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No Red Thumbs - 13 Like(s)
Replying To KillingFields: "Says a lot about the attitudes and childish attitudes of far too many regular posters on the forum
Red thumbs/down rating posts isnt a good thing. If you need to criticise a post do it openly or not at all.
Promotion of positive posts is something completely different and should be kept" I think if you are bothered by red thumbs, you shouldn't be on here or any other public medium.
I have never ever looked at how many thumbs my posts get, red or green I barely even noticed them.
If you have an opinion and can defend it, then don't worry about green/red thumbs!
Anybody worrying about red thumbs is probably taking things a bit too seriously......to me this place is a bit of craic and debate!
StoreysTash (National) - 05/07/2020 20:00:13
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Are The Rumours True? - 9 Like(s)
The team who are training all along must be some useless lot if they need to ignore a public health epidemic and train without insurance in the hope to win a provincial or All-Ireland championship.
Imagine being so desperate?
But why does everything in the GAA, and Irish society have to be so underhand? Training ban, nod nod wink wink. Managers not being paid, nod nod wink wink nothing to see here Revenue.
The GAA as an organisation really need to grow up. Turning a blind eye to things has not served Irish society well in the past and it really needs to stop.
StoreysTash (National) - 05/07/2020 20:04:28
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Is It Time To Be More Careful Of The Language We Use? - 9 Like(s)
A "true gael" is generally an insufferable individual who thinks only his opinion on GAA matters. The sort of individual who thinks there is no other sport on this planet which produces excitement like the GAA and that anybody playing sport for money should be looked down upon as a mercenary.
StoreysTash (National) - 29/11/2020 14:11:22
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How Many More All Irelands For This Limerick Team? - 7 Like(s)
Replying To galwayford: "Limerick is not a natural hurling county. For a long time the GAA has played second or third fiddle in the city and county. I hope that Cork, Galway, and Tipp will catch them. Well done to Limerick. A good coaching team has made "average hurlers" into winners." That's complete and utter BS of the highest order. I hurled in college with 2 of the lads playing today. I went down to their 21st's and the whole place was hurling mad. Also, these lads had never held a rugby ball in their lives.
Good coaching should be a pre-requisite and nothing to stop other counties matching them in that regard, including my own where good work is going in but I am not sure it will be good enough.
StoreysTash (National) - 13/12/2020 17:46:25
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Get Rid Of The Water Break - 7 Like(s)
The water break is ruining the momentum of our games.
There are enough stoppages where players can get water if they want to, or they can move out to the sideline when a free etc is being taken.
Just because soccer started it last year, they also got rid of it.
We need to do the same.
StoreysTash (National) - 04/07/2021 17:10:43
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Galway V Limerick - 6 Like(s)
I definitely don't think Limerick have become disliked as a team. Or at least not for the most part. A few obnoxious and annoying supporters, every county has them. But it is important to win well and be an equally good loser, in spite of what Vince Lombardi said, you can be a good loser.
Look, matches are won and lost by players. Blaming referees, opposition tactics, etc, is loser talk.
A couple of years ago, we lost a very big game and 2 of our full back line, who had been harping on about the referee all evening in the pub. I eventually had heard enough (I was frustrated and disappointed) and told them it wasn't the referees fault they had 1-6 scored off them. It caused a fair bit of tension but it shut them up.
Blaming referees is loser talk and I have always thought this. There is something in the Irish psyche of not taking responsibility, blaming anyone that can be blamed, finding a scapegoat. The referee is the easiest scapegoat of all.
The referee is the 1 person the game will not survive without. Every county is struggling to get referees - because they are judged to a standard that players are not. A player could miss 5 frees and then only thing the supporters will focus on is the free they didn't get.
GAA people want better referees, but want to savage them for 70 minutes every week. This is a vicious cycle and GAA players and supporters and managers need to take a hard look at themselves. The referee is human, I don't know James Owens personally but I've played enough matches under him in the last few years to say that he is a decent referee, he is fair. But above all, he's human like the rest of us.
If people want exact sciences and sports that are beyond dispute, maybe darts or snooker or ski jumping would be a better sport to follow.
StoreysTash (National) - 17/05/2021 21:02:48
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Cork's Commemorate Jersey - 6 Like(s)
Replying To catch22: "Modern Ireland ? You must be of that so if you have that kind of superficial attitude. God help us if you're a sign of the future." I'm part of "modern Ireland" I would say. I just finished college and have friends from all religions, race and creed.
Imagine being part of "modern Ireland" that thinks we shouldn't move on and make sure GAA is more inclusive? What does it say to immigrants, etc, some of which moved from England to here, about GAA psyche?
I don't care if I am in the minority view. This is an antiquated move. The GAA should be about more than this in this day and age.
StoreysTash (National) - 22/02/2020 14:16:52
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One Club Is Over? - 6 Like(s)
There are a number of reasons why though. I will be called a snowflake but I don't care.
1. The lack of a calendar which can plan a life around. And then, when the county team are beaten, club players are expected to just drop everything else in their life because the club is starting.
2. GAA at club level is stupidly serious. I and many more like me (mid 20s) look after myself, drink a bit but work out in the gym, can do my own training to get fit. Driving from Dublin to Wexford to run around a pitch for an hour is pointless. If there isn't hurling or footballs involved in the training, it isn't hurling or football training.
3. The lack of craic. Until the team are knocked out, people think you have to live the life of a hermit and never set foot outside the house on a Saturday night. Can players not have a social life or chase the shift because the GAA team are still in competition?
I played soccer in Dublin the 2 winters before last and it was serious but also good craic. 4 lads on a roster had to be there 20 minutes earlier than the rest to get the nets and flags up when playing at home. Games often ended in the pub afterwards, not for 10 pints (that did happen after some cup win) but more often than not for 1-2 pints. Training was 2 nights a week, every game was pre-planned, it was competitive but great fun and sadly we were top of the table when the season ended.
Instead in the GAA dressing room, there's lads demanding team charters, gym memberships, gyms themselves or 3 pitches but don't ask about buying a ticket "I am a player". And then you have the paid manager roaring about doing it for the parish yeah get lost you mercenary and do it for your own parish. And then matches on the weekend of Electric Picnic, having bought tickets a year in advance.
I am just not a hard-core GAA player though, and but for Covid I wouldn't have played last year at all. Come to think of it, I don't know why I even post here! :)
StoreysTash (National) - 23/02/2021 16:47:53
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Bringing Children To Games - 6 Like(s)
We have become a nation where personal responsibility is somebody else's responsibility.
Will the crowd hush because her baby wants to sleep?
I have no problem with very discreet breastfeeding, but at a GAA match I can be arms and elbows - so I should go to the match and sit beside somebody breastfeeding, and my team get a goal am I expected to hush, sit down, and not throw my arms around?
What about if a drunk lad comes in and sits beside her?
Sorry lady, but time you lived in the real world. A GAA ground is not a suitable place for a 16 week old baby.
The sense of entitlement here is incredible.
StoreysTash (National) - 14/08/2018 14:07:39
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Inter County Or Club First - 6 Like(s)
I think the media should stop asking Ciaran Whelan or whoever what should go first. I don't think he is an expert in infectious diseases and if I wanted advice in managing a hurling team, I wouldn't be going to Tony Holohan or Cillian De Gascun........
StoreysTash (National) - 24/02/2021 15:11:04
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NFL Division 1 - 5 Like(s)
There is a number of common denominators in these incidents:
1. Tyrone
2. Tunnels
3. Out of sight of the referee.
4. Non-playing officials involved
Do we need to look at separate tunnels for each team? Or does the linesman need to be in the tunnel before the players? Or the home team has to enter the tunnel first because these grown men can't be trusted to act as such?
Is that the level of savages that we have become in the GAA?
StoreysTash (National) - 01/03/2020 10:25:15
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No Fans Allowed On Croke Park Pitch - 5 Like(s)
It is a tragedy that they are not allowed on.
I don't buy the H&S argument. Why are they allowed on at half-time, full-time, in places like Wexford Park?
I watched the celebrations yesterday, compare that to the sea of colour from your county. Remember counties like Armagh, Tyrone, Clare, Wexford (OK I don't remember but have seen them), etc. Seas of colour. Those looked like the days.
Even seeing the crowd in 1980 on the pitch the other night, it didn't look like a H&S issue?
If we can allow 40k people onto the pitch for Coldplay, etc, why can't we set up some basic barriers, etc of some sort to allow the crowd onto the pitch.
I agree that the bedlam at full time with people running on to the pitch is a recipe for disaster, but surely we can do some form of basic crowd control, give the players 10 minutes together, console opponents, etc. Then, maybe the crowd could be slowly let on somehow?
For me, yesterday was yet another example of the GAA elite losing touch with the fan and the club man. We have lost our connection to the common man as an organisation.
StoreysTash (National) - 20/08/2018 17:32:24
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Bringing Children To Games - 5 Like(s)
She is probably just another self-entitled soccer mom who thinks the whole world should stop.
Child has been to 7 games already? Have Tyrone even had 7 games in the last 16 weeks?
The Independent needs to stop becoming more like a sensationalist rag-mag every day and giving sob stories such oxygen
StoreysTash (National) - 14/08/2018 15:07:52
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GAA Before The Noughties Was Terrible - 4 Like(s)
This is going to offend people of a certain age.
Tallowman GAA on YouTube and TG4/Eir during Covid showing old matches have shone a light on many of the legendary hurling and football matches.
So many of these legendary games from the 80's and 90's were absolutely awful. Yes they were exciting finishes and in terms of heart and passion the players could not be faulted, but they were awful in terms of quality. Player intelligence and skill were scarce commodities, there was about 2-3 top class hurlers on every team and beyond that there was honest endeavour but an attitude of pull, wind and swing and ask questions later.
The real start of intelligent hurling came with the Cork team of the mid noughties, and in football with the Tyrone and Armagh teams. Before these teams came along, it was crash bang wallop.
This is by no means to insult those who won provincial or All-Ireland medals back then, but in my view GAA now is in a far better place than it was back then and while there were pulsating finishes to matches back then (and Ciaran Carey's point v Clare is still the best hurling point ever scored), these great moments of class very much paper over otherwise mundane games.
StoreysTash (National) - 22/04/2022 14:52:21
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Pairc Ui Chaoimh - 4 Like(s)
Replying To PyatPree: "Way over spend, but im sick of people calling it a white elephant, it had 2 munster hurling games, munster football final, All Ireland QF, 3 Ed Sheeran concerts and Liam Miller match and not to mention county championship games, hardly a white elephant, but that is a massive cost for what they built" Yeah but lets face it, it shouldn't have held the All-Ireland Quarter final, it very nearly didn't hold the Liam Miller match and 3 Ed Sheeran concerts would sell out if they had them in Cloyne GAA Club.
The overspend is a disgrace, and who else is going to lose out only the GAA clubs who would otherwise have benefited from this 25m.
The location of the stadium is awful, it along with Salthill is the worst located major stadium in the country. Yes its swanky, shiny and new but if you put lipstick on a pig its still a pig.
The GAA will rue the day they ever re-built that stadium, my father remembers the 1976 replay being played there and said it was a bad location back then. Very few people would dispute that fact.
StoreysTash (National) - 14/12/2018 12:31:03
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2022 All-Ireland Hurling Championship thread - 4 Like(s)
Replying To updwell: "I and most Limerick followers have no problem winning close games, if fact they are all the sweeter and do make a team even greater if they win them. What the players did in the past should have little to do with their actions last Sunday and 'diggin' Duggan and 'hatchman' Hayes will have to answer for them. Limerick players have been vilified and abused themselves for the past few years online and I imagine as you say your lads will get the same treatment unfortunately, it's not right and fair but that's 2022 for you." Dirty play needs to be called out updwell.
I never get the "they all are amateurs" rubbish. So are the players on the receiving ends of these dirty belts which have absolutely no part in the game.
I know the red mist descends at times and most players have done things they would like to turn the clock back to. But only somebody who would defend OJ Simpson would defend some of what is defended in the GAA.
StoreysTash (National) - 08/06/2022 12:43:59
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Move To National Forum Only Model - 4 Like(s)
Expect your website traffic to dwindle now that me and many others don't drop on for 5 minutes of escapism from our working lives! My employer will be delighted with this decision though!
My trip was to this site was the Wexford page/forum, then a few minutes on the national forum if I had time.
Slán. It has been good arguing all things Wexford GAA and GAA with everybody. I'm off to shave the tash.
StoreysTash (National) - 30/09/2021 10:22:09
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Wexford V Tipp.. First Full House For Semi? - 4 Like(s)
The look down your nose at people who show up to a big game is laughable. There was still 4k there for the Walsh Cup in January, there was 10k at most league games in Wexford.
Yes a few more turn up when we get a bit of success or something to shout about, WHO CARES?
Would the GAA be better off without the people who just show up for a big match in the summer?
Leinster Rugby was playing in front of small crowds in Donnybrook 10-15 years ago, now they routinely fill out Aviva. Irish people travelled in droves to the Euros a few years ago, people follow success.
Also I would add, I didn't attend all the league matches this year as I was studying for my college finals, is it OK if I go on Sunday now?
Get over yourselves.
StoreysTash (National) - 25/07/2019 12:37:39
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GAA Has Never Been Better - Why So Much Complaining - 4 Like(s)
As a Wexican not old enough to remember the 90s, and other legendary games from that era, I was always told how much the game (of football in particular) has disimproved.
Well Classic GAA, since I got Eir TV, has been an eye opener.
Lets be honest here, old GAA games were mainly terrible games. Yes they were close, exciting, but an exciting 5 minutes at the end could mask over an otherwise awful game.
Football - rule #1 was win it, kick it far.
Hurling - ground hurl if you can't pick it, pick it if you have enough time. Pull first, a broken hurl will gain the approval of the crowd.
While there was no shortage of honest endeavour, much of the play was brain dead. Huff and puff and bluster.
Give me watching players play short passing, pass and move, be a spare man to move the ball out the field, over a lad pulling on the ball on the ground any day.
GAA has never been better, except maybe for the club player for whom it has never been worse. Players are committing more, being trained better, than ever before. I fail to see why the negativity?
I could keep going but need to board a flight for work, I expect to have got slaughtered for this viewpoint when I am, but just like summers being hotter years ago a lot of it is nostalgia.
StoreysTash (National) - 22/02/2020 14:36:20
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Free Entry - 4 Like(s)
Stupidest idea ever. What about the person working in your supermarket earning minimum wage, the people who volunteered all over the country to bring food to old people (I was one and don't expect anything).
Well done to all front line workers, they have kept us all safe etc but this is a ridiculous proposal.
StoreysTash (National) - 09/07/2020 19:46:50
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