GAA Clichés you despise

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

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.

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?"

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

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’

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

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

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”

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

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...

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.

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

No, it's not.

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.

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..... 😡

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.

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

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.