Oh yeah,and honourable mention must go to my best mates roommates from the craughwell area (committed Man Utd fans) who seemed to think it was hilarious that when they were younger they used to vandalise the local gaa club every friday night.
More apt to say"no interest"?I think that qualifies as not liking gigoer.You strike me as a guy who has a high opinion of himself at the best of times,but dont be so arrogant as to tell me what my mates think of our games.

TheRoad (Galway) - Posts: 1339 - 20/01/2012 16:48:16    1097197

Roadie, untwist your knickers for a start

My post was in direct response to this:

TheRoad
County: Galway
Posts: 593

1096989 dHorse,i know loads of people who dont like the Gaa even though they have never watched a football or hurling match.

And then you come out with all this meldrama about your mates in Galway, soccer crowds saying I don't give a sh*te about this and that, someone's mother's TV in an AI final of 90s and a gaa club being vandalised blah blah blah

AFTER

my down to earth reply to your simple original post?

If you have a point to make about hostility towards the GAA, then make it - instead of writing one liners that contain absolutely nothing about the line of thinking behind your post and then reverting with these soap operas. And you're an absolute fool if you think I was referring specifically to your mates/Galway/mother/whatever when you made no reference to them whatsoever in the first place.

And it's so laughable that you would accuse me of a high opinion when you're on your soapbox spouting that crap for a post that was honestly written to your simple little one-liner

Thank you for ending my Friday on a high note.

gigoer (Wexford) - Posts: 1998 - 20/01/2012 17:30:18    1097226

You said that I am mistaking a lack of intertest for hostility.I was using examples to prove that you were wrong.I wasnt trying to be melodramatic.You say that your reply was down to earth.I found it very arrogant.You were telling me what people I know think of the Gaa.Ending your friday on a high note?Dont make me laugh.Your post contains a bit of frustration in it too.Be careful,this ,mature,logical,sensible image youre trying to cultivate for yourself on this internet forum may be under threat.

TheRoad (Galway) - Posts: 1339 - 20/01/2012 17:40:32    1097231

Roadie,

First of all, I never said you 'mistakenly' said anything. I simply expressed the view that people not liking GAA is more to do with lack of interest in it rather than simply disliking it - point out where I said you were mistaken, please

Seondly, you say 'You were telling me what people I know think of the Gaa' - point out where I did that please if you want to waste your time looking. You never mentioned anybody else be it your mates or whoever until your tantrum-filled retort

Thirdly I said 'with respect, I see no basis for judgement whatsoever in that statement', respect with which you were unable to return, so don't lecture me about jeopardising a thread and don't start cribbing when I fight fire with fire

To summarise, I never said anything about people you know, again, your one liner was uninformed & generalised with no reference to all those things you mentioned by reply. I see you're unwilling to admit that.

All in all, I'm still smiling at the ridiculous way you conducted those posts, I actually like reading your posts most of the time (as they make sense most of the time) but if there's any frustration involved, it's that I would have expected better from you

Have a good weekend

gigoer (Wexford) - Posts: 1998 - 20/01/2012 18:34:29    1097283

And by the way, I don't portray any image on HS, I simply express my views as I have them as honestly as I can

I keep it real

Try it some time

gigoer (Wexford) - Posts: 1998 - 20/01/2012 18:38:43    1097290

Ok well,lets not fall out too much.I just get annoyed when people slag off the games that I love,(I know youre not doing it),especially when many of them have no idea what theyre on about.

TheRoad (Galway) - Posts: 1339 - 20/01/2012 19:06:47    1097318

Fair 'nuff.

I can see that irks you something awful and I can understand that. I get irked sometimes when people diss Rugby so much, but I s'pose that's their right (and a GAA forum is a good place to do that if someone wanted to), I just don't tend to be as defensive as that but we are all different

Again, have a good weekend

gigoer (Wexford) - Posts: 1998 - 20/01/2012 19:13:05    1097325

Yeah,sound.You too.

TheRoad (Galway) - Posts: 1339 - 20/01/2012 19:28:12    1097341

Get a room you two.

Coylers Elbow (Meath) - Posts: 1075 - 21/01/2012 19:07:48    1097626

Aaaaah.

AthCliath (Dublin) - Posts: 4347 - 21/01/2012 19:24:48    1097631

Ah lads gimme a break.

TheRoad (Galway) - Posts: 1339 - 21/01/2012 20:01:53    1097646

Anyhoo, don't fly off the handle again Roadie, the lads are just having a laugh at us after all that

Take it on the chin

gigoer (Wexford) - Posts: 1998 - 21/01/2012 21:30:53    1097675

Having read all the contributions again from page 1, it is clear this debate has gone down many cul de sacs. There seems to be 2 main counter arguments to the notion that rugby is favoured by the media 1) Media is equally negative about all sports a contention that is clearly untrue in my opinion, I listened to the sports section of Marian Finucane this morning where the two main items were (a) how well the rugby provinces did and (b) payments to GAA managers not much balance there then. 2) The second counter argument is that since GAA is more popular it is natural that it gets the lions share of the negative publicity, I would contend that if that were true why does it not also get the lions share of the coverage. RTE TV which is funded by all of us not just the supporters of one sport pretty much ignores the GAA from October till June. Rugby on the otherhand gets year round coverage from our national broadcaster. The most telling comment I think came from A ROCK on page 6 when he said why does the GAA occupy the minds so much of sports writers/journalists who clearly have no time for it? This particularly applies to many Indo GAA writers whose sole purpose seems to be to produce negative comment on the sport they purport to follow.

mod (Mayo) - Posts: 859 - 22/01/2012 17:12:10    1097852

Mod from Mayo
You have summerised this debate in a fine manner.
I just wonder why a LOI game that may attract 200/300 spectators get such a wide coverage, when Gaa club games that may have 1000 when
people wont get a mention.
Then when a fellow that also played GAA and Soccer in Ireland transfers on a FAS scheme to a UK club you would feel that he was going to be the next Pele.
Not as much hype when he transfers back (all be it he was homesick) to a LOI club that all this Club may own , are the Motor car to take the jerseys to the game.
I often wonder do English Soccer clubs pay reporters either by match tickets or benefit in Kind ?.

tomsmith (Cavan) - Posts: 4044 - 22/01/2012 18:37:22    1097911

For all of you lads who got on the high horse about this, and were wondering why the press wasn't up in arms, case closed. Thank god the media waited for the full story not like some posters on here. http://www.examiner.ie/sport/rugby/boyne-sorry-for-wrongful-citing-in-gouging-case-181709.html

jonny1951 (Mayo) - Posts: 1431 - 27/01/2012 09:05:50    1101160

tomsmith
County: Cavan
Posts: 1434

I just wonder why a LOI game that may attract 200/300 spectators get such a wide coverage, when Gaa club games that may have 1000 when
people wont get a mention.

What LoI games that only attract 200-300 spectators gets "wide coverage"? Seriously I'd love to know what media outlet gives our domestic league any real coverage.


Then when a fellow that also played GAA and Soccer in Ireland transfers on a FAS scheme to a UK club you would feel that he was going to be the next Pele.

I must missed all the times this has happened. Probably buried under the massive amount of coverage that Salthill Devon games are getting in the media.

MesAmis (Dublin) - Posts: 13803 - 27/01/2012 09:43:59    1101168

In relation to RTE, the head of Sport, Ryle Nugent would be a Rugby supporter first and foremost but that doesn't necessarily mean that RTE coverage of GAA is any less during the summer at least than it would be if a GAA man or ex GAA player was head of RTE Sport.

lilywhite1 (Kildare) - Posts: 3028 - 27/01/2012 11:16:00    1101203

true lilywhite1,
Rte has very good coverage of Gaa.how many live Gaa games do Rte and tg4 show over a year compared to rugger?My favourite has to bee BBC norn iron though,you might have a big colleges game or a league game with 5-10,000 at it getting no coverage while you have to put up with a 5 minute report on the news by Jackie fullerton from a carrick rangers v Lisburn Distellery game that might have 167 people at it!!classic stuff

juniorbsub (Wexford) - Posts: 646 - 27/01/2012 12:05:39    1101221

Our media (meeja) is run from the South Dublin constituency and it thus drives this agenda. This is pro British, partitionist and apologetic to Northern Unionists. This has been the case since the time of the Freemans Journal and up to our current papers of record.
It took the DeValera Irish Press to start brining coverage to bear on the GAA. The other publications then started to cover our national games so as to keep apace with the Presses growing middle Ireland following.
If I had a Euro for every time I saw a journalist exclaim how the GAA was losing out the Rugby I would be able to pay an inter-county managers salary!
Only this week we have huge supplements on the Leinster Senior Cup Rugby competition and nothing on the equivalent competitions in Gaelic Football which is a far more popular sport. When have we last read an article on the violence that takes place on our Rugby fields?
I have played Rugby and Gaelic Football and dearly love both sports. Hurling I see as the purest form of entertainment we have and no one was happier to see us qualify for Euro 2012. There is room in our papers for all sports but we need parity in terms of criticism and also coverage that is more representative.

sportsfan14 (USA) - Posts: 281 - 27/01/2012 14:09:15    1101327

27/01/2012 14:09:15
sportsfan14
County: USA
Posts: 14

1101327 Our media (meeja) is run from the South Dublin constituency and it thus drives this agenda. This is pro British, partitionist and apologetic to Northern Unionists. This has been the case since the time of the Freemans Journal and up to our current papers of record.
It took the DeValera Irish Press to start brining coverage to bear on the GAA. The other publications then started to cover our national games so as to keep apace with the Presses growing middle Ireland following.
If I had a Euro for every time I saw a journalist exclaim how the GAA was losing out the Rugby I would be able to pay an inter-county managers salary!
Only this week we have huge supplements on the Leinster Senior Cup Rugby competition and nothing on the equivalent competitions in Gaelic Football which is a far more popular sport. When have we last read an article on the violence that takes place on our Rugby fields?
I have played Rugby and Gaelic Football and dearly love both sports. Hurling I see as the purest form of entertainment we have and no one was happier to see us qualify for Euro 2012. There is room in our papers for all sports but we need parity in terms of criticism and also coverage that is more representative.

On the schools cups, there is a huge market for the games and its up to the people on the school comp organising committees, gaa county boards, the main schools if they want more attention placed on school GAA comps.
I agree that the leinster rugby senior schools cup gets too much attention from the likes of tony ward, gavin cummiskey but complaining here wont do anything. If you want to know why the macrory cup, harty cup etc dont get more media attention from the national newspapers etc then write to them and you should get a response
When was there a major incident where rugby supporters at a club game attacked a referee or there was a brawl at a club game? If there was one it would be reported as much as a brawl at a GAA game.

ormondbannerman (Clare) - Posts: 13473 - 27/01/2012 14:20:40    1101333