Well said.Quote:
Originally Posted by sullanefc
LOI supporters sending critism the way of the GAA will only add fuel to the self-fabricated notion within the GAA that the "foreign" LOI is out to destroy the "Local, Patriotic, Poor" GAA.
MNS is doing wonders. And from what I hear and see of our own Club Promotion Officer, they are doing excellent work.
The LOI branch of the Dublin GAA Supporters Club will be running a bus departing Parnell Square North @12 midday, next to the Dublin Orange Lodge GAA supporters bus.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jinxy
Will someone please think of the children?Quote:
Originally Posted by shedite
BTW we are all great!
accept of course those who are not..greatQuote:
Originally Posted by pete
Are there many GAA members posting here? I get the impression there are a few at least.
Me.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jinxy
But one who loves the game, but hates some of the organisation
In all honesty, I don't think that many people involved in the GAA are afraid of the LOI.Quote:
Originally Posted by gufcfan
Myself also. Bit ashamed to say so to be honest after reading the first post, but i have to say that i,m also a bit ashamed to call myself a loi fan also because of the hatred some guys have shown for the gaa in this thread! I hate the whole "us against them" approach taken by both sides and and would love if we had more fans like kingdomkerry who are just sports fans and just look forward to supporting their local team at the weekend no matter whether its gaelic/football, hurling, football/soccer etc!Quote:
Originally Posted by micls
Shamrock Rovers say helloQuote:
Originally Posted by Jinxy
Tell them I said hello back. :confused:
Nice lads.
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Originally Posted by Réiteoir
I live in Dublin, if they were playing one of the dublin clubs i would deffo try and go. They only play in the league cup. Dont think they every competed in the FAI cup. Hopefully they will do well in the league cup and people will start asking why they are not in the loi. Already knocked out waterford and got a handy draw against wexford youths in the next round...............
As a member of my local gaa club and as a regular at my local loi club, i have to say i dislike all this polarisation i see expressed on this site at times regarding the gaa.
there are indeed some lunatics within the gaa, and i'd hazard a guess the same percentage exists within some soccer clubs. but times are changing. im seeing good coordination between local gaa and soccer clubs regarding the arrangement of training and matches for juveniles. And if you wathced the amount of time and effort these people put into their respective clubs, you could only have respect for them.
I am all for people putting in hard work to their local community through sports, no matter which it is. It is all benefical to the the young and the community as a whole.
This is in stark contrast to the folk who exclusively follow an english football team and inject no contribution into their localities (bar the local pubs takings!!). If you want to be at odds with anyone regarding the loi, direct your attention at them folk.
Anyone ever read Fear of the Collar: My Terrifying Childhood in Artane by Patrick Touher? From reading this it is quite evident that the biggest crime a child could commit whilst there was playing 'soccer', shocking stuff. You'd think the denouncing of God or acting the maggot in class would be a bigger punishment than 'playing gah with your feet' :rolleyes:
Utter nonsense. Like all sports, attendances go though peaks and troughs, personally I think there has definately been a fall in attendance but there were tens of thousands at many matches last year. Attendance are more than healthy and I don't see this changing any time soon. Yes there are issues over the grants but the issues GAa members have with HQ pale into insignificance compared with the volume of grumbles at the FAI regularly expressed on here.Quote:
The GAA is dead. You heard it here first.
They are on the brink of tearing themselves apart over pay for play which has driven a huge wedge between the intercounty elite and the rank and file members.
If it wasn't for soccer, rugby and the Dubs Croke Park attendences were pitiful last year and are a sign of things to come.
A fair and rounded analysis there certainly.Quote:
They're only motivation is money and being bigot's. I won't even go to an international until we move back into LR.
As far the initial incident the thread started on goes, I think its a terrible attitude for anybody to have. Kids should be free to play the sports they want to play. Personally I think Gaelic football is better sport than soccer. Most people on here disagree and your entitled to your opinion.
While obviously all sports compete to a certain extent, they certainly don't need to be mutually exclusive
Great story.:DQuote:
Originally Posted by ashbournebohs
I bet there was a tear in your eye when your very well bought up daughters said that.
The FAI and IRFU have never banned the GAA from using their stadiums (the GAA would barely exsist for the ex-pat community if it wasn't for Football, Rugby and Cricket allowing GAA teams to use their grounds). The FAI and IRFU have never banned their players from playing GAA controlled games. You are not comparing the relative positions of the sporting organisations when trying to make out that they're as bad as each other.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rocky77
I don't know any League of Ireland supporter who would try to block any link with any other sporting organisation happens with the GAA, such as in the case above. I'm as anti-GAA as they come, but I think children should have access to as many sports as possible, with the sporting organisations working together to achieve that aim. It shouldn't be about getting exclusivity at underage level, and in my experience and knowledge that is what the GAA wants.
In rural parishes that I would be aware of the GAA deliberatly scheduled underage training and matches to disrupt the football teams - until the kids started picking football first though. I'm also aware of someone being forced out of a high up position for allowing a GAA hall (a different issue, but the money was raised under the pretences of it being a community centre) to be used for Under 10 five a side.
So Rocky, make fair comparisons. Make it fair based on the relative strength of the organisations involved. Make it fair based on actions in the real world, not based on what people say on a football forum. To use the tired old cliche, you are comparing apples and oranges.
To be fari Macy, he hasn't tried to compare the FAI with the GAA, at local or national level.Quote:
Originally Posted by Macy
His 2 posts so far-
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Originally Posted by Rocky77
The only comparison he makes is to say that the bile spewed by that GAA guy in the original post isn't confined to the GAA, and that some members of this forum have been guilty of spewing similar bile. And a few of the posts in this thread and other GAA-related threads would back up that suggestion.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rocky77
I've no idea how gaelic football could be seen as better than football (if it was hurling I could see your point), at least from a spectator point of view. They've had well over a hundred years and still haven't managed to define the tackle yet.Quote:
Originally Posted by HolylandsMan
Also, every unpunished off the ball punch, headbutt or kick reduces the integrity of the game. The old joke about going to a fight and seeing an ice hockey game breaking out is now more appropriate to the GAA.
I suggest you try and spread that message around the GAA. It was on exactly that basis (ie mutual exclusivity) that the GAA was founded and thrived.Quote:
Originally Posted by HolylandsMan
Did anyone see the new GAA football manager program last night?
I was in a friends house and they were watching it. Anyway, Mary O' Rourke TD said that when the GAA calls, you answer, just like the nurses or the INTO. She said she was speaking as a member of a rural community. A very interesting comment which gives a clear indication of the power of the organisation outside the major cities.
A 'nice' new reality type program promoting GAA football on a Sunday evening.
On threads, on a message board. Not in a meeting about getting a school support from sporting organisations, or whilst trying to organise more sport for children. Can you really not see the difference to opinions posted, on a football forum at that, to what happens in the real world? Which is what I was getting at.Quote:
Originally Posted by osarusan
Yes, we now have them spending millions on GAA rights, millions on GAA sponsorship of the same thing they have the rights too, and now prime time sunday evening promotion. At the same time, we're told there isn't the money to cover the 1st division of the League of Ireland, and many other sports get even less coverage. Why don't they just go the whole hog and let the GAA collect the licence fee direct?Quote:
Originally Posted by reder