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The Sunday Game Thread

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    #1022
    seligehgit
    Registered Users Posts: 9,286 ✭✭✭seligehgit


    doc_17 wrote: »
    Brilliant? How so? Think her reading of games and questioning is quite limited

    I think he means she is very easy on the eye! Yeah her knowledge of our gaelic games is very limited to put it mildly.


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    #1023
    Magill46
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    Pretty fast wrote: »
    Did you know that the two Wylie brothers are protestant? A credit to themselves and Monoghan gaa.

    The whole family are a credit to themselves and the GAA. They are involved in everything with our club, Ballybay, and seek praise for nothing.


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    #1024
    munchkin_utd
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    doc_17 wrote: »
    Brilliant? How so? Think her reading of games and questioning is quite limited
    Bill o Herlihy was regarded as a legend for leaving the actual analysis to the experts, so how is Rachel bad when she does similar ?


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    #1025
    Pretty fast
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    Magill46 wrote: »
    The whole family are a credit to themselves and the GAA. They are involved in everything with our club, Ballybay, and seek praise for nothing.

    Yes it is great to see. There is nothing like sport to break down these imaginary barriers that unfortunately plague this island.


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    #1026
    doc_17
    Registered Users Posts: 6,881 ✭✭✭doc_17


    seligehgit wrote: »
    I think he means she is very easy on the eye! Yeah her knowledge of our gaelic games is very limited to put it mildly.

    Just wanted him to confirm it!


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    #1027
    danganabu
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    doc_17 wrote: »
    Brilliant? How so? Think her reading of games and questioning is quite limited

    To be honest I have never heard a word she says :D


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    #1028
    doc_17
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    munchkin_utd wrote: »
    Bill o Herlihy was regarded as a legend for leaving the actual analysis to the experts, so how is Rachel bad when she does similar ?

    The analysis was always shi*e there though compared to Jim and Peter. People just watched it for the comedy gold it was and the late, great Bill lobbed in the grenades and watched the sparks fly.


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    #1029
    K-9
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    Moloney is safe though, Marty is more colourful.

    I thought the cliche about FF, the GAA and the Church was well known, the 3 pillar organisations in tradiitional rural Ireland, maybe better known in politics.

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    K-9
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    danganabu wrote: »
    How is their religous belief anyway relevant to the GAA??


    Ideally it shouldn't but it would be naive to dismiss it particularly in the 6 counties.

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    #1031
    seligehgit
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    timmyntc wrote: »
    I feel sorry for Rachel. She looks as though she's being held captive by the broadcasters and forced to star in coverage of some crappy B-list sports.

    Seriously though, she seems incredibly unenthused by it all, kind of undermines all the hard work the rest of the panel put in to their analysis.

    Not sure if I can stretch it so far as to feel sorry for her,SKY pay her salary and she can't cherrypick her role.I get the impression that her very visible lack of enthusiasm is a manifestation of her dislike for been forced to front coverage of what she perceives to be B list sports.


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    #1032
    Realt Dearg Sec
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    seligehgit wrote: »
    Not sure if I can stretch it so far as to feel sorry for her,SKY pay her salary and she can't cherrypick her role.I get the impression that her very visible lack of enthusiasm is a manifestation of her dislike for been forced to front coverage of what she perceives to be B list sports.

    I dunno, she used to (maybe still does) write an article in the Indo where she would hold forth about whatever sport she felt like that week, and very often wrote about hurling and football. You were never any the wiser about the sport after reading it if I'm honest. But to be honest, as a presenter I don't see the problem, knowing the sport inside out isn't her job, it's JJ Delaney's or Jim McGuinness's or whoever. Her job is to draw them out through interviewing skills. I think she does OK at it.

    It's a difficult job, we've all seen how bad it can be when someone sub-par is doing it, like when Pat Spillane took over presenting the Sunday Game. His knowledge wasn't much use to him then, because presenting is an art that has nothing to do with the sport. Darragh Moloney showed us how it should be done while Michael Lyster (who is also fantastic) was out sick. Des Cahill is a constant reminder of what can go wrong but he has his moments and genuinely conveys a love of the game too.

    Same with Marty in the commentating: he's not perfect but he captures the spirit and the enthusiasm for the game, there's a kind of innocence about Marty's love of a good match. I always find Ger Canning quite insincere in comparison. That might be unfair but, combined with how much he gets wrong and his constant use of a vocabulary that's totally alien to the sport ("looking for latitute", "look at that in reprise" etc etC), I just can't warm to him.


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    #1033
    citykat
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    danganabu wrote: »
    How is their religous belief anyway relevant to the GAA??

    How many GAA grounds are named after Catholic priests or bishops? How many of these same grounds (and club facilities) have been blessed by a Catholic priest only? Aren't GAA clubs based around Catholic parishes? The GAA and the Catholic church were/are hand in glove for years. There is no bar to any other religious playing GAA but you would be under no illusions as to the strong links between the two.


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    #1034
    mickmackey1
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    citykat wrote: »
    How many GAA grounds are named after Catholic priests or bishops? How many of these same grounds (and club facilities) have been blessed by a Catholic priest only? Aren't GAA clubs based around Catholic parishes? The GAA and the Catholic church were/are hand in glove for years. There is no bar to any other religious playing GAA but you would be under no illusions as to the strong links between the two.

    So? That was a response to 600 years of British imperialism. If you want to go back to that so be it, but I don't.


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    #1035
    citykat
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    mickmackey1 wrote: »
    So? That was a response to 600 years of British imperialism. If you want to go back to that so be it, but I don't.

    Dont worry I don't want to go anywhere. I dont think the Brits want us either so we're safe there. This is about non-catholics playing GAA of which there are very few.


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    #1036
    mickmackey1
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    citykat wrote: »
    This is about non-catholics playing GAA of which there are very few.

    I thought it was about the Sunday Game :pac:


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    #1037
    Jayop
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    K-9 wrote: »
    Ideally it shouldn't but it would be naive to dismiss it particularly in the 6 counties.

    Monaghan?? ;)


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    Pretty fast
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    Jayop wrote: »
    Monaghan?? ;)

    You couldn't resist. I was waiting for someone to say it. :pac:


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    #1039
    K-9
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    Jayop wrote: »
    Monaghan?? ;)


    Bit like Donegal I'd have thought.

    Used to live in an area that had significant other denominations and participation in GAA sports was minimal enough, not through malice or anything, just not being brought up with GAA in the household type stuff. Had some craic going to big Donegal matches though.

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    #1040
    BonnieSituation
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    Ah the Laggan!


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    #1041
    ColeTrain
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    K-9 wrote: »
    Moloney is safe though, Marty is more colourful.

    I thought the cliche about FF, the GAA and the Church was well known, the 3 pillar organisations in tradiitional rural Ireland, maybe better known in politics.

    The three boxes you need ticked to get to heaven - or so I've heard.


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    #1042
    Jayop
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    Pretty fast wrote: »
    You couldn't resist. I was waiting for someone to say it. :pac:

    I did have a flick though the other posts to see if someone else went there, but no, it had to be me.


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    #1043
    Pretty fast
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    Jayop wrote: »
    I did have a flick though the other posts to see if someone else went there, but no, it had to be me.

    I was teetering on the edge I was almost going to do it but I thought, nah, sure everyone knows what he means. You've made a real show of yourself here today pulling poor K-9 on such a trivial oversight. ;)


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    #1044
    Jayop
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    Pretty fast wrote: »
    I was teetering on the edge I was almost going to do it but I thought, nah, sure everyone knows what he means. You've made a real show of yourself here today pulling poor K-9 on such a trivial oversight. ;)

    I know. I feel like such a bollox now.

    Sorry K-9

    (if it wasn't a mod I wouldn't be apologising:pac:)


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    #1045
    DanielODonnell
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 652 ✭✭✭DanielODonnell


    Protestants wouldn't wish to play Gaelic games anyway as most of them wouldn't be of gaelic ancestry, it is not the Catholic priests, etc you need to worry about, it is how the GAA keeps closely associating itself with history that is wrong. Clubs names after medieval gaels like Clontibret O'Neills, Eoghan Rua and what not


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    #1046
    Realt Dearg Sec
    Registered Users Posts: 10,856 ✭✭✭✭Realt Dearg Sec


    DanielODonnell wrote: »
    Protestants wouldn't wish to play Gaelic games anyway as most of them wouldn't be of gaelic ancestry, it is not the Catholic priests, etc you need to worry about, it is how the GAA keeps closely associating itself with history that is wrong. Clubs names after medieval gaels like Clontibret O'Neills, Eoghan Rua and what not

    Yeah, that's not what bothers any protestant I've heard discussing the issue. It's the naming of teams and stadiums after nationalist figures of the modern era. And the sense they have that it is essentially a priest ridden organisation


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    #1047
    Jayop
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    Realt Dearg Sec wrote: »
    Yeah, that's not what bothers any protestant I've heard discussing the issue. It's the naming of teams and stadiums after nationalist figures of the modern era. And the sense they have that it is essentially a priest ridden organisation

    National anthem at games possibly?


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    #1048
    Realt Dearg Sec
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    Jayop wrote: »
    National anthem at games possibly?

    Yeah, any number of things could be listed before you'd hear any one complain about the use of medieval gaels' names.


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    #1049
    DanielODonnell
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 652 ✭✭✭DanielODonnell


    I never said that the names did bother the protestants but I am saying that they may feel that is not a part of their culture as the GAA seems to wish to keep itself strongly linked with irish history unlike other sports, could you imagine if the Ulster-Scots had a sport and it was strongly linked with Scotch-Irish history, would you wish to play it?


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    #1050
    Stoner
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    So I guess St OP/Eoghan Rua playing in Martin Savage park, just off the Martin Savage roundabout would be an issue. Such lack of vision. It's improving though. Everything it Oak view and Pine way now


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    #1051
    Realt Dearg Sec
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    Stoner wrote: »
    So I guess St OP/Eoghan Rua playing in Martin Savage park, just off the Martin Savage roundabout would be an issue. Such lack of vision. It's improving though. Everything it Oak view and Pine way now

    Good job I failed to have my son called Wolfe, might have held him back .

    What are you talking about?


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