Why do I not like GAA?

Frank Black

I do like other sports - but I just don't get GAA.

What's wrong with me?

Sonics2k

It's actually pretty boring I find.

Hurling is fun, GAA is just dull.

Elessar

Culchie sport. You hate culchies.

easyeason3

Are you foreign? Or from Leitrim?

Frank Black

Elessar wrote: »

Culchie sport. You hate culchies.

I am one.

mikemac

What county are you from OP?

DrumSteve

You're a homophobe

Frank Black

DrumSteve wrote: »

You're a homophobe

Some of my best friends like GAA!

davetherave

Are you from a so-called "weaker county"? Would the lack of silver-ware in the county board offices have anything to do with this disinterest or are you just unpatriotic? :pac:

alchemist33

Perhaps you hate yourself, and this is the only way you can express it?

Orando Broom

black francis wrote: »

Some of my best friends like GAA!

You are counter cultural and you crave notoriety. You probably don't like The Shawshank Redemption, brown shoes with jeans, Tommy Hilfiger shirts and Paul O'Connell

Frank Black

davetherave wrote: »

Are you from a so-called "weaker county"? Would the lack of silver-ware in the county board offices have anything to do with this disinterest or are you just unpatriotic? :pac:

My County's done quite well in GAA over the years.

melekalikimaka

the fact it eats our tax money, and the game is a game for gurriers played by hooligans?

Dionysus

black francis wrote: »

I do like other sports - but I just don't get GAA.

What's wrong with me?

You were bullied in school by somebody who was a GAAhead? You wanted to separate yourself from whatever the dominant populist culture was among your peers, which in this case was the GAA?

epgc3fyqirnbsx

Personally, I don't understand why people love some sports but hate others. But that's mostly people who assign a sport to a demographic, eg a rugby head ridiculing GAA as bog ball regardless of the skill attached and vice versa.

But as for you not liking it, different strokes I suppose
Being in Croke Park for a semi or final would change anyones opinion I would think, and that's probably the same for any sport. It's all atmosphere, this can be especially true for watching football in a pub when there's half one team and half the other and some great banter going

Dyr

Is it cos yous black?

Obviously the football is just biffy fellsa shunting each other around but hurling is more pitch based poetry than sport "arra will ya f***in rise it PJ!!"... such beauty

epgc3fyqirnbsx

melekalikimaka wrote: »

the fact it eats our tax money, and the game is a game for gurriers played by hooligans?

See I think this is BS, what does it matter who plays it or watches it?? See what happens on the field, any popular sport is popular for a reason, there's obviously something worth watching

Frank Black

Orando Broom wrote: »

You are counter cultural and you crave notoriety. You probably don't like The Shawshank Redemption, brown shoes with jeans, Tommy Hilfiger shirts and Paul O'Connell

Wow, that's scary - I really think Shawshank is overated and I have this irrational hatred of Hillfiger.

I've no problem with the brown shoes bit though and I have nothing but love for Paul O Connell.

30txsbzmcu2k9w

Orando Broom wrote: »

You are counter cultural and you crave notoriety. You probably don't like The Shawshank Redemption, brown shoes with jeans, Tommy Hilfiger shirts and Paul O'Connell

Disliking characteristics of a Copper Face Jacks customer is hardly counter cultural.

BTW i agree with ther second poster. Gaelic football is boring slowed-down scrappy version of football. I quite like hurling however.

upandcumming

Sonics2k wrote: »

It's actually pretty boring I find.

Hurling is fun, GAA is just dull.

You make no sense.

I don't like it because of it's nepotism, the people involved and with some clubs how sly and underhanded it is.

Steyr

black francis wrote: »

I do like other sports - but I just don't get GAA.

What's wrong with me?

Just because you are Irish does not mean you have to like or admire GAA Hurling/Football, fcuk that.

Personally I cant stand it, I also can not stand soccer.

al28283

I can't stand GAA either and I have no idea if my county is good at it or not

ascanbe

melekalikimaka wrote: »

the fact it eats our tax money, and the game is a game for gurriers played by hooligans?

The funny thing about this comment is that, having read some of your other comments in this forum, i don't think you mean it in jest.

Orando Broom

black francis wrote: »

Wow, that's scary - I really think Shawshank is overated and I have this irrational hatred of Hillfiger.

I've no problem with the brown shoes bit though and I have nothing but love for Paul O Connell.

Hahaha!!!

Well i hate Rugby. But I know why I hate it.

mikemac

I don't like soccer, never watch Irish internationals and could not tell you who is top of the English Premiership
Or tell you who won the six nations, no idea

But I could list the best 40 prospects in the NFL draft and list a lot of depth charts for many teams. Love it, as per the sig :cool:
Best sport in the world but in my opinion only

Whatever you're into OP, if you like a sport then great, you don't have to like others.
But you don't need to knock other sports either. I'll never watch rugby but good for others if they wish to go to games

DEFTLEFTHAND

Loved playing in my youth but when i went to college i lost interest, and since iv come home iv had no involvement at all. Still love watching hurling on the tele though.

landsleaving

I loved GAA when I was younger, played it, went to a lot of matches and such. Then as I got older the coaches, parents and some other players started getting hyper competitive - read acting like pr*cks.

I was still only about 15, and hearing a player for the senior team at the club screaming obscenities at a bunch of 10-year olds was the last straw, after many other straws. It was a pity, because until I hit about age 12 it was all about having fun, especially since I flatly refused to play for the next team up in skill because the coach was a nasty old guy who thought under-15 B hurling was his ticket to fame and glory.

On the upside, same coach shouted at me at a hurling training session, then later was walking down the middle of a line of us hitting sliotars back and forth and said 'you're ****e lads, I should be afraid of getting hit.' - I duly obliged.

So long story short, I don't like GAA because I was put off by the people involved. I'd probably still be into it otherwise. Well, hurling anyway, football never made sense to me. You can't tackle, and any time I've seen it on TV recently it's just descended into a brawl. I prefer ice hockey for that.

OPENROAD

feelingstressed wrote: »

I don't like soccer, never watch Irish internationals and could not tell you who is top of the English Premiership
Or tell you who won the six nations, no idea

But I could list the best 40 prospects in the NFL draft and list a lot of depth charts for many teams. Love it, as per the sig :cool:
Best sport in the world but in my opinion only

Whatever you're into OP, if you like a sport then great, you don't have to like others.
But you don't need to knock other sports either. I'll never watch rugby but good for others if they wish to go to games

Man utd, but hopefully, Arsenal will reduce the gap to just one point on Wednesday, as long as Eboue keeps his head

Coriolanus

Try watching the one with the sticks. It's pretty good.

StupidLikeAFox

Justice Damaged Duckling wrote: »

Gaelic football is boring slowed-down scrappy version of football.

Wait, did you just say Gaelic Football is a slowed down version of soccer? As in, the game where players can roll the ball left and right to each other around midfield for a few mins when they are looking for an opening, and can play a ninety minute game which there might be a handful of chances and up up with no score at all??

I do like soccer, but it nowhere near the speed and intensity of a GAA match.

Arnold Layne

Caleb Red Goatherd wrote: »

See I think this is BS, what does it matter who plays it or watches it?? See what happens on the field, any popular sport is popular for a reason, there's obviously something worth watching

So you agree it eats out tax money??

I don't like GAA due to:

(1) The taxpayers money that was allocated to renovate Croke Park;

(2) The accounts that are never audited;

(3) Having to suffer incompetent secondary school teachers that only qualified because of their affiliation with the GAA when Galway won a treble in the 1960's;

(4) Being **** at the sport so I never got extra marks in school or got to work in Banks or Insurance because of it.

Pauleta

Hurling is quite good but Gaelic football is pants. If any other country in the world played it on a widespread level the players would be shown up. They have no competition but you can see with the rubbish medium range shooting that its not very good. A bunch of wannabe hardmen as well except when the big boys from Australia come along to bully them :pac:

Dont get me started about the bigoted organisation the GAA are. Hopefully they will fall just like the catholic church and Fianna Fail.

Pride Fighter

Many people dont like different sports, for different reasons. I watched my first LaCrosse match the other week on the telly and thought it was awful to watch.

It's just different strokes for different folks.

I enjoy Hurling and Football, but am not keen on handball, another sport of the GAA. The GAA as an organisation is brilliant. It provides sport and social outlets that the state should be providing but is not. It saves the state millions a year in health costs (through healthier people that exercise), garda resources (keeps youngsters busy and not idle) and provides a sense of community up and down the country.

Regardless if no one likes the games or not, they cannot deny the brilliant work the organisation does, on a completely voluntary basis as well.

StupidLikeAFox

Pauleta wrote: »

Dont get me started about the bigoted organisation the GAA are. Hopefull they will fall just like the catholic church and Fianna Fail.

The GAA is an excellently run organisation! There is the usual bit of politics high up (which comes with everything from residents commitees to sports clubs), but at grassroots level you wont find any organisation like it

KeithAFC

It has a bad rep for the obvious reasons. I think we all know what that is but its OK to watch on TV.

Steyr

feelingstressed wrote: »

NFL

Soft mans Rugby, takes forever to watch, literally sucks the life out of you. While I love Rugby I will admit scrum re-sets and playing the kick chase can be boring it is still miles better.

feelingstressed wrote: »

Best sport in the world but in my opinion only

Thankfully.

Pauleta

ColHol wrote: »

The GAA is an excellently run organisation! There is the usual bit of politics high up (which comes with everything from residents commitees to sports clubs), but at grassroots level you wont find any organisation like it

You wont find any other organisation like the Russian baseball association or the Venezualan Chess Federations either, stop trying to sound special. And in terms of being a well run organisation, arent most county boards in debt? I know Thomas Davis are around 2 million in debt after their disgraceful attempt to rid Tallaght of Shamrock Rovers.

landsleaving

Steyr wrote: »

Soft mans Rugby, takes forever to watch, literally sucks the life out of you. While I love Rugby I will admit scrum re-sets and playing the kick chase can be boring it is still miles batter.




Thankfully.

I can see a lot of reasons why someone wouldn't like American Football, so I'm not going to debate it's better or worse than rubgy. But it's hardly 'soft mans rugby' - all the protective gear allows for a far more physical game in many ways.

Anyway, resume hating the GAA. I'll shuffle off now.

davetherave

Where else can you shake hands with the guy you're going to be marking before the match, then proceed to kick seven sorts of **** out of him and call his mother every name under the sun for 70 minutes, and shake hands with him again immediately after.

What about the pure heart and love for both the game and his parish/county that makes a lad want to die going for the ball as opposed to the pros in soccer that show no emotion despite getting six figures a week.

Or the institution that is John 3:7....

mikemac

Steyr wrote: »

Soft mans Rugby, takes forever to watch, literally sucks the life out of you. While I love Rugby I will admit scrum re-sets and playing the kick chase can be boring it is still miles better.

The thing that gets me about the NFL is they call the Superbowl Winner "World Champions"

World Champions of the National Football League
Imagine if the All Ireland winners called themselves World Champions, they'd be laughed out of the country.

Every play is a strategy and a plan with multiple designs and personal used, every play was designed to take advantage of situations. It's the thinking man version of rugby :cool:

Trigger13222

Arnold Layne wrote: »

So you agree it eats out tax money??

I don't like GAA due to:

(1) The taxpayers money that was allocated to renovate Croke Park;

(2) The accounts that are never audited;

(3) Having to suffer incompetent secondary school teachers that only qualified because of their affiliation with the GAA when Galway won a treble in the 1960's;

(4) Being **** at the sport so I never got extra marks in school or got to work in Banks or Insurance because of it.

I think point 4 is your major problem jealousy i think its called.

Pauleta

feelingstressed wrote: »

The thing that gets me about the NFL is they call the Superbowl Winner "World Champions"

World Champions of the National Football League
Imagine if the All Ireland winners called themselves World Champions, they'd be laughed out of the country.

The World Champions tag comes from that it was Sponsored by a newspaper called The World

Ruu_Old

They all have lovely bottoms*.



*ladies GAA

landsleaving

Ruu wrote: »

They all have lovely bottoms*.



*ladies GAA

"Yahhhrr, not a looker in the bunch"

Pride Fighter

Pauleta wrote: »

You wont find any other organisation like the Russian baseball association or the Venezualan Chess Federations either, stop trying to sound special. And in terms of being a well run organisation, arent most county boards in debt? I know Thomas Davis are around 2 million in debt after their disgraceful attempt to rid Tallaght of Shamrock Rovers.

One club does not make the GAA, most I know in GAA circles hate Thomas Davis for what they did.

Renn

landsleaving wrote: »

I loved GAA when I was younger, played it, went to a lot of matches and such. Then as I got older the coaches, parents and some other players started getting hyper competitive - read acting like pr*cks.

I was still only about 15, and hearing a player for the senior team at the club screaming obscenities at a bunch of 10-year olds was the last straw, after many other straws. It was a pity, because until I hit about age 12 it was all about having fun, especially since I flatly refused to play for the next team up in skill because the coach was a nasty old guy who thought under-15 B hurling was his ticket to fame and glory.

On the upside, same coach shouted at me at a hurling training session, then later was walking down the middle of a line of us hitting sliotars back and forth and said 'you're ****e lads, I should be afraid of getting hit.' - I duly obliged.

So long story short, I don't like GAA because I was put off by the people involved. I'd probably still be into it otherwise. Well, hurling anyway, football never made sense to me. You can't tackle, and any time I've seen it on TV recently it's just descended into a brawl. I prefer ice hockey for that.

Pretty much the same for me. I was mad in to it as a kid...played all the time up until I was about twenty. Then I realised how nasty the game actually was and quit. Returned briefly only to witness a guy getting his front teeth knocked out off the ball and another having his jaw broken because the guy on the receiving end was winning every ball that came his way.

I just found the whole set up to be extremely backward and I have attended a few games since to see if things have changed but nope - supporters of 'my' club shouting abuse for a player to "get the **** up out of that" only for the guy to have actually broken his leg in three places

Steyr

landsleaving wrote: »

But it's hardly 'soft mans rugby' - all the protective gear allows for a far more physical game in many ways.

It is. Any NFL player would not last more than one half of a Rugby game if even the first half, it is all stop-start over a period of seconds of "action". Id love to see them try it without the pads.

Rugby is a contact sport while NFL is a collision sport, but thats why it is stupid, any fool can run at somebody else and in the NFL's case a few feet away.

Renn

Not sure where you're going with this Steyr...

StupidLikeAFox

melekalikimaka wrote: »

the fact it eats our tax money, and the game is a game for gurriers played by hooligans?

How does it eat our tax money? (Genuine question, i thought it was a fairly rich organisation)

krudler

feelingstressed wrote: »

The thing that gets me about the NFL is they call the Superbowl Winner "World Champions"

World Champions of the National Football League
Imagine if the All Ireland winners called themselves World Champions, they'd be laughed out of the country.

Every play is a strategy and a plan with multiple designs and personal used, every play was designed to take advantage of situations. It's the thinking man version of rugby :cool:

dont forget the World Series of baseball....played by one country. :pac:

NFL is awesome though, "soft mans rugby" my ass it is, those guys hit like freight trains.

Pauleta

Steyr wrote: »

It is. Any NFL player would not last more than one half of a Rugby game if even the first half, it is all stop-start over a period of seconds of "action". Id love to see them try it without the pads.

Rugby is a contact sport while NFL is a collision sport, but thats why it is stupid, any fool can run at somebody else and in the NFL's case a few feet away.

If they played it without pads people would die. Every catch a wide reciever gets is a hospital pass. He is defenceless. It would be the equalent of getting a garryowen but the oppostition are allowed hit while the player is in the air. You can brace yourself for every Rugby tackle. You dont have time to brace yourself in the NFL. Of any sport ive ever seen, NFL players are right up there with decathletes as the most rounded and elite sports people on the planet. Its brutal stuff. The amount of brain injuries is disturbing.