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I watched a number of games which were played in Munster last Weekend. The playing conditions were atrocious.
Downpours and gale force winds. In Kerry I saw David Clifford unable to score a point from play. In another game I saw a player unable to kick the ball over from the 20 metre line. In the Cork hurling final it was difficult to make out the players at times.
It is obvious the County Boards have no respect for the players, or their safety, or for the supporters.
I commend the players for their behavior under such trying conditions.
Shame on the GAA.
Gaa Fan (USA) - Posts: 749 - 18/10/2022 20:16:06
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Replying To Gaa Fan: "I watched a number of games which were played in Munster last Weekend. The playing conditions were atrocious.
Downpours and gale force winds. In Kerry I saw David Clifford unable to score a point from play. In another game I saw a player unable to kick the ball over from the 20 metre line. In the Cork hurling final it was difficult to make out the players at times.
It is obvious the County Boards have no respect for the players, or their safety, or for the supporters.
I commend the players for their behavior under such trying conditions.
Shame on the GAA." I take it you've never played the game before with a statement like that? Believe it or not, the weather can be fairly wild at times on an island in the Atlantic. The fact we have a dedicated split season and you now come out with this nonsense about disrespect is madness... go back to bed.
fancyaride (Mayo) - Posts: 180 - 19/10/2022 09:02:17
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The sooner the GAA do something about the weather the better. Its a disgrace at the moment.
james2011 (Wexford) - Posts: 602 - 19/10/2022 09:42:40
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Replying To Gaa Fan: "I watched a number of games which were played in Munster last Weekend. The playing conditions were atrocious.
Downpours and gale force winds. In Kerry I saw David Clifford unable to score a point from play. In another game I saw a player unable to kick the ball over from the 20 metre line. In the Cork hurling final it was difficult to make out the players at times.
It is obvious the County Boards have no respect for the players, or their safety, or for the supporters.
I commend the players for their behavior under such trying conditions.
Shame on the GAA." baffling comment!!! County Boards fix games they cant fix the weather! I myself always talk about how bad are own county board are but you cant start blaming them for the bad weather too!! if they called off games because of wind and rain when would you expect championships to get time to finish.. I would love to hear your proposal on how to fix the weather problem?? we had 2 weeks in a row of really bad playing conditions in every county with numerous semi finals and finals played including my own county which I attended! worst playing conditions for a final I have seen in recent memory also both inter and senior final hugely effected by it as both the better teams and favs lost both finals by last minute goals!! but its all part of the game, its makes things all the more interesting and seeing how teams adapt!!
Garmin (Longford) - Posts: 87 - 19/10/2022 09:43:05
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Ah here lad, maybe we should move all GAA fixtures to the Canaries? You could play a game in the middle of summer in Ireland and the weather could be cat.
Lockjaw (Donegal) - Posts: 9135 - 19/10/2022 10:13:47
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Replying To Gaa Fan: "I watched a number of games which were played in Munster last Weekend. The playing conditions were atrocious.
Downpours and gale force winds. In Kerry I saw David Clifford unable to score a point from play. In another game I saw a player unable to kick the ball over from the 20 metre line. In the Cork hurling final it was difficult to make out the players at times.
It is obvious the County Boards have no respect for the players, or their safety, or for the supporters.
I commend the players for their behavior under such trying conditions.
Shame on the GAA." Oh stop with the safety malarkey.
Everytime a player crosses that line he's putting his safety at risk, whatever the weather. Shall we just cancel sport so?
Galway9801 (Galway) - Posts: 1706 - 19/10/2022 10:43:00
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Some great responses here. Gave me a good laugh.
I once played a game in Thunder and lightning and was called off with no more than 10 mins to go...with us winning about 4 points to 2 (hurling too so you can imagine what it was like). We obviously wanted to play on. We got the mother and father of all hammerings in the re-fixture on a day where the sun was splitting the stones and the ground was rock hard. Lost by over 20 points from what I remember.
tiobraid (Tipperary) - Posts: 4119 - 19/10/2022 10:57:45
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Replying To Gaa Fan: "I watched a number of games which were played in Munster last Weekend. The playing conditions were atrocious.
Downpours and gale force winds. In Kerry I saw David Clifford unable to score a point from play. In another game I saw a player unable to kick the ball over from the 20 metre line. In the Cork hurling final it was difficult to make out the players at times.
It is obvious the County Boards have no respect for the players, or their safety, or for the supporters.
I commend the players for their behavior under such trying conditions.
Shame on the GAA." Either this is a parody post or the poster thinks we all live in New England with beautiful blue-sky 'Fall' days amidst a beautiful vista of leaves changing colours on dry, crisp and sunny game days. Hilarious either way.
LongfordgaaAbú (Longford) - Posts: 471 - 19/10/2022 11:07:21
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Replying To Gaa Fan: "I watched a number of games which were played in Munster last Weekend. The playing conditions were atrocious.
Downpours and gale force winds. In Kerry I saw David Clifford unable to score a point from play. In another game I saw a player unable to kick the ball over from the 20 metre line. In the Cork hurling final it was difficult to make out the players at times.
It is obvious the County Boards have no respect for the players, or their safety, or for the supporters.
I commend the players for their behavior under such trying conditions.
Shame on the GAA." If we applied this attitude to life nobody would even step inside a car.
TerribleFootwork (Wexford) - Posts: 1716 - 19/10/2022 11:12:09
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Replying To Gaa Fan: "I watched a number of games which were played in Munster last Weekend. The playing conditions were atrocious.
Downpours and gale force winds. In Kerry I saw David Clifford unable to score a point from play. In another game I saw a player unable to kick the ball over from the 20 metre line. In the Cork hurling final it was difficult to make out the players at times.
It is obvious the County Boards have no respect for the players, or their safety, or for the supporters.
I commend the players for their behavior under such trying conditions.
Shame on the GAA." I agree, with the money in the GAA and county boards these days to think no one in charge has the foresight to put a roof over the West Coast from Oct to March is embarrassing.
dolfos (Longford) - Posts: 109 - 19/10/2022 11:40:20
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Replying To james2011: "The sooner the GAA do something about the weather the better. Its a disgrace at the moment." Great post James2011!
Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 11847 - 19/10/2022 11:52:03
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Replying To Gaa Fan: "I watched a number of games which were played in Munster last Weekend. The playing conditions were atrocious.
Downpours and gale force winds. In Kerry I saw David Clifford unable to score a point from play. In another game I saw a player unable to kick the ball over from the 20 metre line. In the Cork hurling final it was difficult to make out the players at times.
It is obvious the County Boards have no respect for the players, or their safety, or for the supporters.
I commend the players for their behavior under such trying conditions.
Shame on the GAA." So the secret to stopping Clifford is a bit of wind and rain. Superman's kryptonite. He was scoreless from play in the Sigerson final earlier this year too on a wet and windy evening.
Move the All-Ireland final to late November, I say!
WanPintWin (Galway) - Posts: 2040 - 19/10/2022 12:30:43
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Replying To tiobraid: "Some great responses here. Gave me a good laugh.
I once played a game in Thunder and lightning and was called off with no more than 10 mins to go...with us winning about 4 points to 2 (hurling too so you can imagine what it was like). We obviously wanted to play on. We got the mother and father of all hammerings in the re-fixture on a day where the sun was splitting the stones and the ground was rock hard. Lost by over 20 points from what I remember." I remember playing a reserve football match one year. Same conditions as yours, but we were losing badly. Ref decided half time would be about 2 minutes, long enough to remove my geansaí and pointlessly wring the water out before switching ends. I think everyone just wanted it to be over.
Suas Sios (None) - Posts: 1550 - 19/10/2022 13:24:21
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Replying To Gaa Fan: "I watched a number of games which were played in Munster last Weekend. The playing conditions were atrocious.
Downpours and gale force winds. In Kerry I saw David Clifford unable to score a point from play. In another game I saw a player unable to kick the ball over from the 20 metre line. In the Cork hurling final it was difficult to make out the players at times.
It is obvious the County Boards have no respect for the players, or their safety, or for the supporters.
I commend the players for their behavior under such trying conditions.
Shame on the GAA." wow!!! what a wally
Stmunnsriver (Wexford) - Posts: 2842 - 19/10/2022 13:46:26
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Replying To Viking66: "Great post James2011!" Well in fairness, its obvious. They have had hundreds of years to do something about it but they sit on their hands doing nothing and have players out in atrocious weather. I blame the suits and fat cats in Croke Park, in their nice cosy offices with their bags of money to keep them warm.
james2011 (Wexford) - Posts: 602 - 19/10/2022 15:37:22
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The weather was always great until Tyrone and Armagh ruined it forever in the early 00's
Breffni40 (Cavan) - Posts: 12118 - 19/10/2022 16:48:13
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I watched a number of games which were played in Munster last Weekend. The playing conditions were atrocious.
Downpours and gale force winds. In Kerry I saw David Clifford unable to score a point from play. In another game I saw a player unable to kick the ball over from the 20 metre line. In the Cork hurling final it was difficult to make out the players at times.
It is obvious the County Boards have no respect for the players, or their safety, or for the supporters.
I commend the players for their behavior under such trying conditions.
Shame on the GAA.
Gaa Fan (USA) - Posts: 680 - 18/10/2022 20:16:06
I see plenty are criticising you saying the weather could be terrible in the summer well obviously it could but theres a far greater chance of better weather in the summer and they dont play games.
GAA have to do better but how do you suggest they get to play more games in summer
I take it you've never played the game before with a statement like that? Believe it or not, the weather can be fairly wild at times on an island in the Atlantic. The fact we have a dedicated split season and you now come out with this nonsense about disrespect is madness... go back to bed.
fancyaride (Mayo) - Posts: 177 - 19/10/2022 09:02:17
Ridiculous post. the OP was simply saying its madness to be playing so many games going into the late autumn and into winter when you will have much greater chance of poor weather and you could play far more games in summer when its more likely to be better weather and disrespect is right when 99% of players games are held back by the 1%...
baffling comment!!! County Boards fix games they cant fix the weather! I myself always talk about how bad are own county board are but you cant start blaming them for the bad weather too!! if they called off games because of wind and rain when would you expect championships to get time to finish.. I would love to hear your proposal on how to fix the weather problem?? we had 2 weeks in a row of really bad playing conditions in every county with numerous semi finals and finals played including my own county which I attended! worst playing conditions for a final I have seen in recent memory also both inter and senior final hugely effected by it as both the better teams and favs lost both finals by last minute goals!! but its all part of the game, its makes things all the more interesting and seeing how teams adapt!!
Garmin (Longford) - Posts: 24 - 19/10/2022 09:43:05
county boards can fix more games for summer months and ensure games are played far more in summer and not have teams idle for weeks in summer and then playing into late autumn/winter when they didnt have to
KillingFields (Limerick) - Posts: 3510 - 19/10/2022 18:28:01
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Replying To KillingFields: "I watched a number of games which were played in Munster last Weekend. The playing conditions were atrocious.
Downpours and gale force winds. In Kerry I saw David Clifford unable to score a point from play. In another game I saw a player unable to kick the ball over from the 20 metre line. In the Cork hurling final it was difficult to make out the players at times.
It is obvious the County Boards have no respect for the players, or their safety, or for the supporters.
I commend the players for their behavior under such trying conditions.
Shame on the GAA.
Gaa Fan (USA) - Posts: 680 - 18/10/2022 20:16:06
I see plenty are criticising you saying the weather could be terrible in the summer well obviously it could but theres a far greater chance of better weather in the summer and they dont play games.
GAA have to do better but how do you suggest they get to play more games in summer
I take it you've never played the game before with a statement like that? Believe it or not, the weather can be fairly wild at times on an island in the Atlantic. The fact we have a dedicated split season and you now come out with this nonsense about disrespect is madness... go back to bed.
fancyaride (Mayo) - Posts: 177 - 19/10/2022 09:02:17
Ridiculous post. the OP was simply saying its madness to be playing so many games going into the late autumn and into winter when you will have much greater chance of poor weather and you could play far more games in summer when its more likely to be better weather and disrespect is right when 99% of players games are held back by the 1%...
baffling comment!!! County Boards fix games they cant fix the weather! I myself always talk about how bad are own county board are but you cant start blaming them for the bad weather too!! if they called off games because of wind and rain when would you expect championships to get time to finish.. I would love to hear your proposal on how to fix the weather problem?? we had 2 weeks in a row of really bad playing conditions in every county with numerous semi finals and finals played including my own county which I attended! worst playing conditions for a final I have seen in recent memory also both inter and senior final hugely effected by it as both the better teams and favs lost both finals by last minute goals!! but its all part of the game, its makes things all the more interesting and seeing how teams adapt!!
Garmin (Longford) - Posts: 24 - 19/10/2022 09:43:05
county boards can fix more games for summer months and ensure games are played far more in summer and not have teams idle for weeks in summer and then playing into late autumn/winter when they didnt have to" Checked the Kerry schedule. The final is on October 30th. October 23rd is open. When the weather forecast was made known for last weekend why were the games not re-scheduled? Why not re-fix the games? We are not talking about wind and rain but gale force winds and downpours. Did anyone of you watch the Cork hurling final? Could hardly see the players at times. A number of what I consider to be "smart" answers to this post. Yes I played in the rain and refereed in the rain....no problem. The play-offs are a time when the GAA should be showcasing the games.
Gaa Fan (USA) - Posts: 749 - 19/10/2022 21:38:15
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Replying To KillingFields: "I watched a number of games which were played in Munster last Weekend. The playing conditions were atrocious.
Downpours and gale force winds. In Kerry I saw David Clifford unable to score a point from play. In another game I saw a player unable to kick the ball over from the 20 metre line. In the Cork hurling final it was difficult to make out the players at times.
It is obvious the County Boards have no respect for the players, or their safety, or for the supporters.
I commend the players for their behavior under such trying conditions.
Shame on the GAA.
Gaa Fan (USA) - Posts: 680 - 18/10/2022 20:16:06
I see plenty are criticising you saying the weather could be terrible in the summer well obviously it could but theres a far greater chance of better weather in the summer and they dont play games.
GAA have to do better but how do you suggest they get to play more games in summer
I take it you've never played the game before with a statement like that? Believe it or not, the weather can be fairly wild at times on an island in the Atlantic. The fact we have a dedicated split season and you now come out with this nonsense about disrespect is madness... go back to bed.
fancyaride (Mayo) - Posts: 177 - 19/10/2022 09:02:17
Ridiculous post. the OP was simply saying its madness to be playing so many games going into the late autumn and into winter when you will have much greater chance of poor weather and you could play far more games in summer when its more likely to be better weather and disrespect is right when 99% of players games are held back by the 1%...
baffling comment!!! County Boards fix games they cant fix the weather! I myself always talk about how bad are own county board are but you cant start blaming them for the bad weather too!! if they called off games because of wind and rain when would you expect championships to get time to finish.. I would love to hear your proposal on how to fix the weather problem?? we had 2 weeks in a row of really bad playing conditions in every county with numerous semi finals and finals played including my own county which I attended! worst playing conditions for a final I have seen in recent memory also both inter and senior final hugely effected by it as both the better teams and favs lost both finals by last minute goals!! but its all part of the game, its makes things all the more interesting and seeing how teams adapt!!
Garmin (Longford) - Posts: 24 - 19/10/2022 09:43:05
county boards can fix more games for summer months and ensure games are played far more in summer and not have teams idle for weeks in summer and then playing into late autumn/winter when they didnt have to" You might have missed the fact that intercounty championship was run in the summer. If county boards want to run their championships earlier, it'll be without county players. That's your solution, but it won't fly. County championships are being played earlier this year, with intercounty finishing earlier. There are only so many weeks available.
The GAA calendar is one of the trickiest riddles to solve. It's definitely better for the club player this year in my opinion than it has been for a long time.
WanPintWin (Galway) - Posts: 2040 - 19/10/2022 22:05:36
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Replying To KillingFields: "I watched a number of games which were played in Munster last Weekend. The playing conditions were atrocious.
Downpours and gale force winds. In Kerry I saw David Clifford unable to score a point from play. In another game I saw a player unable to kick the ball over from the 20 metre line. In the Cork hurling final it was difficult to make out the players at times.
It is obvious the County Boards have no respect for the players, or their safety, or for the supporters.
I commend the players for their behavior under such trying conditions.
Shame on the GAA.
Gaa Fan (USA) - Posts: 680 - 18/10/2022 20:16:06
I see plenty are criticising you saying the weather could be terrible in the summer well obviously it could but theres a far greater chance of better weather in the summer and they dont play games.
GAA have to do better but how do you suggest they get to play more games in summer
I take it you've never played the game before with a statement like that? Believe it or not, the weather can be fairly wild at times on an island in the Atlantic. The fact we have a dedicated split season and you now come out with this nonsense about disrespect is madness... go back to bed.
fancyaride (Mayo) - Posts: 177 - 19/10/2022 09:02:17
Ridiculous post. the OP was simply saying its madness to be playing so many games going into the late autumn and into winter when you will have much greater chance of poor weather and you could play far more games in summer when its more likely to be better weather and disrespect is right when 99% of players games are held back by the 1%...
baffling comment!!! County Boards fix games they cant fix the weather! I myself always talk about how bad are own county board are but you cant start blaming them for the bad weather too!! if they called off games because of wind and rain when would you expect championships to get time to finish.. I would love to hear your proposal on how to fix the weather problem?? we had 2 weeks in a row of really bad playing conditions in every county with numerous semi finals and finals played including my own county which I attended! worst playing conditions for a final I have seen in recent memory also both inter and senior final hugely effected by it as both the better teams and favs lost both finals by last minute goals!! but its all part of the game, its makes things all the more interesting and seeing how teams adapt!!
Garmin (Longford) - Posts: 24 - 19/10/2022 09:43:05
county boards can fix more games for summer months and ensure games are played far more in summer and not have teams idle for weeks in summer and then playing into late autumn/winter when they didnt have to" We have had club championship games every weekend bar 2 since we exited the intercounty championships. When exactly are you proposing to schedule extra games during the summer months?
Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 11847 - 20/10/2022 09:08:22
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