GAA crap

[Beavis]

If were getting back to the use of Croke Park issue,the GAA'S grounds for refusing soccer's admission are perfectly ligitimate and aren't based on soccer being a 'foreign sport' but based on soccer being a rival sport.

Think of a youngster deciding which sport to choose between..does he dream of playing at the bleak and atmosphereless Lansdowne or the new,state of the art,booming Croker?

If the GAA were to allow soccer in,they would lose a major advantage over persuading children towards their games and therfore putting the future of their sports in jeopardy.

[Shed End John]

Originally posted by Conor74
Yeah, but the simple fact is that, outside counties, it's now getting to the stage where even club games in the GAA get crowds well in excess of any soccer club showpiece. The Cork County Championship final would dwarf the FAI Cup Final.

How do you figure that Conor?? While there may have been around 14,000 at the recent county football decider (Castlehaven v Clonakilty), this was an unusually large crowd explained by the fact that the fixture was something of a local derby. The last time a bigger crowd than that watched a county final was, I'm guessing, the Glen-Sars hurling decider of 1989 when 52,000+ crammed into Páirc Ui Chaoimh. Most county finals attract ALOT less than 8-10,000 in the gates - hardly figures that'd be higher than at an FAI Cup Final.

[Macy]

over 15,000 at the cup final this year...

[Shed End John]

Originally posted by Macy
over 15,000 at the cup final this year...

My point exactly, and nice to see the jackeens get done in for once as well.

[James]

Originally posted by Shed End John
The last time a bigger crowd than that watched a county final was, I'm guessing, the Glen-Sars hurling decider of 1989

Wrong
alot / most of the county finals i was at mid / late 90's had greater attendences then 14k
Skibb v Castlehaven final and replay both went well over 20k from memory as did many more (albeit most involving west cork teams)

[Shed End John]

Originally posted by James
Wrong
alot / most of the county finals i was at mid / late 90's had greater attendences then 14k

And ALL of the ones I was at went considerably under 14,000:
Barrs-Piarsaigh, 1992 Hurling, c.11,000 at BOTH games
Barrs-Carbery, 1994 Hurling, less than 8,000 (even less again at the replay), to name just two.
Crowds of 10,000+ are few and far between nowadays, mostly because the standards, especially in hurling, are frighteningly low at club level.

[Macy]

Stupid using county finals as an example anyway, everyone knows that bogball "supporters" are the biggest sunshine boys in the world anyway..... How many do those teams get for their league games?

[Dodge]

Originally posted by James
Wrong
alot / most of the county finals i was at mid / late 90's had greater attendences then 14k
Skibb v Castlehaven final and replay both went well over 20k from memory as did many more (albeit most involving west cork teams)

Yeah but they are Cork Crowds so you can take 25% off straight away


[SIZE=1]Continue with your GAA arguement with my apologies [/SIZE]

[Macy]

Actually there's one thing I hate far more than the GAH, and even FF, it's the term soccer..... It's football, or association football at a push.......