Gaa

cena · 02-03-2012 12:43pm #1

How much of a gaa guy are you. Like are you mad about the sport

daddydick · 02-03-2012 12:44pm

I ****ing love hurling so I do

Brendog · 02-03-2012 12:44pm

I'm so Gaa I play with my balls with 15 other guys

OldGoat · 02-03-2012 12:47pm

We should be allowed to use sharpened hurlybats to raise viewer numbers.

krudler · 02-03-2012 12:48pm

I have plenty of gaa friends and have gone to gaa clubs with them, have had interest taken in me which is flattering but its not my game, i do support gaa marriage and gaa adoption though

4zn76tysfajdxp · 02-03-2012 12:48pm

Zero interest.

c_man · 02-03-2012 12:50pm

krudler wrote: »

i do support gaa marriage and gaa adoption though

Against GAA divorce though?

Biggins · 02-03-2012 12:50pm

Too busy elsewhere to watch or get involved.
If it was on the TV, I doubt I would ever tune in to watch to be honest.
Each to their own to be fair.

Pride Fighter · 02-03-2012 12:50pm

It's an awful sport played by people with funny non-Dublin accents.

I'm joking

c_man · 02-03-2012 12:52pm

Pride Fighter wrote: »

It's an awful sport played by people with funny non-Dublin accents.

I hear they don't even sing Ireland's Call :eek:

McTigs · 02-03-2012 12:52pm

Love hurling, fantastic game so great to watch.

Absolutely can't ****ing stand Gealic football. It's ridiculous, all that pulling and dragging, there's no flow to it whatsoever. It must have the lowest skillset of any team sport anywhewre. dreadful dreadful game.

And it's all they know how to play in mayo which says it all really

My name is URL · 02-03-2012 12:52pm

I think it's a load of parochial shite

theteal · 02-03-2012 12:52pm

I've played competitive football as a wing forward for ~20 years.

Apart form the championship, I don't watch it. I don't know what's going on in other towns and counties. I have no idea about other results and fixtures around Ireland. Some of the lads in the clubs I've played for were like bloody encyclopedias.

I think what I'm saying is I don't take much interest in it but I love skinning wing-backs at the weekend, especially when they're the knob, punching, shoving off the ball kind

cassi · 02-03-2012 12:55pm

cena wrote: »

How much of a gaa guy are you. Like are you mad about the sport

What about the girls?? Are we excluded from this conversation!

McTigs · 02-03-2012 12:55pm

My name is URL wrote: »

I think it's a load of parochial shite

This too

I think the GAA as an organisation breeds terratorialism, xenaphobia and the worst kind of irish inward looking narrow mindedness

Penn · 02-03-2012 1:00pm

No interest whatsoever, and hate people that take it waaayyyyyy too seriously.

Seachmall · 02-03-2012 1:02pm

Don't watch it. Don't play it. Don't enjoy it.

pipelaser · 02-03-2012 1:04pm

McTigs wrote: »

This too

I think the GAA as an organisation breeds terratorialism, xenaphobia and the worst kind of irish inward looking narrow mindedness

I like what you did there

snowgal · 02-03-2012 1:07pm

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

pragmatic1 · 02-03-2012 1:07pm

Only thing entertaining about it is the fights.

The King of Moo · 02-03-2012 1:10pm

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!!

I think that's why some people don't like it.

I've never played, but I think hurling is a fantastic sport, and watch it the odd time.

Gaelic football on the other hand, just seems to be so lacking in skills and tactics that it's almost a non-sport.

But maybe I'm just too much of a townie to get it!

krudler · 02-03-2012 1:12pm

pragmatic1 wrote: »

Only thing entertaining about it is the fights.

They should bring in rules for the fights like ice hockey has, which is a fantastic sport to watch

who what when · 02-03-2012 1:12pm

McTigs wrote: »

This too

I think the GAA as an organisation breeds terratorialism, xenaphobia and the worst kind of irish inward looking narrow mindedness

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?

ahlad · 02-03-2012 1:15pm

It is the greatest thing that is, was, or ever will be.

Send down from above as a gift from the almighty.

StupidLikeAFox · 02-03-2012 1:16pm

McTigs wrote: »

This too

I think the GAA as an organisation breeds terratorialism, xenaphobia and the worst kind of irish inward looking narrow mindedness

How exactly??

Babybuff · 02-03-2012 1:38pm

nawhin like bahin a shlitaar away hup a field for relayvin a bit a shtressh.

Hurling is a great great game to watch and play, just wouldn't be caught up too much in the jersey wearing pride element of it all.

stovelid · 02-03-2012 1:39pm

I'm not a troglodyte in hot pants so the appeal is limited.

The Jones Road BigotDome is a nice stadium though.

Paparazzo · 02-03-2012 1:40pm

Where's the "Hate the gaa and anything to do with them" option?

cloptrop · 02-03-2012 1:41pm

I think its a great part of Irish culture , but as for me I have absolutely no interest in it.

RachaelVO · 02-03-2012 1:47pm

I do like it... I've been known to sit and watch TG4 with a few matches, my husband thinks that both games are mad sports, (he's Dutch). I would probably really deliberately sit down to watch Dublin playing, but I do enjoy it when it's an end to end match.

I'm a rugby girl meself, Leinster and Ireland, like some GAA. Not much into football (soccer) and certainly not English clubs (used to when I was younger but not now). If I do have any interest in it, it's for Bray wanderers, sorta my localish club!

Babybuff · 02-03-2012 1:48pm

I have to walk through the local park to get to, well everywhere, but there's always a few people pucking a ball at each other with a hurl and everytime I get an insatiable urge to take the stick off them and just feck the ball up the pitch.

Lady Chuckles · 02-03-2012 1:49pm

I love it! It's cute and quirky

KeithAFC · 02-03-2012 1:54pm

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.

humanji · 02-03-2012 1:56pm

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.

fryup · 02-03-2012 1:58pm

the GAA the sport & leisure wing of Sinn Fein

KeithAFC · 02-03-2012 1:59pm

fryup wrote: »

the GAA the sport & leisure wing of Sinn Fein

So you think the GAA is basically the RA at play?

Badgermonkey · 02-03-2012 2:00pm

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

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

Sykk · 02-03-2012 2:00pm

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

Sea Sharp · 02-03-2012 2:04pm

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

St.Spodo · 02-03-2012 2:05pm

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.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock · 02-03-2012 2:08pm

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.

Dudess · 02-03-2012 2:10pm

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.

Xavi6 · 02-03-2012 2:10pm

Female version of Aussie Rules

cloptrop · 02-03-2012 2:11pm

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

Chuck Stone · 02-03-2012 2:12pm

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.

fryup · 02-03-2012 2:13pm

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

elefant · 02-03-2012 2:16pm

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

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RichieC · 02-03-2012 2:17pm

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

HalloweenJack · 02-03-2012 2:17pm

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.

MickySticks · 02-03-2012 2:19pm

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.

Jimmy Macnulty · 02-03-2012 2:21pm

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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