GAA Clichés you despise

brokenbad

Ok guys - first post here. Thought i'd start off with something that irritates you such as overused GAA clichés you read and hear everywhere. Here's my tuppence worth....

"He's a true Gael!"

"He was one of the greats!"

"He's some baller!"

"He left nothing on the pitch!"

"He is a prominent member of the local GAA club and a pillar of the community" - usually referenced during court cases as a plea for leniency....

pappyodaniel

"The Kerrys, the Tyrones and Mayos of this world"

Or

"The Henry Shefflins, the DJ Careys and the TJ Reids of this world"

Like there's more than of them

RebelButtMunch

'Hon the lads!

YabaDabaDooley

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120133688#Comment_120133688

Good call. Don't know how long exactly this nonsense is being spouted but seems a fair while. So many pundits are it. It's awful. I throw my eyes to heaven and my ears to hell when i hear it.

brokenbad

"Great day for the parish"

brokenbad

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120133690#Comment_120133690

Always wince when i hear some numbskull behind me bellowing this out at a GAA Match....

evolvingtipperary101

A wide is as good as a point at this stage.

evolvingtipperary101

Semi finals are for winning.

evolvingtipperary101

He took the sensible option.

TipsyMcStagge

The blanket defence

You can never write off Meath.

Galway always have lovely forwards.

MrMusician18

The "warrior" bollocks around hurling and the notion that you'll never be any good unless you came out of the womb with a hurl.

WesternZulu

"Galway always have good forwards"

"Meath are dirty"

"Mayo never perform in Croke Park"

"Kerry are nice footballers"

"Football was better back in the 60s/70s/80s"

"They were hungrier and wanted it more"

"There is no such thing as a bad game of hurling"

All the above are clichés that I despise that are thrown about by the media and general public.

I'm sure there are more I have missed.

CrabRevolution

When X wins the Lory Meagher it's "A sign of the great work they're doing for hurling in County X".

But it's not really. Some county had to win it, and it just happened to be them that year. All 6 teams in the competition could do no training all year and one of them would still win it.

Treble double

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120134556#Comment_120134556

Spot on, this drives me insane.

Wtf are first round, quarter finals and finals for, losing!! or playing like Brazil such a stupid stupid line.

roshje

" It's a man's game "

CoBo55

Ah shur, the last match was their all Ireland.... Makes absolutely no sense.

Stripeyman

But shur lookit...

Tombo2001

'The so-called lesser counties'

are never actually called the lesser counties, they are only ever called 'the so-called lesser counties'.

Tombo2001

'if so and so was a professional footballer in England they'd be making millions'.

They're not a fuppin professional footballer in England......

Brendan Bendar

I ‘spose…….. fill in your own fcukkery

The Toomevara ‘clubman’………P Lodge

The’ll only be a puck of a ball between them.

Arra jusht lads letting off steam……..after a mass brawl involving spectators.

Hey Ref….get your legs outta de hole……….said to a short ref.

Face the ball Kiltealy ..two hands on the hurl.

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jackboy

All this bollix regarding the commitment they put in. It’s just a game. Most of them are completely neglecting their families and partners. It also seems to be a license to get away with doing nothing at work for a lot of them.

evolvingtipperary101

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120135261#Comment_120135261

The thread is about clichés - not about about attacking players.

evolvingtipperary101

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120134848#Comment_120134848

Oh yeah, playing like Brazil is bananas.

jackboy

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120135368#Comment_120135368

The commitment thing is one of the more commonly used cliches. The hours they put in and the sacrifices they make.

evolvingtipperary101

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120135384#Comment_120135384

I loves me county.

washman3

"He took one for the team"

"He should have dragged him down earlier" this one was said by a pundit on the Sunday Game and the 2 others agreed. Ironically, the same pundits were calling for a clampdown on cynical play a few weeks earlier..!!!

MfMan

Commentators mistakenly saying that the goalie took a quick kickout when they really should say he just went short with it.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120133688#Comment_120133688

I hate those plurals 😂

brokenbad

Managers saying "Lookit" at the start of a sentence during the post match interview....

"Lookit....we weren't at the races today"

"Lookit...we'll take the defeat on the chin and move on from this"

" Lookit... there's 15 lads out there today who played their hearts out - i couldn't have asked for more"

dastardly00

Team X will be suited to "the wide open spaces of Croke Park"

Anytime there is a hurling match in Stemple Stadium - "Thurles, the home of hurling"

keeponhurling

Those wide open spaces of Croke Park is really annoying

And every pitch down the country is "tight" , regardless how big it is

The paranoia : "Everybody wrote us off", even if you were overwhelming unbackable favorites.

dxhound2005

I often wondered why so many players keep their All Ireland medals in their back pockets.

C4000

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120136199#Comment_120136199

And when it's pointed out that the pitch at Cusack Park or wherever is actually the same size as the croke park pitch, they respond with 'ah but it plays smaller'

tayto lover

'The wides are beginning to add up'

'Straight over the black spot'

'they don't make them like that anymore'

brokenbad

"There's a bit of a schemozzle taking place in the parallelogram"

Wishbone Ash

"Sour Grapes" - used incorrectly 100% of the time in GAA circles and media. Losing a match and then complaining about the opposition/ref/pitch/fixtures/weather etc. is not 'sour grapes'.

LaoisWeather

The fire of the Munster Championship.

Wishbone Ash

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120136067#Comment_120136067

Seems to be particularly prevalent in the west. What does it even mean? Do they not realise how stupid it sounds?

dobman88

A "wand" of a left foot.

Never heard of a right footed player having a "wand" of a right.

And pundits using the phrase "alluded to" incorrectly every single time. Someone would say something straight out and the next person would say "as they alluded to". Nonsense.

Wishbone Ash

"He has a big engine in him"

brokenbad

"That team have soldiered together a long time"

Clareman

'You have to lose 1 before you win 1'

'He just lost the head, sure isn't he always like this'

'Handbags'

'Went down awful easily' - This 1 really annoys me, players now are 14 or 15 stone of pure muscle and "small" tip from them would leave most of us in A&E, add in the speed they are going at and even the smallest "tap" is a big impact.

evolvingtipperary101

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120136459#Comment_120136459

'You have to lose 1 before you win 1'*

Billy Ocean

( Unglamorous home venue) is always a tough place to go.

almostover

Anything that comes out of the mouth of Anthony Daly when doing 'pundity' on RTE.

Clareman

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120136537#Comment_120136537

Not just Daly but every "announcer" 'Ah but shure here listen I know them well down there and they are honest people'

Clareman

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120136491#Comment_120136491

'They have really turned {insert venue name} into a fortress'

Clareman

Actually expanding on that, thanks to the new championship format all the new stats they are coming up with like

"X first win againt Y in Y's home ground in 100 years" - yeah they haven't played there in 100 years

"First time X beat Y in June" - no ****, they never played in June before

Brendan Bendar

A great ‘servant’ for the county.

Right lads ‘plenty of timber round the ears”

He ‘done his hammy’

He ‘left’ his man go past him……..Munster pundit on RTE.

mikeecho

Everything

CrabRevolution

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120136515#Comment_120136515

Exactly; Carrick on Shannon, Enniskillen or Aughrim are called tough places to go, as if Omagh, Tralee or Dublin are easy in comparison...

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120136585#Comment_120136585

Some Meath fans thought they were really being impactful declaring that Mick O'Dowd was "The first Meath manager ever to lose to Derry and Armagh", carefully neglecting to mention it was only our 2nd ever meeting with both teams. Throwing away a one game winning streak was apparently unforgiveable...

The Westmeath record was a sore one to lose, but calling it a 130 year streak wasn't true either considering Meath didn't play Westmeath for the first time until 1935.