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Anyone else just despise gaa?

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  • #62
    Karl Stein
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,687 ✭✭✭Karl Stein


    Scarlet Sweet Jacket wrote: »
    this is a very narrow minded opinion

    Nope. It's an accurate observation.

    Hating any sport is bizarre.


  • #63
    Pumpkinseeds
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,635 ✭✭✭Pumpkinseeds


    Charlie Rock wrote: »
    If you can't appreciate the incredible skill involved in hurling then you really can't appreciate any sport.
    Eh, men with sticks running around a field chasing a ball. No thanks, I'll give it a miss, regardless of the level of 'skill' involved:P


  • #64
    The Backwards Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    Colloquial, inward looking, elitist, moneygrabbing organisation. No time for it at all.


  • #65
    LordSutch
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    I don't despise gaa, but I certainly wouldn't have any interest in it, or anything to do with it.


  • #66
    Crooked Jack
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,679 ✭✭✭Crooked Jack


    Pumpkinseeds wrote: »
    Eh, men with sticks running around a field chasing a ball. No thanks, I'll give it a miss, regardless of the level of 'skill' involved:P

    There isnt a single activity in the world that you cant reduce like this.




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  • #67
    theGEM
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    The Lost Sheep wrote: »
    At least our national games are so strong. In how many countries is there virtually no competition with soccer especially from home grown sports.
    Hurling is a super sport. Gaelic Football is terrible and badly needs a big change to playing rules to improve the spectacle of a game.

    Irish soccer team performs so poorly as we just don't have players good enough. Soccer gets plenty of funding as does Rugby.
    GAA is not rotten. Cant but admire how they are so strong throughout the country and how they always will be however strong any other sports get

    Yeah I find Gaelic Football hard to get into. Every 30sec or so the ref blows the whistle and there's yet another free. It seems you can't tackle without fouling someone. It destroys the flow of the game. The GAA should relax the rules a bit.


  • #68
    Busted Flat.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,003 ✭✭✭Busted Flat.


    MonkstownHoop wrote: »
    because they take nearly 90% of all goverment sports funding

    Remember what happened to Shamrock Rovers, private investors took over the club and built apartment's, Rovers wander around in the wilderness for years. State support helped them out in the end. Where did the profits go from Milltown.


  • #69
    Regina Handsome Manganese
    Posts: 10,091 ✭✭✭✭ Regina Handsome Manganese


    Charlie Rock wrote: »
    Nope. It's an accurate observation.

    Hating any sport is bizarre.

    I agree but u didn't say that

    it came across to me like you where saying hurling is more skilful than any other sport Maby I picked it up wrong


  • #70
    Galwayguy35
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    I like GAA, played hurling in school and follow the local hurling team and go to the matches, have little or no interest in rugby or soccer but wouldn't despise those games.


  • #71
    sabat
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    The number of people who appreciate hurling and hate 'football' is interesting-I'm of the same opinion. Maybe it's to do with the fact that gaelic football is an entirely artificial construct, cobbled together by overly-chauvinistic nationalists in Victorian times just so people wouldn't play foreign games. This may also explain why it's generally rubbish to watch and to play. And why do people say "I like GAA"? You wouldn't say "I like FAI or PGA or LTA."


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  • #72
    MonkstownHoop
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,196 ✭✭✭MonkstownHoop


    Busted Flat. wrote: »
    Remember what happened to Shamrock Rovers, private investors took over the club and built apartment's, Rovers wander around in the wilderness for years. State support helped them out in the end. Where did the profits go from Milltown.

    yeah in the end after the GAA held up the process because they wanted a piece of the pie, horrible organisation


  • #73
    Starscream25
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    I don't despise but I dislike GAA


  • #74
    Karl Stein
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    Scarlet Sweet Jacket wrote: »
    Maby I picked it up wrong

    You did.

    You either like sport or don't. Not liking one particular sport* is bizarre. Hating a particular sport is moronic.


    *with some notable exceptions like synchronized swimming and ice dancing which aren't really sports imo.


  • #75
    MonkstownHoop
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    Charlie Rock wrote: »
    You did.

    You either like sport or don't. Not liking one particular sport* is bizarre. Hating a particular sport is moronic.


    *with some notable exceptions like synchronized swimming and ice dancing which aren't really sports imo.

    why not?


  • #76
    wexie
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    Charlie Rock wrote: »

    You either like sport or don't. Not liking one particular sport* is bizarre. Hating a particular sport is moronic.


    *with some notable exceptions like synchronized swimming and ice dancing which aren't really sports imo.

    That's some way of contradicting yourself. Well done


  • #77
    Miss Lockhart
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    Charlie Rock wrote: »
    You did.

    You either like sport or don't. Not liking one particular sport* is bizarre. Hating a particular sport is moronic.


    *with some notable exceptions like synchronized swimming and ice dancing which aren't really sports imo.

    I find this notion very bizarre tbh.


  • #78
    osarusan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,059 ✭✭✭✭osarusan


    Charlie Rock wrote: »


    *with some notable exceptions like synchronized swimming and ice dancing which aren't really sports imo.

    If you can't appreciate the incredible skill involved in synchronized swimming then you really can't appreciate any sport.


  • #79
    Karl Stein
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,687 ✭✭✭Karl Stein


    MonkstownHoop wrote: »
    why not?

    Because they're more arty than sporty. Synchronized swimming? C'mon.

    Would you call ballroom dancing a sport?


  • #80
    Regina Handsome Manganese
    Posts: 10,091 ✭✭✭✭ Regina Handsome Manganese


    Galwayguy35 wrote: »
    I like GAA, played hurling in school and follow the local hurling team and go to the matches, have little or no interest in rugby or soccer but wouldn't despise those games.

    Level headed post I appreciate it but I feel personally that you are among the minority in the gas. tell most hardcore gaa heads you play rugby/soccer/anything else bar Maby afl and they look down at you like your mad most other sports don't give a damn

    Also a few people have said it there is a huge huge issue in the gaa of we have to start him hes xs son


  • #81
    Karl Stein
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    osarusan wrote: »
    If you can't appreciate the incredible skill involved insynchronized swimming then you really can't appreciate any sport.

    I can appreciate the skills - I just don't think it's a sport.


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  • #82
    RayM
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    Charlie Rock wrote: »
    You either like sport or don't. Not liking one particular sport* is bizarre. Hating a particular sport is moronic.

    That's just really silly. It's like saying "You either like music or don't. Not liking one particular genre is bizarre."


  • #83
    tosspot15
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    I have little or no interest in the sport, but I can appreciate how physically demanding the sport is. It's very impressive to see the endurance, agility, and stamina those players have. They get the absolute shíte bet out of them on that pitch, and they still manage to hop right back up on their feet after a bone crunching tackle within seconds and get back into the game.
    Its a fantastic sport.

    However, as one poster here mentioned, the GAA are the worst group of people I have ever had the displeasure of working with in my life. Corrup thickheaded arrogant cúnts, money hungry mouthbreathing fools is all I can describe them as.

    A while back I remember an good organisation (the type that would help people in need, i.e womens shelters, homeless shelters etc) I'm not going to name the specific organisation for reasons. Anyway, they wrote a letter to a counsiller looking for a small bit of monetary help as they were absolutely struggling. The counsiller scoffed and laughed at them, promised them he would help them out to shut them up, and kept giving them the cold shoulder.

    a few weeks later, he hands over a few hundred thousand (im serious) to a local GAA club so they can upgrade their facilities. What the fúck do the GAA need a few hundred thousand for? They're absolutely loaded! Meanwhile dozens of charities and organisations for people in need are struggling and in debt out there.

    And just count your stars lucky you dont have to deal with the GAA comittee themselves, the ones who deal with the managing of games, teams, and stadiums. Immature fools! they spend their lives thinking they're V.I.P snobs. All their management meetings consist of them yelling at each other and disagreeing with everything proposed because they're too important for anything else not GAA.

    They're unbelievably incompetant.



    ....bit of a rant I went on there :pac: grand sport though, nice activity for young lads to get involved in and top class physical activity.


  • #84
    ONeill2013
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    I grew up going to county games, I have no interest in club GAA anymore though.

    I wouldn't be watching the hurling final if i didn't have a bet on Cork to win.


  • #85
    Ilik Urgee
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    I don't give a fiddlers for the GAA.

    I hope it's the next institution that falls the way of the church soon,very soon.


  • #86
    elefant
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,697 ✭✭✭elefant


    Scarlet Sweet Jacket wrote: »
    Level headed post I appreciate it but I feel personally that you are among the minority in the gas. tell most hardcore gaa heads you play rugby/soccer/anything else bar Maby afl and they look down at you like your mad most other sports don't give a damn

    That's complete nonsense.


  • #87
    Karl Stein
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    RayM wrote: »
    That's just really silly. It's like saying "You either like music or don't. Not liking one particular genre is bizarre."

    That's preference.


  • #88
    Almaviva
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    wexie wrote: »
    That's some way of contradicting yourself. Well done

    Its not a contradiction. They arent sports.


  • #89
    wexie
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    Charlie Rock wrote: »
    That's preference.

    and ehm....what would you call....preferring....one sport over another?

    Y'know, like synchronised swimming over hurling?


  • #90
    meoklmrk91
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,083 ✭✭✭meoklmrk91


    Ilik Urgee wrote: »
    I wouldn't say I hate the GAA, just dislike the politics and cliques in it. Irishness at it's worst. As for the game itself, no interest as such, just keep abreast to stay social is all. It's Cork and Clare yeah?

    This the cliques are what I dislike the most, the nepotism is pretty annoying too, I like hurling though and am watching the final today even though limerick aren't in it,


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  • #91
    RayM
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    Charlie Rock wrote: »
    That's preference.

    I'm sorry, I don't understand. What is the difference between liking one particular sport, but disliking another... and liking one particular genre of music, but disliking another?


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