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Things you don't see in GAA anymore

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    #32
    carter10
    Registered Users Posts: 393 ✭✭carter10


    Doing 2 laps of the field a few stretches and then a game of backs and forwards= training


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    #33
    padd b1975
    Registered Users Posts: 10,703 ✭✭✭✭padd b1975


    Every player wearing goalkeeper gloves.

    Goalkeepers wearing rugby boots.

    An auld fella sitting on a football behind the goal.

    Training sessions with players wearing jerseys from other counties that they'd have swapped down through the years.

    Nobody owned a replica shirt.

    Church Gate collections for team expenses if a provincial title was won.

    No turnstiles at county grounds, just a few guys sitting at tables who dealt only in cash.


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    #34
    BENDYBINN
    Registered Users Posts: 1,823 ✭✭✭BENDYBINN


    Michael o Hehir


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    #35
    Road-Hog
    Registered Users Posts: 1,412 ✭✭✭Road-Hog


    BENDYBINN wrote: »
    Michael o Hehir

    Foul mouthed biased auld fellas , smoking and farting and who take no account of any childer that might be in the vicinity.


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    #36
    elefant
    Registered Users Posts: 4,647 ✭✭✭elefant


    Umbro Specialis


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    #37
    C__MC
    Registered Users Posts: 3,041 ✭✭✭C__MC


    Kilkenny winning Leinster at a canter


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    #38
    zetecescort
    Registered Users Posts: 5,031 ✭✭✭zetecescort


    Tidy corner forwards with jerseys 3 sizes too big


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    #39
    Rasputin11
    Registered Users Posts: 1,350 ✭✭✭Rasputin11


    Deskjockey wrote: »
    -Furry green and gold hats
    -Terriers on pitches
    -Players smiling while walking around in the parade, without a care in the world
    -Enough broken timber at the end of a match to start a bonfire
    -Swaying Terraces
    -Players with an entire missing row of front teeth
    -Lads pinning a paper rosette onto your jacket as you make your way up from the square in Thurles
    - Dual intercounty players
    - minor footballers with Osama Bin Laden beards (in fairness he was a one off!)

    Who was the minor football OBL?


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    #40
    hardybuck
    Registered Users Posts: 5,159 ✭✭✭hardybuck


    Those O'Neill's socks with the padded white foot bit at the bottom. Ironically replaced now with lads wearing a regular white sock over their football socks.

    Deep Heat and Freeze Spray.

    Knee Bands.

    Lads tying their laces around the bottom of their boots.

    Paper hats in county colours.

    Plan B in Croke Park.

    Senior clerics throwing in the ball to start the game.


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    #41
    clfy39tzve8njq
    Closed Accounts Posts: 597 ✭✭✭clfy39tzve8njq


    hardybuck wrote:
    Senior clerics throwing in the ball to start the game.


    God yeah I'd actually forgotten about that custom.


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    #42
    tayto lover
    Registered Users Posts: 51,490 ✭✭✭✭tayto lover


    The old paper hats.
    When it rained the colours ran down your face.
    Have a few great photos of that from the 1970’s.


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    #43
    Kevhog1988
    Registered Users Posts: 3,959 ✭✭✭Kevhog1988


    Micko insisting the team eat a full fry before playing a provincial final


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    #44
    Kevhog1988
    Registered Users Posts: 3,959 ✭✭✭Kevhog1988


    Being called up from the junior squad to senior for the game against neighbouring club because you were a hardy bastard 😂😂


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    #45
    BloodyBill
    Registered Users Posts: 957 ✭✭✭BloodyBill


    1. Daisies on the pitch for a Connacht football final and the graveyard in Hyde Park.
    2. Swaying in the crowd at the old Pairc Ui Chaoimh and the fear of losing in Munster
    3. People looking into TV cameras thinking they might see their family at home in the sitting room. I miss that the most.


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    #46
    megadodge
    Registered Users Posts: 5,288 ✭✭✭megadodge


    BloodyBill wrote: »
    1. Daisies on the pitch for a Connacht football final and the graveyard in Hyde Park.
    2. Swaying in the crowd at the old Pairc Ui Chaoimh and the fear of losing in Munster
    3. People looking into TV cameras thinking they might see their family at home in the sitting room. I miss that the most.

    The graveyard is still there!

    Unsurprisingly.


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    #47
    elefant
    Registered Users Posts: 4,647 ✭✭✭elefant


    hardybuck wrote: »

    Lads tying their laces around the bottom of their boots.

    Good one!


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    #48
    www.bored.ie
    Registered Users Posts: 20 ✭www.bored.ie


    puma kings


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    #49
    Beechwoodspark
    Registered Users Posts: 15,281 ✭✭✭✭Beechwoodspark


    Edgar Tinkling Jacuzzi wrote: »
    God yeah I'd actually forgotten about that custom.

    A bishop still presents the minor all Ireland trophy as far as I know.


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    #50
    jasper100
    Closed Accounts Posts: 455 ✭✭jasper100


    Three priests sitting in a stand discussing how they know a player will be getting a three month suspension before the disciplinary hearing has taken place.


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    #51
    spurscormac
    Registered Users Posts: 1,523 ✭✭✭spurscormac


    hardybuck wrote: »
    Plan B in Croke Park..

    If Mayo ever get over the line, you can be damn sure there'll be a return of Plan B.


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    #52
    Tombo2001
    Registered Users Posts: 6,470 ✭✭✭Tombo2001


    managers in 'slacks'...


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    #53
    Noveight
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,813 ✭✭✭Noveight


    An outfield player wearing big puffy 'keeper's gloves.

    Helmets without face-guards.

    Ground hurling.


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    #54
    CrabRevolution
    Registered Users Posts: 2,801 ✭✭✭CrabRevolution


    spurscormac wrote: »
    If Mayo ever get over the line, you can be damn sure there'll be a return of Plan B.

    Jaysus there's another oldie. Haven't heard that one since 2013 or so. First it was Tipp, then Dublin, then Donegal, then Clare, then Galway....

    All these teams won an all ireland without breaching the fence, so they've to find a new county each time.


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    #55
    zetecescort
    Registered Users Posts: 5,031 ✭✭✭zetecescort


    Tombo2001 wrote: »
    managers in 'slacks'...

    Corks John Meyler wears slacks


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    #56
    Stacksofwacks
    Registered Users Posts: 1,534 ✭✭✭Stacksofwacks


    Ger Loughnane prowling the sideline in Thurles like the fella in braveheart saying "We're going to do it"

    TOP LEVEL INTERCOUNTY PLAYERS who resemble beer barrels

    No warm downs, players head straight to the bar after a match


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    #57
    KevRossi
    Registered Users Posts: 4,381 ✭✭✭KevRossi


    TUBS OF ICES! GET THE LAST OF THE TUBS OF ICES!

    Back in the 70's you'd see an old man being led around with a woman with long hair, he was blind (supposedly). His call was 'Help the blind pliss'

    Waiting until halfway through the last line of Amhran na bhfiann for the big roar, it comes way too early these days.

    Bangers of cars needing a push start after the match and sitting 3 abreast in the front of the car.

    Tranisitor radio pressed up to some oul fellas ear, with someone 4 rows back roaring up at him, constantly wanting to know the score of a different match. STFU!

    Occupations on programmes.

    'Maor' peaked caps and a rolled up programme as a sign of authority, none of yer fancy Hi Viz jackets.


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    #58
    Fann Linn
    Registered Users Posts: 7,772 ✭✭✭Fann Linn


    Stacksofwacks wrote: »
    Ger Loughnane prowling the sideline in Thurles like the fella in braveheart saying "We're going to do it"

    TOP LEVEL INTERCOUNTY PLAYERS who resemble beer barrels

    No warm downs, players head straight to the bar after a match

    #JIMMYKEAVNEY


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    #59
    charolais0153
    Registered Users Posts: 6,225 ✭✭✭charolais0153


    Road-Hog wrote: »

    A fan in a row in front of you turning around tinyou and saying ‘where is your shouting now’ when his team gets a score to go ahead in last minute of a game


    Packed stadiums other than all Ireland final days


    Pitch invasions on all Ireland final days. Will only ever happen again if a norn iron team wins a final again.
    Happened on sunday even.

    Semi finals between dublin and mayo

    I think itd happen if mayo won the all-ireland


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    #60
    Radio5
    Registered Users Posts: 1,946 ✭✭✭Radio5


    People actually watching a match without taking out a mobile phone to take a picture/selfie/record some of the match or make/take a call so they can proceed to shout about being at a particular venue ( I'M UP IN DUBLIN FOR THE MATCH!) and mention how many drinks they had last night & how they're feeling today.


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    #61
    bodun
    Registered Users Posts: 135 ✭✭bodun


    Sideline and umpire flags made from pieces of fertilizer bag nailed to the handle of a broken hurl


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