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What are the best rivalries in the GAA?

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  • #152
    padd b1975
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,871 ✭✭✭✭padd b1975


    BonnieSituation wrote: »
    Duffy the Vampire Slayer wrote: »
    The Mayo-Roscommon rivalry around Ballaghaderreen is about as bitter as any in the country. It disappears once you drive far enough from the border though.

    I n fairness that's actually a very bitter rivalry full stop. The sheer dislike of Roscommon from Mayo people is astounding. and I never understood it when I was younger. I do now.
    That could be said for a few headbangers along the border.

    Most Mayo-and Galway-supporters look on Roscommon GAA with nothing more than scornful bemusement for the most part.

    They are the Scrappy-Doo of Connacht football.


  • #153
    PARlance
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,139 ✭✭✭✭PARlance


    Had the misfortune of getting to know a Rossie over a few games of golf last summer. He was just from just outside Ballagh. Pure Rossie though and he wouldn't let an opportunity pass to tell you.

    Next time I spotted him was when I was walking up a packed stairs of a local establishment after our replay defeat to the Dubs. There he was in all his glory, two pints, walking down towards me..... IN A FN MAYO JERSEY!!!

    And with a thick grin said "ye weren't at the races today" as he slobbered passed me and down the stairs.


  • #154
    seligehgit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,286 ✭✭✭seligehgit


    BonnieSituation wrote: »
    Ah, but while Ballagh is jurisdictionally within Roscommon you'll be hard pressed to find someone in Ballagh not wearing red and green.

    Sure, look at Andy Moran.

    You'll be hard pressed to find a Mayo person who recognises this unjust land grab.:D Ballagh GAA club lies proudly under the care of the Mayo County Board to this day.


  • #155
    BonnieSituation
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,088 ✭✭✭✭BonnieSituation


    seligehgit wrote: »
    You'll be hard pressed to find a Mayo person who recognises this unjust land grab.:D Ballagh GAA club lies proudly under the care of the Mayo County Board to this day.

    Sure don't I know it... the rest of the sentence says so. :P


  • #156
    danganabu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,277 ✭✭✭danganabu


    Rasputin11 wrote: »
    Knock v Killea in Mid Tipp Junior B hurling.

    I believe John Carroll is playing with Knock these days and winning games on his own!
    fyfe79 wrote: »
    I started reading this thread just now and was surprised at the lack of mentions of Tipp vs Kilkenny. Then I noticed that the thread was started in 2008 before the multitude of recent big games between the two had even been played. I think it's come to the fore in the last few years.

    A lot probably to do with the age profile on here and as you say the timing, the Tipp/KK rivalry goes back to the beginning of the last century, ironically enough it was always Tipp who had the upper hand of it back in the day, but that has quite dramatically been turned on its head.

    Tipp is a strange one because of the size of the county and the amount of hurling counties it shares a border with. I'm from North West of the county and Galway and Clare would always have been the 'enemy' to me, but down around Thurles etc it would be the cats and in the west of the county it would be Limerick.


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  • #157
    fyfe79
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,270 ✭✭✭fyfe79


    danganabu wrote: »
    A lot probably to do with the age profile on here and as you say the timing, the Tipp/KK rivalry goes back to the beginning of the last century, ironically enough it was always Tipp who had the upper hand of it back in the day, but that has quite dramatically been turned on its head.

    Tipp is a strange one because of the size of the county and the amount of hurling counties it shares a border with. I'm from North West of the county and Galway and Clare would always have been the 'enemy' to me, but down around Thurles etc it would be the cats and in the west of the county it would be Limerick.

    Yeah, depends on where you are in the county. In Clonmel we're obviously very close to Waterford. A lot of their fans would park up in town and hit the chippers following a successful showing in Thurles. Not too many of them around when they lose though - they usually head home without stopping. If they ever win the AI, jaysus...


  • #158
    BonnieSituation
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,088 ✭✭✭✭BonnieSituation


    fyfe79 wrote: »
    Yeah, depends on where you are in the county. In Clonmel we're obviously very close to Waterford. A lot of their fans would park up in town and hit the chippers following a successful showing in Thurles. Not too many of them around when they lose though - they usually head home without stopping. If they ever win the AI, jaysus...

    I was down in a friends in Clonmel for the SF replay and left for Dublin after the match.

    On the way home I saw the mass exodus from Thurles on the motorway. Northbound was empty.on the Motorway.


  • #159
    paul71
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,420 ✭✭✭paul71


    Football vs Hurling in Meath, just ask Gerry McEntee, plus they keep stealing our players and managers. Sean Boylan. :rolleyes:


  • #160
    Coillte_Bhoy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,956 ✭✭✭Coillte_Bhoy


    seligehgit wrote: »
    You'll be hard pressed to find a Mayo person who recognises this unjust land grab.:D Ballagh GAA club lies proudly under the care of the Mayo County Board to this day.

    Has been since Day 1. Was never under Rossie control


  • #161
    Coillte_Bhoy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,956 ✭✭✭Coillte_Bhoy


    ProudDUB wrote: »
    A lot of that is because there is actually a border "war"going on, due to an 18th century land grab. Some rich MP (John Dillon?) living in County A, wanted to pay the lower rates of County B, so he engaged in some under hand jiggerypokery to get the border moved. As you do ! It's not strictly a GAA rivalry.

    You can't say we Dubs don't know our history ! :D

    Yep you know your stuff, well almost, you are a century out :) It was 1898 when the local authority boundaries were redrawn. Oh and it's a GAA rivalry allright. Hate them with a passion.


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  • #162
    BonnieSituation
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,088 ✭✭✭✭BonnieSituation


    Coillte_Bhoy wrote: »
    Yep you know your stuff, well almost, you are a century out :) It was 1898 when the local authority boundaries were redrawn. Oh and it's a GAA rivalry allright. Hate them with a passion.

    That great piece of local government legislation also removed some councillors' powers. Good work all 'round.


  • #163
    Dyr
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,246 ✭✭✭✭Dyr


    naughto wrote: »
    And if he was still a rossie he wouldn't no what it's like to play lose in Crocker in sept

    fixed that for ya

    Ulster Team V Ulster Team

    Angry, angry people up there


  • #164
    ProudDUB
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,569 ✭✭✭✭ProudDUB


    Coillte_Bhoy wrote: »
    Yep you know your stuff, well almost, you are a century out :) It was 1898 when the local authority boundaries were redrawn. Oh and it's a GAA rivalry allright. Hate them with a passion.

    Well, when I say 18th Century, I mean it took place in the 1800's....ahem...


  • #165
    yop
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    ProudDUB wrote: »
    Well, when I say 18th Century, I mean it took place in the 1800's....ahem...

    Ha? The 18th century wasn't in the 1800's!

    1898 is in the 19th century!


  • #166
    ProudDUB
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,569 ✭✭✭✭ProudDUB


    I pay no mind to how the history teachers count time. :D


  • #167
    paul71
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,420 ✭✭✭paul71


    ProudDUB wrote: »
    I pay no mind to how the history teachers count time. :D

    You want a job keeping score in the Christy Ring final next year? ;)


  • #168
    ProudDUB
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,569 ✭✭✭✭ProudDUB


    No, I'm aiming a bit higher. I'm going to offer my services as a boxing judge. :rolleyes:


  • #169
    The_Kew_Tour
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 35,030 ✭✭✭✭The_Kew_Tour


    I have learned mayo v roscommon rivalary makes the Old Firm look like Brotherly love if this thread is anything to go by

    EVENFLOW



  • #170
    K-9
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,313 ✭✭✭✭K-9


    BonnieSituation wrote: »
    Dublin v Kerry (Say no more)
    Dublin v Meath (There is still nothing quite as spicy as a neighbouring rivalry)
    Dublin v Tyrone (They'll never get over 1995); I can't wait to play them in a final again. Should've been this year. :(
    Mayo v Kerry
    Mayo v Dublin
    Derry v Tyrone
    Donegal v Tyrone (It's new but it's good)
    Armagh v Tyrone

    KK v Tipp
    Cork vTipp
    KK v Cork (Back in the noughties there was nothing like this)

    Donegal Tyrone was always there, we just didn't play each other that often until 04 or so. We'd one going with Armagh at that time but they'd probably tell you it wasn't much because they nearly always won.

    Donegal Derry was pretty intense in the 90's.

    Mad Men's Don Draper : What you call love was invented by guys like me, to sell nylons.



  • #171
    K-9
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,313 ✭✭✭✭K-9


    Bambi wrote: »
    fixed that for ya

    Ulster Team V Ulster Team

    Angry, angry people up there

    Every county has 3 or 4 rivals. Fermanagh would see us their rivals when they really aren't on our radar, except for a few years a decade or so ago.

    But Derry Tyrone and Tyrone Armagh and now Donegal Tyrone are as good as any rivalry elsewhere.

    Mad Men's Don Draper : What you call love was invented by guys like me, to sell nylons.



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  • #172
    Duffy the Vampire Slayer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,384 ✭✭✭Duffy the Vampire Slayer


    'Oh I'd rather be a paki than a ross' as they sing in Ballaghaderreen.

    (Ballaghaderreen having a large Pakistani population and also a lot of racist idiots who would consider this to be funny.)


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