GAA Clichés you despise

brokenbad · 20-01-2023 01:04PM #1

Ok guys - first post here. Thought i'd start off with something that irritates you such as overused GAA clichés you read and hear everywhere. Here's my tuppence worth....

"He's a true Gael!"

"He was one of the greats!"

"He's some baller!"

"He left nothing on the pitch!"

"He is a prominent member of the local GAA club and a pillar of the community" - usually referenced during court cases as a plea for leniency....

pappyodaniel · 20-01-2023 01:08PM

"The Kerrys, the Tyrones and Mayos of this world"

Or

"The Henry Shefflins, the DJ Careys and the TJ Reids of this world"

Like there's more than of them

RebelButtMunch · 20-01-2023 01:09PM

'Hon the lads!

YabaDabaDooley · 20-01-2023 01:38PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120133688#Comment_120133688

Good call. Don't know how long exactly this nonsense is being spouted but seems a fair while. So many pundits are it. It's awful. I throw my eyes to heaven and my ears to hell when i hear it.

brokenbad · 20-01-2023 03:12PM

"Great day for the parish"

brokenbad · 20-01-2023 03:31PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120133690#Comment_120133690

Always wince when i hear some numbskull behind me bellowing this out at a GAA Match....

evolvingtipperary101 · 20-01-2023 03:34PM

A wide is as good as a point at this stage.

evolvingtipperary101 · 20-01-2023 03:37PM

Semi finals are for winning.

evolvingtipperary101 · 20-01-2023 03:38PM

He took the sensible option.

TipsyMcStagge · 20-01-2023 03:41PM

The blanket defence

You can never write off Meath.

Galway always have lovely forwards.

MrMusician18 · 20-01-2023 03:43PM

The "warrior" bollocks around hurling and the notion that you'll never be any good unless you came out of the womb with a hurl.

WesternZulu · 20-01-2023 03:43PM

"Galway always have good forwards"

"Meath are dirty"

"Mayo never perform in Croke Park"

"Kerry are nice footballers"

"Football was better back in the 60s/70s/80s"

"They were hungrier and wanted it more"

"There is no such thing as a bad game of hurling"

All the above are clichés that I despise that are thrown about by the media and general public.

I'm sure there are more I have missed.

CrabRevolution · 20-01-2023 04:22PM

When X wins the Lory Meagher it's "A sign of the great work they're doing for hurling in County X".

But it's not really. Some county had to win it, and it just happened to be them that year. All 6 teams in the competition could do no training all year and one of them would still win it.

Treble double · 20-01-2023 04:28PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120134556#Comment_120134556

Spot on, this drives me insane.

Wtf are first round, quarter finals and finals for, losing!! or playing like Brazil such a stupid stupid line.

roshje · 20-01-2023 05:17PM

" It's a man's game "

CoBo55 · 20-01-2023 05:20PM

Ah shur, the last match was their all Ireland.... Makes absolutely no sense.

Stripeyman · 20-01-2023 05:46PM

But shur lookit...

Tombo2001 · 20-01-2023 05:49PM

'The so-called lesser counties'

are never actually called the lesser counties, they are only ever called 'the so-called lesser counties'.

Tombo2001 · 20-01-2023 05:50PM

'if so and so was a professional footballer in England they'd be making millions'.

They're not a fuppin professional footballer in England......

Brendan Bendar · 20-01-2023 05:57PM

I ‘spose…….. fill in your own fcukkery

The Toomevara ‘clubman’………P Lodge

The’ll only be a puck of a ball between them.

Arra jusht lads letting off steam……..after a mass brawl involving spectators.

Hey Ref….get your legs outta de hole……….said to a short ref.

Face the ball Kiltealy ..two hands on the hurl.

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jackboy · 20-01-2023 06:06PM

All this bollix regarding the commitment they put in. It’s just a game. Most of them are completely neglecting their families and partners. It also seems to be a license to get away with doing nothing at work for a lot of them.

evolvingtipperary101 · 20-01-2023 06:28PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120135261#Comment_120135261

The thread is about clichés - not about about attacking players.

evolvingtipperary101 · 20-01-2023 06:29PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120134848#Comment_120134848

Oh yeah, playing like Brazil is bananas.

jackboy · 20-01-2023 06:31PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120135368#Comment_120135368

The commitment thing is one of the more commonly used cliches. The hours they put in and the sacrifices they make.

evolvingtipperary101 · 20-01-2023 06:37PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120135384#Comment_120135384

I loves me county.

washman3 · 20-01-2023 06:43PM

"He took one for the team"

"He should have dragged him down earlier" this one was said by a pundit on the Sunday Game and the 2 others agreed. Ironically, the same pundits were calling for a clampdown on cynical play a few weeks earlier..!!!

MfMan · 20-01-2023 07:54PM

Commentators mistakenly saying that the goalie took a quick kickout when they really should say he just went short with it.

20-01-2023 08:00PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120133688#Comment_120133688

I hate those plurals 😂

brokenbad · 20-01-2023 09:14PM

Managers saying "Lookit" at the start of a sentence during the post match interview....

"Lookit....we weren't at the races today"

"Lookit...we'll take the defeat on the chin and move on from this"

" Lookit... there's 15 lads out there today who played their hearts out - i couldn't have asked for more"

dastardly00 · 20-01-2023 09:36PM

Team X will be suited to "the wide open spaces of Croke Park"

Anytime there is a hurling match in Stemple Stadium - "Thurles, the home of hurling"

keeponhurling · 20-01-2023 09:42PM

Those wide open spaces of Croke Park is really annoying

And every pitch down the country is "tight" , regardless how big it is

The paranoia : "Everybody wrote us off", even if you were overwhelming unbackable favorites.

GAA Clichés you despise

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