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Reduced percentage of TV coverage for 2018 - 8 Like(s)
Replying To the_walls: "Shocking is what it is. Would really make you wonder how people ever survived with only the All Ireland Semi Finals and Final being televised. It must have been like living in the Stone Age. I mean "only" 31 games on RTÉ. I am morally outraged!!!!" Disgrace I tell you.
The Sky generation are so used to sitting on their posteriors with a big chunky remote control enforcing their "fans" status as never before.
Get off said posterior and jump in a car and go watch whatever games you want and mix with real people and real fans and you might even enjoy the social aspect of it.
bricktop (National) - 18/04/2018 09:49:16
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How Much Money Does the GAA Have - 5 Like(s)
Every once in a while you get this Grab All Association nonsense trotted out by the ignorant and then in the next breath we see that the likes of the Rugby World Cup coming to Ireland is very much dependent on the very same association and its infrastructure which is spread over the length and breadth of the 32 counties.
And that's not mentioning the 100's of coaches and GDA's funded by the very same body. Plus subsidised player insurance which no other amateur organisation has in place for its players.
Just because you've gotten accustomed to having it, doesn't mean it hasn't to be paid for.
bricktop (National) - 01/08/2017 10:37:24
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GAA Clubs Had It Tough In The North During The Troubles - 4 Like(s)
Replying To Richieq: "The success any club may achieve is not because of its past its down the work being done in the present, my point is everyone suffered not just GAA clubs and I don't think harking back to days best forgotten is a good thing to do when celebrating success, too many people in the North still look back instead of forward in my opinion, the fact that there hasn't been a functioning executive for so long now to carry out the work the people voted them to do is a prime example of that." The success any club may achieve is not because of its past its down the work being done in the present
Utter tripe my royal friend.
The very existence of St Enda's and a lot of other clubs in the North was reliant on those members who would not deny their Irish culture in the face of oppression , discrimination and murder and is one of the reasons the GAA is so strong in the North and not given up lightly. Glengormley nationalists have a focal point to be proud off because of these brave men and women and should not be forgotten.
Joe Brolly knows this only too well, but his propensity of needing a villain to embellish the story in this case An Spidéal is totally unnecessary and exposes Joe's journalistic lackings.
bricktop (National) - 31/01/2019 13:20:42
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Down Manager Alleges Sectarian Abuse - 3 Like(s)
Winning the game is enough to silence these imbeciles..
Well done lads.
The End.
bricktop (National) - 09/02/2022 16:46:34
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An Elite Club System Is The Future - 3 Like(s)
Hmmm, interesting but missing the actual point of what makes the GAA, well the GAA.........
Affiliation and Connection
When you're born by and large you play for the club in the area/parish you are born . That is that.
The previous club members impart their knowledge on to you without payment in the hope that one day you will be able to drive the club onto greater things. They give up their time willingly in this pursuit.
They will not do that for some makey up entity like West Belfast Wolfhounds, the Mayo Morons, Cork City Cretins and so forth.
As for basing it on existing clubs, could you imagine the best St Johns players going off to play for Rossa in this fictional fantasy world of yours? Do you not think that rivalry exists in every town, county in Ireland?
We all have a connection with our clubs, warts and all. We also have a connection with our County.
I don't think we'll buy into the superclub model and TBH take a look at Rugby, there's lessons to be learned WRT the club game there and we don't want to make the same mistakes.
bricktop (National) - 25/04/2018 11:27:11
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The rights and wrongs of Galway and Leinster - 3 Like(s)
An open draw is the elephant in the room no one in hurling wants to talk about, especially down in Munster even though it has lost a bit of its magic due to the backdoor system. None of the traditional hurling counties will vote to do away with the Munster and Leinster finals even if in reality it would benefit hurling over the long term.
As for Galway, they should row in with Leinster with all intercounty teams, but I can see why the likes of Westmeath, Carlow and the lesser lights wouldn't want it as its another hurling power house they need to get over to get to a final.
BUT,
That leaves the GAA with a major conundrum in relation to Ulster hurling. What would happen the Ulster U21 and Minor hurling champions? Where's their development opportunity? Another nail would be driven into the coffin of Ulster hurling like the gradual downgrading of the Ulster senior championship is now arséboxing, the players, counties and even the Ulster Council has no interest in. Would it be a B championship or the likes?
Major structural changes are required in hurling to allow the weaker counties to develop, but the traditional counties won't allow them to happen...
bricktop (National) - 14/12/2016 11:26:06
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2021 Hurling Championship - 3 Like(s)
Replying To tiobraid: "Why is everyone still talking about the "antics"? Antics or no antics those incidents would hurt any man. I havent heard one Tipp man say the incidencts cost us the game but also I havent heard one Limerick man say Gillane and Flanagans antics are getting worrying. They both have been involved in multiple sending off incidents over the last couple of years. Is that not a worry? If you're going to keep dragging up these incidents then discuss them as a whole and not concentrate on the opposition." Not sure where hurling is going in relation to refereeing..
In all there could have been at least three red cards in the Munster final, the lad who hit Lynch in the throat neck area, the more public flanagan and Gillane incidents were all reds IF the rules were applied but referee's aren't doing that and whilst we all want a manly game, cheap slaps nowhere near the ball is far from manly or brave and need punished.
Also,
What is it with Kilkenny defenders driving their heads into oncoming opponents, Young Carey got away with one on Saturday against Dublin and might have picked up a yellow and was dismissed sort of by Cummins in commentary that he'd got his tackling technique all wrong..Say what?
This was preceded by the Kilkenny fullback in the 2020 Minor final a week before doing something similar to the Galway forward and the referee gives a hop ball FFS....
bricktop (National) - 21/07/2021 16:57:15
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All-Ireland U21HC 'C' - new rules - 2 Like(s)
Replying To liner: "If a county cant field an u21 team from all its 19, 20 and 21 year olds then its time to pack it in." Its not time to pack it in, its time for Croke Park to start asking questions of said county boards as to how they allow this to happen. A wrap over the knuckles and maybe a fine may allow them to focus a bit more on the small ball game.
Only recently Armagh failed to field in an Ulster minor hurling championship game, conceding the morning of the game and Derry have a history of pulling out of U21 hurling championship games.
Could you ever envisage the day the same would happen in football in these counties? No, neither can I.
bricktop (National) - 05/07/2016 15:08:49
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Loughnane tears into Galway - 2 Like(s)
The article says more about Ger than it does the Galway hurlers.
Remember this is the same man who said the Kilkenny team had a load of "functional" hurlers in their ranks. A lot of these functional hurlers would breeze onto any county in Ireland as they have the winning mentality.
Do Galway have an issue? No more than any other county coming up against the monster that is Kilkenny hurling who barring Tipp the odd year and Limerick in the lashing rain have cruised past the other teams.
At least Galway make Kilkenny get out of third gear!
bricktop (National) - 04/07/2016 14:06:13
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County Minor hurlers looking strong - 2 Like(s)
Replying To grimgormley: "Brick come Sunday antrim will take your minors by 19 points ! The keeper will have a sore back with all the puck outs !" Are you playing Grim?
Have you ever played?
Hurler on the ditch!!
bricktop (Down) - 06/07/2016 08:58:11
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Christy Ring 2017 - 2 Like(s)
Replying To carlovia: "I see your objection to the draw has gone into Croke Park" A bit of a strange one that alright as Carlow got beat first day out with Antrim yet were kept in separate pots for the draw which I still don't understand the need for.
Another thing, Joe Quaid rabbiting on about the Kildare lads season being over in May, valid enough point but then goes on to say "These guys have no hurling in summer", yes they do Joe, they go back and play for their clubs like your imports did last weekend..
Get over yourself.
bricktop (National) - 10/05/2017 13:33:23
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Dub Hurlers Under Gilroy - 2 Like(s)
Prepacked meals may well aid those footballing fairies, but won't count in the hurling as the Dubs are finding out.
Skill wise the Dubs are on a par with Laois, Westmeath and the likes, not in the top bracket yet and one of the few hurlers capable of being a benefit to the county team opts for the footballers anyway.
Still hard to see the Dubs making inroads.
bricktop (National) - 05/02/2018 13:16:14
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The Allianz HL Thread (for all Divisions) - 2 Like(s)
Replying To LooseCannon: "WE ALL KNOW WHO SAID IT!
Who could it have been???" Probably Johnny Pilkington.
bricktop (National) - 06/02/2018 12:51:56
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Waterford's sad tactics - 2 Like(s)
The sweeper as we know it was first deployed by Cyril Farrell in the 80's with Pierce Piggott lining out at corner forward, only to trundle out to the middle of the park in an AI semi-final against Kilkenny and it duly worked and Farrell was a hurling genius.
Three weeks later it was tried against Cork, but Johnny Crowley stayed put in the defence and his arms were sore clearing ball that day to a Cork victory.
Cody, after Galway beat them by waltzing straight through the defence in 2005 first deployed a deep lying centre back, covering the fullback line and the midfield and half forwards also funneling back. This had the added bonus of leaving a huge amount of space for the likes of Eddie Brennan to exploit, win, win, win as they duly did.
Tactics aside Kilkenny have and had a huge abundance of very good hurlers both ends of the field, so its not all about tactics as we'd like to believe.
On Waterford, McGrath came in and brought with him a very young team of minors and U21's whos confidence would have been fragile at senior and setting up defensively made sense to allow them to bed in. BUT, they need to evolve. They've got some very talented hurlers there and Derek needs to trust them to go man on man, Yes the Tipp forwards would get scores, but by setting up the way they did on Sunday, Paudie Maher had all the time in the world to pick out a forward, negating any cover that was there. Noel Connors, Tadgh DeDurca and these lads can defend with the best providing the ball in is muddied by the Waterford forwards harrying the bejaysus out of the Tipp defence which didn't happen.
Galway didn't sweep last year in the semi-final , Callanan got a bucketful, but so to did the Galway forwards and ended up winning.
Fortune favours the brave and in hurling you need to be brave in more than one sense.
bricktop (National) - 13/07/2016 15:06:28
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Sympathy for the Devil - 2 Like(s)
Replying To Breffni39: "Galvins act was much more aggressive than Connollys" Ah but, ah but, ah but.
He didn't hurt him, the referee didn't flinch and so forth.
The crux of the matter is that Connolly aggrieved that a decision went against him (for right or wrong) made physical contact with a match official, that much is undeniable.
The how hard do you have to strike an official to receive the 12 week ban is nonsense and very sad for those trying to make that case as every county in Ireland has difficulties getting referees to facilitate our games and the CCCCCCC need to ensure that our match officials are protected at all levels.
Tipp lad gets 12 weeks
McGeeney gets 12 weeks for verbal abuse
Connolly gets 12 weeks also.
Dublin CB are giving the option to appeal to the player. I hope someone is advising Connolly to do the right thing and take it, not some motormouth like Joe Brolly who sees a few column inches in his area of expertise (law, not football I might add) using the lad to be the big lad in the limelight.
As for ex players coming out with their nonsense, what would you expect them to say, has anyone asked those tasked with getting referees to take games up and down the country what they think should happen and the implications that may have further down the line with lads potentially using the "sure Diarmuid Connolly got away with it" defence the next time a referee is interfered with...
Do the right thing and be consistent GAA aficionado's.
bricktop (National) - 07/06/2017 10:23:41
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Free-taking competition to decide semi-finals - 2 Like(s)
I think there's more merit in penalties deciding the outcome than long range frees. At least that way both teams are participating in the outcome per shot and with free taking you're relying on someone to make a mistake and that can be cruel on the individual involved.
Granted the same can be said for a penalty shoot out, but if the keeper pulls off a save the burden is less on the person who took the shot..
No easy answer.
bricktop (National) - 14/04/2017 14:04:28
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Down - Club Underage Hurling (U14, U16) - 1 Like(s)
Replying To PaudieSull1: "Craobh Rua are based in Camlough/Newry and are effectively an Armagh club playing in Down league to try get more games.
Think only games played yesterday were those on 3G surfaces.....as expected Ballygalget and Bredagh look to be the strongest at this age group as they were at u14 two years ago......not sure we should really be discussing scores etc for u16 age groups though on a public forum." With the rain in the Ards and no doubt elsewhere I can't see too many more games played next week.
If only NDandA Borough Council would provide a full size 3G GAA pitch like they are meant to..
Ports shouldn't be this weak considering they'd a strong U14 team last year, maybe there was soccer on the TV...
As for the scores of underage teams, someone has just put up the results and no one has commented on the scores other than you. Let's not get too PC.
bricktop (Down) - 06/03/2017 13:21:29
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Ballykinlar - 1 Like(s)
Replying To 5iveTimes: "spiritof1991, I'm very well acquainted with the Ballykinlar area, but my point remains that it is an unnecessary extra journey for the vast majority of our county players, even if it is as you say only an extra 15 minutes from Castlewellan, that is still an extra half an hour per player, per journey, per training session. If you look at the team for the recent Ulster final v Tyrone, there weren't too many players from outside the south Down area, it is a matter of simple common sense to build any centre of excellence within that area.
I'm not sure that any so called nationalists will agree with your point that building anything on the site of a former British army base as an inspired choice at all, in fact I would hope the opposite is true. And if it really is an opportunity for further funding and what you call a 'peace dividend' then would you really want the same people in charge of that money, that were in charge of the purse strings during the Tesco debacle? No I thought not." No mention of the hurling there 5times,,, Strange that.
bricktop (Down) - 24/08/2017 08:49:45
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DOWN JHC & IHC & SHC 2017 - 1 Like(s)
That score differential only comes into play if two or more teams are on the same points and with Ballygalget sitting on 4 points.
It's winner takes all on Sunday week. If there's extra time in that then we better be ready for a penalty shoot out.
I'm not sure if the aggregate scores against Ballygalget come into play as its normally head to heads where that works, well in the NHL anyway.
bricktop (Down) - 31/08/2017 12:00:05
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U-21 hurling - 1 Like(s)
Replying To Pinkie: "Gleeson is a great hurler but he often doesn't mark anybody! Just like Tadhg De Burca.
Wait till we see how both get on against the Cats!" Correct Pinkie.
Its not that they can't man mark, its just that we don't see either do it but Kilkenny will show the true strength of their mettle if McGrath would just go for it and let a game of hurling break out!
bricktop (National) - 28/07/2016 09:23:13
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