Gaa 2011
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Used to be a sedate place, this thread.
Now all hell's broken loose!
Now all hell's broken loose!
It's Hill 16's fault, although I'm defending them it wasn't me that booed!
Promote Big Papi, Demote Moses!!
He's another one of ye lot, we have enough of ye bowsies and not half enough of us gents.
Is he a Tyrone man??
If he is ask him where he's from. If he's one of us me or RHD'll know him. If he's one of them Gaz will know him.
If he is ask him where he's from. If he's one of us me or RHD'll know him. If he's one of them Gaz will know him.
I dunno, I just count everywhere north of Skerries as 'de nort'
Yeah i was at the game, should have stayed at home tho. Feckin jinxed it again i reckon..
The booing is something associated with Soccer & its accepted in that sport - its not accepted as part of Gaelic games tho, but Dublin fans seem to think it is - why is that tho? Irish Capital City / English football fan attitude thats why!
English football is known for the chantin & jeering against the other team or opposition players. Thats frowned upon in the Gaa. There's a reason why opposition fans are segregated at Soccer & there's a reason why there's lesser segregation or if any, at gaelic games.
There's a proper sense of fair play in Gaelic games, these lads & ladies are amateurs but sacrifice their lives much the same as professionals & they should be treated with respect!
Fans boo teams / players to put them off or to vent their dislike of them, but what reason / justification do fans have for booing a team thats 9 points down, with just minutes left? Thats just disgraceful behaviour to a great bunch of players (many retiring) for the past 11/12 years - rubbing their faces in it!
I think its about time we took some of these games on the road & out of Croker. Clones is between Tyrone & Dublin so we'd have a fair amount of fans being able to travel down to it. I'd say there'd be less cockiness or bully-boy behaviour from the Dubs due the numbers being even & since they wouldnt be able to lay claim to owning Clones aswell...
Our bitter rivals are Derry & Armagh... but you'd never have them boo the players like that on Sat... many would have the cop on to show a bitta respect to a losing team. Its like they were more interested in booing Tyrone than cheering for their own team - Liverpool & City fans seem to hate United more than they love their own club - you all know that, so whats the difference in Dublin sacrificing so much of their energies on hating Tyrone & with Pool & City fans hating us in the same manner?
Fact of the matter is - Dublin football fans have a Soccer supporting attitude to Gaelic football... how fecking sad is that
I like the Gaa head on Big Papi - true traditionalist values of fair play - most certainly not from Jackeen County
Yeah i was at the game, should have stayed at home tho. Feckin jinxed it again i reckon..
The booing is something associated with Soccer & its accepted in that sport - its not accepted as part of Gaelic games tho, but Dublin fans seem to think it is - why is that tho? Irish Capital City / English football fan attitude thats why!
English football is known for the chantin & jeering against the other team or opposition players. Thats frowned upon in the Gaa. There's a reason why opposition fans are segregated at Soccer & there's a reason why there's lesser segregation or if any, at gaelic games.
There's a proper sense of fair play in Gaelic games, these lads & ladies are amateurs but sacrifice their lives much the same as professionals & they should be treated with respect!
Fans boo teams / players to put them off or to vent their dislike of them, but what reason / justification do fans have for booing a team thats 9 points down, with just minutes left? Thats just disgraceful behaviour to a great bunch of players (many retiring) for the past 11/12 years - rubbing their faces in it!
I think its about time we took some of these games on the road & out of Croker. Clones is between Tyrone & Dublin so we'd have a fair amount of fans being able to travel down to it. I'd say there'd be less cockiness or bully-boy behaviour from the Dubs due the numbers being even & since they wouldnt be able to lay claim to owning Clones aswell...
Our bitter rivals are Derry & Armagh... but you'd never have them boo the players like that on Sat... many would have the cop on to show a bitta respect to a losing team. Its like they were more interested in booing Tyrone than cheering for their own team - Liverpool & City fans seem to hate United more than they love their own club - you all know that, so whats the difference in Dublin sacrificing so much of their energies on hating Tyrone & with Pool & City fans hating us in the same manner?
Fact of the matter is - Dublin football fans have a Soccer supporting attitude to Gaelic football... how fecking sad is that
That's hypocritical. How many points up do you have to be for it to be unjustified?
And Dublin fans don't hate Tyrone more than they love Dublin, that's just nonsense and bitter hyperbole with no place outside the heads of bitter detractors.
Maybe games on the road would be better all round, it might at least remove some of the chips from your shoulder.
As for differnet supporting attitiudes, do you have a different mindset watching both sports? If one code of behaviour is right then surely it is right no matter what the rules of the game are?
And if slagging Stevie G is ok and Eoin Mulligan is not because he doesn't get the same cash then we have very different takes on morals.
I think both are ok to a point in the context of a game, to justify one with the cash argument is wromg IMO.
You really seem to dislike the Dubs RHD, so maybe you are mirroring your own prejudices in our behaviour, I really don't think there is all that much malice behind the booing. Seriously I think you are taking it all a bit seriously. Maybe, after reading this thread, us Dubs don't se it seriously enough, but your bitterness will do you no good.
Contrary to you attempting to make me out the pantomine villain - I dont dislike the dubs. I never have, apart from that terrible match in Omagh (Battle of Omagh) - where both teams were a disgrace.
Your justification on the booing gets on my wick tho. If that was the other way round you'd be less than happy, instead you're playing the "you're bitter" card. I'm not, but it seems to me you're the one with the chip & its not from Leo Burdocks either!
I made a honest comment & imo - a just one, that i wasnt happy with the booing during the end of the game - you then turned this thread into "RHD hates the Dubs - the bitter sore-loser bastard".
I'm a loyal Tyrone man & very proud of what that team has given us. It was hard watchin the boys play the game out - playing to death, i could feel they were hurtin aswell as Mickey & the management team too. I have every right to feel fecked off by the events of Sat night because that was the end of an era & no-way was it the correct manner in which many of those lads bowed out!
This friggin argument shouldnt have gone this far. I respect (but dont agree with) your opinion that you think English Soccer style chanting & booing (rubbin salt in the wounds) is ok, so why dont you respect mine & most of the Countries opinion that its not?!
Anyway, i hope you agree that there's more important things to think about, so maybe we should draw a line under this until after Dublin's next game!
Your justification on the booing gets on my wick tho. If that was the other way round you'd be less than happy, instead you're playing the "you're bitter" card. I'm not, but it seems to me you're the one with the chip & its not from Leo Burdocks either!
I made a honest comment & imo - a just one, that i wasnt happy with the booing during the end of the game - you then turned this thread into "RHD hates the Dubs - the bitter sore-loser bastard".
I'm a loyal Tyrone man & very proud of what that team has given us. It was hard watchin the boys play the game out - playing to death, i could feel they were hurtin aswell as Mickey & the management team too. I have every right to feel fecked off by the events of Sat night because that was the end of an era & no-way was it the correct manner in which many of those lads bowed out!
This friggin argument shouldnt have gone this far. I respect (but dont agree with) your opinion that you think English Soccer style chanting & booing (rubbin salt in the wounds) is ok, so why dont you respect mine & most of the Countries opinion that its not?!
Anyway, i hope you agree that there's more important things to think about, so maybe we should draw a line under this until after Dublin's next game!
Contrary to you attempting to make me out the pantomine villain - I dont dislike the dubs. I never have, apart from that terrible match in Omagh (Battle of Omagh) - where both teams were a disgrace.
Your justification on the booing gets on my wick tho. If that was the other way round you'd be less than happy, instead you're playing the "you're bitter" card. I'm not, but it seems to me you're the one with the chip & its not from Leo Burdocks either!
I made a honest comment & imo - a just one, that i wasnt happy with the booing during the end of the game - you then turned this thread into "RHD hates the Dubs - the bitter sore-loser bastard"[/I].
I'm a loyal Tyrone man & very proud of what that team has given us. It was hard watchin the boys play the game out - playing to death, i could feel they were hurtin aswell as Mickey & the management team too. I have every right to feel fecked off by the events of Sat night because that was the end of an era & no-way was it the correct manner in which many of those lads bowed out!
This friggin argument shouldnt have gone this far. I respect (but dont agree with) your opinion that you think English Soccer style chanting & booing (rubbin salt in the wounds) is ok, so why dont you respect mine & most of the Countries opinion that its not?!
Anyway, i hope you agree that there's more important things to think about, so maybe we should draw a line under this until after Dublin's next game!
I never called anyone a bastard, you were the only abusive one in the thread.
I did respect Irwin's opinion because he was acting in accordance with what he was arguing for , respect. You were crying about jeering and in response were abusive and just having a go at Dublin on a cultural level. You need to be less entrenched and partisan; and the fact you don't even see it is the most worrying part.
C'mon lads, tis only a game, we're all proud Irishmen and the sport we love is one of the most sporting games on the planet. Where else would you get opposition fans mingling with each other before, during and after the match and having a laugh about the banter no matter how serious it got.
Lets draw a line under this and get on.
Lets draw a line under this and get on.
Booooooooooooooo......
No harm in a bit of booing in fairness.
I know that JakeC, a sound enough young lad.
Nobody likes us and we don't care.
Although this is possibly the only thread on the forum where you can use 'English' pejoratively and get away with it.
Although this is possibly the only thread on the forum where you can use 'English' pejoratively and get away with it.
Anyway seeing as we've moved on I suggest this thread should only be populated by contributors whose county is still involved in Senior Championship at either football or hurling. I thank you.
Who the feck do you think you are?
Best of luck to Mattie Murphy & the Galway minors in this years All-Ireland Minor Hurling Final.
Oh, ginger people and those who don't get sarcasm should vamoose from this thread also.
Typical Dub...
Get outta da garden!
Glad you took my sarcastic tone.. was thinkin you might lunge in there & i was waiting to pull your line: "Oh, ginger people and those who don't get sarcasm should vamoose from this thread also.."
Bravo Mr. Nialler - if thats your real name...
Those Dublin louts are doin well versus Tipp.
Tipp get the first three points of the second half. Dublin need to score the next one
edit - and they do.
edit - and they do.
Great performance by a weakened Dublin team. They will be a big force in the next few years, especially with a very strong bunch of minors coming through.
They'll only be as big as they currently are in my opinion, they'll put it up to the big guns but i seriously can't ever see them beating Tipperary or Kilkenny the two teams thats going to be the ones to beat in the next 7/8 years anyways. Galway are a dominating county at both minor & under21 level & have been for years now & they can't win an All Ireland. I wouldn't get too excited about the future just because the minors reached the final if i were you.
It's all realtive TBP, if this is sustained Dublin hurling will be happy. Ye have a much better pedigree and demand titles, we are happy to be competing at this level.
I'm talking about reaching finals 9 in total, a fair achievement in itself especially at U21 level.
At minor level Galway have reached 10 finals in the last 15 years winning 5. Galway are in the final again this year.
A Galway Club contested 15 out of the last 15 All Ireland Senior Club Championship finals as well, winning 7.
Its a mystery to all in Galway how an All-Ireland senior Championship wasn't won since 1988.
I'm happy Dublin are competing at a high level now as well & i'm sure all fans from Hurling counties feel the same. One thing for sure the rise of Dublin along with the inclusion of Galway will make for mouth watering Leinster Championships for the foreseeable future. The competition will keep Kilkenny on their toes thats for sure.
One thing i would be worried about though if i was a Dub is the day Anthony Daly says to himself i've taken ye as far as i can. I'm sure a call from his Banner county is going to come sooner rather than later, they have some cracking young hurlers coming through the ranks now too. After Cody i consider him the best Hurling manager in the country.
No mystery, Gerry McInerney's white boots signalled the end for me!
Thats right & his head of long hair & the tash!
Looking likely Tomás Ó Sé will miss Sundays game, feck sake.
Big loss Lem, but i'd still be confident of the win if I were you... best of luck!
Anyone going to Croker on Sunday?
I'm a Mayo man myself and fairly pessimistic about it, but happy with our lot for the year regardless of Sunday. Hoping for a good game between two good footballing teams, and if we get within a couple of points with 10 minutes to go I'd be happy enough from there - nobody has challenged Kerry yet this year really (Cork were playing catch-up throughout) so would like to see someone test them.
Fairly obvious prediction is Kerry to win (though the RTE website predicts Mayo) but here's hoping for a contest this time unlike the last few against Kerry in championship.
I'm a Mayo man myself and fairly pessimistic about it, but happy with our lot for the year regardless of Sunday. Hoping for a good game between two good footballing teams, and if we get within a couple of points with 10 minutes to go I'd be happy enough from there - nobody has challenged Kerry yet this year really (Cork were playing catch-up throughout) so would like to see someone test them.
Fairly obvious prediction is Kerry to win (though the RTE website predicts Mayo) but here's hoping for a contest this time unlike the last few against Kerry in championship.
Yeah, I'll be there.
Should be a hell of a lot tighter than the last couple of Championship meetings between the two anyway.
Galvin won't start, O'Se's coming off an injury and apparently Cooper's been carrying a knock for the past couple of weeks.
Prediction: Kerry 1-14 Mayo 2-9
Should be a hell of a lot tighter than the last couple of Championship meetings between the two anyway.
Galvin won't start, O'Se's coming off an injury and apparently Cooper's been carrying a knock for the past couple of weeks.
Prediction: Kerry 1-14 Mayo 2-9
Delighted so far, we're in with a chance here at half time which is more than I was expecting to be honest. Canal End is the scoring end in Croker though so hopefully we can keep it tight at the back for the second half too.
Good game so far!
Good game so far!
I thought Mayo pretty much lost the game at the start of the 2nd half. They'd done well to keep the score difference down to two at half-time and I thought they'd come out flying, but they didn't show any balls after the break.
Plus, when they couldn't get back into it through skill they tried roughhouse tactics which didn't work either.
I'm hoping for Dublin to come through against Donegal next week to set up a classic final!
Plus, when they couldn't get back into it through skill they tried roughhouse tactics which didn't work either.
I'm hoping for Dublin to come through against Donegal next week to set up a classic final!
I hate Galvin. He's great the bastard. I had some great things to say on this game but I said it all in the newb thread as it's much Dublin - Kerry would be a better game IMO.