GAA Clichés you despise

And when it's pointed out that the pitch at Cusack Park or wherever is actually the same size as the croke park pitch, they respond with 'ah but it plays smaller'

A "wand" of a left foot.

Never heard of a right footed player having a "wand" of a right.

And pundits using the phrase "alluded to" incorrectly every single time. Someone would say something straight out and the next person would say "as they alluded to". Nonsense.

'You have to lose 1 before you win 1'*

Anything that comes out of the mouth of Anthony Daly when doing 'pundity' on RTE.

A great ‘servant’ for the county.

Right lads ‘plenty of timber round the ears”

He ‘done his hammy’

He ‘left’ his man go past him……..Munster pundit on RTE.

Exactly; Carrick on Shannon, Enniskillen or Aughrim are called tough places to go, as if Omagh, Tralee or Dublin are easy in comparison...

Some Meath fans thought they were really being impactful declaring that Mick O'Dowd was "The first Meath manager ever to lose to Derry and Armagh", carefully neglecting to mention it was only our 2nd ever meeting with both teams. Throwing away a one game winning streak was apparently unforgiveable...

The Westmeath record was a sore one to lose, but calling it a 130 year streak wasn't true either considering Meath didn't play Westmeath for the first time until 1935.

"This team have been waiting in the long grass Marty."

'(Insert venue) is a very tough place to go. Sure, look, you'll get nothing easy (up or down) there. As the fella says, they'd take the head clean off ya, like.'

The tag line in the adverts for the GAA, "Where we all belong".

Not everyone likes Gaelic games.

Also, calling counties by their nicknames in sports reports. "The Banner take on The Tribesmen". Who the feck is playing the game?? I have no idea, gone just say X and Y.

All the new cliches taken from other sports - 'turnovers' 'possessions' 'quarters' etc. Some of the GAA lads really love them. James Horan from Mayo is the poster boy for their use, he was in with them early as soon as he joined SKY.

But the one that really annoys me is 'learnings' this one seeped into Ireland from America, I assume.

Likely, when a few lads did a few sports related courses. It is as if adding the 's' to learning makes them think it gives them some an air sophistication/gravitas. It doesn’t! They sound like planks.

Even the hurling crowd started using it, and normally they are the more traditional subset of the GAA. When I heard Derek McGrath former Waterford manager go on about 'learnings' during his studio panel analysis I thought they have all gone mad.

The worst part is it has got to the stage the flipping sports reporters start using it regularly, as well. For example asking players "What were the 'learnings' from the game?"