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
Bonniedog wrote: » 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.
castletownman wrote: » "Shure lookit...." followed by the most bog-standard of analysis. Urusla Jacob is particularly fond of that phrase.
1984baby wrote: » Ursula Jacob’s voice/accent actually grinds my ears!!
TCDStudent1 wrote: » 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.
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?
citykat wrote: » The momentum killers. A team is on a bit of a run mid game. Out of nowhere a lad goes down with an injury or a missing lens. Play gets stopped for a couple of minutes. Rinse and repeat until that momentum is finally killed.
blanch152 wrote: » 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.
beggars_bush wrote: » It's always a head injury they go down with No referee would want to get in trouble for not stopping play
wingbacknr5 wrote: » All seats in Croke Park costing the same whether they’re in the middle of the lower Hogan or in the nose bleed rows at the back of the upper Davin. In fairness €80 for an AI final central Hogan or Cusack ticket is excellent value if you can get one, but it boils my pi$$ to have to pay the same for the back row corner of the Davin top deck. Surely a fairer system would be to charge say €100 for the middle sections of the Hogan or Cusack and then decrease gradually back to €60 for the corners and behind the goal?
TCDStudent1 wrote: » In addition to this, I think the corners where the stands intersect are called Cusack / Hogan where they should be called Davin as they are more behind the goal than at the side.
castletownman wrote: » It would surely be feasible to have some sort of standards test for umpires, in the same way that referees at club level have to pass fitness parameters. I know it would be hard for a fella to say no to his dad or whatever, but its nepotism at its worst. Maybe even referees from the same county as the assigned ref or something to keep it neutral. I do think somewhere like Croker could have its own independent team of umpires, in much the same way that Wimbledon have qualified/experienced line judges.
threeball wrote: » This is a pet peeve of mine and a blatant attempt by the GAA to make tickets seem more appealing than they actually are. If they don't face directly to the side line they are not Cusack or hogan.
LoughNeagh2017 wrote: » The cultural and historical gate keeping that goes on between counties, maybe not uniquely a GAA thing but was made worse by the GAA, e.g. Meath thinking they are "the royal county" and things like that, I think the GAA attached itself to Irish history too much like naming clubs after saints and historical figures.
beggars_bush wrote: » A nationalistic and sporting organisation trying to attach itself to national and historic figures and places from the past? Surely not!
LoughNeagh2017 wrote: » Well is rugby not nationalistic in Wales but I'm sure you don't get most clubs named after a saint, Welsh historical figure or having old tribal crests used as a badge. It is even more silly when the GAA advertise the game in foreign countries and say "it's a game for all"
Bonniedog wrote: » I don't think the IRFU would be too anxious to commemorate its historical connections somehow! It's President was shot dead by Volunteers during the Easter rising in Dublin when out with the loyalist militia
LoughNeagh2017 wrote: The cultural and historical gate keeping that goes on between counties, maybe not uniquely a GAA thing but was made worse by the GAA, e.g. Meath thinking they are "the royal county" and things like that, I think the GAA attached itself to Irish history too much like naming clubs after saints and historical figures.
