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blue note · 22-09-2016 11:12AM

Well I play Junior F hurling and I often wonder why I'm not getting paid for it. But now that I've read this thread I realise it's corruption from the big wigs in Croke Park. Here I am working 9-5 when if life was fair I'd have been paid a few hundred quid for going training last night.

ryaner777 · 22-09-2016 11:17AM

blue note wrote: »

Well I play Junior F hurling and I often wonder why I'm not getting paid for it. But now that I've read this thread I realise it's corruption from the big wigs in Croke Park. Here I am working 9-5 when if life was fair I'd have been paid a few hundred quid for going training last night.

Must have a decent junior team if you're still training in late september ?

Yamanoto · 22-09-2016 12:19PM

feargale wrote: »

This anti-GAA thing emanates for the most part from money made from wartime blackmarketeering and profiteering by unpatriotic grabbers, money inherited by the parents of Ross O'Carroll-Kelly types and used to fund the"education" of the latter in posh schools, where they generally fail the Leaving Cert, that being no problem since they can walk into a job in Daddy's business.

All kinds of odd on display right there.

blue note · 22-09-2016 12:49PM

ryaner777 wrote: »

Must have a decent junior team if you're still training in late september ?

Matches scheduled until the end of October regardless of quality of the team. But yes, I'd say very decent!

paleoperson · 22-09-2016 12:51PM

Realt Dearg Sec wrote: »

What in the name of God are you rambling on about?

Continually receiving money means there's bound to be an influence. If they're not formally designated as semi-state they maybe they should be. Otherwise it's like investing big-time in a company and not only do you not ever get the money back, you don't even get a say in how it's run.

http://www.the42.ie/sport-ireland-gaa-fai-irfu-investment-2876023-Jul2016/
http://www.the42.ie/jerry-kiernan-gaa-1380369-Mar2014/
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/opinion/letters/gaa-shouldnt-receive-funding-from-taxpayers-34518573.html

But okay, it was incorrect of me to state semi-state, it doesn't make the GAA better not to be.

Realt Dearg Sec · 22-09-2016 01:43PM

paleoperson wrote: »

Continually receiving money means there's bound to be an influence. If they're not formally designated as semi-state they maybe they should be. Otherwise it's like investing big-time in a company and not only do you not ever get the money back, you don't even get a say in how it's run.

http://www.the42.ie/sport-ireland-gaa-fai-irfu-investment-2876023-Jul2016/
http://www.the42.ie/jerry-kiernan-gaa-1380369-Mar2014/
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/opinion/letters/gaa-shouldnt-receive-funding-from-taxpayers-34518573.html

But okay, it was incorrect of me to state semi-state, it doesn't make the GAA better not to be.

Forgive me if I don't take anything you say seriously, is just that you sound like you haven't the faintest idea what it is you're complaining about.

Realt Dearg Sec · 22-09-2016 01:44PM

howiya wrote: »

Semi state? Does this mean the GAA could be on strike for the replay?

No, Cork aren't in it.

22-09-2016 01:47PM

paleoperson wrote: »

But okay, it was incorrect of me to state semi-state, it doesn't make the GAA better not to be.

Wonderful wronglish.

Hammer Archer · 22-09-2016 01:55PM

This thread shows up
Every.
Feckin.
Year.

paleoperson · 22-09-2016 04:59PM

Realt Dearg Sec wrote: »

Forgive me if I don't take anything you say seriously, is just that you sound like you haven't the faintest idea what it is you're complaining about.

Don't mind your "Forgive me if", I never specifically asked you anything. If you can't say things in a straightforward way then you shouldn't expect people to take you seriously.

ohnonotgmail · 22-09-2016 05:04PM

paleoperson wrote: »

Don't mind your "Forgive me if", I never specifically asked you anything. If you can't say things in a straightforward way then you shouldn't expect people to take you seriously.

let me help by saying things in a straightforward way. you're talking nonsense.

22-09-2016 09:19PM

paleoperson wrote: »

...itwas incorrect of me to state semi-state, it doesn't make the GAA better not to be.

= set up and

paleoperson wrote: »

If you can't say things in a straightforward way...

= punchline.

The flying mouse · 22-09-2016 09:44PM

Up down

Realt Dearg Sec · 23-09-2016 12:28AM

paleoperson wrote: »

Don't mind your "Forgive me if", I never specifically asked you anything. If you can't say things in a straightforward way then you shouldn't expect people to take you seriously.

Then please, in a straightforward way, what the hell are you talking about? Your last post made as little sense as the one before it. Or is it more likely that you don't have a clue what you're talking about, but didn't want that to get in the way of a good rant?

Fianna Fowl · 23-09-2016 12:51AM

"What a sad era when it is easier to smash an atom than a prejudice."

Some famous lad

Cookie_Monster · 23-09-2016 04:39AM

why is there a replay even, if not for money grabbing reasons?
Finish it on the day like any other sport...

Dirty Dingus McGee · 23-09-2016 05:40AM

Cookie_Monster wrote: »

why is there a replay even, if not for money grabbing reasons?
Finish it on the day like any other sport...

they have replays in the FA cup.

There have always been replays going back a long way.

I personally think for a big game they are a better option as I'd prefer to not have the final decided by fatigue.The players prepare to play for 70 minutes and the game should not be potentially decided by which team expended less energy in the 70 minutes.

23-09-2016 06:19AM

Cookie_Monster wrote: »

why is there a replay even, if not for money grabbing reasons?
Finish it on the day like any other sport...

Because it is fairer than extra time, overtime, penalties, first touchdown, super overs etc. Usually introduced for logistic or tv reasons...

23-09-2016 06:52AM

Cookie_Monster wrote: »

why is there a replay even, if not for money grabbing reasons?
Finish it on the day like any other sport...

More pathetic attempts by the same bitter "Grab All Association" clichéd cultural cringe drones with records on this website of steadfastly opposing anything that is culturally Irish, with the GAA and language being invariably at the top of their list. How dare the GAA supposedly not be "like any other [English, of course] sport". Irish difference. The "crime", as always, right there. Pathetic.

Long live GAA replays

Jesus. · 23-09-2016 07:06AM

Cookie_Monster wrote: »

why is there a replay even, if not for money grabbing reasons?Finish it on the day like any other sport...

Because the fans prefer it. Ever think of that?

feargale · 23-09-2016 01:37PM

Cookie_Monster wrote: »

why is there a replay even, if not for money grabbing reasons?
Finish it on the day like any other sport...

Terrible to see you discommoded like this, having to go to Croke Park twice in September, not to talk of the strain on your pocket.
These replays must have cost you a fortune over the years.

BPKS · 23-09-2016 01:43PM

This Grab All Association thing people come out with the whole time, can I point out:

For my kids to go to 4 senior championship games this year it cost:

€0 for the 1st game (there were two games on that day)
€5 each for the second game (there were two games on that day)
€5 each for the third game (there were 3 games on that day and free entry to the GAA museum)
€5 each for the third game (there were 2 games on that day and free entry to the GAA museum).

So €30 for 2 kids for them to watch 9 games and go to the museum twice.

Greedy b@stards.

Realt Dearg Sec · 23-09-2016 01:58PM

BPKS wrote: »

This Grab All Association thing people come out with the whole time, can I point out:

For my kids to go to 4 senior championship games this year it cost:

€0 for the 1st game (there were two games on that day)
€5 each for the second game (there were two games on that day)
€5 each for the third game (there were 3 games on that day and free entry to the GAA museum)
€5 each for the third game (there were 2 games on that day and free entry to the GAA museum).

So €30 for 2 kids for them to watch 9 games and go to the museum twice.

Greedy b@stards.

But something something taxpayers, something corruption, something something replays. Wake up sheeple!

seamus · 23-09-2016 02:16PM

Dirty Dingus McGee wrote: »

I personally think for a big game they are a better option as I'd prefer to not have the final decided by fatigue.The players prepare to play for 70 minutes and the game should not be potentially decided by which team expended less energy in the 70 minutes.

Well that's it. When you look at the European champs just gone, it's disappointing to see 120 minutes of hard work reduced to nothing more than who can spot-kick the best; a mixture of luck, skill and nerve. You could have done that at the start and not wasted the previous two hours.*

Even the Euro final coming down to a single goal in extra time is kind of disappointing; it's a matter of who's not dead on their feet.

Jesus. wrote: »

Because the fans prefer it. Ever think of that?

Indeed. Another excuse for a few pints and shouting at a game for 70 minutes. The craic.

Especially the shambles that was last Sunday, the fans of neither team would have felt very good about a win or a loss. A draw at the very least lets both teams acknowledge they were a big pile of gank and try again for reals.

blue note · 23-09-2016 02:23PM

seamus wrote: »

Especially the shambles that was last Sunday, the fans of neither team would have felt very good about a win or a loss. A draw at the very least lets both teams acknowledge they were a big pile of gank and try again for reals.

I think the either set of fans would have felt just fine about a win. I think if the mayo fans won because the dubs were late due to traffic they'd take it!

ohnonotgmail · 23-09-2016 02:24PM

blue note wrote: »

I think the either set of fans would have felt just fine about a win. I think if the mayo fans won because the dubs were late due to traffic they'd take it!

its probably the only chance they have in the replay.

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