GAA people = Cavemen?

diusmr8a504cvk · 22-02-2015 2:21am #1

Why are some GAA people so blind to reality and stupid?

The typical higher up in a GAA club is a devoted Catholic, acts like every other sport other than Hurling and Football doesn't exist and if someone plays other sports and doesn't play a GAA sport then that sport is for "People who are no good at GAA". In my experience they refer to Rugby and especially Soccer as "The Queen's game" and seem to still be very butthurt over the whose Bloody Sunday event. They have also scheduled GAA training with Soccer training to make people sweat.

I might let it be known that I play both Soccer and Gaelic games and enjoy both thoroughly and I probably spend more time watching GAA matches than Soccer, but in my experience the GAA higher ups are very medieval while the Soccer lads have always been very down to earth. I'm just stating my opinions so if you have any opinions or if you question anything I've said, please feel free to comment.

Cee-Jay-Cee · 22-02-2015 2:23am

It's not GAA, its Gaaaaaaaaaa.

Aspiring · 22-02-2015 2:23am

I've never experienced anything you've mentioned here in my 15 years playing GAA. You're talking about a very small minority of people as though every club is like that, which isn't the case.

jimgoose · 22-02-2015 2:24am

Oook??

dreamers75 · 22-02-2015 2:27am

Fairly sure the OP is bang on.

I refuse to let my kids play GAA as they a bunch of wankbags.

Chucken · 22-02-2015 2:28am

Never in my life heard of anything called the queens game

diusmr8a504cvk · 22-02-2015 2:29am

dreamers75 wrote: »

Fairly sure the OP is bang on.

I refuse to let my kids play GAA as they a bunch of wankbags.

My opinion of the GAA has gotten worse and worse.

Pocaide · 22-02-2015 2:30am

Trolling

diusmr8a504cvk · 22-02-2015 2:30am

Another thing I might mention is that your second name matters in some areas, like mine.

diusmr8a504cvk · 22-02-2015 2:31am

Pocaide wrote: »

Trolling

I'm not in fairness

Chucken · 22-02-2015 2:32am

Cash Tall Loner wrote: »

Another thing I might mention is that your second name matters in some areas, like mine.

Of course it does!

Otherwise no one would now which Michael they were roaring at!

Pocaide · 22-02-2015 2:33am

Oh yes you are.

DoYouEvenLift · 22-02-2015 2:34am

Try playing for your local club for most of your life and then leaving, op. You will NEVER hear the end of it.

diusmr8a504cvk · 22-02-2015 2:34am

Chucken wrote: »

Of course it does!

Otherwise no one would now which Michael they were roaring at!

Hahahahahhahaha Comment of the thread award goes to.... This guy

Duckworth_Luas · 22-02-2015 2:34am

Cash Tall Loner wrote: »

Another thing I might mention is that your second name matters in some areas, like mine.

My second name is Rupert.

Now that you mention it nobody with that second name has ever played on the U13 camogie team.

bodice ripper · 22-02-2015 2:34am

jimgoose wrote: »

Oook??

Jimgoose is the Librarian. I knew it.

diusmr8a504cvk · 22-02-2015 2:36am

DoYouEvenLift wrote: »

Try playing for your local club for most of your life and then leaving, op. You will NEVER hear the end of it.

We are very similar people then, because I am trying to leave my club

Schwiiing · 22-02-2015 2:36am

Worst in really small rural villages. The local Gaaliban get real pissy when you don't bow to the local minor county 'star'.

Chucken · 22-02-2015 2:38am

Cash Tall Loner wrote: »

Hahahahahhahaha Comment of the thread award goes to.... This guy

I'm not a guy

I'm an oldish lady, probably old enough to your grandmother...but I digress.

My grandsons will have a difficult time on the hurling pitch I'd say. Lets just say their surname isnt Irish.

jimgoose · 22-02-2015 2:39am

bodice ripper wrote: »

Jimgoose is the Librarian. I knew it.

Somebody is going to pay dearly for that "Pongo" sign. I mean, just 'cos I was a fcukan full-back...

sabat · 22-02-2015 2:40am

Chucken wrote: »

Never in my life heard of anything called the queens game

Garrison Games is the expression I've heard many times.

Of course you should never mention to GAA heads that their football is an entirely artificial construct, manufactured purely to be something that wasn't English. The effects of this back-of-an-envelope rulebook can still be seen today as it's almost impossible to dispossess an opposition player without fouling them.

DoYouEvenLift · 22-02-2015 2:40am

Cash Tall Loner wrote: »

We are very similar people then, because I am trying to leave my club

Hope you enjoy being hassled and asked at local pubs toilet urinals if you're coming back playing...5 years after you left.

diusmr8a504cvk · 22-02-2015 2:40am

Chucken wrote: »

I'm not a guy
I'm an oldish lady, probably old enough to your grandmother...but I digress.

My grandsons will have a difficult time on the hurling pitch I'd say. Lets just say their surname isnt Irish.

Well when I say surname, I'm talking about if they're uncles and fathers and grandfathers had the same second name then they'd try not to do anything that would affect that family

Chucken · 22-02-2015 2:40am

Cash Tall Loner wrote: »

We are very similar people then, because I am trying to leave my club

Sure you're only a young fella. Can you not just hide on them? Or something?

diusmr8a504cvk · 22-02-2015 2:41am

DoYouEvenLift wrote: »

Hope you enjoy being hassled and asked at local pubs urinals if you're coming back playing...5 years after you left.

Soul mates I'd say, we should PM the juicy details

johnny osbourne · 22-02-2015 2:41am

come on the royal , up navan, up meath

Chucken · 22-02-2015 2:43am

Cash Tall Loner wrote: »

Well when I say surname, I'm talking about if they're uncles and fathers and grandfathers had the same second name then they'd try not to do anything that would affect that family

Oh my grandsons will be 1st generation hurlers. No comparisons to be made.
Shouting out their surname on the sideline will be funny though

diusmr8a504cvk · 22-02-2015 2:43am

Chucken wrote: »

Sure you're only a young fella. Can you not just hide on them? Or something?

Please elaborate on this I don't understand haha

jimgoose · 22-02-2015 2:43am

DoYouEvenLift wrote: »

Hope you enjoy being hassled and asked at local pubs toilet urinals if you're coming back playing...5 years after you left.

Hint: they're not talking about hurling or football.

Baby Jane · 22-02-2015 2:44am

dreamers75 wrote: »

I refuse to let my kids play GAA as they a bunch of wankbags.

Pretty harsh to refuse to let children play a sport should they ever want to... and for a dubious reason ("they a bunch of wankbags").

(I have no interest in GAA and never played it by the way).

Timmyctc · 22-02-2015 2:44am

Ah the old, Stuck-at-home-on-a-Saturday-Night-Because-I'm-Too-Young-To-Go-Out-so-I-Make-Up-A-****-Attempt-At-a-troll-Thread thread.

Chucken · 22-02-2015 2:44am

Cash Tall Loner wrote: »

Please elaborate on this I don't understand haha

You said you want to leave? Just run off the pitch and keep running.

Forrest Gump style!

lufties · 22-02-2015 2:46am

Cash Tall Loner wrote: »

Why are some GAA people so blind to reality and stupid?

The typical higher up in a GAA club is a devoted Catholic, acts like every other sport other than Hurling and Football doesn't exist and if someone plays other sports and doesn't play a GAA sport then that sport is for "People who are no good at GAA". In my experience they refer to Rugby and especially Soccer as "The Queen's game" and seem to still be very butthurt over the whose Bloody Sunday event. They have also scheduled GAA training with Soccer training to make people sweat.

I might let it be known that I play both Soccer and Gaelic games and enjoy both thoroughly and I probably spend more time watching GAA matches than Soccer, but in my experience the GAA higher ups are very medieval while the Soccer lads have always been very down to earth. I'm just stating my opinions so if you have any opinions or if you question anything I've said, please feel free to comment.

You are right op...small minded, holier than thou, smug bullies.

threeball · 22-02-2015 2:47am

dreamers75 wrote: »

Fairly sure the OP is bang on.

I refuse to let my kids play GAA as they a bunch of wankbags.

Pretty harsh calling your kids wankbags. I'm sure most GAA clubs would still let them play though.

diusmr8a504cvk · 22-02-2015 2:47am

Timmyctc wrote: »

Ah the old, Stuck-at-home-on-a-Saturday-Night-Because-I'm-Too-Young-To-Go-Out-so-I-Make-Up-A-****-Attempt-At-a-troll-Thread thread.

At least I'm not an old, wrinkly raisin w*nker like you who probably can't move his hips enough to go out so he has to listen to a supposed "troll".

Chucken · 22-02-2015 2:47am

Timmyctc wrote: »

Ah the old, Stuck-at-home-on-a-Saturday-Night-Because-I'm-Too-Young-To-Go-Out-.

Poor Timmy.

Lapin · 22-02-2015 2:47am

sabat wrote: »

Garrison Games is the expression I've heard many times.

Of course you should never mention to GAA heads that their football is an entirely artificial construct, manufactured purely to be something that wasn't English. The effects of this back-of-an-envelope rulebook can still be seen today as it's almost impossible to dispossess an opposition player without fouling them.

Spot on. Gaelic Football is shíte. Hurling rocks though.

Tho OP is talking bollox though for the vast majority of GAA players.

True there are still a few old dinosaurs left on committees around the place, (mainly up North and in Cork). But they are few and far between anymore and most of them will be dead in a few years.

But in fairness, it's not unique to the GAA. Most sports have their share of ould farts at admin level.

diusmr8a504cvk · 22-02-2015 2:48am

Chucken wrote: »

You said you want to leave? Just run off the pitch and keep running.

Forrest Gump style!

Hahaha GAA transfer rules are incredibly strict though!

Chucken · 22-02-2015 2:48am

Cash Tall Loner wrote: »

Hahaha GAA transfer rules are incredibly strict though!

Feck that.

Run Forrest, Run!

Pocaide · 22-02-2015 2:48am

Ah at last it shows its true face

diusmr8a504cvk · 22-02-2015 2:50am

Pocaide wrote: »

Ah at last it shows its true face

?

Schwiiing · 22-02-2015 2:50am

Was a member of my local GAA and soccer clubs when I was in my early teens.

The soccer coaches knew I was in the GAA club and never cared so long as I was fit to play soccer when necessary but as soon as the GAA coaches caught wind of me being in the soccer club I was quickly told to choose between the 2.

I just turned around picked up my bag and walked out the door. In fairness I wasn't much of a loss to the hurling team but it was a ****ty thing to be told you couldn't play both sports.

Lovely Bloke · 22-02-2015 2:51am

Baby Jane wrote: »

Pretty harsh to refuse to let children play a sport should they ever want to... and for a dubious reason ("they a bunch of wankbags").

(I have no interest in GAA and never played it by the way).

nah, I'm the same with my 10-month old, he'll never darken the door of a gah club.

He'll join Litte Kickers at 18 months, Soccer. And he'll join the kids cricket team down in the Phoenix Park when he's able.

Thing is, we live in Dublin and he's not a Catholic, so he wont be indocrinated from an early age by some bogger teacher - he's registered in the local Educate Together, and his name is down in the 12-kids-in-a-class Protestant school too, so hopefully gah isn't even on his radar, it'll never be on tv in this house anyway.

This is from a guy who used to be brought to see Heffo's Army with his dad, and grew up in the 90s with Dessie Farrell as a local hero, but then the gah got greedy and started to act like bollixes. Want nothing to do with them ever again.

Baby Jane · 22-02-2015 2:53am

What if he expresses a like for hurling or gaelic football?
There are things I don't like about the organisation but I don't agree with stopping a kid from getting involved with a sport if they have an interest in it, just because of their parent having a grudge.

diusmr8a504cvk · 22-02-2015 2:53am

Lads I don't want to come across as a GAA basher, I play both and these are just some problems I've had with GAA.

Lovely Bloke · 22-02-2015 2:54am

Baby Jane wrote: »

What if he expresses a like for hurling or gaelic football?.

he'll be told to cop on, get a history lesson, and get down to cricket training.

Baby Jane · 22-02-2015 2:54am

Also "he'll play soccer", "he'll play cricket" - seems pushy. What if he has no interest in either?

conorh91 · 22-02-2015 2:55am

Cash Tall Loner wrote: »

The typical higher up in a GAA club is a devoted Catholic

Ok... so are most middle-aged men.

, acts like every other sport other than Hurling and Football doesn't exist

ditto for rugby, tennis and athletics diehards, but anyway...

In my experience they refer to Rugby and especially Soccer as "The Queen's game"

Aand you lost your audience. I'd doubt most people have encountered this expression on a casual basis. Troll harder next time...

Schwiiing · 22-02-2015 2:56am

Baby Jane wrote: »

Also "he'll play soccer", "he'll play cricket" - seems pushy. What if he has no interest in either?

Plenty of GAA players in the same situation of pushy parents.

Timmyctc · 22-02-2015 2:56am

Cash Tall Loner wrote: »

At least I'm not an old, wrinkly raisin w*nker like you who probably can't move his hips enough to go out so he has to listen to a supposed "troll".

Chucken wrote: »

Poor Timmy.

I'm actually a fresh spring chicken that unfortunately has to work in the morning (You'll learn about that Gh0st when you turn 17) I just like saying things that will fester at the back of your mind in the time when you aren't acting like a cool dude on the internet, like this submission to the world will have ameliorated no ones life whatsoever. Not even your own. You are essentially worthless in the eyes of the many and the few.

And you probably have B.O or some ****.

Timdawg millionaire out.

Baby Jane · 22-02-2015 2:56am

Schwiiing wrote: »

Plenty of GAA players in the same situation of pushy parents.

I know there are, never denied it. Doesn't make any kind of pushiness ok.

GAA people = Cavemen?

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