GAA Clichés you despise

When my team plays 10 of last years championship starters it's an "experimental line-up".

But if the opposition do the same it's an "almost full strength team".

Very common this time of year trying to play up/down pre season wins or losses.

Practically every county seems to "play their best hurling in Thurles"

Jesus ya that one is annoying. Makes the captain sound like it's under 10s he is captain of.

Thank God this year we are finally going to be spared all the stupid cliches that swarm around Brian Cody.

They're.

He's a world class Gaelic footballer,how the fcuk could he be,the game is a world game

It may not be a ‘Clee-shay’ (like a lot of the others mentioned above by the way) but it is very annoying 😡😡…….

also mustn’t forget the following when a sub or a player who is having very little impact suddenly pulls off a classy/vital score……’well hello……insert name’ and delivered with a huge amount of intonation…..!!

Pundits over-using the phrase "alluded to". Get a thesaurus for God sake and expand your vocabulary!

"Referee ruined the game as a spectacle" for correctly giving a red card.

"X should win but Cork are Cork"

"Tipp and Cork is the only real Munster Final"

Just because a team has had more success than others over a long period has no real bearing on anything in the here and now.

So glad Limerick have finally put this sh1te to bed over the last few years.

There's so many phrases, I'm not in to GAA but there's loads I recognise.

It's sort of very cool, a rich tapestry of sayings and vernacular particular to one nations sport. Very Irish to utilise the English language in such a creative way, you'd never hear the like of it on Sky Sports or ESPN.

My wife was listening to a GAA match with her local team in the car once and the commentator said "O'Conor has left Dwyer behind like he has a puncture".

Absolutely!

In all my years following Mayo I have never once seen it happen but you'd swear it happens all the time if you were to pay heed to the cliche.