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GAA people = Cavemen?

  • 22-02-2015 1:21am
    #1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,959 ✭✭✭


    Why are some GAA people so blind to reality and stupid?

    The typical higher up in a GAA club is a devoted Catholic, acts like every other sport other than Hurling and Football doesn't exist and if someone plays other sports and doesn't play a GAA sport then that sport is for "People who are no good at GAA". In my experience they refer to Rugby and especially Soccer as "The Queen's game" and seem to still be very butthurt over the whose Bloody Sunday event. They have also scheduled GAA training with Soccer training to make people sweat.

    I might let it be known that I play both Soccer and Gaelic games and enjoy both thoroughly and I probably spend more time watching GAA matches than Soccer, but in my experience the GAA higher ups are very medieval while the Soccer lads have always been very down to earth. I'm just stating my opinions so if you have any opinions or if you question anything I've said, please feel free to comment.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,235 ✭✭✭✭Cee-Jay-Cee


    It's not GAA, its Gaaaaaaaaaa.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,204 ✭✭✭Aspiring


    I've never experienced anything you've mentioned here in my 15 years playing GAA. You're talking about a very small minority of people as though every club is like that, which isn't the case.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,187 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    Oook??


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,558 ✭✭✭✭dreamers75


    Fairly sure the OP is bang on.

    I refuse to let my kids play GAA as they a bunch of wankbags.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,459 ✭✭✭Chucken


    Never in my life heard of anything called the queens game :confused:


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,959 ✭✭✭diusmr8a504cvk


    dreamers75 wrote: »
    Fairly sure the OP is bang on.

    I refuse to let my kids play GAA as they a bunch of wankbags.

    My opinion of the GAA has gotten worse and worse.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 279 ✭✭Pocaide


    Trolling


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,959 ✭✭✭diusmr8a504cvk


    Another thing I might mention is that your second name matters in some areas, like mine.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,959 ✭✭✭diusmr8a504cvk


    Pocaide wrote: »
    Trolling

    I'm not in fairness


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,459 ✭✭✭Chucken


    Another thing I might mention is that your second name matters in some areas, like mine.

    Of course it does!

















    Otherwise no one would now which Michael they were roaring at!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 279 ✭✭Pocaide


    Oh yes you are.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,188 ✭✭✭DoYouEvenLift


    Try playing for your local club for most of your life and then leaving, op. You will NEVER hear the end of it.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,959 ✭✭✭diusmr8a504cvk


    Chucken wrote: »
    Of course it does!


    Otherwise no one would now which Michael they were roaring at!

    Hahahahahhahaha Comment of the thread award goes to.... This guy


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,733 ✭✭✭Duckworth_Luas


    Another thing I might mention is that your second name matters in some areas, like mine.
    My second name is Rupert.

    Now that you mention it nobody with that second name has ever played on the U13 camogie team.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,681 ✭✭✭bodice ripper


    jimgoose wrote: »
    Oook??


    Jimgoose is the Librarian. I knew it.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,959 ✭✭✭diusmr8a504cvk


    Try playing for your local club for most of your life and then leaving, op. You will NEVER hear the end of it.

    We are very similar people then, because I am trying to leave my club


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,713 ✭✭✭Schwiiing


    Worst in really small rural villages. The local Gaaliban get real pissy when you don't bow to the local minor county 'star'.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,459 ✭✭✭Chucken


    Hahahahahhahaha Comment of the thread award goes to.... This guy


    I'm not a guy :(
    I'm an oldish lady, probably old enough to your grandmother...but I digress.

    My grandsons will have a difficult time on the hurling pitch I'd say. Lets just say their surname isnt Irish. ;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,187 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    Jimgoose is the Librarian. I knew it.

    Somebody is going to pay dearly for that "Pongo" sign. I mean, just 'cos I was a fcukan full-back...


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,896 ✭✭✭sabat


    Chucken wrote: »
    Never in my life heard of anything called the queens game :confused:

    Garrison Games is the expression I've heard many times.

    Of course you should never mention to GAA heads that their football is an entirely artificial construct, manufactured purely to be something that wasn't English. The effects of this back-of-an-envelope rulebook can still be seen today as it's almost impossible to dispossess an opposition player without fouling them.


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,188 ✭✭✭DoYouEvenLift


    We are very similar people then, because I am trying to leave my club


    Hope you enjoy being hassled and asked at local pubs toilet urinals if you're coming back playing...5 years after you left.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,959 ✭✭✭diusmr8a504cvk


    Chucken wrote: »
    I'm not a guy :(
    I'm an oldish lady, probably old enough to your grandmother...but I digress.

    My grandsons will have a difficult time on the hurling pitch I'd say. Lets just say their surname isnt Irish. ;)

    Well when I say surname, I'm talking about if they're uncles and fathers and grandfathers had the same second name then they'd try not to do anything that would affect that family


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,459 ✭✭✭Chucken


    We are very similar people then, because I am trying to leave my club

    Sure you're only a young fella. Can you not just hide on them? Or something?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,959 ✭✭✭diusmr8a504cvk


    Hope you enjoy being hassled and asked at local pubs urinals if you're coming back playing...5 years after you left.

    Soul mates I'd say, we should PM the juicy details


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,017 ✭✭✭johnny osbourne


    come on the royal , up navan, up meath


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,459 ✭✭✭Chucken


    Well when I say surname, I'm talking about if they're uncles and fathers and grandfathers had the same second name then they'd try not to do anything that would affect that family

    Oh my grandsons will be 1st generation hurlers. No comparisons to be made.
    Shouting out their surname on the sideline will be funny though :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,959 ✭✭✭diusmr8a504cvk


    Chucken wrote: »
    Sure you're only a young fella. Can you not just hide on them? Or something?

    Please elaborate on this I don't understand haha


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,187 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    Hope you enjoy being hassled and asked at local pubs toilet urinals if you're coming back playing...5 years after you left.

    Hint: they're not talking about hurling or football.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 227 ✭✭Baby Jane


    dreamers75 wrote: »
    I refuse to let my kids play GAA as they a bunch of wankbags.
    Pretty harsh to refuse to let children play a sport should they ever want to... and for a dubious reason ("they a bunch of wankbags").

    (I have no interest in GAA and never played it by the way).


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,825 ✭✭✭Timmyctc


    Ah the old, Stuck-at-home-on-a-Saturday-Night-Because-I'm-Too-Young-To-Go-Out-so-I-Make-Up-A-****-Attempt-At-a-troll-Thread thread.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,459 ✭✭✭Chucken


    Please elaborate on this I don't understand haha

    You said you want to leave? Just run off the pitch and keep running.

    Forrest Gump style!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,507 ✭✭✭lufties


    Why are some GAA people so blind to reality and stupid?

    The typical higher up in a GAA club is a devoted Catholic, acts like every other sport other than Hurling and Football doesn't exist and if someone plays other sports and doesn't play a GAA sport then that sport is for "People who are no good at GAA". In my experience they refer to Rugby and especially Soccer as "The Queen's game" and seem to still be very butthurt over the whose Bloody Sunday event. They have also scheduled GAA training with Soccer training to make people sweat.

    I might let it be known that I play both Soccer and Gaelic games and enjoy both thoroughly and I probably spend more time watching GAA matches than Soccer, but in my experience the GAA higher ups are very medieval while the Soccer lads have always been very down to earth. I'm just stating my opinions so if you have any opinions or if you question anything I've said, please feel free to comment.


    You are right op...small minded, holier than thou, smug bullies.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,293 ✭✭✭threeball


    dreamers75 wrote: »
    Fairly sure the OP is bang on.

    I refuse to let my kids play GAA as they a bunch of wankbags.

    Pretty harsh calling your kids wankbags. I'm sure most GAA clubs would still let them play though.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,959 ✭✭✭diusmr8a504cvk


    Timmyctc wrote: »
    Ah the old, Stuck-at-home-on-a-Saturday-Night-Because-I'm-Too-Young-To-Go-Out-so-I-Make-Up-A-****-Attempt-At-a-troll-Thread thread.

    At least I'm not an old, wrinkly raisin w*nker like you who probably can't move his hips enough to go out so he has to listen to a supposed "troll".


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,459 ✭✭✭Chucken


    Timmyctc wrote: »
    Ah the old, Stuck-at-home-on-a-Saturday-Night-Because-I'm-Too-Young-To-Go-Out-.

    Poor Timmy.


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,184 ✭✭✭✭Lapin


    sabat wrote: »
    Garrison Games is the expression I've heard many times.

    Of course you should never mention to GAA heads that their football is an entirely artificial construct, manufactured purely to be something that wasn't English. The effects of this back-of-an-envelope rulebook can still be seen today as it's almost impossible to dispossess an opposition player without fouling them.

    Spot on. Gaelic Football is shíte. Hurling rocks though.

    Tho OP is talking bollox though for the vast majority of GAA players.

    True there are still a few old dinosaurs left on committees around the place, (mainly up North and in Cork). But they are few and far between anymore and most of them will be dead in a few years.

    But in fairness, it's not unique to the GAA. Most sports have their share of ould farts at admin level.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,959 ✭✭✭diusmr8a504cvk


    Chucken wrote: »
    You said you want to leave? Just run off the pitch and keep running.

    Forrest Gump style!

    Hahaha GAA transfer rules are incredibly strict though!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,459 ✭✭✭Chucken


    Hahaha GAA transfer rules are incredibly strict though!

    Feck that.



    Run Forrest, Run!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 279 ✭✭Pocaide


    Ah at last it shows its true face


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,959 ✭✭✭diusmr8a504cvk


    Pocaide wrote: »
    Ah at last it shows its true face

    ?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,713 ✭✭✭Schwiiing


    Was a member of my local GAA and soccer clubs when I was in my early teens.

    The soccer coaches knew I was in the GAA club and never cared so long as I was fit to play soccer when necessary but as soon as the GAA coaches caught wind of me being in the soccer club I was quickly told to choose between the 2.

    I just turned around picked up my bag and walked out the door. In fairness I wasn't much of a loss to the hurling team but it was a ****ty thing to be told you couldn't play both sports.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 14,748 ✭✭✭✭Lovely Bloke


    Baby Jane wrote: »
    Pretty harsh to refuse to let children play a sport should they ever want to... and for a dubious reason ("they a bunch of wankbags").

    (I have no interest in GAA and never played it by the way).

    nah, I'm the same with my 10-month old, he'll never darken the door of a gah club.

    He'll join Litte Kickers at 18 months, Soccer. And he'll join the kids cricket team down in the Phoenix Park when he's able.

    Thing is, we live in Dublin and he's not a Catholic, so he wont be indocrinated from an early age by some bogger teacher - he's registered in the local Educate Together, and his name is down in the 12-kids-in-a-class Protestant school too, so hopefully gah isn't even on his radar, it'll never be on tv in this house anyway.

    This is from a guy who used to be brought to see Heffo's Army with his dad, and grew up in the 90s with Dessie Farrell as a local hero, but then the gah got greedy and started to act like bollixes. Want nothing to do with them ever again.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 227 ✭✭Baby Jane


    What if he expresses a like for hurling or gaelic football?
    There are things I don't like about the organisation but I don't agree with stopping a kid from getting involved with a sport if they have an interest in it, just because of their parent having a grudge.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,959 ✭✭✭diusmr8a504cvk


    Lads I don't want to come across as a GAA basher, I play both and these are just some problems I've had with GAA.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 14,748 ✭✭✭✭Lovely Bloke


    Baby Jane wrote: »
    What if he expresses a like for hurling or gaelic football?.

    he'll be told to cop on, get a history lesson, and get down to cricket training.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 227 ✭✭Baby Jane


    Also "he'll play soccer", "he'll play cricket" - seems pushy. What if he has no interest in either?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,328 ✭✭✭conorh91


    The typical higher up in a GAA club is a devoted Catholic
    Ok... so are most middle-aged men.
    , acts like every other sport other than Hurling and Football doesn't exist
    ditto for rugby, tennis and athletics diehards, but anyway...
    In my experience they refer to Rugby and especially Soccer as "The Queen's game"
    Aand you lost your audience. I'd doubt most people have encountered this expression on a casual basis. Troll harder next time...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,713 ✭✭✭Schwiiing


    Baby Jane wrote: »
    Also "he'll play soccer", "he'll play cricket" - seems pushy. What if he has no interest in either?

    Plenty of GAA players in the same situation of pushy parents.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,825 ✭✭✭Timmyctc


    At least I'm not an old, wrinkly raisin w*nker like you who probably can't move his hips enough to go out so he has to listen to a supposed "troll".
    Chucken wrote: »
    Poor Timmy.

    I'm actually a fresh spring chicken that unfortunately has to work in the morning (You'll learn about that Gh0st when you turn 17) I just like saying things that will fester at the back of your mind in the time when you aren't acting like a cool dude on the internet, like this submission to the world will have ameliorated no ones life whatsoever. Not even your own. You are essentially worthless in the eyes of the many and the few.

    And you probably have B.O or some ****.

    Timdawg millionaire out.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 227 ✭✭Baby Jane


    Schwiiing wrote: »
    Plenty of GAA players in the same situation of pushy parents.
    I know there are, never denied it. Doesn't make any kind of pushiness ok.


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