Can go to any ground in Ireland without intimidation (unless you look for it!)

    The GAA have the best stadium in Ireland and that's a credit to an amateur organisation.


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  • #52
    The King of Moo
    Registered Users Posts: 8,207 ✭✭✭The King of Moo


    Originally posted by Jimmy macnulty
    Greatest amateur sports organisation in the world.

    Thank god it doesn't normally attract the scumbag fans you see at soccer games. Can go to any ground in Ireland without intimidation (unless you look for it!)

    The GAA have the best stadium in Ireland and that's a credit to an amateur organisation.

    Or you're playing :pac:.

    Also, the GAA didn't pay for Croke Park all by themselves!
    MickySticks wrote: »
    Gaelic Football: The best game there was, is and ever will be.

    I get the impression there is a lot of nancy boys (you know, the computer nerd, music mad type that wear tight jeans or chinos) on here who were perhaps never good at GF or any sport for that matter and hold a begrudging hate for it.

    Although I've never played hurling, I've watched it loads of times and its fascinating to watch.

    I was never good at girlfriend :(.

    Also, way to generalise. I like lots of sports and I think Gaelic football is terrible and boring. I've come to that opinion after watching lots of it. I also like music (who doesn't? I think one might find an odd G.A.A player at a trad session, for one of many examples) and I'm a nerd.


  • #53
    Princess Consuela Bananahammock
    Registered Users Posts: 33,015 ✭✭✭✭Princess Consuela Bananahammock


    fryup wrote: »
    contradiction:confused:

    The sport, not the organisation.

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



  • #54
    elefant
    Registered Users Posts: 4,647 ✭✭✭elefant


    Ikky Poo2 wrote: »
    The sport, not the organisation.

    Point he's making is the GAA is the Gaelic Athletic Association, it's not a sport.


  • #55
    fryup
    Registered Users Posts: 18,069 ✭✭✭✭fryup


    MickySticks wrote: »
    Gaelic Football: The best game there was, is and ever will be.


    :rolleyes: its a load of muck, played by bog brained backward boggers

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTog_cbfH-g


  • #56
    castletownman
    Registered Users Posts: 11,011 ✭✭✭✭castletownman


    Anyone who thinks there's no skill involved in playing gaelic football, and think rugby is a far more skill orientated game are truly deluded. They don't mind when those "skill-less" gaelic footballers make it big at rugby though (Shane Horgan, Rob Kearney, Sean O'Brien, Tomas O'Leary etc.)


  • #57
    Princess Consuela Bananahammock
    Registered Users Posts: 33,015 ✭✭✭✭Princess Consuela Bananahammock


    elefant wrote: »
    Point he's making is the GAA is the Gaelic Athletic Association, it's not a sport.

    ... as is the point I made...? I think you'll find most people referring to it as GAA (Don't start me on this "gah" crap) rather than football.

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



  • #58
    DEFTLEFTHAND
    Registered Users Posts: 16,500 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    I've always had great interest, growing up in North Tipp Hurling especially is massive and most schoolchildren play from an early age.


  • #59
    theteal
    Registered Users Posts: 7,593 ✭✭✭theteal


    Ah lads and ladies, I can't abide posts that start off with "I've no interest/I've never played" and then end with "there's no skill yada yada". It's like when you hear people who are muck at/never played any decent level soccer saying the LOI is crap. There's tremendous skill in all facets of the game.

    Can you run at full pelt while soloing the ball, let alone do it with both feet? I haven't even mentioned being tackled while doing it.
    Can you jump and catch a high ball while contesting against others trying to catch/punch it?
    Can you shoot/pass the ball accurately with the inside/outside/laces of your boot while kicking from the hands?

    There's 3 basic examples of football skills that lads playing for years still have trouble being proficient at let alone mastering. I'm not even going to go into tactics, positioning etc.

    To say that there's no skill in football is utterly absurd. Show me a sport on the planet that does not involve skill. I know people have issues with the GAA and rightly so but please don't use that to insult the game that I and many others love to play.


  • #60
    elefant
    Registered Users Posts: 4,647 ✭✭✭elefant


    Ikky Poo2 wrote: »
    ... as is the point I made...? I think you'll find most people referring to it as GAA (Don't start me on this "gah" crap) rather than football.

    I don't think you would find most people referring to Gaelic Football as GAA, but whatever, it's just semantics.

    And I also hate 'this gah crap'!


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  • #61
    philstar
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,986 ✭✭✭philstar


    wouldn't go to a GAA match if it was across the road from me hate it


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