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GAA Clichés you despise

brokenbad

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....

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NIMAN

"...the fastest field sport in the world".

Yeah, you've told us that umpteen times. We get it.

tastyt

Marty really annoys me calling the players by first names or nicknames like wer all their mates

The Bonnar this , TJ that , Bubbles the other …..

Also when a sub comes on and someone breaks a Hurley off their back as they are running onto the field they call it a bit of “ getting to know each other or he’s been welcomed to the Munster championship “

lumphammer2

[Such and such a team] have dindian sign on [such and such a team] !!

Billy Ocean

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120137118#Comment_120137118

Or when he proclaims 'awesome how did he do it' after a goal is scored, alot of the time its brutal defending.

whisky_galore

A painted up old banger of a car in team colours and heaps of burning tyres and pallets for homecomings.

Tina Turners simply the best playing at full blast. Bunch of lads on a borrowed curtainsider. Total cringe.

Brendan Bendar

They are ‘flyin’ in trainin’ ’

’The occasion got to them’………..said after the first round of the junior championship

’Lookit…if we can coax Seanie out of retirement we can do decent’

WesternZulu

"The white hot heat of the championship"

Most tactical analysis comes down to "hunger", "intensity" and "wanting it more" even if a team adopted something really innovative that got them the win.

It's no wonder that the casual fan has no appreciation of tactics, especially in football, when everything is reduced to the above.

keeponhurling

I knew it wouldn’t be long until Marty gets mentioned.

every time it goes long it’s “a huge one” and “looking for latitude”

any bad pass is a “hospital pass”

any player who ever played both codes, even just underage for the club “he plays a bit of football too”, or he’s using his football skills there

Shank Williams

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120137039#Comment_120137039

#TheToughest

This.Is.Major

voiced be a lad who sounds like he is straining on the jacks- **** off

keeponhurling

If a team hasn’t played for a while and win, they are “fresh” or “chomping at the bit”, maybe even had been “waiting in the long grass”.

if they lose, they have been “caught cold” or “not yet up to the pace of the championship”

maybe I could be a pundit

kippy

Not sure if the posts in this thread are from people who don't like GAA games, people who like GAA games and don't like the cliches or a mix of both.

I don't think there's any issue with the GAA taglines, they are hardly clichés. Every sport or sports body tries to promote itself.

There are many communities up and down the country that would be lessor without the GAA.

Brendan Bendar

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120137556#Comment_120137556

Lighten up lad, it’s just a bit of fun.

’Is it a tá or a níl’

P Lodges name checking everyone from the referee to the lad who cuts the oranges at half-time.

”Five minutes to go go to half-time in this thrilling game, Joe Creamer is cutting the oranges in the dressing room”

raindodger

he,s not that type of a player

after one of the panels favourites have cleaned some body out

Shank Williams

3 cheers for the losers - hip hop hooray

kippy

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120137579#Comment_120137579

No doubt it's a bit of fun and most posts reflect that - but there's a number just having a dig at the GAA as an organisation.

I don't reall appreciate that.

evolvingtipperary101

The hard ground suits him better.

The soft ground suits him better.

Once he sheds the winter coat, he'll be grand.

Tippman24

Ger Canning and his commentary is a cliche in itself. How RTE can inflict him on the general population is a mystery.

evolvingtipperary101

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120137854#Comment_120137854

These last few years Canning keeps getting the player's name on the ball wrong. His time is up.

brokenbad

How some pundits have started inserting corporate buzzwords into their analysis...

"In terms of overall possession"

"As we approach the third quarter its still anyones game"

"Where the rubber meets the road at this stage of the championship"

"In the final analysis they just weren't good enough today"

dobman88

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120137734#Comment_120137734

Jesus I hate that. Thankfully it seems to be on the way out. Nothing worse than being on the losing team and hearing that shite

supernova5

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120137869#Comment_120137869

jesus Canning seems to be around for 4 lifetimes, he keeps on using that same old expression " 5 minutes to go who's going to win it" and the puke inducing " such and such goalkeeper or defender hits a big, huge one into the square"

this man is well past his sell by date, move on Ger time to give someone else a chance..

Strumms

“His father was a well known envelope designer for Sinnott stationery products and it will be a red letter day for Paudi, his Dad Eamonn, mother, brother and sisters, Aunti Noreen who is in Cappagh recovering from a hip replacement, we wish her well, family and indeed the whole of Cloughjordan, if Timmy can lift the Liam McCarthy and bring it down to the Farmhouse Pub..where in 1997 the…….

meanwhile Timmy has gone off with a dodgy hamstring and two scores and a penalty have been awarded. Stick to the facts as happening on the pitch. Ffs.

gigantic09

Lookit, we know you never get anything easy when you come down here.

Any manager ever, interviewed after giving an absolute hiding to some clearly out of their depth team.

Deiselurker

We got over the line which is said whether it's a win by 1 point or 10 points.

brokenbad

"He put in a tremendous shift before going off with injury"

Billy Ocean

Some of the posts definitely aren't GAA exclusive, the semi finals are for winning which i posted myself is used a bit in soccer and rugby too.

keeponhurling

A wide is as good as a score....

No, it's not.

Rosita

"the likes of" is one that leads into "the Tyrones and Dublins of this world" comment, and is pointless.

"Cork love Thurles"

Every spring in Kilkenny all will be right with the world "when the Ballyhale lads are back"

And where people got the habit of describing a player playing well as being "immense" beats me. But it's very common especially in the written form on-line.

dxhound2005

Some good cliches in the comments today on the Club Championships thread. I think it's great to see how versatile the language can be, and I certainly don't despise anyone who writes or speaks like this.

Soft enough pen.

Half time can't come quickly enough.

Doesn't have the legs.

Tidy players.

Game in the melting pot.

Having a stormer.

Stonewall black card.

Those are the fine margins.

Just needed cool heads.

NIMAN

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120141502#Comment_120141502

To be fair, soccer runs rings round all other sports when it comes to clichés.