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No "foreign sports" on our fields but GAA Road Races are ok

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    #62
    Fianna Fowl
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    clear thinking wrote: »
    In GAA news, GAA player faster than Usain Bolt over 20m, claims GAA fan. GAA people delighted they're the best.

    And a look through the GAA archives, at Mohammed Ali, who was once in croker and won a Marquee's of Queensbury schimozzle. Ali said after, 'I may be the greatest at the foreign ruled schimozzles, but I'd never survive the real schimozzles and free-for-alls on a croker sunday. As for the Ohio river medal, that's actually in the liffey after the aul wan who ran the colours in the dublin jerseys battered me for it, then thought it was brass and threw it in from a good mile away, beating olympic shot putting records in the process.'

    That find of fawning usually comes from outside the GAA who have no connection.

    How do you turn an New Zealander who has never been to Ireland into an Irishman because you have no front row....easy give him a hurley

    http://www.independent.ie/sport/rugby/autumn-internationals/bent-in-line-for-springboks-baptism-of-fire-as-all-options-open-for-irish-28826542.html


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    #63
    clear thinking
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    Fianna Fowl wrote: »
    That find of fawning usually comes from outside the GAA who have no connection.

    How do you turn an New Zealander who has never been to Ireland into an Irishman because you have no front row....easy give him a hurley

    http://www.independent.ie/sport/rugby/autumn-internationals/bent-in-line-for-springboks-baptism-of-fire-as-all-options-open-for-irish-28826542.html

    GAA Xenophobia raises its head (quelle surprise) in a discussion about local GACs undermining local Athletics clubs.


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    #64
    Fianna Fowl
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    clear thinking wrote: »
    Why dont they fund raise by having GAA matches?

    GAC's are basically stealing money from local running clubs who, as most club runners here know, can run at most one or two successful fund raising races a year.

    If the local GAA hurley or football club run an event it takes away from the running club's events.

    It's flagrant money grabbing.

    Your athletics club is welcome to organise a hurling or football game if they so wish.

    No one has a monopoly on running and no one has the right to say who can or cannot do organise an event. There is a name for that kind of behaviour and thinking and it is not nice...


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    #65
    Fianna Fowl
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    clear thinking wrote: »
    GAA Xenophobia raises its head (quelle surprise) in a discussion about local GACs undermining local Athletics clubs.

    Ah sure give him a pint of Guinness and a leprechaun hat while your at it!


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    #66
    Chivito550
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    Fianna Fowl wrote: »

    Pre-1922 when the GAA ran athletics in this country, GAA athletes won 26 track and field medals in the Olympics and since 1922 we have won…..6.

    No Africans, Jamaicans, African-Americans, Russians, doped up Eastern Europeans, the list goes on, to contend with back then. Lazy comparison.


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    #67
    clear thinking
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    Fianna Fowl wrote: »
    Your athletics club is welcome to organise a hurling or football game if they so wish.

    No one has a monopoly on running and no one has the right to say who can or cannot do organise an event. There is a name for that kind of behaviour and thinking and it is not nice...

    Agreed, Agreed, Disagree. Yes, it is called flagrant money grabbing at the expense of another sport.

    The GAA's aims: 'The GAA is a volunteer led, community based organisation that promotes Gaelic games such as Hurling, Football, Handball and Rounders and works with sister organisations to promote Ladies Football and Camogie. It is part of the Irish consciousness and plays an influential role in Irish society that extends far beyond the basic aim of promoting Gaelic games.'

    Obviously they take the latter part of the aims to mean it's ok to step on other sports avenues to fundraising when it already corners the market on ad revenue and tax handouts.

    A running event by a GAC is a money grab plain and simple. GAC matches provide plenty of occasion to fund raise and get punters in the bar.


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    #68
    clear thinking
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    Chivito550 wrote: »
    No Africans, Jamaicans, African-Americans, Russians, doped up Eastern Europeans, the list goes on, to contend with back then. Lazy comparison.

    GAA athletes more likely to be drugs cheats than any other sport due to the low level of testing. (I've posted the link to the relevant research on here before)


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    #69
    Fianna Fowl
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    clear thinking wrote: »
    Agreed, Agreed, Disagree. Yes, it is called flagrant money grabbing at the expense of another sport.

    Again, no one has a monopoly on running. No one has the right to tell people what they can and cannot do.

    Would you prefer that every school charity walk had AAI officials to monitor the event to make sure everyone kept at least one foot on the pavement at all times?


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    #70
    Fianna Fowl
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    clear thinking wrote: »
    GAA athletes more likely to be drugs cheats than any other sport due to the low level of testing. (I've posted the link to the relevant research on here before)

    The level of testing reflects the low level of risk of abuse of PEDs in the sport. They are skill based sports. <snip>


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    #71
    Fianna Fowl
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    Chivito550 wrote: »
    No Africans, Jamaicans, African-Americans, Russians, doped up Eastern Europeans, the list goes on, to contend with back then. Lazy comparison.

    They beat the best in the world at the time. The champion is the guy who crosses the line fist, the time only matters to the losers.


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    #72
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    Are the Community Games not often run on GAA facilities?

    Has the GAA prevented people using their facilities for running? I know of one international runner here in Kerry who must have clocked up thousands of miles around the GAA pitch in a town with no running club. And when she was successful, the first group to arrange the welcome home? The GAA.


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    #73
    rom
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    Fianna Fowl wrote: »
    The level of testing reflects the low level of risk of abuse of PEDs in the sport. They are skill based sports. <snip>


    Entertaining wind up.

    pg 7

    http://www.gaa.ie/content/documents/publications/coaching_and_games/conference_2009/Aidan_OConnell_100118123521.pdf

    “In games like football, strength is probably the most important single factor” -Joe Lennon


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    #74
    Chivito550
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    Fianna Fowl wrote: »
    The level of testing reflects the low level of risk of abuse of PEDs in the sport. They are skill based sports. <snip>.

    LOL

    Oh the innocence!


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    #75
    Chivito550
    Registered Users Posts: 7,695 ✭✭✭Chivito550


    Fianna Fowl wrote: »
    They beat the best in the world at the time. The champion is the guy who crosses the line fist, the time only matters to the losers.

    Garbage


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    #76
    ecoli
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    Mods: This thread has gone way off topic and seems to be the same old posters having the same old arguments so I am closing it


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