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GAA people = Cavemen?

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  • 22-02-2015 2:21am
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    diusmr8a504cvk
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    Why are some GAA people so blind to reality and stupid?

    The typical higher up in a GAA club is a devoted Catholic, acts like every other sport other than Hurling and Football doesn't exist and if someone plays other sports and doesn't play a GAA sport then that sport is for "People who are no good at GAA". In my experience they refer to Rugby and especially Soccer as "The Queen's game" and seem to still be very butthurt over the whose Bloody Sunday event. They have also scheduled GAA training with Soccer training to make people sweat.

    I might let it be known that I play both Soccer and Gaelic games and enjoy both thoroughly and I probably spend more time watching GAA matches than Soccer, but in my experience the GAA higher ups are very medieval while the Soccer lads have always been very down to earth. I'm just stating my opinions so if you have any opinions or if you question anything I've said, please feel free to comment.


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    Cee-Jay-Cee
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    It's not GAA, its Gaaaaaaaaaa.


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    Aspiring
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    I've never experienced anything you've mentioned here in my 15 years playing GAA. You're talking about a very small minority of people as though every club is like that, which isn't the case.


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    jimgoose
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    Oook??


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    dreamers75
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    Fairly sure the OP is bang on.

    I refuse to let my kids play GAA as they a bunch of wankbags.


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    Chucken
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    Never in my life heard of anything called the queens game :confused:


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    diusmr8a504cvk
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    dreamers75 wrote: »
    Fairly sure the OP is bang on.

    I refuse to let my kids play GAA as they a bunch of wankbags.

    My opinion of the GAA has gotten worse and worse.


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    Pocaide
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    Trolling


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    diusmr8a504cvk
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    Another thing I might mention is that your second name matters in some areas, like mine.


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    diusmr8a504cvk
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    Pocaide wrote: »
    Trolling

    I'm not in fairness


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    Chucken
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    Cash Tall Loner wrote: »
    Another thing I might mention is that your second name matters in some areas, like mine.

    Of course it does!

















    Otherwise no one would now which Michael they were roaring at!


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    Pocaide
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    Oh yes you are.


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    DoYouEvenLift
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    Try playing for your local club for most of your life and then leaving, op. You will NEVER hear the end of it.


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    diusmr8a504cvk
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    Chucken wrote: »
    Of course it does!


    Otherwise no one would now which Michael they were roaring at!

    Hahahahahhahaha Comment of the thread award goes to.... This guy


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    Duckworth_Luas
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    Cash Tall Loner wrote: »
    Another thing I might mention is that your second name matters in some areas, like mine.
    My second name is Rupert.

    Now that you mention it nobody with that second name has ever played on the U13 camogie team.


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    bodice ripper
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    jimgoose wrote: »
    Oook??


    Jimgoose is the Librarian. I knew it.


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    diusmr8a504cvk
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    DoYouEvenLift wrote: »
    Try playing for your local club for most of your life and then leaving, op. You will NEVER hear the end of it.

    We are very similar people then, because I am trying to leave my club


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    Schwiiing
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    Worst in really small rural villages. The local Gaaliban get real pissy when you don't bow to the local minor county 'star'.


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    Chucken
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    Cash Tall Loner wrote: »
    Hahahahahhahaha Comment of the thread award goes to.... This guy


    I'm not a guy :(
    I'm an oldish lady, probably old enough to your grandmother...but I digress.

    My grandsons will have a difficult time on the hurling pitch I'd say. Lets just say their surname isnt Irish. ;)


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    jimgoose
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    bodice ripper wrote: »
    Jimgoose is the Librarian. I knew it.

    Somebody is going to pay dearly for that "Pongo" sign. I mean, just 'cos I was a fcukan full-back...


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    sabat
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    Chucken wrote: »
    Never in my life heard of anything called the queens game :confused:

    Garrison Games is the expression I've heard many times.

    Of course you should never mention to GAA heads that their football is an entirely artificial construct, manufactured purely to be something that wasn't English. The effects of this back-of-an-envelope rulebook can still be seen today as it's almost impossible to dispossess an opposition player without fouling them.


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    DoYouEvenLift
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    Cash Tall Loner wrote: »
    We are very similar people then, because I am trying to leave my club


    Hope you enjoy being hassled and asked at local pubs toilet urinals if you're coming back playing...5 years after you left.


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    diusmr8a504cvk
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    Chucken wrote: »
    I'm not a guy :(
    I'm an oldish lady, probably old enough to your grandmother...but I digress.

    My grandsons will have a difficult time on the hurling pitch I'd say. Lets just say their surname isnt Irish. ;)

    Well when I say surname, I'm talking about if they're uncles and fathers and grandfathers had the same second name then they'd try not to do anything that would affect that family


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    Chucken
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    Cash Tall Loner wrote: »
    We are very similar people then, because I am trying to leave my club

    Sure you're only a young fella. Can you not just hide on them? Or something?


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    diusmr8a504cvk
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    DoYouEvenLift wrote: »
    Hope you enjoy being hassled and asked at local pubs urinals if you're coming back playing...5 years after you left.

    Soul mates I'd say, we should PM the juicy details


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    johnny osbourne
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    come on the royal , up navan, up meath


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    Chucken
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    Cash Tall Loner wrote: »
    Well when I say surname, I'm talking about if they're uncles and fathers and grandfathers had the same second name then they'd try not to do anything that would affect that family

    Oh my grandsons will be 1st generation hurlers. No comparisons to be made.
    Shouting out their surname on the sideline will be funny though :D


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    diusmr8a504cvk
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    Chucken wrote: »
    Sure you're only a young fella. Can you not just hide on them? Or something?

    Please elaborate on this I don't understand haha


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    jimgoose
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    DoYouEvenLift wrote: »
    Hope you enjoy being hassled and asked at local pubs toilet urinals if you're coming back playing...5 years after you left.

    Hint: they're not talking about hurling or football.


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    Baby Jane
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    dreamers75 wrote: »
    I refuse to let my kids play GAA as they a bunch of wankbags.
    Pretty harsh to refuse to let children play a sport should they ever want to... and for a dubious reason ("they a bunch of wankbags").

    (I have no interest in GAA and never played it by the way).


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    Timmyctc
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    Ah the old, Stuck-at-home-on-a-Saturday-Night-Because-I'm-Too-Young-To-Go-Out-so-I-Make-Up-A-****-Attempt-At-a-troll-Thread thread.


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