Why do I not like GAA?

Pete M.

Warchild aka Lupton_Pittman wrote: »

1 how do players tackle? shoulder charges or patty-cake-a-ball out of their hands. its farcical.
2 free kicks are given at the referees whim.
3 all that fake macho crap. just fight for real instead of all this "jostling", lol.
4 jerseys from the 80s
5 butcher waving a flag at the goalpost
6 refs deliberately want draws under orders from the GAA to make more money from replays.
7 no discernable tactics
8 mongo supporters shouting "pull"
9 rte commentators
10 lack of celebration upon scoring, because that would be "gay"
11 psychotic training techniques burning out players through overtraining and injuries
12 ugly faces everywhere
13 general inhibition and emotional retardation of self-concious alcoholic small talking boggers still reeling from the catholic church
14 boggers/bog warriors/muck savages/whatever
15 the way boggers invading croke park look down on dubliners. Lol, we look down on you, you subhuman untermenschen.
16 and you're no more "irish" than us.

Dude, get over it ffs.

upandcumming

Warchild aka Lupton_Pittman wrote: »

1 how do players tackle? shoulder charges or patty-cake-a-ball out of their hands. its farcical.
2 free kicks are given at the referees whim.
3 all that fake macho crap. just fight for real instead of all this "jostling", lol.
4 jerseys from the 80s
5 butcher waving a flag at the goalpost
6 refs deliberately want draws under orders from the GAA to make more money from replays.
7 no discernable tactics
8 mongo supporters shouting "pull"
9 rte commentators
10 lack of celebration upon scoring, because that would be "gay"
11 psychotic training techniques burning out players through overtraining and injuries
12 ugly faces everywhere
13 general inhibition and emotional retardation of self-concious alcoholic small talking boggers still reeling from the catholic church
14 boggers/bog warriors/muck savages/whatever
15 the way boggers invading croke park look down on dubliners. Lol, we look down on you, you subhuman untermenschen.
16 and you're no more "irish" than us.

I can see why people look down on you.

Badgermonkey wrote: »

Keith Duggan tore Gaelic football apart in the IT, thought his forensic deconstruction of where the game's gone badly wrong was spot on.

Hurling is a fantastically technical sport requiring skillsets far beyond the shove-fest that is Gaelic Football.

No fan of the GAA though, they were the sporting wing of the Catholic church for far too long and were complicit in the cultural, social and economic stagnation that befell the State post independence.

They weren't the sporting wing of the CC. I don't know where people are getting this idea. When it started, the GAA had ready-made teams in the form of parishes. At the time, most of the supporters and players and all involved were Catholic. It was a simple and efficient way of getting information out to all that followed GAA.

Warchild aka Lupton_Pittman

and Marty Morrisey looks like a fish.

major bill

btw Hill 16 is dublin only hate seeing mulla's on it:mad:

dar4

orignally the gaa was after the irb a way of training groups of men in secert ready to swap the hurl for a rifle as well as keeping our irish hertigate well and alive but no more hedge school i hope ?

NufcNavan

Pete M. wrote: »

Really?

So does a lot of the world.

And?

Sporting organisations around the world with a sectarian history?

Kold

It's marketed f*cking awfully. Sad to say but it's true. I wasn't raised around GAA so I don't know if it'd be different but when I hear the old culchies droning on the Sunday Game or on the radio, it's more annoying than being anything that would draw me in. Yet somehow UFC keeps me captivated for half an hour for a fight that could last 7 minutes.

I don't mind it but I can't say I give a f*ck either way. You couldn't keep me away from the TV for the North London derby tomorrow though.

RayM

I don't dislike gaelic or hurling any more than I dislike football or rugby. I have a bit of an aversion to any sport that causes grown men to shout loudly at a television screen. What's the purpose of that anyway? Even if the players could hear their directions, what exactly would somebody - who has presumably risen to the top of their chosen sport - gain from taking the advice of some loud-mouth cretin in a pub, whose greatest physical achievement was to somehow wrap an embarrassing replica jersey around his bloated gut? Urgh.

I don't like the GAA itself. I find the parochialism, provincialism and gombeenism that surrounds it really tedious. During the general election, I lost count of the number of candidates (mainly Fianna Fail, but from other parties too) who mentioned their GAA involvement in their leaflets, as though it was a reason to vote for them.

Sport doesn't matter.

Pride Fighter

hotmail.com wrote: »

Just one of the silly rules!

Is it a contact sport or not as well? The hand pass, picking up the ball, the fact that they constantly change the rules etc etc.

But shush, GAA supporters won't have any debate on these issues.

I've posted on this thread several times. So I am up for a debate.

Dj Stiggie

I've worked in a GAA club bar for a few years. Just some points to cover in the thread, there's too many to quote:

Isn't it the sports wing of the Catholic Church?
Its full of small-minded boggers
Everyone knows what's going on in the club

The club I worked in isn't far outside Dublin. It is full of nosey old (mainly) boggers, who've moved up from the shticks.

Since they are nosey, questions such as how often I go to mass and such have come up. They nearly have a heart-attack when I try to say, 'its not really my thing', because they'd probably get the hurleys out if I said, 'actually I'm an atheist'.

You don't see Barcelona or the likes in Croke Park and something to that effect countering the Catholic Church point.

No, but GAA is popular in Barcelona, and they have a decent jersey by horrible GAA standards, and Japan has the most popular league outside of Ireland, so it does have an international presence. (I know Japan aren't Catholic, just getting the point out there about it having popularity). Paris have a few clubs too, and a friend played for a team in Vietnam with a few locals.

The politics in the club is ridiculous. The chairman (who is a former player, so he was guaranteed the post) tries to run everything, even though he has no business acumen from the pitches to the bar. There are board members who have been there for 30 years + and it is generally a corrupt, nepotistic organisation.

Great grass-roots organisation - corruption higher up (serious paraphrasing)

No, in my experience, in the club I have worked in, its on a proportionate scale at all levels.

The club I've worked in is not where my location is. (I'd hate for any people I live near to know my business)

Overall though, I'm not a fan of the sport, I played hurling for my school when I was a kid. I think working there has made me dislike it, but I do follows teams loosely and sometimes I'll give it a watch.

dfx-

I am not a big fan of GAA, the organisation, clubs or either 'code'.

I'll watch the 10km outdoor swim or triathlons at Olympics (or indeed the whole Marathon in Beijing)where nothing much really ever happens, but I can't stomach a single GAA match, 'entertaining' hurling or otherwise. I am pleased about this and do not feel I'm missing out on anything

jimthemental

black francis wrote: »

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

What's wrong with me?

You must be some craic altogether. GAA is one of the only things in Ireland that still brings together the community. Personally I look forward to the championship every year for the excitement and banter around between rival clubs and counties.

happo

I really like the sporting side of GAA however I do not like the culture of most of the GAA types. I find in the country there is a attitude that they only stick to themseleves and outsiders are held at arms length.

Wheelie King

Played by thugs imo. The whole game of hurling and football is just an excuse to have a scrap.

Micky Dolenz

What the hell is a GAA?

Oh look, A whole forum for it here.