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New York GAA

  • 03-05-2015 10:11pm
    #1
    brianclown
    Registered Users Posts: 75 ✭✭


    Does the team cover New York state or just the city itself? Also does the parish rule apply for them e.g a player who lives in Texas cannot play for New York.


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  • #2
    brianclown
    Registered Users Posts: 75 ✭✭brianclown


    brianclown wrote: »
    Does the team cover New York state or just the city itself? Also does the parish rule apply for them e.g a player who lives in Texas cannot play for New York.
    Anyone know


  • #3
    Nidgeweasel
    Registered Users Posts: 2,621 ✭✭✭Nidgeweasel


    Be a wild trek to training.


  • #4
    davegrohl48
    Registered Users Posts: 1,530 ✭✭✭davegrohl48


    As I am aware they are all players picked from the New York boards teams. As I seen the team and subs were all Irish born emigrants. I'm not sure what is being achieved with this yearly game.
    My assumption is that some of the county board expenses are met for the cost of the trip. Is that money not wiser spent trying to link up some nearby schools and clubs close to the stadium?
    - Baseball is losing player numbers due to the cost involved and the general boredom with the game
    - Soccer doesn't interest those Americans who like a physical sport
    - Basketball is out of the reach of most people, even the point guards are starting to be taller
    - American Football has huge participation issues these days due to concussion concerns


  • #5
    Poor_old_gill
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,895 ✭✭✭Poor_old_gill


    Nidgeweasel wrote: »
    Be a wild trek to training.

    Imagine the mileage lads would be making


  • #6
    Poor_old_gill
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,895 ✭✭✭Poor_old_gill


    davegrohl48 wrote: »
    As I am aware they are all players picked from the New York boards teams. As I seen the team and subs were all Irish born emigrants. I'm not sure what is being achieved with this yearly game.
    My assumption is that some of the county board expenses are met for the cost of the trip. Is that money not wiser spent trying to link up some nearby schools and clubs close to the stadium?
    - Baseball is losing player numbers due to the cost involved and the general boredom with the game
    - Soccer doesn't interest those Americans who like a physical sport
    - Basketball is out of the reach of most people, even the point guards are starting to be taller
    - American Football has huge participation issues these days due to concussion concerns

    Not everything is about the bottom line though- there are intangible benefits to such a match


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  • #7
    davegrohl48
    Registered Users Posts: 1,530 ✭✭✭davegrohl48


    Poor_old_gill wrote: »
    Not everything is about the bottom line though- there are intangible benefits to such a match
    I was just trying to make maybe the completely opposite point to things being about the bottom line. I would like to see a New York team with at least some home grown talent. A New York combined U14 team made the Feile B Standard semi finals in 2010. They were just about beaten in the semi final and the team who beat them went on to win the Mayo A standard minor final in 2014 featuring a few Mayo minors. The New York lads were big physical lads who if sufficient training investment were put into at school and club level would surely make two or three inter county standard footballers by 19 years of age. The age they will be in 2016. Especially given the natural height and strength of these lads at 14, you could see several of them were decent footballers and going to end up well over six foot and athletic.


  • #8
    threeball
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,267 ✭✭✭threeball


    davegrohl48 wrote: »
    I was just trying to make maybe the completely opposite point to things being about the bottom line. I would like to see a New York team with at least some home grown talent. A New York combined U14 team made the Feile B Standard semi finals in 2010. They were just about beaten in the semi final and the team who beat them went on to win the Mayo A standard minor final in 2014 featuring a few Mayo minors. The New York lads were big physical lads who if sufficient training investment were put into at school and club level would surely make two or three inter county standard footballers by 19 years of age. The age they will be in 2016. Especially given the natural height and strength of these lads at 14, you could see several of them were decent footballers and going to end up well over six foot and athletic.

    I think it would be a start if they could start to assemble a homegrown senior team that could enter the later stages of the all ireland junior championship, let them progress like everyone else to intermediate and then senior. No Irish ringers allowed on the teams. It would be something for all American players of all grades to aspire to like an irish lad making his county team.
    The sports have huge potential in the states, but they need to be taken off GAA Go and put on a small american network or netflix if they really want to gain traction. 5 to 6yrs of free to air would suffice.


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