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Replying To Htaem: "In fairness the playing of the national anthem before every bloody championship game has long since reached its sell by date facethepuckout. It's not even a good anthem, no wonder nobody belts it out, it's too drab." Htaem I love the Irish National Anthem. It is a great little anthem. OLLIE (Louth) - Posts: 12224 - 04/07/2016 17:20:56 1876285 Link
Meeting tourists every summer telling you they've seen the usual attractions like the Cliffs of Moher, Giants Causeway etc but only saw our great games on the TV because the GAA don't bother marketing them to tourists enough. This in times when there are plenty of empty seats at games. GreenandRed (Mayo) - Posts: 7360 - 04/07/2016 17:27:19 1876294 Link
Replying To OLLIE: "Htaem I love the Irish National Anthem. It is a great little anthem." I think there's plenty of great things about Ireland OLLIE, but I don't personally find the anthem great, which is a shame because we have a lot of brilliant traditional music. But each to their own OLLIE, I'm certainly not saying I'm right, it's just how I see things. Htaem (Meath) - Posts: 8657 - 04/07/2016 17:35:12 1876300 Link
Gaelic football. murrax (Wexford) - Posts: 90 - 04/07/2016 17:41:26 1876302 Link
On the national anthem .. dont mind it being played over a tannoy... but when someone sings it.... ah jaysus now thats cringey. Especially if they make a mistake. Christ almighty waynoI (Dublin) - Posts: 13650 - 04/07/2016 17:46:49 1876303 Link
"Great work being done at underage level" old yellar (None) - Posts: 2625 - 04/07/2016 17:56:37 1876314 Link
Super Value advert music been blasted over the Tannoy system, while the Ennishkillen band are marching around Clones. GaryMc82 (Derry) - Posts: 3017 - 04/07/2016 18:02:50 1876330 Link
Whiney screeching Ulster girls ruining the anthem, summer scorelines of 5-33 to 0-12, all umpires, a ten man tackle on a player with the ball who then gets done for steps, dodgy 2nd yellows early in the game, Marty Morrisey. arock (Dublin) - Posts: 4898 - 04/07/2016 18:05:48 1876332 Link
Replying To juniorjudge: "The man of the match trophy presentation "geraldine from centre is here to present you with the MOTM award congratulations" right hand shake, thanks very much geraldine, well deserved tom you played great, huh huh thanks geraldine now what camera do we look at for the awkward picture??" And when Geraldine has finished, the excruciating interview with rabbit in the headlights MoTM bookended by ' We knew coming up here ......and we're jusht glad to have got over the line ' . Add in the 100 filler cliches in between to taste. facethepuckout (Roscommon) - Posts: 214 - 04/07/2016 18:10:15 1876339 Link
Replying To Htaem: "I think there's plenty of great things about Ireland OLLIE, but I don't personally find the anthem great, which is a shame because we have a lot of brilliant traditional music. But each to their own OLLIE, I'm certainly not saying I'm right, it's just how I see things." Htaem if you get Mary Duff to sing you the National Anthem you might change your mind. But your right. Everyone to their own. I am just patriotic. OLLIE (Louth) - Posts: 12224 - 04/07/2016 18:35:05 1876356 Link
The Leinster Football Championship JuniorbAllstar (Donegal) - Posts: 9 - 04/07/2016 18:50:12 1876366 Link
1.Pointless interviews with ex players on the sideline at half time in big games .No one wants to listen to them! 2.The ear splitting volume of the PA in Croker. 3.The bouts of shouldering whenever a sub comes on, like rutting bucks! Condorman (Dublin) - Posts: 983 - 04/07/2016 19:07:49 1876377 Link
Unbelievably bad umpiring/refereeing decisions Bon (Kildare) - Posts: 1913 - 04/07/2016 19:25:36 1876391 Link
Agree with Bennybunny, it has to be the Marty Squad, such dross. I used to enjoy listening to the radio on the way home from games to get a bit of insight into what happened from (hopefully) experts that can read a game. Now it's an interview with Mary from Sligo and Paddy from Leitrim, who met in Roscommon and got married in Galway, but now they are living in Mayo, and sure isn't it gas altogether that they are travelling to the match with a second cousin from Chicago that was never at a championship game before at all at all.... Well actually it's not, it's just annoying nonsense. the sooner they ditch the idea the better... AHP (Dublin) - Posts: 323 - 04/07/2016 20:26:55 1876430 Link
Replying To s goldrick: "marty morrissey constantly looking at his notes and saying the club that is a player is from during the course of the commentary as if he actually knew anything about the player. umpires being slow to raise the white flag, Joe Brolly. people especially tomas O' Se say "look" before every sentence. Des cahil's facial expression just before the camera leaves him." Umpires taking an age too raise the white flag does my head in!!!!! What's that about.....surely some quickier method could be employed. Supporters who don't know the difference between a black card and a yellow after all these years. Supporters who get pssed before a game and land in 10 mins late and chat nonsense for an hour and cause bother. The_Fridge (Tyrone)* - Posts: 2088 - 04/07/2016 20:27:33 1876431 Link
Replying To waynoI: "The minute silence before every single game makes me feel ill aswell actually. Can we add that one to the list ? "Please stand for a minutes silence as a mark of respect to little Brucey, Mary O'Reilly's pet jack Russell, Who was run over by a John Deer tractor whilst Paddy O'Neill was out wrappin hay bales.....hey!!"" Would you cringe if it was someone near and dear to you? Showing a bit of respect for those who have departed is done at most sporting occasions. dubarra (Wicklow) - Posts: 541 - 04/07/2016 21:23:51 1876467 Link
Supporters who shout "wheres your black card now ref ?" after an innocuous foul , just cause their team got a card earlier Malonemagic (Laois) - Posts: 767 - 04/07/2016 21:31:51 1876474 Link
Replying To dubarra: "Would you cringe if it was someone near and dear to you? Showing a bit of respect for those who have departed is done at most sporting occasions." I was jokin ffs. You lads are way too serious. I said light hearted in the original post waynoI (Dublin) - Posts: 13650 - 04/07/2016 21:43:17 1876481 Link
I would like to ask most people on here who follow Gaelic games --- what has been THE DEFINING MOMENT, the one that sticks out , the one you will never forget that happened in your time following Gaelic games. I can give you all mine and this is it---- SAM IS FOR THE HILLS 1992 and Antony Molloy says so as he became the first ever Donegalman to lift Sam. What a day it was for me and indeed thousands more Donegal folk. Love to hear all your answers. Thank you all SamOnErrigal (Donegal) - Posts: 1427 - 04/07/2016 21:44:35 1876484 Link
Replying To SamOnErrigal: "I would like to ask most people on here who follow Gaelic games --- what has been THE DEFINING MOMENT, the one that sticks out , the one you will never forget that happened in your time following Gaelic games. I can give you all mine and this is it---- SAM IS FOR THE HILLS 1992 and Antony Molloy says so as he became the first ever Donegalman to lift Sam. What a day it was for me and indeed thousands more Donegal folk. Love to hear all your answers. Thank you all" On the flipside Sam the day the GAA died for me was the day they took the Kerry, Mayo replay out of Croke Park and down to Limerick to facilitate an American football game. Then you had a spin doctor wheeled out who tried to justify it by saying it was their intention all along to have replays in smaller venues. To add insult to injury we were then presented with that Meath **** in Limerick. That lad who came on at the end showed remarkable restraint in my opinion. That was the time for me that the GAA lost it's soul. Llaw_Gyffes (Mayo)** - Posts: 1113 - 04/07/2016 21:59:37 1876491 Link