Now this is a topic i feel we should talk about . Fans booing players taking frees or when a certain player touches the ball,it is too much soccer style play. Also fans booing teams off and i have seen this even with my own county a few weeks back against kerry. I have seen fans booing their own team off-- is this right . I feel it is wrong and a shame it is getting worse in the gaa .

Dellboypolecat (Tyrone) - Posts: 15069 - 07/04/2009 00:10:54    250334

Worst I've seen was a few years ago in McKenna Cup. Donegal against Tyrone in Omagh. 17 year old Michael Murphy came on as a sub for his first game for Donegal Seniors. He was booed by most of the Tyrone "supporters" in the stand when he would take a free. Really changed my opinion of Tyrone people.

donegal_insider (Donegal) - Posts: 584 - 07/04/2009 00:22:41    250347

It is getting worse. It only started a few years back. First time i heard it was in Croke Park was a dublin/tyrone game, when Dublin fans on the hill started booing at either Mulligan/Stephen O'Neill(whoever was taking frees in front of the hill). Then in AI Final '05 any time gooch got the ball tyrone fans on the hill booed him. It is getting too much like soccer.

Whats going to be next?? GAA hooligans Tyrone Ultras/Dublin Casuals??

Plastic Paddy (Tyrone) - Posts: 664 - 07/04/2009 00:24:21    250351

Its as compulsery as havin the flask for the away games these days!Gerraghty used get a fierce amount off the dubs!

keep_the_faith (Meath) - Posts: 400 - 07/04/2009 00:26:26    250356

It's terrible. Stephen Kenny had to tell the Derry City fans off for booing one of their own players on Friday night and the GAA is going the same way. Unfortunately you will always have fickle supporters in all sports.

Ulsterman (Antrim) - Posts: 9818 - 07/04/2009 00:28:06    250357

You've got to be kidding. How is there outrage to booing?? That is ludicrous. Fans boo, we are playing competitive games and fans can boo!!! It simply adds atmosphere to the games. It is totally ridiculous to bad-mouth fans for booing. These are competitive games, not lawn bowls!!!! If you have a problem with booing, get out of watching competitive sporting contests and take up knitting!!!
Unbelievable...

jono52795 (UK) - Posts: 12 - 07/04/2009 03:10:59    250399

There was a gang of kids from a club who started boohing when Clare came out last Sunday but whoever was with them obviously had a word with them and that was the end of it! It is a terrible habit and one that the kids probably picked up from the TV.

hurlingdub (Dublin) - Posts: 6978 - 07/04/2009 08:49:22    250422

plastic paddy its been going on for alot longer than that. I certainly remember it back to the early 80's, im sure it happened before that too. I dont agree with it myself but i dont think its a big deal

bad.monkey (USA) - Posts: 4649 - 07/04/2009 09:09:50    250440

The thing about this is, the GAA would never be prepared to take the ultimate step to get rid of this behaviour from our games for once and for all. I mean, can you really see them kicking the dubs out of the championship?

whiterbannnas (Mayo) - Posts: 2441 - 07/04/2009 09:55:44    250476

its a brutal thing to have in our national games. we should be proud of our national organisation and not boo other players and countys after all they are playing our national sports. GAA fans should not copy english soccer fans and boo opposing players and teams. its wrong!

ThomasClarke1 (Tyrone) - Posts: 392 - 07/04/2009 10:03:16    250481

Whiterbanannas there's not too many supporters who will stay to the end and applaud the opposition off the field after an almighty hammering as Hill 16 did last August for Tyrone. There would have been no Mayo supporters left of course given your usual propensity for leaving after half time when things are looking bad. Boohing is certainly not new or confined to Dublin. I remember my father telling me about the reception Dubs teams got in certain places in the 50s including one time being pelted with stones!

hurlingdub (Dublin) - Posts: 6978 - 07/04/2009 10:09:08    250487

Its not up to the G.A.A. to put manners on people booing. This should be done by parents when bringing up their children. My father would have given me a stare that would make me shut up immediately if i had being doing this as a child. Manners begin at home. What you put in when they are young comes out later !!

Cavan_Slasher (Cavan) - Posts: 10253 - 07/04/2009 10:12:25    250491

Donegal_insider

Funny I was at Donegal v Armagh AI Semi in 2003. I think Armagh kicked 21 wides that day. Each was cheered like a score for Donegal..Really changed my impression of Donegal supporters...

Brolly (Monaghan) - Posts: 4472 - 07/04/2009 10:16:23    250496

Hold on,
Supprters of county teams pay their hard earned money to go see their county representatives play football or hurling. The least they deserve is for their team to put the effort in. If they are not playing well it is up to the fans to let them know. No way should supporters have to put up with lack lustre displays from their county stars.

Also players recieve substantial grants and subsidies now funded by the taxpayer so in effect fans pay twice to watch their team, the least they deserve is an honest effort. If this is not forthcoming we have every right to boo the team.

Booing individual players hoever is another issue. I believe it is never ok to boo a player from your own team

booing the opposition - no problem, its called atmosphere, what next? Ban cheering for your own team?

peterpan (Louth) - Posts: 80 - 07/04/2009 10:29:56    250513

Brolly, I know. You can see where i'm coming from. You know that not all Donegal supporters are like that, same as I know not all Tyrone supporters are like that, but you just look at them and all you can think is 'you're nothing but s**m'. You meet a few after the game and have the craic, but a month later when you see them on t.v, you can't help thinking 'I hope yous get absolutely hammered yous stuck up, ignorant, wide-cheering, player-booing *******'. At least that's how I feel.

donegal_insider (Donegal) - Posts: 584 - 07/04/2009 10:42:35    250528

Brolly, I know. You can see where i'm coming from. You know that not all Donegal supporters are like that, same as I know not all Tyrone supporters are like that, but you just look at them and all you can think is 'you're nothing but s**m'. You meet a few after the game and have the craic, but a month later when you see them on t.v, you can't help thinking 'I hope yous get absolutely hammered yous stuck up, ignorant, wide-cheering, player-booing, s***bags'. At least that's how I feel.

donegal_insider (Donegal) - Posts: 584 - 07/04/2009 11:28:13    250575

During the minor Leinster final last year, it was in Croke Park before the senior final was on. A Meath player was taking a free up into the hill and the Dubs that were there for the next match started booing him.

Royal_Girl2k9 (Meath) - Posts: 2107 - 07/04/2009 11:32:22    250580

Peterpan, Booing the opposition "is called atmosphere" ?? It is called unsporting behaviour and very bad manners and has no place in our sport !!

Cavan_Slasher (Cavan) - Posts: 10253 - 07/04/2009 11:47:33    250606

Ah now booing a meath player is a different story - Thats fine.

In fact i think we need a new thread to discuss that being perfectly fine!!

peterpan (Louth) - Posts: 80 - 07/04/2009 11:53:13    250616

Peterpan, I was more trying to point out that it was a minor player but take from it what you want

Royal_Girl2k9 (Meath) - Posts: 2107 - 07/04/2009 12:11:08    250642