When your county loses...

Daysha

...can you bring yourself to rewatch the match from start to finish again, or even the highlights of it?

Reason I ask is when I was out with a few friends over the weekend, it struck us that every single one of us has yet to rewatch last years hurling final, nor do we ever have any plans on watching it in the future. There's only one other match I can think of that I haven't re-watched, and thats the Cork/Waterford AI semi back in 2006.

Have any of ye Dublin fans ever have any trouble watching back over the Mayo match from 2006, for instance? Or have the Cork lads viewed the hurling or football final defeats in recent years? Or have any other posters relived the pain of a particular defeat again without any problems?

An Citeog

deise59 wrote: »

...can you bring yourself to rewatch the match from start to finish again, or even the highlights of it?

Reason I ask is when I was out with a few friends over the weekend, it struck us that every single one of us has yet to rewatch last years hurling final, nor do we ever have any plans on watching it in the future. There's only one other match I can think of that I haven't re-watched, and thats the Cork/Waterford AI semi back in 2006.

Have any of ye Dublin fans ever have any trouble watching back over the Mayo match from 2006, for instance? Or have the Cork lads viewed the hurling or football final defeats in recent years? Or have any other posters relived the pain of a particular defeat again without any problems?

No, I never rewatch a match where my team has lost. I was at the Dublin-Mayo, Dublin-Kerry and Dublin-Tyrone matches and have blanked every single one of them. I don't mind watching individual scores, like Mulligan's unbelievable goal against Dublin or Ciaran McDonald's point in 06 or that Maurice Fitz sideline but I could never bring myself to even watch the highlights.

On the other hand, I'm still rewatching Vins triumph in the AI club final last year!:D

kerry4sam

When i travel to Championship matches we always stopped on enroute back for the Sunday Game and always watched the replays regardless of result (again when we returned back home)

with the exception of one: A-I semi-final 2001 Kerry-v-Meath ... to this day I have not watched that match from start to finish since leaving Croke Park

Pride Fighter

I was traumatised at Dublin's defeats to Donegal and Derry in the AI final in the mid 90's. I was 6 at the time.

Daysha

Funnily enough I always thought I could never watch the Waterford/Limerick AI semi from 2007 either. But a few days after the Tipp win last year I was able to bring myself to sit down and watch it. Maybe the fact that I knew we'd make a final eventually eased the pain.

But thats still not the case for the Cork match in 2006. Unless we ever lose a final under the same circumstances, nothing will ever be as gut-wrenching as that last minute of the match.

blackbelt

For me it depends on the nature of the defeat.I have re-watched the Dublin-Mayo and Dublin-Kerry defeats from start to finish.I guess the fact that Dublin lost with pride numbs the pain.

However,I will refuse to watch last August match against Tyrone.The bad memories are stuck in my mind so there is no need to watch that terrible game.I have seen some of the highlights on youtube but it was too painful and switched it off.

I'm guessing many Wateford fans would feel my pain as well.I'd say a lot of Wexford fans would refuse to watch the Leinster Final against Kilkenny and Dublin as well.

Erin Go Brath

I have no problem watching a game again if my county lost. If it was a good game then it was a good game regardless of the final result. If however it was a dire encounter with low quality play that would fulfill my criteria for not watching the game again.

shiibata

I would never watch a repeat of a game we have lost, very unlikely would watch the highlights on Sunday Game either, not unless it was to see one of the usual dubious refereeing decisions against us:D

Pride Fighter wrote: »

I was traumatised at Dublin's defeats to Donegal and Derry in the AI final in the mid 90's. I was 6 at the time.

Have the Donegal game if you want to watch it again:p

Mr. Incognito

If it's a good game, I may watch it again if it's on but I wouldn't be getting down the tapes.

If it's a hammering, it's swiftly forgotten about, I mean, who dwells on pain- we watch reruns of weddings not funerals.

smashey

Win, lose or draw, I always watch it later.

premierstone

Still cant bring myself to watch the 97 AI defeat, far too painfull

GAAman

I always watch them when i can, durin the championship if i am at a sunday match i will be gettin the 6 or 8 bus back to derry which will have me in at either 10 or twelve so i do miss the sunday game

I will watch it no matter the outcome to see parts i might have missed due to being engrossed in the game or a bad vantage point

A friend of mine recently said the same thing (watching highlights) but said he watches them to see if he will be on them

dcr22B

From a Dubs point of view, the Mayo match was the hardest one to watch and re-analyse after the heartache of it all.

Had no problem watching the Kerry match of '07 as we did ourselves proud that day but the Kingdom were just that little bit brighter.

Much as I thought that Tyrone '08 would be extremely hard to watch again, I had decided in the car on the way home that night that I needed to watch it again but in the company of my father (a Donegal man who hates the Dubs and wouldn't give them any credit whatsoever). I felt that there were question marks over all three goals as well as some issues of discipline that I felt the referee failed to deal with. We never deserved anything out of that day but I felt 12 points was not the gulf between us and the 31st January kind of put my mind at rest.

So the next day we sat down to watch it(being an ex-inter county player, I always valued his opinion and despite his opinion of the Dubs he's never been biased and will call a spade a spade) and he agreed with most of the things I had noticed....not that it made it any easier!

Marse

Have to say I find it hard to get over a championship defeat. Even days or weeks later the wounds are still pretty raw. I find watching the game or highlights open the wounds again. Luckily after the Sunday game (which if I’m at the game I don’t see) is over there aren't too many opportunities to watch the game again.

kevmy

blackbelt wrote: »

For me it depends on the nature of the defeat.I have re-watched the Dublin-Mayo and Dublin-Kerry defeats from start to finish.I guess the fact that Dublin lost with pride numbs the pain.

Jaysus I don't know I think it's harder watching one where you got so close.

The 96 finals are very difficult to watch. To be well up in the 2nd half and lose AI final:(

The 04 and 06 ones will a greater embarrasment at the time I can safely say we were beat by the better team and that no-one else(bar perhaps Tyrone) would have won either of those finals. So in a way that team did the best in could in getting to an AI final (while I accept they could have performed a lot better on the day I still don't think we would have won). But the 96/97 team was pretty much the best in the country and still didn't win...

dcr22B

blackbelt wrote: »

For me it depends on the nature of the defeat.I have re-watched the Dublin-Mayo and Dublin-Kerry defeats from start to finish.I guess the fact that Dublin lost with pride numbs the pain.

Sorry blackbelt, can't possibly agree with you about the Mayo game. There was no pride in us being cocky and thinking we were home and dry when up by 7 points! It was humiliating walking out of Croker that day!

ccosgrave

I don't really have any major problems re-watching matches usually, but I don't often get the opportunity to do so. I watched the Leinster final loss to Dublin last year two or three times afterwards, just trying to pick up on the good things we did, and where things went wrong.

The only match that I can think of that I'd find painful to watch was the 2001 All-Ireland semi-final replay between Wexford and Tipp. I remember going into that game on the back of a thrilling victory against Limerick and a fantastic last-minute draw in the first encounter with Tipp. It was a wet day and three players were sent off in the first half, and we ended up losing by about 12 points. After being so excited about the match in the weeks coming up, I remember just being absolutely devastated leaving Croke Park that day and so disappointed that we wouldn't be there again for another ten months.

Declan30

As a Limerick Supporter we have had more Bad Days than Good:).
I usually watch the games again though on the sunday Game or on Setanta in Full.
It kinds helps to see where u went wrong.
94 All Ireland is the only one i have not watched. Was up at croke park a few yrs ago on the Stadium Tour and best comebacks in the gaa was shown in some part of it and what came up 94 final just turned and walked away.

Browney7

Declan30 wrote: »

As a Limerick Supporter we have had more Bad Days than Good:).
I usually watch the games again though on the sunday Game or on Setanta in Full.
It kinds helps to see where u went wrong.
94 All Ireland is the only one i have not watched. Was up at croke park a few yrs ago on the Stadium Tour and best comebacks in the gaa was shown in some part of it and what came up 94 final just turned and walked away.

I can just about grin and bear 1994 because I put it down to being a complete freak of a result.

1996 is a different story. We completely f**ked it up that year and I can't and won't ever watch it

homerjay2005

i come on here and get banned and then tell you all how the whole world is against us.

CyberDave

I alway rewatch the match no matter how badly Galway were beaten. I think it's part of the rehab.

skinnyfatman

Being a kilkenny fan i'd watch any Championship match back, all bar 99 AI against personally the worst team to win an all Ireland. was a ****e day, ****e weahter and worse hurling.

Colm R

My first time attending an All Ireland Final was Cork Derry in 93. I had that young child attitude that winning was a forgone conclusion. I was devastated after. Still haven't watched it since.

In 2006 I was in Australia for the final against Kilkenny. The signal was delayed by about 10 min, which was strange. The cats, were a better team on the day and the writing was on the wall. So with 10 minutes to go, I got a text from my brother who was in Croker saying how disappointed he was. I still watched the last 10 minutes hoping that he was just disappointed that it was raining or something. Its funny how you grasp at straws.

But remember this, its hard for us as supporters to watch games we lost. Players/Managers have to watch them. That must be 10 times more gut wrenching for them.

Flukey

Going to a match and watching it later on the Sunday Game, and even snippets on the news earlier in the evening, is all part of the ritual. Seeing it again and hearing the analysis when the game is still fresh in the mind of yourself and the analysts is what you want. If you are meeting up after a game with others who were at it, win, lose or draw, you start talking about the match, not the price of beef in Argentina. Talking about it, celebrating:) or drowning you sorrows:(, watching it and hearing the analysis, is what we do as GAA people. Even though some of the highlights may be your lowlights, like a terrible goal conceded, you have to see it. So when Dublin lose, yes, I do want to see it.

Daysha

Even though I don't like watching matches we lose, I think it's even worse when you lose a match you watch live in a foreign country, which is a bit odd I guess Maybe being able to talk to other people about it and watching the analysis afterwards brings a sense of closure or something...

eroo

I'll watch a game again.. just so long as it was a good one. If it kept me nervous watching it live, then I'll watch it again regardless of the result!

But if it was boring, I would only watch the highlights.

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Diabhal Beag

I never watch the match. I know I would either be too negative or arrogant.

What happens at the cluiche stays at the match

Deedsie

premierstone wrote: »

Still cant bring myself to watch the 97 AI defeat, far too painfull

Try working with a load of Clare lads. Favourite topic of conversation is John Leahys shot to win at the end.

Kills me. I havent seen that shot in twelve years but i can still remember it perfectly.

sam34

if we've lost, i'll watch it once, and also the sunday game.

if we've won, i'll watch it a thousand times.

i'm from kerry, btw

Flukey

If you think about it, what happened on the Sunday Game becomes a part of many of our discussions through the summer. Many of our memories of matches we attended ourselves are of the TV pictures that become so familiar in the years that follow, rather than our own view of things that happen. Obviously there are things we don't see when we are at a match that we want to have a good look at later. Once the final whistle blows, many of our memories fade but are supported or revived by seeing it on TV, first that night, and then for many years to come. We've all witnessed historic moments in matches, but our image of those are often of the TV clips that we've seen over and over again since that day.

Daysha

Flukey wrote: »

If you think about it, what happened on the Sunday Game becomes a part of many of our discussions through the summer. Many of our memories of matches we attended ourselves are of the TV pictures that become so familiar in the years that follow, rather than our own view of things that happen. Obviously there are things we don't see when we are at a match that we want to have a good look at later. Once the final whistle blows, many of our memories fade but are supported or revived by seeing it on TV, first that night, and then for many years to come. We've all witnessed historic moments in matches, but our image of those are often of the TV clips that we've seen over and over again since that day.

.....the **** are you talking about?!