GAA Clichés you despise

Clareman

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120136627#Comment_120136627

'Every player dreams of playing in Croke Park' - There's about 50 games a year there

Clareman

'Tight pitch' - There are standard pitch dimensions within the rule book, there's no such thing as a tight pitch it's just a small pitch. On the other side of the equation, every club building a pitch to the max dimensions.

brokenbad

"He's been shooting the lights out all season"

pappyodaniel

"This team have been waiting in the long grass Marty."

castletownman

Marty Morrissey and his pre-All Ireland final spiel.

' From Westport to Newport. From Passage East to Passage West. From Rathgar to Rathfarnham. They have tuned in from all over the world. Like Peter working in Perth. And Ciara teaching in Dubai.'

Fook off. We give out about the Premier League blowing its own trumpet as the self-proclaimed 'best league in the world' but we are worse.

evolvingtipperary101

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120136574#Comment_120136574

'(Insert venue) is a very tough place to go. Sure, look, you'll get nothing easy (up or down) there. As the fella says, they'd take the head clean off ya, like.'

Galway as the great undiscovered pocket of hurling in the West.

NIMAN

The tag line in the adverts for the GAA, "Where we all belong".

Not everyone likes Gaelic games.

Also, calling counties by their nicknames in sports reports. "The Banner take on The Tribesmen". Who the feck is playing the game?? I have no idea, gone just say X and Y.

Dufflecoat Fanny

Honestly don't mind any sayings until I hear a scrawny corporate prawn shaped ballbag repeating them in team meetings for effect.

gormdubhgorm

All the new cliches taken from other sports - 'turnovers' 'possessions' 'quarters' etc. Some of the GAA lads really love them. James Horan from Mayo is the poster boy for their use, he was in with them early as soon as he joined SKY.

But the one that really annoys me is 'learnings' this one seeped into Ireland from America, I assume.

Likely, when a few lads did a few sports related courses. It is as if adding the 's' to learning makes them think it gives them some an air sophistication/gravitas. It doesn’t! They sound like planks.

Even the hurling crowd started using it, and normally they are the more traditional subset of the GAA. When I heard Derek McGrath former Waterford manager go on about 'learnings' during his studio panel analysis I thought they have all gone mad.

The worst part is it has got to the stage the flipping sports reporters start using it regularly, as well. For example asking players "What were the 'learnings' from the game?"

NIMAN

"...the fastest field sport in the world".

Yeah, you've told us that umpteen times. We get it.

tastyt

Marty really annoys me calling the players by first names or nicknames like wer all their mates

The Bonnar this , TJ that , Bubbles the other …..

Also when a sub comes on and someone breaks a Hurley off their back as they are running onto the field they call it a bit of “ getting to know each other or he’s been welcomed to the Munster championship “

lumphammer2

[Such and such a team] have dindian sign on [such and such a team] !!

Billy Ocean

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120137118#Comment_120137118

Or when he proclaims 'awesome how did he do it' after a goal is scored, alot of the time its brutal defending.

whisky_galore

A painted up old banger of a car in team colours and heaps of burning tyres and pallets for homecomings.

Tina Turners simply the best playing at full blast. Bunch of lads on a borrowed curtainsider. Total cringe.

Brendan Bendar

They are ‘flyin’ in trainin’ ’

’The occasion got to them’………..said after the first round of the junior championship

’Lookit…if we can coax Seanie out of retirement we can do decent’

WesternZulu

"The white hot heat of the championship"

Most tactical analysis comes down to "hunger", "intensity" and "wanting it more" even if a team adopted something really innovative that got them the win.

It's no wonder that the casual fan has no appreciation of tactics, especially in football, when everything is reduced to the above.

keeponhurling

I knew it wouldn’t be long until Marty gets mentioned.

every time it goes long it’s “a huge one” and “looking for latitude”

any bad pass is a “hospital pass”

any player who ever played both codes, even just underage for the club “he plays a bit of football too”, or he’s using his football skills there

Shank Williams

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120137039#Comment_120137039

#TheToughest

This.Is.Major

voiced be a lad who sounds like he is straining on the jacks- **** off

keeponhurling

If a team hasn’t played for a while and win, they are “fresh” or “chomping at the bit”, maybe even had been “waiting in the long grass”.

if they lose, they have been “caught cold” or “not yet up to the pace of the championship”

maybe I could be a pundit

kippy

Not sure if the posts in this thread are from people who don't like GAA games, people who like GAA games and don't like the cliches or a mix of both.

I don't think there's any issue with the GAA taglines, they are hardly clichés. Every sport or sports body tries to promote itself.

There are many communities up and down the country that would be lessor without the GAA.

Brendan Bendar

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120137556#Comment_120137556

Lighten up lad, it’s just a bit of fun.

’Is it a tá or a níl’

P Lodges name checking everyone from the referee to the lad who cuts the oranges at half-time.

”Five minutes to go go to half-time in this thrilling game, Joe Creamer is cutting the oranges in the dressing room”

raindodger

he,s not that type of a player

after one of the panels favourites have cleaned some body out

Shank Williams

3 cheers for the losers - hip hop hooray

kippy

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120137579#Comment_120137579

No doubt it's a bit of fun and most posts reflect that - but there's a number just having a dig at the GAA as an organisation.

I don't reall appreciate that.

evolvingtipperary101

The hard ground suits him better.

The soft ground suits him better.

Once he sheds the winter coat, he'll be grand.

Tippman24

Ger Canning and his commentary is a cliche in itself. How RTE can inflict him on the general population is a mystery.

evolvingtipperary101

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120137854#Comment_120137854

These last few years Canning keeps getting the player's name on the ball wrong. His time is up.

brokenbad

How some pundits have started inserting corporate buzzwords into their analysis...

"In terms of overall possession"

"As we approach the third quarter its still anyones game"

"Where the rubber meets the road at this stage of the championship"

"In the final analysis they just weren't good enough today"

dobman88

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120137734#Comment_120137734

Jesus I hate that. Thankfully it seems to be on the way out. Nothing worse than being on the losing team and hearing that shite

supernova5

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120137869#Comment_120137869

jesus Canning seems to be around for 4 lifetimes, he keeps on using that same old expression " 5 minutes to go who's going to win it" and the puke inducing " such and such goalkeeper or defender hits a big, huge one into the square"

this man is well past his sell by date, move on Ger time to give someone else a chance..

funkey_monkey

Anything said by anyone ever interviewed before, during or after a game.

Ah sure lookit

We're just happy to be though

Take each game as it comes

We knew we were in for a tough game

To be fair to them

X are a better team than that

Ah sure it was nothing really

I didn't see that

Its always difficult to come down here

Proud hurling/football county

A true gael

At the end of the day

Lovely stickwork

He's just back from Australia

His grandfather played on the 1954 team

Here comes the men from X

Dropping one in around the house

An almighty belt

A beautiful part of the world

There'll be no cows milked tomorrow

Put in a shift

A magician of a player

They'll be celebrating that one in Paddy O'Flaherty's pub in Ballygobackwards. A fine score indeed from the big Ballygobackwards man whose mother is a nurse in the antenatal unit in Tralee and his father teaches in St Assumpta's where great alumini such as x, y and z honed their craft under the tutelage of the late great Bobby O'Malley who won an impressive 37 All-Irelands with Croom in the 19 and 50's.

They'll be watching this in the pubs in Brisbane.

His sister is in Australia

His sister will be looking in from Dubai were she is teaching primary school kids

Straight over the bar

Need to start going for goals here

Take your points and the goals will come

Ahhh beautiful Bubble's O'Dywer

Cometh the hour cometh the man

A shot to nothing

...ad nauseum...

Strumms

“His father was a well known envelope designer for Sinnott stationery products and it will be a red letter day for Paudi, his Dad Eamonn, mother, brother and sisters, Aunti Noreen who is in Cappagh recovering from a hip replacement, we wish her well, family and indeed the whole of Cloughjordan, if Timmy can lift the Liam McCarthy and bring it down to the Farmhouse Pub..where in 1997 the…….

meanwhile Timmy has gone off with a dodgy hamstring and two scores and a penalty have been awarded. Stick to the facts as happening on the pitch. Ffs.

gigantic09

Lookit, we know you never get anything easy when you come down here.

Any manager ever, interviewed after giving an absolute hiding to some clearly out of their depth team.

Deiselurker

We got over the line which is said whether it's a win by 1 point or 10 points.

brokenbad

"He put in a tremendous shift before going off with injury"

Billy Ocean

Some of the posts definitely aren't GAA exclusive, the semi finals are for winning which i posted myself is used a bit in soccer and rugby too.

keeponhurling

A wide is as good as a score....

No, it's not.

Rosita

"the likes of" is one that leads into "the Tyrones and Dublins of this world" comment, and is pointless.

"Cork love Thurles"

Every spring in Kilkenny all will be right with the world "when the Ballyhale lads are back"

And where people got the habit of describing a player playing well as being "immense" beats me. But it's very common especially in the written form on-line.

dxhound2005

Some good cliches in the comments today on the Club Championships thread. I think it's great to see how versatile the language can be, and I certainly don't despise anyone who writes or speaks like this.

Soft enough pen.

Half time can't come quickly enough.

Doesn't have the legs.

Tidy players.

Game in the melting pot.

Having a stormer.

Stonewall black card.

Those are the fine margins.

Just needed cool heads.

NIMAN

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120141502#Comment_120141502

To be fair, soccer runs rings round all other sports when it comes to clichés.

windy shepard henderson

Jack o'Shea to Paudi O'Shea .....there no relation ....

drive it will ya... ( to a lone inside forward covered by a blanket defensive or sweeper system )

the intensity and tenacity of it all ( usually marty morrissey)

stick to one code..... 😡

deadybai

Drives me mad when the commentator says 'X team is utilising the full court press'

Hate the way GAA players get treated like heroes for their community because of all the 'sacrificies that they have to make' because (in case you forgot) they don't get paid. What about all the people who play other sports? Soccer for example is basically amateur until you are playing at League of Ireland level. You never hear them sh!teing on about the 'sacrifices'.

'He could of been great but hes too fond of the drink'.

dmn22

Anything that comes out of Marty Morrissey's turnip head.

I love GAA, have played it all my life and played at all levels at home and Australia but the likes of him actually turn me off it with the overly self-assured statements of it being the greatest game in the world which actually comes off to me as being quite insecure.

NIMAN

Talking of Oz, the fact that irish people there think it's mandatory to where their county top.

Brendan Bendar

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120144654#Comment_120144654

Ssssteady up now……..it’s a great signpost for people and venues to avoid……….like Scruffy Murphy’s.

RebelButtMunch

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120135199#Comment_120135199

I suppose...

flasher0030

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120144570#Comment_120144570

Because with soccer, at least you can have an end goal to strive to be the best and play in the league of Ireland. Only a small fraction get to fulfil that, but at least the opportunity is there for everyone that commits to playing soccer. It's up to each individual then if they have the drive and ambition to achieve that goal.

No such opportunity is available to the GAA players. There maybe an opportunity for punditry, but that is dependent on having a certain type of personality to get up in front of hundreds of thousands of viewers, which not many players will possess.

brokenbad

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120146114#Comment_120146114

Don't forget - having a profile in GAA can also work in your favour when it comes to securing a handy and well paid job with hours to suit your GAA schedule!

brokenbad

Great day for the parish!