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The Asian Gaelic Games & The Dalian Wolfhounds

  • 03-10-2006 9:46am
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    rivers
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    So just thought i'd let you guys know what's happening over here in china, gaa related. This next part is introducing the Dalian Wolfhounds Gaelic football team. Dalian is in northern china, liaoning province.
    We're entering the Asian Gaelic football cup in Shanghai on the 14th & 15th of October. If you're unfamiliar witht the Asian Gaelic games its been an annual event for about 10 years in asia to raise interest in gaelic games and its a pretty big event now with nearly 40 teams from asia in competition and 1000s of spectators.... We're Dalian's first gaelic football team anyway here ya go....

    Introduction written by the head coach of the Dalian Wolfhounds, hereinafter known as "The gaffer" aka "That wonderfull man from Meath" aka "Mikey"

    2006 is a historic moment for the great catch and kick game in Dongbei, China for it has witnessed the painful birth of a Gaelic football team in Dalian.

    Since April a ragbag multinational assortment of sporting misfits has been moulded by Peter and Mikey into a crack (as in very good not harmful-drug smoking) unit of crazed sporting warriors.

    Among the troops in this modern-day mujaheedin are numbered a mere handful from the misty land of bog and Bertie. A couple hail from Dalian itself, three call the Republic of Mongolia home (what a full-back Genghis Khan would have made!), and the recruitment net has also brought in volunteers from Australia, Canada, Quebec, New Zealand, England, Scotland and America.

    Quick fix acculturation tactics have been used to inculcate our foreign friends into the mindset necessary for the unique challenges of playing Gaelic football. These have included:

    * compulsory celibacy
    * monthly readings from the Farmer’s Journal
    * occasional practice of the skills of the game

    We feel we are ready.

    So far we have trained all together with no gender distinctions – our girls disdain the sexist rule that allows them to forego the proper pick up – so it is unclear at the moment whether enough females or femininely attired males can be rounded up for a girl’s team.

    The ambitions of the Dalian Wolfhounds GAA team are lofty. They include:

    * actually playing on a natural grass surface and not on an Astroturf patch with more wrinkles than the Queen Mother
    * buying Mullingar Paul a new pair of runners
    * getting Keithy home from a bar without punches being thrown
    * world peace

    The Dalian Wolfhounds also fervently support the one China policy.


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