I support mainly GAA and have no interest whatsoever in soccer and to me, there are elements of soccer creeping into our games more every year. I'm not surprised by jono uk post on 1st page stating that it's part and parcel of our games, well it's not and it shouldn't be, he's obviously been to too many soccer games.
Has anyone ever been to Thomond Park, i've only ever been once and the respect the fans on both sides have for their own and visitors is absolutely fantastic, i've never witnessed anything like it before and i'd love to see that behaviour more in the GAA.

DanBreen (Kerry) - Posts: 73 - 10/04/2009 15:39:40    254226

Its a gaelic football thing. This doesn't really happen in hurling except in the case of john mullane who gave the fingers to the cork fans on the town end but he is still well respected by corkonians for his skill. Hurling has too much class for booing talents

The_Bull (Cork) - Posts: 248 - 10/04/2009 18:14:20    254339

It's definitely a carry over from soccer. All counties are guilty of it now, some worse than others. What's really saddening is seeing it happen during minor games, and it's not just young fellas doing the jeering and booing. I also think the whole self-segregation thing that goes on with Hill 16 during Dublin matches is wrong and is not part of what the GAA should be about. Why do we need to keep aping what happens with soccer ? After all the lads out on the pitch are only amateurs.

Maroonatic (Galway) - Posts: 1066 - 10/04/2009 18:33:42    254353

jono52795 County: UK Posts: 2 250399 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... Well you've probably become used to booing if your resident in the UK! We take pride in the fact that GAA games are family days out,The two counties/clubs supporters can sit beside each other and enjoy the banter without trouble.Booing is unacceptable -its an amateur sport

ArmaghRoadie (Armagh) - Posts: 7 - 10/04/2009 18:39:55    254356

I am in totalagreement that booing has no place in the GAA. This is an amateur sport these lads recieve no reward and more often than not perform other jobs during the week. They do not have personal trainers coaches or indeed sports psychologists to aid them with the pressures of match day, Who knows what fears problems or personal events impact on them.

derryman (Derry) - Posts: 3246 - 10/04/2009 20:21:57    254453

jono52795
County: UK
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Never seen your post till now are you serious . The supporters in english football are kept apart because of the fighting and it is a disgrace if you think booing is ok .

Dellboypolecat (Tyrone) - Posts: 15069 - 10/04/2009 20:56:33    254486

Maroonatic
County: Galway
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Nobodys stopping you going the hill,your county board are giving tickets for the hill ,u send them back not our problem yours

tomaoo7 (Dublin) - Posts: 5896 - 10/04/2009 21:24:48    254510

I was stopped, by intimidation, by so called GAA followers back in the late 70s and had to listen to chants of get off the hill. So no lectures please. Not sure who you mean by "our problem" either. Are you the representative of some special interest group ? It'd make it that bit harder to whistle and boo opposing team players if all supporters were properly integrated all the time.

Maroonatic (Galway) - Posts: 1066 - 11/04/2009 12:52:34    254752

Maroonatic
County: Galway
Posts: 38

Your are living in the past move on.When i said yours not ours i was referring to your county board who get tickets for the hill and return them.IF you want intergration buy tickets and go the hill.I speak for myself and give my opinion as you give yours.ITs obviously a long time since you've been to match because booing is going on everywhere where theres intergration.Maybe its just anothewr attack on Dublin fans is what your getting at.Sine

tomaoo7 (Dublin) - Posts: 5896 - 11/04/2009 13:23:44    254766

All booing in GAA is rooted in fans who are also devout soccer fans, who are only at the match because Man U aren't on TV

chuckiearla (Kildare) - Posts: 30 - 11/04/2009 15:40:08    254836

tomaoo7

Never seeing any booing on the hill FACT


Dont think you can SEE booing. But you can HEAR it and the people on the hill are the ones that start it.

Plastic Paddy (Tyrone) - Posts: 664 - 11/04/2009 15:46:14    254840

Plastic Paddy
County: Tyrone
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Paddy i think for players to goad the supporters on the hill is worst than booing.Whats your take on that players should be above that carry on.

tomaoo7 (Dublin) - Posts: 5896 - 11/04/2009 17:18:19    254864

Booing players from fans is not right and i and alot of poeple do not like it and the fans that do it . Why or why not go to soccer and do it and leave the gaa to the family friendly game it has been .

Dellboypolecat (Tyrone) - Posts: 15069 - 11/04/2009 19:55:03    254948

Do not condone de booing at all, but ya have to admit that from juvenile games right through to senior county supporters there has alway been a certain amount of jeering that comes from the stands.

In fairness sometimes de best craic at a boring junior game can be listening to the auld boys shouting abuse @ referees & players alike.

So when It comes down to it my opinion is that it can build a bit of atmosphere among de supporters & at least @ the end of the day, unlike de soccer we can sit and have a pint with the opposition

savagedman (Monaghan) - Posts: 39 - 11/04/2009 21:28:01    255008

The title of this thread is misleading, because "fans" dont boo players. Fans support their team, the booing, whistling and jeering of opposition players and teams is totally unacceptable, IMO.

Toma007, you say that players should be above that carry on. Why ?. These players are amateurs, representing their county, and they should not have to put up with the abusive chants that eminate from the Hill. Just because they dont wear a sky-blue jersey doesn't mean that they should be subject to abuse.
The boys on the Hill can be very entertaining and amusing when they are not being abusive to the opposition.

yellabelly (Wexford) - Posts: 1062 - 11/04/2009 22:54:25    255049

savagedman
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Refs do not deserve abuse and disappointed you think it is fun for poeple to shout abuse at them.

Dellboypolecat (Tyrone) - Posts: 15069 - 11/04/2009 23:27:21    255073

tomato07

Try not to make it personal. 'tis only a GAA forum after all. I'm very much a man of the noughties. I can even navigate my way around d'oul interweb thingy and I'm even quite adept at adding the word "like" to the end of every sentence just to be hip and happening with the young set. If you disagree with an opinion someone has expressed then fine but there's no need to start telling people you don't know how to live their lives. As to the booing if you think it's going on everywhere then next time the lad near you at a match indulges in some unsporting behaviour you might suggest to him it's atypical of true GAA sportmanship. Consider it your good deed for the day. I go to a match on average every other Sunday & God willing will continue to do so.I don't regard a week or two as a long time but then maybe I'm that bit older than you. I'll take your advice about moving on though because if anything is obvious it's that I've touched a nerve somewhere and also I don't do tit-for-tat cyber arguments. Besides there's newer threads here that have caught my eye. Slan.

Maroonatic (Galway) - Posts: 1066 - 12/04/2009 09:20:57    255154

my club played st josephs ederney in the intermediate club championship in 2005 at brewster park and they booed every free taker and when it went wide they jeered also roared at referee to book players very unsavoury and one of our older supporters remarked that it was like being at a soccer match , the game ended in a draw and at the replay in crossmaglen there was hardly any .

appleboy (Armagh) - Posts: 479 - 12/04/2009 12:02:23    255190

Perhaps i should have clarified that I hate the booing. Awful hearing it when some1 has missed a kickable free, but just wanted to point out that it adds 2 de atmosphere.

savagedman (Monaghan) - Posts: 39 - 13/04/2009 03:02:01    255572

Maroonatic
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No point talking to him he thinks his county are saints when clearly they cause alot of the problems in the hill.

Dellboypolecat (Tyrone) - Posts: 15069 - 13/04/2009 15:19:54    255770