The Sunday Game Thread

Realt Dearg Sec

Stoner wrote: »

Well so many GAA ground seems to have those names,including the road and parks the pitches are played on. It would be very difficuly to change. The GAA named the clubs but the roads and parks in the south share these names, even ifs they don't in the 6 counties.

Ah ok I get you (also took me a minute to realise what st op/er referred to even though I've been beaten on that ****ing park often enough!).

Anyway I dunno, gestures to include unionists or protestants in the gaa are progressing but there's still a perception there that it's linked, whether overtly or not, with expressions of nationalism. Some unionists won't ever change there mind, some might. seems like it's an exercise in crossing old barriers that's worth persuing anyway.

How did we get onto this from whinging about ger canning and slobbering about Rachel Wyse anyway?

Fr Tod Umptious

Apparently there are a lot of Protestants in my local club here in mid Kerry.

To be honest I've found it hard to spot them.

What should I be looking out for ?

Realt Dearg Sec

Fr Tod Umptious wrote: »

Apparently there are a lot of Protestants in my local club here in mid Kerry.

To be honest I've found it hard to spot them.

What should I be looking out for ?

An awkward hurling grip.

Jayop

Fr Tod Umptious wrote: »

Apparently there are a lot of Protestants in my local club here in mid Kerry.

To be honest I've found it hard to spot them.

What should I be looking out for ?

32.4% pointier.

K-9

Funny Belfast never had a good baseball team considering the amount of people who owned a baseball bat.

Jayop

K-9 wrote: »

Funny Belfast never had a good baseball team considering the amount of people who owned a baseball bat.

I'd say there's more hurls in Tyrone than in Kilkenny. No sliothers though.

Magill46

Jayop wrote: »

National anthem at games possibly?

I can't believe some of the stuff I've read here in the last few hours!

But anyway, back to the topic. Has anyone got any pictures of Rachel in her underwear?

Jayop

Magill46 wrote: »

I can't believe some of the stuff I've read here in the last few hours!

But anyway, back to the topic. Has anyone got any pictures of Rachel in her underwear?

I don't think that the possibility that some unionists would be put off attending or playing in GAA games in part because of the playing of the Irish Anthem in the north is that far fetched.



The real topic should be can we not get Natalie Saywer to take over from Weise?

Magill46

Jayop wrote: »

I don't think that the possibility that some unionists would be put off attending or playing in GAA games in part because of the playing of the Irish Anthem in the north is that far fetched.



The real topic should be can we not get Natalie Saywer to take over from Weise?

You made a jump there from Protestant to Unionist.

Jayop

Magill46 wrote: »

You made a jump there from Protestant to Unionist.

The two tend to go hand in hand in the north.

ProudDUB

Maybe its because I'm off my head on flu meds, but this thread is turning out to be far funnier than its supposed to be.

K-9

Picked a bad day to give up sniffing glue.

Dyr

Fr Tod Umptious wrote: »

Apparently there are a lot of Protestants in my local club here in mid Kerry.

To be honest I've found it hard to spot them.

What should I be looking out for ?

Disinclination to raise the ball off the ground

Dyr

K-9 wrote: »

Funny Belfast never had a good baseball team considering the amount of people who owned a baseball bat.

On the other hand a Belfast lad won the national javelin throw and he'd never even held a javelin before

Boom__Boom

Realt Dearg Sec wrote: »

An awkward hurling grip.

How are we Kerry folk supposed to recognise that? :pac:

Realt Dearg Sec

Boom__Boom wrote: »

How are we Kerry folk supposed to recognise that? :pac:

The left hand on top was always called the protestant grip where I'm from!

keeponhurling

Realt Dearg Sec wrote: »

The left hand on top was always called the protestant grip where I'm from!

Are you talking about holding a hurling stick or a hockey stick ?

Dyr

I know a protestant lad who calls hurling "catholic air hockey"

Realt Dearg Sec

keeponhurling wrote: »

Are you talking about holding a hurling stick or a hockey stick ?

I guess that's where the joke originated.

Radio5

Realt Dearg Sec wrote: »

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.

"Consternation". One word that sums up Ger Canning.

keeponhurling

If a shot has a lot of purchase on it, it can cause consternation

homerjay2005

Radio5 wrote: »

"Consternation". One word that sums up Ger Canning.

nonchalantly is the one that stands out for me. he uses it every single game.

Realt Dearg Sec

homerjay2005 wrote: »

nonchalantly is the one that stands out for me. he uses it every single game.

Less frequent: "with no little panache". The things that have been done on a hurling field with no little panache...

Oh, and "looking for latitude". Joe Canning* loves looking for latitude. Hope he finds it one day.

*(not a typo, Ger says it about Joe all the time)

dastardly00

If the lads don't award Cillian Buckley the MOTM I'll eat my hat, flag and headband.

dastardly00

Eddie is wearing a very nice suit!

Flukey

dastardly00 wrote: »

If the lads don't award Cillian Buckley the MOTM I'll eat my hat, flag and headband.

Do you want salt?

naughto

dastardly00 wrote: »

If the lads don't award Cillian Buckley the MOTM I'll eat my hat, flag and headband.

Start eating

dastardly00

dastardly00 wrote: »

If the lads don't award Cillian Buckley the MOTM I'll eat my hat, flag and headband.

^^^^^
Ah for feck sake lads!

TJ wins MOTM.

Dan Chipowski

In fairness that's a shocking MOTM decision. Buckley was the standout player today.

JeffKenna

No Joe Brolly eh....