(Gaelic) Football v's Soccer

orangesoda

With the Ulster Championship starting tomorrow there will certainly be some classic match ups, along with world class punditry all polished off with the sunday game theme tune.
I wonder which code you prefer?

I like a drop of the English soccer and have been watching for years but I can't stand the drivel muck fest played here, however I think Gaelic Football is much more entertaining overall.

Also, please add your prediction for winner of the All-Ireland Football CHampionship.

comongethappy

Great.

Lapin

Oh Shít here we go again.

MJ23

Neither.

comongethappy

MJ23 wrote: »

Neither.

Synchronised boxing ftw.

oppenheimer1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2GqlOYfgfw

catallus

Hold on a second.

The OP can be taken in the context of the Sky Sports thing.

orangesoda

p.s. Please add your prediction for the winner of the All-Ireland Football Championship

Bloe Joggs

Never really got Gaa myself, it's a curious mix of Soccer, Basketball and Rugby. It's supposedly based on some ancient ball game but I get the feeling that the rules were hastily drafted back in the late 19th century when the GAA was founded and they never really put too much thought into how it would actually work in practice. It looks visually awkward to me, like it's trying not to actually be like any of the above mentioned games but still trying to be the kind of thing you would naturally do with a ball, which it clearly isn't. I guess if you play it long enough it all feels natural enough but something about it just doesn't slot into place for me, like it's the ultimate game designed by a committee.

Mr. Incognito

I predict the winner of the championship will be the gaa coffers

orangesoda

A good way to see if your a football fan or a soccer man is what you do when someone throws a ball at you, if you hand toe it and fist pass it back your a football man and if you do keepy uppys or something your a soccer man

Sound of Silence

Don't really watch either that much, but if I was to make an effort I would watch Gaelic. It's just a much more entertaining game.

Guy:Incognito

I propose a separate forum for sports. Possibly sub-divided for different ones.

calanus

Lapin wrote: »

Oh Shít here we go again.

I think if you look at the OPs name you would find that correct phrase is
Aw, here it goes!

orangesoda

calanus wrote: »

I think if you look at the OPs name you would find that correct phrase is
Aw, here it goes!

and i think you'll find fellow that you never answered the threads question

vicwatson

I love Football and Gaelic Football

orangesoda

vicwatson wrote: »

I love Football and Gaelic Football

soccer

calanus

orangesoda wrote: »

and i think you'll find fellow that you never answered the threads question

Meh!

vicwatson

orangesoda wrote: »

soccer

Merica

orangesoda

calanus wrote: »

Meh!

Armagh for the all-ireland you say?

orangesoda

vicwatson wrote: »

Merica

england

Hotale.com

An excellent game of Gaelic football is unbeatable, a lot of the time it's brutal though.

I'd take a brilliant game of Gaelic football over even a brilliant game of hurling - and look where I'm from! I'd be hanged, drawn and quartered if I said this in public.

fatherted1969

Grew up with soccer played s bit of gaa but much preferred soccer. Drifted away from gaa but when the kids were born they played so it kinda rekindled my interest in the game.

Fast forward about 10 years and i'd give up the champions league or world cup final if i knew there was a gaa game in the field. Senior to u6 lads or ladies it matters not a whit. My kids don't even have to be playing, i love the game.

It has its bad elements like any sport but its by far the most inclusive sport in the community. Love it

orangesoda

My father often says that the worst game of football is still better than the best game of soccer.

I dislike hurling, it is vile just like irish soccer

Finn Harps v Longford Town

Armagh City v PSNI

disastrous

Hotale.com

orangesoda wrote: »

I dislike hurling, it is vile just like irish soccer

GET. OUT.

fatherted1969

Oh and as much as it pains me to say it but Dublin are in a league of their own. Dubs for Sam

vicwatson

orangesoda wrote: »

england

See the FA Cup today? Not the SA Cup

osarusan

The 'drivel muck fest' is my favourite football of all.

Gaelic: hurling is decent, but gaelic football is not my thing at all. Hate watching it.

Consequently, don't care about who will win the All Ireland.

Rothko

Soccer is far superior.

Turtwig

"Hurling best game in the world."

"Soccer best game in the world"

so on and so forth.

Hate when people pontificate their sport as being the best and others as rubbish. Everyone has different tastes. It's not that hard. Just because you don't have an interest in something doesn't mean you have to piss on it.

I prefer soccer to gaelic football. Hurling to soccer. But for all those preferences there are exceptions. It mostly depends on what teams are playing one another.

Hotale.com

orangesoda wrote: »

I dislike hurling, it is vile just like irish soccer

Can I ask why you don't like it? I never actually understood why it's so unpopular in some parts of the country.

12gauge dave

Soccer is a much more technical game and still played at a much higher level.
Gaelic football is still a very much national amateur sport while it is growing at a big rate it will never catch the imagination of the world like soccer its an irish game and irish people have every right to love it as they do but its just not for me im afraid im a soccer man through and through but I did grow uo in england so I am prob biased.


Who I think will win sam its up to dublin of they can keep the hunger

orangesoda

Hotale.com wrote: »

Can I ask why you don't like it? I never actually understood why it's so unpopular in some parts of the country.

You can't even see the ball and it is too fast.
The ancient game played in ulster was more like modern scottish shinty that it is to modern hurling, this is because it was brought from ulster to the scottish highlands

orangesoda

vicwatson wrote: »

See the FA Cup today? Not the SA Cup

yes i did surely, Hull got everyones hopes up and then the predictable finish, the usual in the soccer world, the only time there is an upset is when you have a bet on

Hotale.com

orangesoda wrote: »

You can't even see the ball and it is too fast.
The ancient game played in ulster was more like modern scottish shinty that it is to modern hurling, this is because it was brought from ulster to the scottish highlands

Never really bothered me, I suppose if I was to have any issues with it as a spectator the size of the ball would be the one issue. The speed is what makes it what it is though imo.

Karl Stein

Preference for particular sports exist on a spectrum for true spots fans. Hating one sport and loving another is little more than evidence of a dull mind.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILldFyJ8R34

orangesoda

Karl Stein wrote: »

Preference for particular sports exist on a spectrum for true spots fans. Hating one sport and loving another is little more than evidence of a dull mind.

Your the auld plastic pitch soccer man aren't you good fellow? a real soccer man would get out on the grass

Karl Stein

orangesoda wrote: »

Your the auld plastic pitch soccer man aren't you good fellow? a real soccer man would get out on the grass

My favourite sport to watch is Rugby Union. I'm well passed the years of playing on grass. One of my great regrets is not being more involved in team sports as a young'un.

Sport is a good thing. Team sport is a great thing. Why can't we just accept that people have sporting preferences that are at odds with others'?

Witchie

There is football and then there is Gaelic football. Nobody except the Americans call it soccer.

orangesoda

Witchie wrote: »

There is football and then there is Gaelic football. Nobody except the Americans call it soccer.

well maybe in Dublin and Cork which i assume you reside but not in Gaelic parts of the world. Also the Australians call it soccer and the Canadians.

osarusan

Witchie wrote: »

There is football and then there is Gaelic football. Nobody except the Americans call it soccer.

Certainly colloquially used among many Australians and Japanese also. Maybe others.

Lapin

oppenheimer1 wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2GqlOYfgfw

I'll see your original, and raise you the original original.

A much livlier and more vocal effort than the polished one above.

orangesoda wrote: »

p.s. Please add your prediction for the winner of the All-Ireland Football Championship

Football - Dublin. Very hard to complete back to backs in the modern game but this Dublin side have it in them and they showed that in the League.

No GAA fan worth their salt would predict one code without mentioning the other. So here goes.

Hurling - Kilkenny. They'll be hungrier than ever to claim a title this year if only to prove they aren't dead yet. Shefflin's last year too could add extra motivation. Never write them off.

orangesoda

Lapin wrote: »

No GAA fan worth their salt would predict one code without mentioning the other. So here goes.

your missing the auld handball, camogie and weymans football there good fellow, I laugh and point my finger

Amirani

I find Gaelic Football ecstatically boring unfortunately. Tries to mesh football and rugby but ends up losing the better parts of both. I don't understand its popularity in certain parts, but each to their own sure.

GAAman

orangesoda wrote: »

p.s. Please add your prediction for the winner of the All-Ireland Football Championship

Ath Cliath Abu!

Kermit.de.frog

How are the rest suppose to compete with Dublin's AIG sponsorship?


Be interesting to see how the British will react to the sport. Both games are excellent but until now the GAA has been insular. It's going to be interesting to see this exposure to GAA abroad.

Kermit.de.frog

Diego Simeone wrote: »

I find Gaelic Football ecstatically boring unfortunately. Tries to mesh football and rugby but ends up losing the better parts of both. I don't understand its popularity in certain parts, but each to their own sure.

I think we have a west brit here. A British unionist type possibly.

I find it far less pathetic seeing the hoards of Irish supporting GAA than the hoards of Irish supporting British football teams.

Duckworth_Luas

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_QeRQsRwms

Lapin

orangesoda wrote: »

your missing the auld handball, camogie and weymans football there good fellow, I laugh and point my finger

Ah here, why not throw in the minors and U21s while your at it sure.

The mods won't be long kicking us into the GAA forum if we go down that road.

And I wouldn't blame them.

To answer your original question, I prefer soccer to Gaelic football at top level. Gaelic has become ridiculously defensive in the last 20 years and flowing football is a rare beauty these days. When it is played properly nothing beats it but it went downhill rapidly since 2001.

The number of petty fouls is was ruining the game with some matches having more than 60 frees being awarded during them. Madness in a 70 minute game. Hopefully the Black Card will do something to address this. Time will tell.


Anyway, hurling pisses all over soccer and gaelic football. You need look no further than last year's championship for proof of that !

Amirani

Kermit.de.frog wrote: »

I think we have a west brit here. A British unionist type possibly.

I find it far less pathetic seeing the hoards of Irish supporting GAA than the hoards of Irish supporting British football teams.

I don't support British football teams.

Turtwig

Kermit.de.frog wrote: »

I think we have a west brit here. A British unionist type possibly.

I find it far less pathetic seeing the hoards of Irish supporting GAA than the hoards of Irish supporting British football teams.

He's Argentinian jeez. And he manages the Champions of Spain. So show some respect!