Do You support your County in the GAA?

AgileMyth · 30-11-2013 12:34PM

I support Kerry because they won the all Ireland when I was 10. This is the method of picking a team that Irish people use when picking their English football team.

I tell people that I have some sort of family connection to Kerry though. Sure my Dad went to all their games in the 60's.

biko · 30-11-2013 12:35PM

I support Galway but I'm in no way fanatical.
More like a fleeting interest.

LordSutch · 30-11-2013 12:39PM

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

Why not?

Not into the GAA, its not my sport, but I do support the local football/Rugby teams.

anncoates · 30-11-2013 12:40PM

I go to one or two championship games a year but couldn't find a league game with a flashlight if it was on my back garden.

In other words, I'm a Dublin gah fan.

Sunnyisland · 30-11-2013 12:41PM

There is nothing wrong with supporting a football game, It's not life or death or more important than that.

It's to be enjoyed and people who take it to serious need to cop on.

Fr_Dougal · 30-11-2013 12:42PM

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

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:

You're from Tipp, the Carlow boys were winding you up, either that or compele muppets.
Also that's not true about rugby.

30-11-2013 12:43PM

In work, one of the Clare boys was absolutely torn apart by all the country lads for wearing a Dubs jersey.

The one doing the majority of the slagging was a Tipp man.... with a Liverpool tattoo across his whole back.

Dirty Dingus McGee · 30-11-2013 12:44PM

I support Offaly because I have lived in the county all my life.If I was from Laois I would support them

In my opinion the idea of supporting a team because they win is completely daft, and it must be a fairly hollow experience.

LordSutch · 30-11-2013 12:44PM

realies wrote: »

There is nothing wrong with supporting a football game, It's not life or death or more important than that.

It's to be enjoyed and people who take it to serious need to cop on.

The neighbour is totally nuts about ManU. They even travel to Old Trafford several times a year

Dirty Dingus McGee · 30-11-2013 12:45PM

anncoates wrote: »

I go to one or two championship games a year but couldn't find a league game with a flashlight if it was on my back garden.

In other words, I'm a Dublin gah fan.

The Dublin footballers have had an average attendance of around 20000 at their league matches over the last 2 years

30-11-2013 12:48PM

I'm from leitrim and I couldn't give a **** about gaa. boring sport.

c_man · 30-11-2013 12:54PM

Do You support your County in the GAA?

Yeah, looking forward to the league

WesternZulu · 30-11-2013 12:56PM

Deleted User wrote: »

I'm from leitrim and I couldn't give a **** about gaa. boring sport.

You can call any sport 'boring'.

I'm a big fan of soccer as well and most games are boring to watch but I still enjoy them.
Wouldn't follow rugby as much but from what I watch from the Rabo and most international games are boring as well...well to me anyway.

It's all relative to the person watching.

DEFTLEFTHAND · 30-11-2013 12:56PM

Fr_Dougal wrote: »

You're from Tipp, the Carlow boys were winding you up, either that or compele muppets.
Also that's not true about rugby.

It is true, nobody cared about Inter Pros in the 90s it was all about the club scene. Sides who were supported by genuine Rugby people, St Marys of Dublin , Shannon, Garyowen for eg. Rugby wasn't popular among the masses here until Drico and the rest of the overrated primadonnas hit in the early 2000s.

Yellow121 · 30-11-2013 01:01PM

The new season is just over a month away with the provincial cups (McGrath, McKenna cup etc). See who's new to the panel for 2014, anyone shaping up nicely, anyone left

, if you have a new manager to check out. It's all so exciting.

eviltwin · 30-11-2013 01:02PM

No interest in Gaa at all, never really got the appeal tbh

dirtyden · 30-11-2013 01:04PM

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

It is true, nobody cared about Inter Pros in the 90s it was all about the club scene. Sides who were supported by genuine Rugby people, St Marys of Dublin , Shannon, Garyowen for eg. Rugby wasn't popular among the masses here until Drico and the rest of the overrated primadonnas hit in the early 2000s.

That's a bit harsh. I have always supported irish rugby and am not from a rugby stronghold. I think the support for the provinces has increased more down to exposure than anything else. You might have seen an interpros game once a year in sports stadium back in the 90s. Rugby was always popular but its exposure was more limited until professionalism. When the old 5 nations was on there was always a bit of crack at school flaking a rugby ball around eventhough we never actually played properly. Admittedly for much of the rest of the year there was not as much interest. But you did not have a Heineken cup then so the 5 nations was the only top level rugby you would see on the box.

Meangadh · 30-11-2013 01:05PM

[Deleted User] wrote: »

I'm from leitrim and I couldn't give a **** about gaa. boring sport.

I've no issue with you using the word boring. But "gaa" is not a sport. Drives me nuts when people talk about "playing GAA". That's like asking do you play FAI or do you play IRFU. The GAA covers a number of sports, and to be honest apart from the scoring system, player numbers and pitch dimensions, there's not a whole lot of similarity between the main two, hurling and football.

And although it's fair enough if you think they're both boring (each to their own) I personally don't know how anyone could have found the All Ireland hurling final this year boring.

upstairs for coffee · 30-11-2013 01:09PM

GAA is a boring sport. At club level, the teams go out to hammer the ****e out of one another be it in football or hurling.

It's archaic. No strategy, no tactics, no nous needed to win. Just be stronger, fitter, be able to give the shliotar a good whack, "mark your man" and you are sorted.

Boring boring GAA. And it prevents other sports from developing.

Jimmymcnulty86 · 30-11-2013 01:09PM

I avoid GAA matches nd days out like the plague. even though it's a great oul sport GAA supporters are by far the most irritating sports fans, don't have the patience for it. From the bandwagon Dubs fans every summer who get pissed up scream "up daaa duuubs" even though they can only name Brogan to the the backward GAA obsessed lads who judge a person on weather or not he's good at football nd think the world revolves round suppin pints nd the GAA.

dirtyden · 30-11-2013 01:19PM

upstairs for coffee wrote: »

GAA is a boring sport. At club level, the teams go out to hammer the ****e out of one another be it in football or hurling.

It's archaic. No strategy, no tactics, no nous needed to win. Just be stronger, fitter, be able to give the shliotar a good whack, "mark your man" and you are sorted.

Boring boring GAA. And it prevents other sports from developing.

How does it prevent other sports from developing?

As for the rest of your post I would say tactics have become far more important than most other sports. You only need to look at the changes in the past decade in both football and hurling. in hurling Cork's short passing game which was surpassed by the more traditional Kilkenny style of a rigid back 6 but then from 8-15 ceaseless movement, which was again matched by a more fluid style from tipp. I don't believe you could criticise the Clare lads this year for a lack of nous.

I could go through football similarly but you are obviously convinced otherwise.

Mick Murdock · 30-11-2013 01:21PM

From rural Galway, have a passing interest in football and hurling but also understand why a lot of people do not like the backwardness and general boggery the GAA promotes.

Not a huge football (the real international one) fan either other than following ROI but GAA people looking down on a sport that is played in almost every country in the world is quite ludicrous.

thebostoncrab · 30-11-2013 01:22PM

I'm from Kildare and always root for us, but my wife of Donegal so I finally know what it's like to celebrate GAA victories in our house!

bladespin · 30-11-2013 01:22PM

upstairs for coffee wrote: »

Boring boring GAA. And it prevents other sports from developing.

That's fundamentally untrue, in recent years if anything the GAA is actually promoting other sports.

Banjo String · 30-11-2013 01:23PM

PeteEd wrote: »

I'm from Antrim
Whats this GAA you talk off?

Well, the football team (county) are meh I suppose, but theres a decent hurling team for the county.

Then you have St Galls, Cargin etc in football (all excellent teams from what I have seen)

And there is Dunloy, Loughiel, and recently Kickhams Creggan picked up an Ulster?

Thats not too shabby imo.

Legs.Eleven · 30-11-2013 01:24PM

Jimmymcnulty86 wrote: »

I avoid GAA matches nd days out like the plague. even though it's a great oul sport GAA supporters are by far the most irritating sports fans, don't have the patience for it. From the bandwagon Dubs fans every summer who get pissed up scream "up daaa duuubs" even though they can only name Brogan to the the backward GAA obsessed lads who judge a person on weather or not he's good at football nd think the world revolves round suppin pints nd the GAA.

But you, as a football fan, are faaaaaar superior to the rest of us, of course. Not irritating in the slightest, no?

Sunnyisland · 30-11-2013 01:25PM

dirtyden wrote: »

How does it prevent other sports from developing?

As for the rest of your post I would say tactics have become far more important than most other sports. You only need to look at the changes in the past decade in both football and hurling. in hurling Cork's short passing game which was surpassed by the more traditional Kilkenny style of a rigid back 6 but then from 8-15 ceaseless movement, which was again matched by a more fluid style from tipp. I don't believe you could criticise the Clare lads this year for a lack of nous.

I could go through football similarly but you are obviously convinced otherwise.

bladespin wrote: »

That's fundamentally untrue, in recent years if anything the GAA is actually promoting other sports.

upstairs for coffee wrote: »

GAA is a boring sport. At club level, the teams go out to hammer the ****e out of one another be it in football or hurling.

It's archaic. No strategy, no tactics, no nous needed to win. Just be stronger, fitter, be able to give the shliotar a good whack, "mark your man" and you are sorted.

Boring boring GAA. And it prevents other sports from developing.

The chap doesn't like GAA games, big deal let him go upstairs and have his coffee...

fozz10 · 30-11-2013 01:26PM

upstairs for coffee wrote: »

GAA is a boring sport. At club level, the teams go out to hammer the ****e out of one another be it in football or hurling.

It's archaic. No strategy, no tactics, no nous needed to win. Just be stronger, fitter, be able to give the shliotar a good whack, "mark your man" and you are sorted.

Boring boring GAA. And it prevents other sports from developing.

Couldn't agree more with the Last bit. The gaa supporters Will say different but it is a fact it happens everwhere.

Zebra3 · 30-11-2013 01:30PM

Few things more annoying than the Republican bogball fan who fails to realise the county system is a British invention.

Andrew_Doran · 30-11-2013 01:33PM

Honest answer:

No. Growing up, GAA just wasn't on the radar for us or any other Dubliners I knew with roots in the city.

Do You support your County in the GAA?

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