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Do You support your County in the GAA?

  • 30-11-2013 11:10AM
    #1
    DEFTLEFTHAND
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    Whether it's Carlow or KK, Kerry or Leitrim.

    Do you get behind your own come the championship. I'm from Tipperary and every year there's fierce pressure put on our hurlers, we've a big tradition as 26 times (40 Munster titles) AI champions as well as winning the football 4 times (9 Munster titles).

    I went to college with people from Carlow who used to support KK, I don't get that, You support your own. In the 90s nobody followed rugby apart from the d4s and rugger bugger purists, A Munster Leinster interpro in Thomand pre professionalism in the early 90s would be lucky to have 2 men and a dog in attendance, even for a good while after too.

    Is it all down to Bandwagons? :pac:
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  • #2
    Sunnyisland
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    Yes, very much so.

    Of course there are always supporters of teams who just support them when there winning,just like the Ireland soccer team.


  • #3
    Banjo String
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    I do quite passionately, but I have zero interest in premier soccer strangely enough.

    Mostly 90mins of lads tapping a ball Backwards and forwards to each other with the occasional goal.

    Where is the excitement in that :confused:


  • #4
    hefferboi
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    Genuinely never met a proper Gaa supporter who didn't support their own county.


  • #5
    kneemos
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    If you're from Carlow in fairness supporting KK is probably your only option.


  • #6
    racso1975
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    Yup as a dub livin in carlow that would obviously be my preference in teams. I think i can rest easy they will never meet in a final!!!


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  • #7
    Mahogany Gaspipe
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    A dog, at a rugby game, really?

    Come on that's complete bollix in fairness. Sure how would he get a ticket?


  • #8
    Andy-Pandy
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    Nope, I couldnt name one player on the Dublin team in either codes. It is not on my radar in the slightest. I've never been to a game or watched one on tv.


  • #9
    Joeseph Balls
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    realies wrote: »
    Yes, very much so.

    Of course there are always supporters of teams who just support them when there winning,just like the Ireland soccer team.

    Ireland soccer team dosnt do winning. Its just a piss up.


  • #10
    StupidLikeAFox
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,915 ✭✭✭StupidLikeAFox


    Yep, that pretty much the cornerstone of the gaa. In fairness its the same in rugby, I know Leinster fans who would prob have more in common with typical Munster or Connaught fans than the typical Leinster fan but they still support Leinster.

    Its not the same in soccer but I think if the structures were set up in a similar way and they created a "support your own" situation, domestic soccer would get a lot more support. Its prob the most played sport when you take into account 5 a side etc but the FAI doesn't seem to have any strategy on that level


  • #11
    Big Davey
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    Define your own county ?? I was born in one county spent my childhood in two different counties and now live in another. Which one should I support ?


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  • #12
    WesternZulu
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    I'm from Mayo and attach more emotional to following them than I probably should...this is not a good thing if you don't enjoy the bitter taste of disappointment.


  • #13
    DEFTLEFTHAND
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    WesternZulu wrote: »
    I'm from Mayo and attach more emotional to following them I probably should...this is not a good thing if you don't enjoy the bitter taste of disappointment.

    Plenty of Connacht titles though. 1951 is only 62 years ago. :pac:

    Seriously you're bound to break your duct sooner or later, the current Mayo team are still young, battle scarred yes but they have the experience.


  • #14
    lazygal
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    No, couldn't care less about GAA rivalries.


  • #15
    Sunnyisland
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    Joeseph Balls wrote: »
    Ireland soccer team dosnt do winning. Its just a piss up.

    They did a lot of winnings in the 80,s and 90,s :)


  • #16
    anncoates
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    No.


  • #17
    Legs.Eleven
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    Pretty easy when you're a Dub. :cool:




    Saying that, I've supported them since I was old enough to go to games. My family are somewhat obsessed with Gaelic Football, so I didn't really have much choice.

    We used to go to a lot of the games as a family growing up along with my cousins and aunties from Dublin (my mam's family are all proper Dubs) and I remember my mother would sit down and make jerseys for us all along with Dublin flags and other Dublin paraphernalia. To say she was a proud Dub would be an understatement. My sister had a Dubs themed Christening for my niece this year as it was the day before the big game. We were all instructed to put on our jerseys after the mass bit. Sounds worse than it actually was - it was great crack.


  • #18
    PeteEd
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    I'm from Antrim
    Whats this GAA you talk off?


  • #19
    upstairs for coffee
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    It's a sport for boggers.


  • #20
    DEFTLEFTHAND
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    PeteEd wrote: »
    I'm from Antrim
    Whats this GAA you talk off?

    Good hurlers in fairness, not great but good, you've won about 100 Ulster titles.
    I remember in 1989 when ye beat Offaly and got to an AI final. Unfortunately you came up against Tipp in the final and Nicky English ran riot.


  • #21
    Sunnyisland
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    upstairs for coffee wrote: »
    It's a sport for boggers.

    Really :rolleyes::rolleyes:


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  • #22
    kneemos
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    upstairs for coffee wrote: »
    It's a sport for boggers.

    And Dubs.


  • #23
    StupidLikeAFox
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    upstairs for coffee wrote: »
    It's a sport for boggers.

    I wonder has Bernard Brogan ever spent an evening footing turf?


  • #24
    Meangadh
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    upstairs for coffee wrote: »
    It's a sport for boggers.

    Ooh, good one. Do you avoid original flavour crisps the same way you avoid original comments?


  • #25
    dirtyden
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    Hon Tipp!


  • #26
    Thomas D
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    No. County borders mean nothing to me. I'd see myself as being a person from a certain town, followed by an association with Dublin city and finally an Irish person.


  • #27
    LordSutch
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    no.


  • #28
    DEFTLEFTHAND
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    LordSutch wrote: »
    no.

    Why not?


  • #29
    fasttalkerchat
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    Big Davey wrote: »
    Define your own county ?? I was born in one county spent my childhood in two different counties and now live in another. Which one should I support ?

    Were your parents from the county where you were born?


  • #30
    fasttalkerchat
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    Thomas D wrote: »
    No. County borders mean nothing to me. I'd see myself as being a person from a certain town, followed by an association with Dublin city and finally an Irish person.

    Its a bit weird within Dublin because there is no local rivalry. Not many dubs would go to school just over the Louth or Kildare border. Also you have the extra council counties.


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  • #31
    dxhound2005
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    Big Davey wrote: »
    Define your own county ?? I was born in one county spent my childhood in two different counties and now live in another. Which one should I support ?

    Which one do you support?


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