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Worst sledging you have received or heard on a gaa pitch?

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  • #32
    tomwaterford
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,768 ✭✭✭✭tomwaterford


    Powerhouse wrote: »
    But if it's true and has been referenced in a book already (which presumably was not the subject of a libel case) then why not name the player?
    .

    Iirc the player wasn't named in the book??


    I have already stated Idk if the slur was true....just stated most famous time I've heard it being used


  • #33
    Powerhouse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,428 ✭✭✭Powerhouse


    the_pen_turner wrote: »
    where do you draw the line. I heard the story several times and once by someone who was there and would know.
    what more can I do to make it 100%

    Happily, knowing where to draw the line was easy in this case. Stick to the title of the thread.


  • #34
    the_pen_turner
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,692 ✭✭✭the_pen_turner


    Powerhouse wrote: »
    I never mentioned my own posts, nor vetting or references. However, I am happy to discuss my posts by PM with you if you are that interested in them.

    My issue is not that your posts are "off topic" - you can come on here and discuss Chinese music for all I care. I just think that spreading rumours about alleged nasty incidents does not reflect well on posters. It's what Eamon Sweeney memorably called 'rats feeding at the effluent pipe' when he spoke of GAA discussion boards. I see no value in it, though I realise I am probably in a minority.

    I'm not one for starting of spreading rumours . but this is diferent . I have heard it first hand


  • #35
    Professor Moriarty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,392 ✭✭✭✭Professor Moriarty


    the_pen_turner wrote: »
    are we aver truly 100% certain about anything that we didn't experience .

    Cogito ergo sum, as I used to say to the corner back who was marking me.


  • #36
    Powerhouse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,428 ✭✭✭Powerhouse


    tomwaterford wrote: »
    Iirc the player wasn't named in the book??


    I have already stated Idk if the slur was true....just stated most famous time I've heard it being used


    Ah sure whatever. It's just hearsay so irrespective of what book it appeared in. But like I said already, it's probably just me..............many people thrive on a good nasty rumour.


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  • #37
    Powerhouse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,428 ✭✭✭Powerhouse


    Professor Moriarty wrote: »
    Cogito ergo sum, as I used to say to the corner back who was marking me.

    But did that corner back actually exist?


  • #38
    Nekarsulm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,293 ✭✭✭✭Nekarsulm


    Well this thread soon went to st!t. Thanks, you two.


  • #39
    Powerhouse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,428 ✭✭✭Powerhouse


    the_pen_turner wrote: »
    I'm not one for starting of spreading rumours . but this is diferent . I have heard it first hand

    You said in another post you never hurled...................now you're saying you were on the pitch as you heard the comment being made first-hand. I think we'll leave it there.


  • #40
    bucketybuck
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,066 ✭✭✭✭bucketybuck


    Powerhouse wrote: »
    You said in another post you never hurled...................now you're saying you were on the pitch as you heard the comment being made first-hand. I think we'll leave it there.

    You have 11/40 posts in this thread and every one of them thread****ting.


  • #41
    the_pen_turner
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,692 ✭✭✭the_pen_turner


    Powerhouse wrote: »
    You said in another post you never hurled...................now you're saying you were on the pitch as you heard the comment being made first-hand. I think we'll leave it there.

    yes I heard the story first hand not the comment

    anyway I'm done with the trolling nonscience


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  • #42
    flatty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,234 ✭✭✭flatty


    Never had any sledging tbh. I'm likely not good enough to bother.


  • #43
    Are Am Eye
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,166 ✭✭✭Are Am Eye


    Around about the time people started getting sent off for giving someone a box was the beginning of slow and gradual rise of the chat.


  • #44
    tomwaterford
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,768 ✭✭✭✭tomwaterford


    Powerhouse wrote: »
    Ah sure whatever. It's just hearsay so irrespective of what book it appeared in. .

    OK. ..so no proof will suffice for you?


  • #45
    Powerhouse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,428 ✭✭✭Powerhouse


    tomwaterford wrote: »
    OK. ..so no proof will suffice for you?

    I don't need any proof. What difference does it make to me who might have said what years ago? I am simply calling your bluff to show that you cannot back up the story which potentially reflects badly on a small number of Waterford players (county is irrelevant too) namely those who are "famous" (as you described it) and would have been in the vicinity of Anthony Daly on the pitch.

    It would not take Sherlock Holmes to come up with a shortlist and I think players deserve better than to have their names indirectly traduced on such a forum especially after such a passage of time. That's where I'm coming from. I look for a reasonable amount of direct evidence because I know it's probably the one thing you cannot provide and I would hope that reflects badly on the rumours you spread.


  • #46
    Powerhouse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,428 ✭✭✭Powerhouse


    the_pen_turner wrote: »
    yes I heard the story first hand not the comment

    anyway I'm done with the trolling nonscience

    Interesting Freudian slip there. Non-science indeed.


  • #47
    tomwaterford
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,768 ✭✭✭✭tomwaterford


    Powerhouse wrote: »
    I don't need any proof. What difference does it make to me who might have said what years ago? I am simply calling your bluff to show that you cannot back up the story which potentially reflects badly on a small number of Waterford players (county is irrelevant too) namely those who are "famous" (as you described it) and would have been in the vicinity of Anthony Daly on the pitch.

    It would not take Sherlock Holmes to come up with a shortlist and I think players deserve better than to have their names indirectly traduced on such a forum especially after such a passage of time. That's where I'm coming from. I look for a reasonable amount of direct evidence because I know it's probably the one thing you cannot provide and I would hope that reflects badly on the rumours you spread.

    Tbf your coming across as someone who,unless I was on the pitch that day with a tape recorder....wouldn't believe me anywayz

    (If anything your coming across as wanting to call lad what told me a liar?)



    As I've said I've no reason to disbelieve what I've heard (and yes i did hear the name and complete circumstances,what lead to it) and am regretablly unwilling to liable myself/have a big enough ego to please you


  • #48
    Duffy the Vampire Slayer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,384 ✭✭✭Duffy the Vampire Slayer


    I heard racist abuse towards Pakistani players a few times as a young lad.


  • #49
    Powerhouse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,428 ✭✭✭Powerhouse


    tomwaterford wrote: »
    Tbf your coming across as someone who,unless I was on the pitch that day with a tape recorder....wouldn't believe me anywayz

    (If anything your coming across as wanting to call lad what told me a liar?)

    As I've said I've no reason to disbelieve what I've heard (and yes i did hear the name and complete circumstances,what lead to it) and am regretablly unwilling to liable myself/have a big enough ego to please you

    I'm sure you have no reason to disbelieve it. But you are spreading the story on a public forum which requires (or at least should) a bit more than your own personal conviction. I don't doubt that you firmly believe it to be the case but I don't see the value in spreading the story if you cannot give it any more credibility. I just think it is unfair on all players concerned.


  • #50
    Biggest lickspittle on boardz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 558 ✭✭✭Biggest lickspittle on boardz


    Powerhouse wrote: »
    You said in another post you never hurled...................now you're saying you were on the pitch as you heard the comment being made first-hand. I think we'll leave it there.

    Great work, Miss Marple. Now is there any chance you might hold off boring everyone to death with your tedious self-importance so that this thread can resume?

    Because that would be just great. :rolleyes:

    As for me, I have personally witnessed plenty of racial abuse in GAA games, along with dirty digs about family members etc. There was one young traveller lad who just wanted to keep his head down and play for our team, he got awful abuse in particular.

    You can argue all you want about this, but when you scratch the surface, the GAA has more in common with the ugly behaviour of British football hooligans than you might want to believe.

    Of course there are many decent people in the GAA, but the knuckledraggers have a lot of influence on the culture within.
    The bottom line is that this kind of behaviour is openly tolerated by the GAA, if not blatantly encouraged in certain circles.


  • #51
    Bonniedog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,665 ✭✭✭Bonniedog


    Mouthing has always gone on, with players giving back and forth, but the calculated researched stuff about family deaths, and so on is a more recent innovation. Some players, and I suspect managements, expend considerable time and effort in securing information designed to hurt and therefore throw an opponent off his game. As others have said some of the stories are urban or rural legend, but some of the worse cases have certainly taken place.

    Keaveney told a story about playing Offaly in the 70s when Mick Wright called him an "oul fish and chip man." Keaveney actually sounded annoyed about it years and years later! Innocent times

    Worst thing ever said to me in my declining years - okay perhaps they were all declining years!- was chap I was marking asking me had I missed the bingo bus :)


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  • #52
    bruschi
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 4,149 Mod ✭✭✭✭bruschi


    that "hanging" quip I have heard attributed to at least 4 different players and teams now, this new one being the 5th one. Most recently was Galvin to Noel O'Leary, and as it goes, "hows the brother hanging?". It ends up being one of these urban legends after so many repetitions of the same story without any factual basis to back it up.

    Personally, I never really got much. Recently, one young chap, who played co minor, slagged me in a junior B game we were beating them in calling me fat. I started laughing and said of course I'm fat, this is junior B, what the hell is a young lad like you doing playing junior with all the aul fat lads?

    on the flip side, I remember one of my first junior games, was 15 at the time, fresh out running all over the place. Lad marking me kicked the absolute crap out of my legs turning me over. I squared up and said what the hell are you at. "I'm too old to be running around after you all day" was the response. I learned my lesson quick, if you are going to be running around, dont be near them when you do it!


  • #53
    Powerhouse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,428 ✭✭✭Powerhouse


    bruschi wrote: »
    that "hanging" quip I have heard attributed to at least 4 different players and teams now, this new one being the 5th one. Most recently was Galvin to Noel O'Leary, and as it goes, "hows the brother hanging?". It ends up being one of these urban legends after so many repetitions of the same story without any factual basis to back it up.


    Yeah, that's the other side of it which make stuff even less believable - the recycling of the same old yarns. But as we have seen looking for a factual basis to back up stories up is not something everyone likes.


  • #54
    Powerhouse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,428 ✭✭✭Powerhouse


    Biggest lickspittle on boardz wrote: »

    Now is there any chance you might hold off boring everyone to death with your tedious self-importance so that this thread can resume?


    You claim to speak for everyone and you think I'm self-important? :cool:


  • #55
    Stationmaster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 997 ✭✭✭Stationmaster


    Powerhouse, any chance you'd just shut up and let everyone else enjoy the thread?

    I played a good bit for years and never really heard much to be honest. I was spat at once in an u21 game. Will never forget it and I was dumbfounded that someone would even think to stoop so low. Your man was a scumbag and I had a nice little smile to myself when I read in the local paper about 15 years later that he was sentenced to 3 months in prison for assault in town one night. He hadn't changed much obviously.

    Another thing that did happen me though which really left me struggling as to what to do (apologies for going slightly off topic) was when I was playing soccer years ago (about 20 years ago at this stage I'd say) and I was playing centre half. Now I was your typical hurler trying to play soccer - no great skill but I loved fu$kin tackling. Anyway, I was marking this coloured guy who was fair nippy. After cutting him in two in a few tackles he starts roaring out ' why you being racist mate' and 'you're only tackling me like that cause I'm black' etc and kept it up all match. Told him I couldn't give a **** what he looked like and that I'd tackle anyone the same but he wouldn't let up and kept shouting it. Felt really awkward.


  • #56
    dobman88
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,623 ✭✭✭dobman88


    Stationmaster wrote: »
    Powerhouse, any chance you'd just shut up and let everyone else enjoy the thread?

    I played a good bit for years and never really heard much to be honest. I was spat at once in an u21 game. Will never forget it and I was dumbfounded that someone would even think to stoop so low. Your man was a scumbag and I had a nice little smile to myself when I read in the local paper about 15 years later that he was sentenced to 3 months in prison for assault in town one night. He hadn't changed much obviously.

    Another thing that did happen me though which really left me struggling as to what to do (apologies for going slightly off topic) was when I was playing soccer years ago (about 20 years ago at this stage I'd say) and I was playing centre half. Now I was your typical hurler trying to play soccer - no great skill but I loved fu$kin tackling. Anyway, I was marking this coloured guy who was fair nippy. After cutting him in two in a few tackles he starts roaring out ' why you being racist mate' and 'you're only tackling me like that cause I'm black' etc and kept it up all match. Told him I couldn't give a **** what he looked like and that I'd tackle anyone the same but he wouldn't let up and kept shouting it. Felt really awkward.

    You didn't kick him hard enough. Had the same situation playing against a black lad. Called us racists. Few digs to the kidneys and a couple of ankle breakers later had him on the bench. He begged to be subbed.

    Haven't really ever had anything too bad said to me. Normal stuff like them saying they would ride my sister or whatever.

    The thing I like to do is rub tiger balm on my hands before the game and as the first corner is coming in rub it in my opponents eyes so he can't see and most of the time they need to go off. Only ever did this to lads that I thought got the better of me in a previous game so I'd get my own back like that.


  • #57
    Radiant Cool Crazy Nightmare
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 241 ✭✭Radiant Cool Crazy Nightmare


    Like most I have no bothers playing hurling or football hard but fair. Never had much of it in hurling but one day was playing full forward in football, full back in my ear the whole game about how **** I was (he wasnt wrong), enter the last minute and I ended up scoring a goal that won us the game by a point. Oh how I celebrated in that knobheads face at the final whistle, one of the few times I wouldnt shake a markers hand either at full time. He was a prick.


  • #58
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    dobman88 wrote: »
    You didn't kick him hard enough. Had the same situation playing against a black lad. Called us racists. Few digs to the kidneys and a couple of ankle breakers later had him on the bench. He begged to be subbed.

    Haven't really ever had anything too bad said to me. Normal stuff like them saying they would ride my sister or whatever.

    The thing I like to do is rub tiger balm on my hands before the game and as the first corner is coming in rub it in my opponents eyes so he can't see and most of the time they need to go off. Only ever did this to lads that I thought got the better of me in a previous game so I'd get my own back like that.

    You sound like a dirtbag tbh

    I've never had anything said to me in any sport thank god, playing against scumbags who stoop to that would really take the good out of it for me.


  • #59
    danganabu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,277 ✭✭✭danganabu


    VONSHIRACH wrote: »
    A Galway pal alleges that one of the "tough" dudes on the Tipp team of 89-91 greeted a Galway player on the field with the words " nice day for a hanging". Galway player's sibling had passed away. Absolute low life if true and shameful behaviour.
    the_pen_turner wrote: »
    I'm from tipp . I can tell you its probably true. iv heard it several times

    if I had lost a brother to suicide the week before by hanging and someone said that to me I think I would blow a fuse and go mad

    Said allegation has been repeatedly denied by both parties invlolved, as has the counter claim that the Galway player made refernernce to the Tipp player living in a caravan or something similar.

    The 'rivalry' back then between the two counties was absolutely poisionous and went far beyond healthy rivalry, thankfully it doesnt exist to the same extent anymore.


  • #60
    Water John
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    A lot of intercounty players would have played with each other in diff colleges etc. So I think it occurs more at local level. Should be classed as abuse, and not tolerated by refs or coaches. Now slagging a guy is diff. Know the diff is important.


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  • #61
    FullBack Jam
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    Powerhouse wrote: »
    You claim to speak for everyone and you think I'm self-important? :cool:

    Oh, he speaks for EVERYONE alright. I was casually throwing an eye over the Boards forums. Came across this new thread, and with 4 pages. Thought to myself, that's my lunchbreak taken care off. Had I known half of the posts were what you posted, I wouldn't have bothered. I'd take a good sledging any day ahead of that drivel.

    Played for 25 years at adult level football, but don't think I ever had a proper insult thrown at me. Boring, I know. I sheepishly remember some game when I was younger, and I was marking a speedy guy. I tried to give him a little punch in the belly to slow him down, but it was against my nature, and was lame. He laughed at me, and told me to stop being such a woman. He was 100% spot on. I just stood there in embarrassment. Not a sledging incident I know, but I have nothing else.


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