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An oul' game o' rounders

  • 16-04-2010 10:45AM
    #1
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 36,496 Mod ✭✭✭✭


    Do kids still play rounders these days? Does anyone remember long evenings in the top field batin' lumps out of an oul' tennis ball with a hurl or tennis racket or, if you were posh, a rounders bat?

    My Dad once, somehow, ended up managing a Community games rounders team and we got free bats (w00t!)

    Them war the days, lads. I'd love a game now.


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  • #2
    petes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,382 ✭✭✭petes


    I'd love a game of rounders. Great fun.

    Playing with a tennis racquet was a bit crap though. Hit the ball for miles with it.

    Haven't seen anyone play that in years.


  • #3
    GavRedKing
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 53,267 ✭✭✭✭GavRedKing


    Used to love it, havnt seen anybody play it in years though.


  • #4
    IvySlayer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,194 ✭✭✭✭IvySlayer


    OK Pickarooney, fly to Dublin, insurgent and gavredking, driver up here and I'll meet ya in Phoenix Park :D


  • #5
    Sykk
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,327 ✭✭✭Sykk


    Yeah I remember playing it in school, in PE.

    I also remember there'd only be like 4 of us who were really fit and into sports on each team. So as soon as tubby on your team is up for the bat, he hits the ball 2 mile an hour straight in the direction of an awaiting fit guy, I don't think I ever got to use the batton..

    Fúcking fat kids wanting their fair treatment and equal teams...


  • #6
    GavRedKing
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 53,267 ✭✭✭✭GavRedKing


    IvySlayer wrote: »
    OK Pickarooney, fly to Dublin, insurgent and gavredking, driver up here and I'll meet ya in Phoenix Park :D

    / On the way :pac:

    Perfect weather for it to.


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  • #7
    Kiera
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,130 ✭✭✭✭Kiera


    Loved rounders. Our squares, did anyone ever play squares? Or tip the can :)


  • #8
    hshortt
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,587 ✭✭✭hshortt


    I was only playing with me sisters and all the kids just recently, even me ma came out for a go. Don't have a proper bat but use Fresco-Ball wooden ones and something resembling a squash ball so it doesn't go too far. Great for a bit of fun, kids love it.


  • #9
    MaybeLogic
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,462 ✭✭✭MaybeLogic


    Kiera wrote: »
    Loved rounders. Our squares, did anyone ever play squares? Or tip the can :)

    Or grab the bacon.


  • #10
    Sykk
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,327 ✭✭✭Sykk


    Kiera wrote: »
    Tip the can :)
    Yes!


  • #11
    we'llallhavetea_old
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,971 ✭✭✭we'llallhavetea_old


    Kiera wrote: »
    Loved rounders. Our squares, did anyone ever play squares? Or tip the can :)

    my little one has been playing tip the the can the last two evenings with the kids outside :D its still alive!


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  • #12
    IvySlayer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,194 ✭✭✭✭IvySlayer


    Curbs, what a great game!


  • #13
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 36,496 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    IvySlayer wrote: »
    OK Pickarooney, fly to Dublin, insurgent and gavredking, driver up here and I'll meet ya in Phoenix Park :D

    Yeah, let me just find a clear flight path.

    Now, Ads By Google, here's your chance to combine a game with innings, a bird rising from flames and flight cancellation due to volcanic discharge for a world-class pun.


  • #14
    TheZohanS
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,581 ✭✭✭✭TheZohanS


    IvySlayer wrote: »
    Curbs, what a great game!


    Curbs and smash!


  • #15
    orourkeda
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,916 ✭✭✭✭orourkeda


    Rounders is gay. Lets play fightin'


  • #16
    Standard Toaster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,291 ✭✭✭✭Standard Toaster


    Kids were playing rounders on the road last week. Twas great seeing them play it, hadn't seen it played in ages. Used a tennis racket....very posh indeed.

    Kids play still playin curbs, that'll never go out of fashion


  • #17
    Kiera
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,130 ✭✭✭✭Kiera


    MaybeLogic wrote: »
    Or grab the bacon.
    WTF?
    we'llallhavetea wrote: »
    my little one has been playing tip the the can the last two evenings with the kids outside :D its still alive!
    Yay, loved that game.
    IvySlayer wrote: »
    Curbs, what a great game!
    OMG how did i forget about curbs. I'm ickle so was always allowed a little bit closer than the big boys :)


  • #18
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 36,496 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    Did this game ('squashers' I think) exist anywhere outside my primary school?

    50 people line up on a bench in the bike shed and slam into the person nearest the wall, the objective being to 'pop' him or her out. That person would then go to the end of the line and join in the squashing. Whoever resisted the 'pop' the longest won. I think.


  • #19
    OldGoat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,647 ✭✭✭✭OldGoat


    I tried to explain Curbs to my Missus (damned foreigners!) the other night and she just looked at me as if I had more then the usual number of heads. :o

    I'm older than Minecraft goats.



  • #20
    Seaneh
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,300 ✭✭✭✭Seaneh


    me and 11 mates played a game of rounder yesterday evening.

    12 people aged between 20 and 31.

    great craic!


  • #21
    Standard Toaster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,291 ✭✭✭✭Standard Toaster


    we'llallhavetea wrote: »
    my little one has been playing tip the the can the last two evenings with the kids outside :D its still alive!

    We used to call it 'kick the can'....north Dublin scum :)

    When ye were playin curbs did ye play for 50 points if you got the ball back over while throwing it over an an comming car?


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  • #22
    Bonito
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,399 ✭✭✭Bonito


    Kiera wrote: »
    OMG how did i forget about curbs. I'm ickle a midget so was always allowed a little bit closer than the big boys :)
    FYP. :p


  • #23
    Gone Drinking
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,814 ✭✭✭Gone Drinking


    I play tip the foreign national, every time i eat or drink somewhere with waiters/waitresses


  • #24
    IvySlayer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,194 ✭✭✭✭IvySlayer


    TheZohan wrote: »
    Curbs and smash!

    No idea what the smash part is? Unless your aim was really bad :p
    OldGoat wrote: »
    I tried to explain Curbs to my Missus (damned foreigners!) the other night and she just looked at me as if I had more then the usual number of heads. :o

    Um, just bounce the ball off the edge of the pavement, if you caught while standing still, move to the middle of the road, do it a second time you win. Miss, you have to go back.

    Don't know what's so difficult :confused:


  • #25
    weiland79
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,320 ✭✭✭weiland79


    pickarooney wrote: »
    Do kids still play rounders these days? Does anyone remember long evenings in the top field batin' lumps out of an oul' tennis ball with a hurl or tennis racket or, if you were posh, a rounders bat?

    My Dad once, somehow, ended up managing a Community games rounders team and we got free bats (w00t!)

    Them war the days, lads. I'd love a game now.

    There is such a thing as a rounders bat?


  • #26
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 36,496 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    Tip the Canadian
    Tip the south African
    Oops, puns again, scatter!


  • #27
    Kiera
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,130 ✭✭✭✭Kiera


    Bonito wrote: »
    FYP. :p
    Ok so i'm a midget. There i said it.

    Kiera is a midget!

    :P


  • #28
    Bonito
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,399 ✭✭✭Bonito


    The_Edge wrote: »
    We used to call it 'kick the can'....north Dublin scum :)

    When ye were playin curbs did ye play for 50 points if you got the ball back over while throwing it over an an comming car?
    That never worked! If it hit the curb it just came back and busted the car on the opposite side anyway! :D

    Fúckin' leggarrrrrrrrr

    /runs away.


  • #29
    TheZohanS
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,581 ✭✭✭✭TheZohanS


    IvySlayer wrote: »
    No idea what the smash part is? Unless your aim was really bad :p


    Smash was when you'd take turns at kicking the ball off a wall. You'd try and hit the wall at an angle so that the ball would rebound as far away as possible making it tricky for the next person to hit the wall. You miss the wall and you're out.


  • #30
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 36,496 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    TheZohan wrote: »
    Smash was when you'd take turns at kicking the ball off a wall. You'd try and hit the wall at an angle so that the ball would rebound as far away as possible making it tricky for the next person to hit the wall. You miss the wall and you're out.

    Sounds a little like squash or handball.


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  • #31
    Sea Sharp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,593 ✭✭✭Sea Sharp


    tip the can, kerbs, rounders, bull-dog, IRA bash and squashies. :)


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