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Replying To PK57: "I know it doesn't happen anymore, but does anyone remember when BBC were showing games, and the commentator used to read out text messages mid game, like " Mary from Cross is hoping Armagh win today"." the amount of games [especially hurling] decided on incompetent umpires [ couldn't be arsed running back a few steps from the goal posts to get better view of ball flying in overhead]
granted taking human error into consideration they are not going to get it correct 100% of the time but it grates on me to see umpires look over at each other to see who is going to take the initiative and then as one goes for the white flag the other is actually waving wide
this is a massive disservice and a huge insult to players who have sacrificed so much
this probably happens more often in club games than inter county but it is embarrassing and shows the GAA up in bad light
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Replying To Crinigan: "And swoosh goes my point right over your head...." do you even have a point? you claim that GAA athletes aren't as tough as soccer players without providing a decent point for debate on both sides.
You make a daft reference to one aspect of the game 'the foot block' and praise soccer players because they are allowed to tackle that way. That's like me saying soccer players are wimps because they don't allow hand blocks or arms raised towards the body of a player in possession as they do in GAA. That would be daft too because it's clearly not an important aspect of how soccer is played.
maybe the purpose of both sports just go 'swoosh' right over your head!
SaffronDon (Antrim) - Posts: 2386 - 06/07/2016 16:18:57
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Replying To SaffronDon: "do you even have a point? you claim that GAA athletes aren't as tough as soccer players without providing a decent point for debate on both sides.
You make a daft reference to one aspect of the game 'the foot block' and praise soccer players because they are allowed to tackle that way. That's like me saying soccer players are wimps because they don't allow hand blocks or arms raised towards the body of a player in possession as they do in GAA. That would be daft too because it's clearly not an important aspect of how soccer is played.
maybe the purpose of both sports just go 'swoosh' right over your head!" Sorry lad. You should read the post again. I never said that GAA players aren't as tough as soccer players. Obviously that would be totally untrue. I did say however that I find it cringeworthy how many in GAA circles harp on about how wimpish soccer players are and how tough Gaelic players are in comparison without taking into account how physical and dangerous a sport soccer actually is. Have you seen how many videos there are comparing the toughness of GAA to soccer players? Rory's Stories (sound and funny man as he is) would be one of the main culprits in this.
Crinigan (Meath) - Posts: 1319 - 11/07/2016 10:32:20
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"would the owner of car number 87 WX 221 please move it as it is causing an obstruction".......
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Replying To perfect10: ""would the owner of car number 87 WX 221 please move it as it is causing an obstruction"......." very funny - do you mean obstruction or eyesore judging by your plate.
IrishGael3 (USA) - Posts: 1092 - 11/07/2016 11:16:28
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Replying To IrishGael3: "very funny - do you mean obstruction or eyesore judging by your plate." probably both.it is probably not worth the gardai's time towing it away so best to get the owner out of the ground!
perfect10 (Wexford) - Posts: 3929 - 11/07/2016 11:23:45
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Replying To perfect10: "probably both.it is probably not worth the gardai's time towing it away so best to get the owner out of the ground!" Very true - love Monday morning humour.
IrishGael3 (USA) - Posts: 1092 - 11/07/2016 11:27:09
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A player could strangle, dismember and bury the body parts of an opponent in front of 40,000 witnesses and his county board will still appeal his suspension. And probably get it overturned on a technicality (referee was wearing the wrong colour shoelaces).
When a goal is scored in football, particularly in provincial grounds, the ball always skids out under the nets. Any groundsman who sets up nets capable of containing a football will be sacked.
100s of kids having an unofficial puck around on the pitch at half-time.
The primeval urge for fans to enter the field of play and have an oul walk around for no particular reason once a match is over.
The match could be interrupted by an earthquake, plane crash or tsunami, but there will always be "at least 2 minutes of additional time at the end of the match…." 3 minutes additional time has never been announced at the end of a match.
An evening match being played in a ground with floodlights will be played until near complete darkness until someone decides to turn them on.
Opposing teams who wear almost the exact same colours will refuse to change kit on the grounds it would hand a psychological advantage to the other team. So both teams will wear the same colours and the fans will have to figure it out for themselves.
Players and managers will bend over backwards to talk down their own team's chances and talk up their opponents, yet when they do win the first thing they say is, "everyone wrote us off, no one gave us a chance, but we knew we were gonnta win."
The headband, a uniquely GAA apparel which has outlived its now extinct siblings, the furry cap and the crepe paper cap. Can only be worn whilst attending a GAA match, under no other circumstances except for (a) tying it to the inside mirror of your car and (b) tying it to the handle of your suitcase so you can spot it quickly on an airport carousel. Can also be tied around a straw hat for the "I'm up from the country and I don't care who knows about it" look.
If a brother is dropped from a team, he and all his other brothers will leave the panel in protest.
Using a bench for the front row of team photographs. Cos squatting down is for soccer players.
If a star player is injured but can stand and/or breathe prior to a big match, "we'll chance him".
An insecure club manager will pick a young lad of 17 at corner forward, then haul him off after 10 minutes so that he'll look decisive and ruthless to anyone watching - "he's not afraid to make the hard calls."
Half time and pre-match entertainment in provincial grounds will consist of a 1930s recording of traditional Irish music being played on a severely scratched vinyl record. The B side plays Amhrán na bhFiann.
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If your club doesn't have flags for the sideline, squares cut out from fertilizer bags and nailed to a piece of stick will do the job.
A referee having to pass regular fitness tests, rules tests and referees' assessments - but then being allowed to use his half blind brother/geriatric father/ADHD neighbour/hungover drinking buddy to act as umpires for vitally important matches.
Congress passing a new rule before the National League starts, players and managers not knowing about this new rule, referees going mad enforcing the new rule for the first 3 weeks of the League, managers and players going mad complaining about the new rule, GAA authorities caving to pressure from high profile managers, and referees ignoring the new rule for the remainder of the League, and everything back to the way it was by Championship, as if the new rule never existed.
Young lads operating the scoreboard at club matches but being distracted by their little buddies down below and missing half the score…and still probably having a more accurate score than the referee.
In the final moments of a close match, the referee shall have the option, nay, the right, to artificially engineer a draw via the "handy free".
Despite proliferation of draws in GAA due to said "handy frees", no plans will ever made in the event of a draw. No one will know if there's extra time or a replay, and if a replay no one will know where or when.
Deep Heat - physio in a can.
Every public address announcement has to begin with "FÓGRA!" or "A GWING OOSHLA!" (ie a dhuine uaisle").
The correct GAA celebration for scoring a goal is to keep your head down, go straight back to your position and for God sake don't smile. Any indication of joy or pleasure at scoring a goal indicates you are (a) a complete show pony (or "gallery man" in GAA parlance) or (b) rubbing it in to the opposition.
Point (a) above can also be applied to any player (usually footballer) who displays the following traits; dyed, bleached or spikey hair; facial or body piercings; tattoos; socks pulled up knee high ("does he think he's playing soccer or what?") and any colour football boot that isn't black.
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Replying To ballydalane: "A player could strangle, dismember and bury the body parts of an opponent in front of 40,000 witnesses and his county board will still appeal his suspension. And probably get it overturned on a technicality (referee was wearing the wrong colour shoelaces).
When a goal is scored in football, particularly in provincial grounds, the ball always skids out under the nets. Any groundsman who sets up nets capable of containing a football will be sacked.
100s of kids having an unofficial puck around on the pitch at half-time.
The primeval urge for fans to enter the field of play and have an oul walk around for no particular reason once a match is over.
The match could be interrupted by an earthquake, plane crash or tsunami, but there will always be "at least 2 minutes of additional time at the end of the match…." 3 minutes additional time has never been announced at the end of a match.
An evening match being played in a ground with floodlights will be played until near complete darkness until someone decides to turn them on.
Opposing teams who wear almost the exact same colours will refuse to change kit on the grounds it would hand a psychological advantage to the other team. So both teams will wear the same colours and the fans will have to figure it out for themselves.
Players and managers will bend over backwards to talk down their own team's chances and talk up their opponents, yet when they do win the first thing they say is, "everyone wrote us off, no one gave us a chance, but we knew we were gonnta win."
The headband, a uniquely GAA apparel which has outlived its now extinct siblings, the furry cap and the crepe paper cap. Can only be worn whilst attending a GAA match, under no other circumstances except for (a) tying it to the inside mirror of your car and (b) tying it to the handle of your suitcase so you can spot it quickly on an airport carousel. Can also be tied around a straw hat for the "I'm up from the country and I don't care who knows about it" look.
If a brother is dropped from a team, he and all his other brothers will leave the panel in protest.
Using a bench for the front row of team photographs. Cos squatting down is for soccer players.
If a star player is injured but can stand and/or breathe prior to a big match, "we'll chance him".
An insecure club manager will pick a young lad of 17 at corner forward, then haul him off after 10 minutes so that he'll look decisive and ruthless to anyone watching - "he's not afraid to make the hard calls."
Half time and pre-match entertainment in provincial grounds will consist of a 1930s recording of traditional Irish music being played on a severely scratched vinyl record. The B side plays Amhrán na bhFiann." very funny and yet somehow very true.
Llaw_Gyffes (Mayo) - Posts: 1113 - 11/07/2016 12:53:43
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Replying To ballydalane: "A player could strangle, dismember and bury the body parts of an opponent in front of 40,000 witnesses and his county board will still appeal his suspension. And probably get it overturned on a technicality (referee was wearing the wrong colour shoelaces).
When a goal is scored in football, particularly in provincial grounds, the ball always skids out under the nets. Any groundsman who sets up nets capable of containing a football will be sacked.
100s of kids having an unofficial puck around on the pitch at half-time.
The primeval urge for fans to enter the field of play and have an oul walk around for no particular reason once a match is over.
The match could be interrupted by an earthquake, plane crash or tsunami, but there will always be "at least 2 minutes of additional time at the end of the match…." 3 minutes additional time has never been announced at the end of a match.
An evening match being played in a ground with floodlights will be played until near complete darkness until someone decides to turn them on.
Opposing teams who wear almost the exact same colours will refuse to change kit on the grounds it would hand a psychological advantage to the other team. So both teams will wear the same colours and the fans will have to figure it out for themselves.
Players and managers will bend over backwards to talk down their own team's chances and talk up their opponents, yet when they do win the first thing they say is, "everyone wrote us off, no one gave us a chance, but we knew we were gonnta win."
The headband, a uniquely GAA apparel which has outlived its now extinct siblings, the furry cap and the crepe paper cap. Can only be worn whilst attending a GAA match, under no other circumstances except for (a) tying it to the inside mirror of your car and (b) tying it to the handle of your suitcase so you can spot it quickly on an airport carousel. Can also be tied around a straw hat for the "I'm up from the country and I don't care who knows about it" look.
If a brother is dropped from a team, he and all his other brothers will leave the panel in protest.
Using a bench for the front row of team photographs. Cos squatting down is for soccer players.
If a star player is injured but can stand and/or breathe prior to a big match, "we'll chance him".
An insecure club manager will pick a young lad of 17 at corner forward, then haul him off after 10 minutes so that he'll look decisive and ruthless to anyone watching - "he's not afraid to make the hard calls."
Half time and pre-match entertainment in provincial grounds will consist of a 1930s recording of traditional Irish music being played on a severely scratched vinyl record. The B side plays Amhrán na bhFiann." The thread is things that make you cringe about the GAA! That's just a list of things that clearly p*ss you off.
CroiGorm (Dublin) - Posts: 1547 - 11/07/2016 12:54:14
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Joe.ie articles about the latest zany antics going on in the world of Junior D. Usually about some 60 year old lad togging out whilst wearing his swimming shorts and having someone bring him out a cup of tea. "I tell ya, does get fierce cauld standing there in the corner, Margaret"
Whammo86 (Antrim) - Posts: 4240 - 11/07/2016 13:08:28
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Replying To Crinigan: "Sorry lad. You should read the post again. I never said that GAA players aren't as tough as soccer players. Obviously that would be totally untrue. I did say however that I find it cringeworthy how many in GAA circles harp on about how wimpish soccer players are and how tough Gaelic players are in comparison without taking into account how physical and dangerous a sport soccer actually is. Have you seen how many videos there are comparing the toughness of GAA to soccer players? Rory's Stories (sound and funny man as he is) would be one of the main culprits in this." if it was 20 - 30 years ago I might agree with you that soccer is as tough and manly as GAA. But lets be honest, soccer today is a non contact sport in comparison to those days. A soccer player today can't as much as brush up beside an opponent without the ref blowing for a foul or the other player taking a deliberate tumble because he knows the ref will buy it. A goalkeeper only has to nudge into an attacker during a set piece in order for the ref to blow for a free out to him. Defenders have had to learn how to tackle with studs down completely as even if there is no contact and the studs show, a ref has been known to get the notebook out for it. And as for the diving and simulation etc....well, where do a begin! I'll just say that its the polar opposite from manliness and leave it at that.
Of course you could point to GAA especially after this weekend and the antics of A O'S or Tiernan McCann last year but these incidents are few and far between and are usually followed by mass outrage like you've seen on here this weekend. In soccer these incidents happen every game and very little is done about it so I still can't agree.
SaffronDon (Antrim) - Posts: 2386 - 11/07/2016 15:45:37
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raindrops on tv camera- have only ever seen this for GAA matches. Yesterdays Connacht final beat all when there was a perfectly dry, covered and purpose built area to host the cameras in the main stand.
facethepuckout (Roscommon) - Posts: 214 - 11/07/2016 18:07:46
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How bad hurlin referees are and how little it's changed over the last 10 years.
The league and Christy Ring finals immediately spring to mind.
I think it's one of the biggest problems in hurling right now.
Killarney.87 (Tipperary) - Posts: 2513 - 11/07/2016 20:00:44
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Umpires.....
Inter county level afraid to make calls or often make the wrong ones or won't inform the ref of off the ball stuff etc, don't know why they bother
And as for club level.. I hate umpires at underage waving wides for clear scores... They are kids don't dare take something wonderful they have done away from them because your kid is the opponent or because your club might not win the u12 divison 4 league..they are only kids. I hate that
Brianmac78 (Dublin) - Posts: 1168 - 11/07/2016 20:21:06
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And now......he has.........the ball, passed...OUT WIDE..will he..............take the shot he WILL.....that's looking like ......a SUPER SUPER .....effort......oh no its....WIDE ................and the KEEPER...will....................be happy to...see..that one sail by...his post............no doubt.
Royalio11 (Meath) - Posts: 757 - 11/07/2016 20:34:05
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"100s of kids having an unofficial puck around on the pitch at half-time." is my favourite scene in the GAA. It shows that we are an organisation for all the people. Many's the fine hurler being honed out there.
Imagine 100's of kids on the pitch at an Irish Rugby or soccer match? I suppose they aren't allowed on to Croke Park though either.
Pinkie (Wexford) - Posts: 4100 - 14/07/2016 16:54:33
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I don't know if anyone else noticed (through the rain filled lenses of the RTE cameras...) after the Connacht final when the shot was of the people coming on to the pitch and was from high behind one of the goals. There was a dad and his young son and daughter came on with a ball which he set down for her and she booted it in to the goal - cue the father doing wild celebrations before getting the ball, setting it down for the wee lad who also had a shot and again the da was celebrating like it was the winning goal in the All Ireland. The 3 of them were oblivious to the crowds and might as well have been on an empty pitch for all they cared. Made me smile.
Offside_Rule (Antrim) - Posts: 4058 - 14/07/2016 17:03:02
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Replying To facethepuckout: "raindrops on tv camera- have only ever seen this for GAA matches. Yesterdays Connacht final beat all when there was a perfectly dry, covered and purpose built area to host the cameras in the main stand." Yes, I have often wondered about this. you see it alot on TG4 too and setanta. where sometimes it's virtually impossible to see the action because of rain drops on the camera. surely in this day and age there has to be a solution. how do other sports do. do they have alot more cameras so they can switch and wipe-clean then switch back ?.
s goldrick (Cavan) - Posts: 5518 - 14/07/2016 17:04:40
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