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The GAA 'myth'

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  • #62
    OldMrBrennan83
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  • #63
    flas
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    FrancieBrady wrote: »
    Would 'weak management' not apply to a sporting organisation that has only managed to create a stadium that holds 7000 in a city the size of Cork?

    Could they not at this stage got another sporting organisation like Rugby to help them build somewhere decent if they can't muster the resources themselves?

    Personally I think it is a sign of strong secure management that can change it's mind and come up with a neat formula that shows off it's own sport too.

    I enjoy both sports btw, and my children play both codes, but I can never fail to be amazed at how little soccer has managed to achieve in the community in terms of infrastructure where it would be almost equal with GAA in terms of participation.


    "where it would be almost equal with GAA in terms of participation"... Why does this keep getting trotted out incorrectly? Football has a far higher participation rate in this country than the GAA, which encompasses both sports of hurling and gaelic football...


  • #64
    Donald Trump
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    Patww79 wrote: »
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    Ah to be fair to the poor man. By now he must feel entitled to be kept at that level of comfort. It would be cruel and unusual punishment to take it away from him now.


    The poor fella is not all there. He'd never be able to figure out what's going on and why all the money isn't flowing into his bank account every week just because


  • #65
    Donald Trump
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    flas wrote: »
    "where it would be almost equal with GAA in terms of participation"... Why does this keep getting trotted out incorrectly? Football has a far higher participation rate in this country than the GAA, which encompasses both sports of hurling and gaelic football...




    Soccer(ball)


    And it does in its hole


  • #66
    smelly sock
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    flas wrote: »
    "where it would be almost equal with GAA in terms of participation"... Why does this keep getting trotted out incorrectly? Football has a far higher participation rate in this country than the GAA, which encompasses both sports of hurling and gaelic football...
    Back this up.


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  • #67
    FrancieBrady
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,170 ✭✭✭✭FrancieBrady


    flas wrote: »
    "where it would be almost equal with GAA in terms of participation"... Why does this keep getting trotted out incorrectly? Football has a far higher participation rate in this country than the GAA, which encompasses both sports of hurling and gaelic football...

    Around here (border county town) I would guess it is 50/50.

    Unaware what the figure would be countrywide, and care less tbh. It is a significant number in both codes.


  • #68
    [Deleted User]
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    Richard Hillman wrote: »
    It's a cult-like fringe movement that are embedded into all sorts of state apparatus. Nowhere as near as popular as it's made out to be, despite lumping 2 sports together and claiming to be one.

    Between bitterness and delusion it's hard to see which has the upperhand in that post. Well, anyway, for an organisation so apparently marginal and unpopular its existence certainly has a unique ability to annoy all the right people/West Brits/Garrison Game lovers/Irish culture haters/erstwhile recruitment fodder from deprived urban areas for the British Army/Anglocentric cultural cringe fúcktards, God bless it.

    Long may the GAA and the idea of an independent sovereign culturally distinct Ireland continue amid all the sameness of Irish culture-hating Sky Sports watching knackers who would rejoice at the elimination of all Irish cultural distinctiveness from England.


  • #69
    Yamanoto
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    Deleted User wrote: »
    Between bitterness and delusion it's hard to see which has the upperhand in that post. Well, anyway, for an organisation so apparently marginal and unpopular its existence certainly has a unique ability to annoy all the right people/West Brits/Garrison Game lovers/Irish culture haters/erstwhile recruitment fodder from deprived urban areas for the British Army/Anglocentric cultural cringe fúcktards, God bless it.

    Long may the GAA and the idea of an independent sovereign culturally distinct Ireland continue amid all the sameness of Irish culture-hating Sky Sports watching knackers who would rejoice at the elimination of all Irish cultural distinctiveness from England.

    Your complete lack of even the merest hint of self-awareness is truly odd.

    Funny though.


  • #70
    Cork Boy 53
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    Deleted User wrote: »
    Between bitterness and delusion it's hard to see which has the upperhand in that post. Well, anyway, for an organisation so apparently marginal and unpopular its existence certainly has a unique ability to annoy all the right people/West Brits/Garrison Game lovers/Irish culture haters/erstwhile recruitment fodder from deprived urban areas for the British Army/Anglocentric cultural cringe fúcktards, God bless it.

    Long may the GAA and the idea of an independent sovereign culturally distinct Ireland continue amid all the sameness of Irish culture-hating Sky Sports watching knackers who would rejoice at the elimination of all Irish cultural distinctiveness from England.

    Seeing as how the GAA signed a deal with Sky Sports for broadcasting rights of GAA games, would they be included in your category of "Irish culture-hating Sky Sports watching knackers"?


  • #71
    [Deleted User]
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    Yamanoto wrote: »
    Your complete lack of even the merest hint of self-awareness is truly odd.

    Funny though.

    Ah Yamanoto. Speaking of people who are notably hostile to all aspects of Irish independence/ apologists for the British Empire...


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  • #72
    flas
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    smelly sock wrote: »
    Back this up.

    https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.balls.ie/amp/football/rugby-irelands-most-popular-sport-384546

    All the data is in that article from two different reports


  • #73
    OldMrBrennan83
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  • #74
    smelly sock
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    flas wrote: »
    https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.balls.ie/amp/football/rugby-irelands-most-popular-sport-384546

    All the data is in that article from two different reports


    Go easy. It doesnt include anyone under the the of 15.


  • #75
    JohnnyFlash
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    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    Between bitterness and delusion it's hard to see which has the upperhand in that post. Well, anyway, for an organisation so apparently marginal and unpopular its existence certainly has a unique ability to annoy all the right people/West Brits/Garrison Game lovers/Irish culture haters/erstwhile recruitment fodder from deprived urban areas for the British Army/Anglocentric cultural cringe fúcktards, God bless it.

    Long may the GAA and the idea of an independent sovereign culturally distinct Ireland continue amid all the sameness of Irish culture-hating Sky Sports watching knackers who would rejoice at the elimination of all Irish cultural distinctiveness from England.

    The GAA is on Sky Sports now, dude. Just saying.


  • #76
    Mutant z
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    Since when has playing hurling and gaelic football made anyone Irish what makes someone Irish is their Irish origins not which sports they play.


  • #77
    Yamanoto
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    Deleted User wrote: »
    Ah Yamanoto. Speaking of people who are notably hostile to all aspects of Irish independence/ apologists for the British Empire...

    Find a post of mine that demonstrates either of the above & we'll have a discussion Fuaranach.

    Before I'm accused of despising Irish culture too, look up posts on my love for Seamus Ennis & Willie Clancy - though as a Wolfe Tones fan, you may not have heard of those gents before. ;)


  • #78
    umop episdn
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    Mutant z wrote: »
    Since when has playing hurling and gaelic football made anyone Irish what makes someone Irish is their Irish origins not which sports they play.

    Lee Chin might disagree


  • #79
    OldMrBrennan83
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  • #80
    Mutant z
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    Why cant it be possible to follow any sport as you please without being called petty names because of it they are just games after all be that Soccer, GAA, Rugby etc why care about which ones or not someone watches or plays why cant you enjoy or not enjoy them all.


  • #81
    Mutant z
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    Patww79 wrote: »
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    No it isnt its simply a sport like any other much like soccer and cricket, naionality is not defined by what sports you play


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  • #82
    Zebra3
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    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    Between bitterness and delusion it's hard to see which has the upperhand in that post. Well, anyway, for an organisation so apparently marginal and unpopular its existence certainly has a unique ability to annoy all the right people/West Brits/Garrison Game lovers/Irish culture haters/erstwhile recruitment fodder from deprived urban areas for the British Army/Anglocentric cultural cringe fúcktards, God bless it.

    Long may the GAA and the idea of an independent sovereign culturally distinct Ireland continue amid all the sameness of Irish culture-hating Sky Sports watching knackers who would rejoice at the elimination of all Irish cultural distinctiveness from England.

    Serious contender for the most moronic post of the year.

    Well played.


  • #83
    [Deleted User]
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    Patww79 wrote: »
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    Yes, that's what is happening here. :rolleyes:

    Take a step back from the conspiracy theries and relax.

    There's not an orcestrated plan to destroy anything.


  • #84
    [Deleted User]
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    This topic has brought the bigots out of the woodwork anyway, that's for sure.


  • #85
    Zebra3
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    FrancieBrady wrote: »
    This is the kind of bitter nonsense that has been going on all week. Blinded by bitterness I would say.

    Contributions to community (of all sorts) are mentioned in pleas for leniency and in character references all the time.

    But you target only those that mention contributions to the GAA. :):)

    I mentioned it because all that happens in numerous cases is “he’s a member of the GAA”. He could be just sitting in a GAA pub skulking pints as opposed to volunteering which vast numbers of people do across the country.

    That sense of entitlement that being linked to the Gah is something that makes one superior to other members of society.


  • #86
    OldMrBrennan83
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  • #87
    FrancieBrady
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    Zebra3 wrote: »
    I mentioned it because all that happens in numerous cases is “he’s a member of the GAA”. He could be just sitting in a GAA pub skulking pints as opposed to volunteering which vast numbers of people do across the country.

    That sense of entitlement that being linked to the Gah is something that makes one superior to other members of society.

    Community involvement in anything will be metioned. I fear you are being fairly typically paranoid and selective and are only hearing what you want to hear.

    The GAA has as many rogues and upstanding members of the community as any organisation.


  • #88
    Stoner
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    Richard Hillman wrote:
    Another overplayed one is "all of the money earned by the GAA, goes back into the GAA". I'm pretty sure that's the same for every sport.


    ?
    It pays the players in many cases


  • #89
    TheAnalyst_
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    There are quite a few pro GAA players now. Its a weird setup as their teams are not even setup as full time pro.


  • #90
    alaimacerc
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    Patww79 wrote: »
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    Seems like a convenient preference, right enough.


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  • #91
    ozzy jr
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    trashcan wrote: »
    but even I have to admit that they get crowds that LOI football could only dream of.

    Not at club level they don't.


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