Things that grind my gears

thegills · 15-07-2019 11:31PM

Lads taking 10 steps when in on goal. Whatever happened to 4 steps?

Edgware · 16-07-2019 09:39AM

Fann Linn wrote: »

Fans leaving their seats from the 29th minute on when when there are at least 6 mins left and normally 10. Sit the fcuk down clownheads.

If you think it is bad at GAA games take a trip to the Aviva for a rugby match. FFS they spend more time drawing up trays of pints and going to the toilet than watching the match

Edgware · 16-07-2019 09:40AM

thegills wrote: »

Lads taking 10 steps when in on goal. Whatever happened to 4 steps?

So many referees ignore this especially in hurling and then it ends up Goal of the Year.

rpurfield · 16-07-2019 10:06AM

John Horan getting near a mic or a journalist's tape recorder (or whatever they use now).

ArielAtom · 16-07-2019 10:20AM

Listening to pundit trapse out the same lame cliches to dirty play, laying down a marker, not going to be turned over, not going to be bullied etc. It BS of the highest order and generally defending one of thier own.

Canyon86 · 16-07-2019 10:23AM

I was at the hurling double header on sunday

I found it annoying when laois and tipp fans were arriving during the cork KK match,

they should wait for a break in play or half time,

caused chaos with fans looking for seats and seated fans trying to watch the game,

Coillte_Bhoy · 16-07-2019 04:36PM

Edgware wrote: »

If you think it is bad at GAA games take a trip to the Aviva for a rugby match. FFS they spend more time drawing up trays of pints and going to the toilet than watching the match

I like a pint and especially in the stadium before or at HT but this would drive me soft. I think the IRFU cant do anything until the catering/bar contracts are up. Hope it never comes into Croker. I go to a lot of Ireland games and you dont even notice the absence of drink, no issue at all

Poor_old_gill · 16-07-2019 07:17PM

ArielAtom wrote: »

Listening to pundit trapse out the same lame cliches to dirty play, laying down a marker, not going to be turned over, not going to be bullied etc. It BS of the highest order and generally defending one of thier own.

Lad hits other lad with sledgehammer in WWE style assault...

"They are showing that they are not going to be bullied this year"

If said team wins then all narratives will be about how they laid down a marker while if they lose then it will be about how they were out of control.

citykat · 16-07-2019 10:10PM

The 'music' in Croke park on matchday, deafening. What is the point of it? Is it supposed to add to the occasion? It has the opposite effect on me. As soon as tne minor was over on Sunday, the ape at the controls let rip on full volume. Disrespectful, arrogant, ignorant.

Bonniedog · 16-07-2019 10:25PM

citykat wrote: »

The 'music' in Croke park on matchday, deafening. What is the point of it? Is it supposed to add to the occasion? It has the opposite effect on me. As soon as tne minor was over on Sunday, the ape at the controls let rip on full volume. Disrespectful, arrogant, ignorant.

It is truly an abomination. If someone wants to listen to loud music then they can pop in their ear phones.

I suspect that it is a device to get people to go to the bars and concessions between games, and clear out quickly as soon as games are over. Even the celebrations at the end of finals are marred by this antisocial cr@p.

Who wants to hear a recording of The Rose of Mooncoin, or The Boys are Back in Town at the end of a match so they can't savour the occasion naturally?

beggars_bush · 16-07-2019 10:36PM

It is amazing how quickly croke park clears put after a final
Have they all a train to catch?
The majority of people at an AI final aren't from the two counties playing

TCDStudent1 · 17-07-2019 12:58AM

Bonniedog wrote: »

It is truly an abomination. If someone wants to listen to loud music then they can pop in their ear phones.

I suspect that it is a device to get people to go to the bars and concessions between games, and clear out quickly as soon as games are over. Even the celebrations at the end of finals are marred by this antisocial cr@p.

Who wants to hear a recording of The Rose of Mooncoin, or The Boys are Back in Town at the end of a match so they can't savour the occasion naturally?

When Limerick won the AI, I loved hearing the cranberries being belted out. I felt that added to the occasion in that instance.

StupidLikeAFox · 17-07-2019 01:29AM

All these convoluted structures trying to appease everybody.

Keep it simple - Div 1 and Div 2 teams go to a senior all Ireland and Div 3 and Div 4 go into an intermediate all ireland. Both of these would have 4 seeded round robin groups of 4, with knockout after. Provincial championship to be run as a straight knockout alongside the all Ireland as a separate competition.

At the start of the year every team is involved in 3 competitions - league, province and the AI competition for their grade. Every team has something to play for and are guaranteed 3 championship games at a minimum and a shot at their provincial trophy too. Smaller teams have a shot at an all Ireland, but not in a scenario of "maybe if we get knocked out of the province then we might go to a secondary competition, unless we get to the provincial final" crap.

It would be a proper level playing field (none of the imbalance of a teams journey through a tough province or backdoor route) and teams could set out clear goals for the year, knowing exactly what they need to do and who they need to beat.

The current system is mad, imagine playing for a mid level team - at the start of the year you don't know whether you are preparing for 2 games, 5 games, 8 games in the upcoming season depending on how you do in the province, backdoor or super 8s

robertpatterson · 17-07-2019 01:39AM

Tickets for the all Ireland finals going to all the clubs around the country
They should go to the clubs in the counties that are represented that day, if Louth and Antrim were in an all Ireland final their clubs should get the tickets any remaining can be offered elsewhere

Bonniedog · 17-07-2019 10:20AM

TCDStudent1 wrote: »

When Limerick won the AI, I loved hearing the cranberries being belted out. I felt that added to the occasion in that instance.

As a Galway person, do you mean that in a masochistic way?

That would be understandable, I suppose

castletownman · 17-07-2019 10:50AM

"Shure lookit...." followed by the most bog-standard of analysis. Urusla Jacob is particularly fond of that phrase.

harpsman · 17-07-2019 11:56AM

Poor_old_gill wrote: »

Refs giving 2 yellow cards when there is clearly an instigator and a guy defending himself.

So many of the top forwards have fallen foul to this over the years as their man has just started a row off the ball- see Connolly, donaghy and loads more.

It seems to form about 70% of lee Keegan planning for when he is marking someone

These days its often the forward instigating it as a yellow card for his marker is alot more dangerous than one for himself.

Particularly if Cillian O Connor is involved:)

Tell me how · 17-07-2019 12:08PM

The length of time to get to take frees in the last few minutes.
Some players are guilty of this the whole time but if most leading teams get a free near the end, it completely kills the flow of the game.

Is particularly annoying if the player has exagerrated contact to win it, then claims to be injured, then it takes up to a minute to kick it.

Infuriating. Final thing to push me over the edge is injured player recovering rapidly to sprint 50 yards to cut down the kick out.

harpsman · 17-07-2019 12:13PM

The black card rule, or how the rule is worded and applied.

If you give someone a little nudge after passing the ball in the middle of the field you get a black card(like john heslins), yet attempt to decapitate someone running through on goal you get a yellow card.

One girl singing, unaccompanied, a slowed down version of the national anthem.
Very uninspiring

harpsman · 17-07-2019 12:17PM

Tell me how wrote: »

The length of time to get take trees in the last few minutes.
Some players are guilty of this the whole time but if most leading teams get a free near the end, it completely kills the flow of the game.

Is particularly annoying if the player has exagerrated contact to win it, then claims to be injured, then it takes up to a minute to kick it.

Infuriating. Final thing to push me over the edge is injured player recovering rapidly to sprint 50 yards to cut down the kick out.

Not to mention refs taking a minute to book a player,when said player is trying to waste time and pretending to be surprised just to waste a bit longer.

Just flash the card and write down the number. You dont have to give a long winded explanation of every card to show what a great ref you are.

Bonniedog · 17-07-2019 12:19PM

harpsman wrote: »

One girl singing, unaccompanied, a slowed down version of the national anthem.
Very uninspiring

Another one!

The county secretary's niece doing an audition for Stars in their Eyes singing a Kazakh phonetic translation:

"Shove lift cunning all round the beam."

It's dreadful embarrassing insult. No wonder players pick their noses and bottoms during it before breaking away to perform star jumps before it ends.

Canyon86 · 17-07-2019 12:20PM

Coillte_Bhoy wrote: »

I like a pint and especially in the stadium before or at HT but this would drive me soft. I think the IRFU cant do anything until the catering/bar contracts are up. Hope it never comes into Croker. I go to a lot of Ireland games and you dont even notice the absence of drink, no issue at all

Agree totally,

I like a Pint before the game and after but im never too pushed about drinking when the match is on for a few reasons:

1) I d be only dying for a piss during the game if i was on the pints

2) paying 5/6euro for some watery piss heineken

no thanks

Coillte_Bhoy · 17-07-2019 12:27PM

Canyon86 wrote: »

Agree totally,

I like a Pint before the game and after but im never too pushed about drinking when the match is on for a few reasons:

1) I d be only dying for a piss during the game if i was on the pints

2) paying 5/6euro for some watery piss heineken no thanks

The lager is actually Carlsberg and its not too bad

Poor_old_gill · 17-07-2019 02:30PM

harpsman wrote: »

These days its often the forward instigating it as a yellow card for his marker is alot more dangerous than one for himself.

Particularly if Cillian O Connor is involved:)

I'll not disagree on that particular individual.

Coillte_Bhoy · 17-07-2019 02:41PM

Poor_old_gill wrote: »

Refs giving 2 yellow cards when there is clearly an instigator and a guy defending himself.

So many of the top forwards have fallen foul to this over the years as their man has just started a row off the ball- see Connolly, donaghy and loads more.

It seems to form about 70% of lee Keegan planning for when he is marking someone

Same as, drives me nuts. Someone started it.

blanch152 · 17-07-2019 03:16PM

robertpatterson wrote: »

Tickets for the all Ireland finals going to all the clubs around the country
They should go to the clubs in the counties that are represented that day, if Louth and Antrim were in an all Ireland final their clubs should get the tickets any remaining can be offered elsewhere

This is a difficult one.

I have a season ticket and get an All-Ireland ticket if Dublin get there. A friend who comes to nearly every game with me doesn't get one because he was too late for the season tickets and no new Dublin ones have been issued for the last six years. Should he get a ticket if Dublin get there?

Then, I was talking to a voluntary mentor from another Dublin club, and he was telling me that his club raffle their allocation among the voluntary mentors. Those lads (and lassies) give up their time twice a week year in year out on a voluntary basis for the club and never really get the chance to go to matches as a result. Sounded fair that they should get a chance for an All-Ireland, even if it isn't their team?

There are pros and cons to every method of ticket allocation.

Slattsy · 17-07-2019 03:22PM

The Guinness in Croke Park is awful.

Coillte_Bhoy · 17-07-2019 03:23PM

Slattsy wrote: »

The Guinness in Croke Park is awful.

Not surprised the way they pull it, i wouldn't touch it

Realt Dearg Sec · 17-07-2019 03:27PM

Coillte_Bhoy wrote: »

Slattsy wrote: »

The Guinness in Croke Park is awful.

Not surprised the way they pull it, i wouldn't touch it

And they're pulling it into a plastic glass. Might as well scoop some water straight out of the jacks.

Scoundrel · 17-07-2019 03:35PM

The constant fouling that is ignored in hurling to "let the game flow" and the relentless criticism of referees who apply the rules in hurling.

Things that grind my gears

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