Knock the political BS on the head, the lot of you.

Everyone is entitled to enjoy sports and they do so without thinking of its origins. People all over the world enjoy GAA without spouting ancient colonial history. People all over the world enjoy soccer without spouting a deep rooted hated of the British for it.

What ye are saying has nothing to do with sport, so knock it off

gigoer (Wexford) - Posts: 1998 - 03/11/2010 10:03:14    808490

well said mollymalone

hill16no1man (Dublin) - Posts: 12665 - 03/11/2010 11:03:19    808536

i agree with Mollymalone too

waynoI (Dublin) - Posts: 13654 - 03/11/2010 13:17:52    808655

AfricanGael
County: UK
Posts: 136

808262 hill16no1man

What about Brazil for example. Were the British there as well? no. I rest my case.

soccer is a ladies game

thurlesblues (Tipperary) - Posts: 4475 - 03/11/2010 14:13:02    808705

AfricanGael
County: UK
Posts: 136

808262 hill16no1man

What about Brazil for example. Were the British there as well? no. I rest my case.

probably the only country they werent in as they were kicked out of all the rest!!

thurlesblues (Tipperary) - Posts: 4475 - 03/11/2010 14:25:59    808719

give me cricket any day of the week over soccer far better game. i dont thik its right that anyone should get 250,000 per week 4 playin a game. The game is full of greedy people there will be a price 2 pey for all that greed

bigstone (Down) - Posts: 74 - 04/11/2010 09:18:30    809247

bottom line is bernard is a hero

jokeshop (Wicklow) - Posts: 32 - 04/11/2010 09:34:18    809258

If it wasn't for the British a lot of those countries would still be in the dark ages, including Ireland. How long does it take a country to learn its own language? lol.

Bit of a tainted view there AfricanGael. May I suggest you get your hands on a copy of How the Celts Saved Britain which was on the BBC a while back and then maybe you'll see that if it wasn't for the Irish then its Britain who may still be in the dark ages.

Offside_Rule (Antrim) - Posts: 4058 - 04/11/2010 11:46:50    809345

Why GAA is better than soccer: Padraig Duffy's comments that the GAA can't help out every club. At least the GAA would be willing to help out clubs with financial difficulties, Soccer over here is content to watch its clubs slowly rot and die and the fans suffer. The guy that sits opposite me is a Pompey fan and it has been terrible watching him suffer with all the rumours of the club being wound up.

Tongo (UK) - Posts: 1795 - 04/11/2010 12:02:36    809357

Tongo
County: UK
Posts: 1397

809357 Why GAA is better than soccer: Padraig Duffy's comments that the GAA can't help out every club. At least the GAA would be willing to help out clubs with financial difficulties, Soccer over here is content to watch its clubs slowly rot and die and the fans suffer. The guy that sits opposite me is a Pompey fan and it has been terrible watching him suffer with all the rumours of the club being wound up.
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by helping out club's you are only encouraging them to live beyond their means. The FA rightly punish these clubs as they want clubs to be self sustaining and not go down the leeds route. if the GAA start bailing out club's like ortlaois, then other clubs will feel hard done by that they are funding these clubs. If they can give clubs in difficulty money, then why not reward the clubs who manage themselves correctly with the same financial benifits?

wishfulthinkin (Cavan) - Posts: 1732 - 04/11/2010 13:54:04    809476

Fair enough wishfulthinkin, but by taking such a hardline approach it is the fans that suffer. The owners disappear into the sunset, the players move onto other clubs. It is the fans who suffer because one or two individuals couldn't manage the finances properly. I would guess it is a similar scenario with GAA clubs; one or two individuals make bad financial decisions and the rest of the club members suffer. Tis not a good way to run things.

Tongo (UK) - Posts: 1795 - 04/11/2010 16:06:00    809592

tongo it is if u live outside dublin as you can get transfer easy but try getting a transfer in dublin to another club its impossible unfair that country guys can come to dublin clubs and dublin born people cant transfer,you dont sign a contract like in soccer you dont get paid so what right do they have to stop you playing football.this is 1 thing the gaa should take from soccer

hill16no1man (Dublin) - Posts: 12665 - 04/11/2010 17:53:50    809725

and Tongo, unlike soccer clubs that are owned..GAA clubs are run by the locality, there is AGM and elections every year so if they are unhappy with the way things are being run, they can change it on a yearly basis..and they can change it more frequently if they want to

wishfulthinkin (Cavan) - Posts: 1732 - 04/11/2010 19:33:27    809827

hill16no1man Dublin players can transfer out of Dublin just as easily as players who transfer in. They just don't want to as the flow of emigration tends to flow the other way I suppose. Transferring within any county is always difficult if the club being asked to release the player isn't happy with the situation. If Dublin clubs choose to ignore their own young players for outside talent well that's up to them I'm afraid.

doublehop (Kildare) - Posts: 4172 - 04/11/2010 20:20:05    809872

wishfulthinkin: a year's plenty of time to screw things up financially. Anyway, my point was that often with financial problems it is the masses who suffer because of the actions of one or two.

hill16number1: didn't Mr Sherlock get a particularly controversial transfer a few years back?

Tongo (UK) - Posts: 1795 - 04/11/2010 21:58:06    809992

DOUBLEHOP AND TONGO

im not an inter county player and i have been kept out of football for 2years now because of transfer how fair is that i play because i like the game there not paying me to play,a few owl fellas who have nothing better to do with there time should not be able to dictate if i can or cannot play football or not its a disgrace especialy when i wasnt let last year transfer in january because i was supposed to be a week late and i had finaly got the club to sign and let me go and then u see hugh coughlan get a transfer in september from vincents to portlaoise,1 rule for 1 and for the rest

hill16no1man (Dublin) - Posts: 12665 - 05/11/2010 10:13:20    810068

First Time poster. Its so true about the GAA we should cherish and be proud of it and what it means to us Irish. Im an Aston Villa supporter for nearly 20 years and went over to watch them recently play Chelsea at Villa Park. You cant even compare it players strolling around the pitch, some of them cant even string two passes together and on nearly 50 thousand pounds a week. I was in Croke Park for the Galway Tipp All-Ireland Hurling Qtr Final this year, I was out of breath at the end of it and I was just watching it. The two teams just tore into each other for the 70 minutes amazing intensity and very high skill levels. Galway lost by a point and some of the Galway players coming of the field crying absolutely devestated. You cant even compare the two experiences. That feeling of euphoria and joy I got in 1998 when Galway won the football All-Ireland for the first time in 32 years. I know the GAA isn't perfect by any means but what it does for local comunnities and the sense of togetherness about it. Thanks for letting me get it off my chest. Gaillimh Abu.

mon (Galway) - Posts: 675 - 05/11/2010 10:34:05    810082

Fair point hill16no1man. Maybe there's a reason why certain players (i.e high profile inter-county players) are able to get transfers and the average player isn't!

Tongo (UK) - Posts: 1795 - 05/11/2010 12:05:35    810159

Totally agree with what you say mon. I was at the Tipp-Galway game too and my heart went out to the Galway fans, it was an incredible match. And you are right, it isn't perfect, and never will be, but it has many good points.

Tongo (UK) - Posts: 1795 - 05/11/2010 12:08:14    810161

Mollymalone
County: Dublin
Posts: 316

808484 Well said Bernard. You (and indeed your family at large) represent all thats "Good" bout the GAA. The pride in the jersey, the passion, the spirit and pure and utter skill unlike the soccer players who get paid obseen amount of money for playing a game that requires very little skill, passion or otherwise!!! Gaelic games are our national sport and something we should all be proud to support , call me bias but theres nowhere compares to Croke Park on a summers day and ye would not get the atmosphere anywhere in the world.......they can have their soccar and their players.....no thanks...

Probably the single most technical sport in the world and Molly Malone reckons that there's no skill required.

Where do they get posters from nowadays?

Loyal2TheRoyal (Meath) - Posts: 4522 - 17/11/2010 16:34:10    818443