Brolly reckons Hunt wouldnt last 5 minutes in an Ulster final... and as much as i seldom agree with Brolly, i reckon hes right, Hunt is suffering illusions of grandeur, about himself and his girly game!!

sob (Meath) - Posts: 492 - 04/12/2014 13:13:55    1676584

Go research it Mes Amis.

Greengrass (Louth) - Posts: 6031 - 04/12/2014 13:29:02    1676586

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Go research it Mes Amis.

Research what?

MesAmis (Dublin) - Posts: 13710 - 04/12/2014 14:02:42    1676597

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Brolly reckons Hunt wouldnt last 5 minutes in an Ulster final... and as much as i seldom agree with Brolly, i reckon hes right, Hunt is suffering illusions of grandeur, about himself and his girly game!!

Hunt hurled to a decent level before he went to England. If he stayed in Ireland and stayed hurling for example, given his level of talent, he may have had the ability to hurl in say a Munster club game I'd say.

There's plenty enough in Hunt's comments to disagree with without stupid broadsides in fairness.

MesAmis (Dublin) - Posts: 13710 - 04/12/2014 14:06:25    1676601

to be fair to hunt he did play a good portion of his career in the premier league so he was competing with lots of different players

fabio8 (USA) - Posts: 2182 - 04/12/2014 14:30:15    1676613

and its more about the level of competition hunt faced were he to go to a higher level in his career would just be incredible competition compared to anything a rugby player has to deal with

fabio8 (USA) - Posts: 2182 - 04/12/2014 14:32:41    1676614

Competition at the highest level in soccer is no greater than the competition at the highest level in rugby . Go research the question I put to you MesAmis.

Greengrass (Louth) - Posts: 6031 - 04/12/2014 14:37:13    1676617

that is simply not the case and not even the point made....it is more difficult to make it in soccer than in rugby due to there being much more competition....that is all that was said...you continually choose to ignore this as you take it as a slight on rugby which it isnt

fabio8 (USA) - Posts: 2182 - 04/12/2014 14:40:25    1676620

Seems like we've all been suckered in yet again here to give Joe Brolly yet another platform for yet more of his attention seeking antics! Why do we never ever learn that at the end of the day, its only about Joe!!!!

brendtheredhand (Tyrone) - Posts: 10897 - 04/12/2014 14:54:51    1676629

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Competition at the highest level in soccer is no greater than the competition at the highest level in rugby . Go research the question I put to you MesAmis.

Again, my point has nothing to do with the competition at the highest level.

My point is about the journey to get to the elite/highest level in either sport.

On average when someone signs pro terms at a rugby club they are far more likely to make it as far as the group stages of the rugby cup than the average person who who signs pro terms at a soccer club is to make the group stage of the champions league.

All those on pro terms in European rugby playing in the group stages of the rugby cup make up a bigger share of their overall player numbers than the soccer equivalent.

That's the point greengrass. The rugby cup may well be the bestest and toughest ever competition when you get there but that has never had anything to do with the point.

MesAmis (Dublin) - Posts: 13710 - 04/12/2014 15:05:24    1676631

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that is simply not the case and not even the point made....it is more difficult to make it in soccer than in rugby due to there being much more competition....that is all that was said...you continually choose to ignore this as you take it as a slight on rugby which it isnt

That's it man.

Not a slight on rugby at all - no one doubts how competitive top elite rugby is between the clubs involved. It's a very competitive pool, albeit a very shallow one.

MesAmis (Dublin) - Posts: 13710 - 04/12/2014 15:10:03    1676636

Boys I see the point you are making . I don't agree with it . I am a GAA fan first . I have been to both Heineken Cup finals and Champions League finals . I have been to group matches in both competitions . I have been to Premiership matches in England . I am a sports fan . I am not being defensive about rugby. I disagreed and still do with what you are asserting is a fact . Nothing more, nothing less .

Greengrass (Louth) - Posts: 6031 - 04/12/2014 15:58:31    1676652

There was a report on Today FM last night about a former French rugby player who wrote a book challenging the current status of the game with regards to drug induced performance his view being it is rife in the Rugby game. Money is a factor here regarding professionalism Joe Brolly is a wise-guy he speaks his mind, Maybe he should donate some of his GAA media earnings to the development of youth coaches etc in the GAA ?

IssacBall (Derry) - Posts: 51 - 04/12/2014 16:43:37    1676668

but its nothing to do with these competitions...all that is being said is its a lot more difficult in soccer to make it to any sort of level even just being a pretty good pro compared to rugby due to the serious competition involved and it seems to be getting more and more difficult also...look at the success rate of any players in the youth systems of liverpool city chelsea and utd making the proper grade for instance

fabio8 (USA) - Posts: 2182 - 04/12/2014 17:35:27    1676690

dstuction

To me it was him playing up how hard his job was and belittling the dedicated GAA players in Ireland. He claims he played a bit of hurling and may have been good but he didn't play it properly at inter county level so shouldn't be commenting on it.

In a nutshell exactly.

But you can't compare an amateur sport against a professional one its impossible. I am also reminded of Cluxton "taking out" a certain loud mouth footballer in a charity game.

arock (Dublin) - Posts: 4897 - 04/12/2014 19:09:11    1676730

Issac, this country needs more people like Joe Brolly who speak their mind instead of saying what they think people want to hear or what will allow them have a quiet life.

I suspect poor old Hunt has picked a fight with the wrong dog!

hurlingdub (Dublin) - Posts: 6978 - 05/12/2014 09:35:53    1676791

I'm sorry but Hunt is some tit

Horsebox77 (Kerry) - Posts: 5491 - 05/12/2014 09:52:50    1676794

Eloquently put Horsebox :-)

GreenandRed (Mayo) - Posts: 7346 - 05/12/2014 10:10:52    1676796

Was Hunt really a good underage hurler. I really doubt it go to 1:43 on this hurling video: link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pGr403dNlE

The_Bull (Cork) - Posts: 248 - 05/12/2014 10:57:18    1676812

So Stephen Hunt (apparently he's a footballer, did you ever hear of him?) reckons that Gaelic players would struggle to adapt to the
demands of living away from home and to being a full time athlete in the English Premiership. What an arrogant wee plonker. First, there are lots of Gaelic players who have moved much further afield than merely England to get a job and you know what - they're doing fine. Second, most Gaelic players who get to experience the life of a pro athlete for a little while tend to remark on how much EASIER it is than their own schedules - being able to train, eat properly and rest with sweet FA else to do - as opposed to fitting it all in before and after work, study and commuting. Third, this is the Premiership - surely the most over-hyped league in Europe. We saw how well the Premiership's representatives (England and Ireland) did in the last World Cup. To paraphrase George Best's famous jibe, most of the Irish and English players 'can control the ball further than I can hit it'. As for a skills test - wouldn't you love to see him trying to outfield Michael Murphy or Tommy Walsh or try to kick points from 60 yards under pressure?

Hunt's remarks have also brought out the worst in the online Irish soccer bigot. Many Irish soccer fans hate the GAA with a surprising intensity. Regularly, they need to make themselves feel good by offloading their 'witty' quasi-racist 'bogball / mucksavage' rants. I lived in Dublin for 15 years and encountered lots of them. Is it because secretly they feel some sort of post-colonial guilt about how they live in Ireland yet most of their identity depends on English soccer? Losers who 'identify' with millionaire football teams in cities where, in most cases, they've never even lived. To me, it seems pathetically
contrived; all the chat of "we" won - some uneducated, un-travelled track-suited joker from da Nort soide using 'we' when talking about Chelsea or Spurs! Delusional and sad. Is it because, despite, in their wee heads, being better than the mucksavages, they still can't get their act together to build their own stadium but have to sponge off other sports?

Time to play a game of two halves - soccer and Gaelic - on a Gaelic size pitch - between a GAA select and a professional Irish
soccer select and shut these clowns up for good. Proper shoulder hits allowed. It'd be a massacre. Watch any soccer match - half the time they're strolling about and their pitch is tiny.

essmac (Tyrone) - Posts: 1141 - 05/12/2014 15:45:55    1676917