(Gaelic) Football v's Soccer

12gauge dave · 18-05-2014 01:53AM

Soccer is a much more technical game and still played at a much higher level.
Gaelic football is still a very much national amateur sport while it is growing at a big rate it will never catch the imagination of the world like soccer its an irish game and irish people have every right to love it as they do but its just not for me im afraid im a soccer man through and through but I did grow uo in england so I am prob biased.

Who I think will win sam its up to dublin of they can keep the hunger

orangesoda · 18-05-2014 01:54AM

Hotale.com wrote: »

Can I ask why you don't like it? I never actually understood why it's so unpopular in some parts of the country.

You can't even see the ball and it is too fast.
The ancient game played in ulster was more like modern scottish shinty that it is to modern hurling, this is because it was brought from ulster to the scottish highlands

orangesoda · 18-05-2014 01:56AM

vicwatson wrote: »

See the FA Cup today? Not the SA Cup

yes i did surely, Hull got everyones hopes up and then the predictable finish, the usual in the soccer world, the only time there is an upset is when you have a bet on

Hotale.com · 18-05-2014 02:00AM

orangesoda wrote: »

You can't even see the ball and it is too fast.
The ancient game played in ulster was more like modern scottish shinty that it is to modern hurling, this is because it was brought from ulster to the scottish highlands

Never really bothered me, I suppose if I was to have any issues with it as a spectator the size of the ball would be the one issue. The speed is what makes it what it is though imo.

Karl Stein · 18-05-2014 02:17AM

Preference for particular sports exist on a spectrum for true spots fans. Hating one sport and loving another is little more than evidence of a dull mind.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILldFyJ8R34

orangesoda · 18-05-2014 02:19AM

Karl Stein wrote: »

Preference for particular sports exist on a spectrum for true spots fans. Hating one sport and loving another is little more than evidence of a dull mind.

Your the auld plastic pitch soccer man aren't you good fellow? a real soccer man would get out on the grass

Karl Stein · 18-05-2014 02:24AM

orangesoda wrote: »

Your the auld plastic pitch soccer man aren't you good fellow? a real soccer man would get out on the grass

My favourite sport to watch is Rugby Union. I'm well passed the years of playing on grass. One of my great regrets is not being more involved in team sports as a young'un.

Sport is a good thing. Team sport is a great thing. Why can't we just accept that people have sporting preferences that are at odds with others'?

Witchie · 18-05-2014 02:27AM

There is football and then there is Gaelic football. Nobody except the Americans call it soccer.

orangesoda · 18-05-2014 02:28AM

Witchie wrote: »

There is football and then there is Gaelic football. Nobody except the Americans call it soccer.

well maybe in Dublin and Cork which i assume you reside but not in Gaelic parts of the world. Also the Australians call it soccer and the Canadians.

osarusan · 18-05-2014 02:29AM

Witchie wrote: »

There is football and then there is Gaelic football. Nobody except the Americans call it soccer.

Certainly colloquially used among many Australians and Japanese also. Maybe others.

Lapin · 18-05-2014 02:36AM

oppenheimer1 wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2GqlOYfgfw

I'll see your original, and raise you the original original.

A much livlier and more vocal effort than the polished one above.

orangesoda wrote: »

p.s. Please add your prediction for the winner of the All-Ireland Football Championship

Football - Dublin. Very hard to complete back to backs in the modern game but this Dublin side have it in them and they showed that in the League.

No GAA fan worth their salt would predict one code without mentioning the other. So here goes.

Hurling - Kilkenny. They'll be hungrier than ever to claim a title this year if only to prove they aren't dead yet. Shefflin's last year too could add extra motivation. Never write them off.

orangesoda · 18-05-2014 02:39AM

Lapin wrote: »

No GAA fan worth their salt would predict one code without mentioning the other. So here goes.

your missing the auld handball, camogie and weymans football there good fellow, I laugh and point my finger

Amirani · 18-05-2014 02:45AM

I find Gaelic Football ecstatically boring unfortunately. Tries to mesh football and rugby but ends up losing the better parts of both. I don't understand its popularity in certain parts, but each to their own sure.

GAAman · 18-05-2014 02:48AM

orangesoda wrote: »

p.s. Please add your prediction for the winner of the All-Ireland Football Championship

Ath Cliath Abu!

Kermit.de.frog · 18-05-2014 02:56AM

How are the rest suppose to compete with Dublin's AIG sponsorship?

Be interesting to see how the British will react to the sport. Both games are excellent but until now the GAA has been insular. It's going to be interesting to see this exposure to GAA abroad.

Kermit.de.frog · 18-05-2014 02:57AM

Diego Simeone wrote: »

I find Gaelic Football ecstatically boring unfortunately. Tries to mesh football and rugby but ends up losing the better parts of both. I don't understand its popularity in certain parts, but each to their own sure.

I think we have a west brit here. A British unionist type possibly.

I find it far less pathetic seeing the hoards of Irish supporting GAA than the hoards of Irish supporting British football teams.

Duckworth_Luas · 18-05-2014 02:58AM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_QeRQsRwms

Lapin · 18-05-2014 02:59AM

orangesoda wrote: »

your missing the auld handball, camogie and weymans football there good fellow, I laugh and point my finger

Ah here, why not throw in the minors and U21s while your at it sure.

The mods won't be long kicking us into the GAA forum if we go down that road.

And I wouldn't blame them.

To answer your original question, I prefer soccer to Gaelic football at top level. Gaelic has become ridiculously defensive in the last 20 years and flowing football is a rare beauty these days. When it is played properly nothing beats it but it went downhill rapidly since 2001.

The number of petty fouls is was ruining the game with some matches having more than 60 frees being awarded during them. Madness in a 70 minute game. Hopefully the Black Card will do something to address this. Time will tell.

Anyway, hurling pisses all over soccer and gaelic football. You need look no further than last year's championship for proof of that !

Amirani · 18-05-2014 03:02AM

Kermit.de.frog wrote: »

I think we have a west brit here. A British unionist type possibly.

I find it far less pathetic seeing the hoards of Irish supporting GAA than the hoards of Irish supporting British football teams.

I don't support British football teams.

Turtwig · 18-05-2014 03:18AM

Kermit.de.frog wrote: »

I think we have a west brit here. A British unionist type possibly.

I find it far less pathetic seeing the hoards of Irish supporting GAA than the hoards of Irish supporting British football teams.

He's Argentinian jeez. And he manages the Champions of Spain. So show some respect!

WesternZulu · 18-05-2014 08:26AM

I love both soccer and football and would gladly spend all day watching any of them.

However, if I had to choose one I would pick gaelic football.

I think that it perfectly combines both physicality and skill.
To me there is nothing like a good game of gaelic football, it's brilliant. It surpasses rugby, hurling, and soccer.

Bloe Joggs wrote: »

Never really got Gaa myself, it's a curious mix of Soccer, Basketball and Rugby. It's supposedly based on some ancient ball game but I get the feeling that the rules were hastily drafted back in the late 19th century when the GAA was founded and they never really put too much thought into how it would actually work in practice.

I don't get people who say it's look's makey uppy, every sport in the world is makey uppy...just because it was codified a tiny bit later than soccer or rugby does not take away from the game in any way.

Bloe Joggs wrote: »

It looks visually awkward to me, like it's trying not to actually be like any of the above mentioned games but still trying to be the kind of thing you would naturally do with a ball, which it clearly isn't. I guess if you play it long enough it all feels natural enough but something about it just doesn't slot into place for me, like it's the ultimate game designed by a committee.

In soccer you are basically taking away the use of your hands, logically this does not make sense as you're taking away a physical dimension and already making the sport more 'awkward' looking.

In rugby you have about a million rules, which would be a more appropriate definition of a sport made in a committee room as you described above. While the sight of a maul is great, you cannot say that it doesn't look a bit chaotic and definitely awkward looking. The sight of lads climbing all over eachother throughout the game to get the ball is hardly graceful either.

To me gaelic football looks like the most natural of all field sports.
You can use your hands, your not restricted in terms of passing it backwards, you don't use equipment etc...the sight of a midfielder fielding a high ball is one of the most natural and best sights in sports.

Don't mean to have a pop at other sports (I'm a fan of them too) but just highlighting that none are perfect, i.e. the tackle in gaelic football is my major criticism of the sport.

oldyouth · 18-05-2014 09:02AM

orangesoda wrote: »

I wonder which code you prefer?
.

Football, the most popular sport in the world, is not a code

dan1895 · 18-05-2014 09:17AM

Gaelic football has to be the most unskillful team sport in the world maybe apart from tug o war.

newbie11 · 18-05-2014 09:27AM

Soccer better than gaelic football, hurling better than both

Lando Griffin · 18-05-2014 09:55AM

dan1895 wrote: »

Gaelic football has to be the most unskillful team sport in the world maybe apart from tug o war.

Iv just PMd some of the members of the Tug o War forum.

robbiezero · 18-05-2014 10:06AM

Hotale.com wrote: »

An excellent game of Gaelic football is unbeatable, a lot of the time it's brutal though.

I'd take a brilliant game of Gaelic football over even a brilliant game of hurling - and look where I'm from! I'd be hanged, drawn and quartered if I said this in public.

I prefer hurling myself being from Tipp and I find that in general its better to watch. But I was at the Dublin v Kerry game in Croker last year and it was absolutely brilliant. A brilliant game of football is a fantastic spectacle and can be every bit as good as a brilliant game of hurling.

errlloyd · 18-05-2014 10:19AM

I like oval ball sports. Not just Rugby Union, but Aussie Rules, League and American football. I will readily admit that to someone who doesn't watch them frequently there are lots of boring moments when it appears nothing is happening. They are unfortunately a blight on the game.

I think a as a kid I just wasn't very good with my feet. Like I was quick and tall, but didn't have the footwork for soccer. Rugby suited me more, my school didn't play it, but I found a local club never looked back.

Spring Onion · 18-05-2014 10:22AM

I play both sports.

I do agree that gaelic football is an "ugly" sport. It's pretty boring to watch, even at intercounty level. Lets assume it was a worldwide sport, if so, I doubt I would have any interest in it. However it is an Irish sport and a community sport and I have been playing it since I was 5. It has become a very physical sport and the physical is dominating whatever skills it had which I think is a pity.

I am playing a lot more soccer in recent years because I am getting older and I get less injuries. I find it enjoyable but I don't buy into supporting premiership teams.

robbiezero · 18-05-2014 10:24AM

Spring Onion wrote: »

I play both sports.

I do agree that gaelic football is an "ugly" sport. It's pretty boring to watch, even at intercounty level. Lets assume it was a worldwide sport, if so, I doubt I would have any interest in it. However it is an Irish sport and a community sport and I have been playing it since I was 5. It has become a very physical sport and the physical is dominating whatever skills it had which I think is a pity.

I am playing a lot more soccer in recent years because I am getting older and I get less injuries. I find it enjoyable but I don't buy into supporting premiership teams.

I think it has improved a lot in the last few years. Barely any teams using blanket defence any more.

Rasheed · 18-05-2014 10:27AM

Football all the way for me. But was born into a football house so I hadn't a lot of choice. Played, trained underage and now I'm in the administration side of the club. I love it and the amount of support, enjoyment and inclusion I see people get out of it is lovely.

Hurling wouldn't be popular around here so would only watch that on the TV. I like rugby but find it hard to follow. Never liked soccer. I never seen the appeal, I find it incredibly dull and I think the money side of professional soccer seems to have taken precedence over the actual sport.

For the All Ireland, heart says Roscommon, head says Dublin. I can't see any team coming close to Dublin.

(Gaelic) Football v's Soccer

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