"Toe-benjy"

[Dunny]

"Snibbing" or "snibber" was the term for hanging around the box.

[Wolfie]

"Snibbing" or "snibber" was the term for hanging around the box.

"Snibbing around the box".

It has a vague undercurrent of what the likes of Peter Stringfellow gets up to.

I'm sure he has many diary entries along the lines of:

Tuesday 25th

"Didn't do much out of the ordinary. Just a bit of the old Snibbing around the box............................."

[sligoman]

Bull-toe and goal hanging...all the other names ye have put on them are just weird.

People that kept shooting and never pass was known as a 'Glory-hunter'...'would ya stop glorying!'

[Hairy Bowsie]

"Snibbing" or "snibber" was the term for hanging around the box.

Are you forgeting the "L"?

[dfclilywhite]

Are you forgeting the "L"?

Nope he isn't. Snibbing is the word I would use too.

[hula4]

i remember it being toe peg growing up in limerick, goal hanging as well, i wish i was 10 all over again, you could play from 10 in the morning til 10 at night, struggle to get through the 90 mins these days

[Longfordian]

Bull-toe and goal hanging...all the other names ye have put on them are just weird.

People that kept shooting and never pass was known as a 'Glory-hunter'...'would ya stop glorying!'

Yes, all of this is correct.

[tetsujin1979]

i remember it being toe peg growing up in limerick, goal hanging as well, i wish i was 10 all over again, you could play from 10 in the morning til 10 at night, struggle to get through the 90 mins these days

ditto, toe-poke and goal-hanging where I was from in the Treaty City

headers and volleys could go on for hours, keeper scored a point for every shot caught cleanly (ie without letting it bounce) and for every shot that went in that wasn't a volley

[John83]

In a major shock, the UCD lads (who all grew up in South Dublin) all use much the same slang as me.

Toe-bog or toe-poke (mainly a distinction of power) and goal hatching/hanging were the terms of choice. Oh, and it was 3-and-in for me too.

[Sheridan]

People that kept shooting and never pass was known as a 'Glory-hunter'...'would ya stop glorying!'

We called them "Jewbags" in the late eighties, I'm sorry to say. I didn't know what a Jew was, to be honest.

[John83]

We called them "Jewbags" in the late eighties, I'm sorry to say. I didn't know what a Jew was, to be honest.

As a small child, I once asked a Protestant friend if he was indeed a prostitute. I didn't know what either word meant and had mixed them up.

[theworm2345]

It was "Big Toe" on our estate.

"Hatcher" was term for hanging around the box - or often a "Bleedin Hatcher" or worse if said Hatcher was managing to score a few.

We played "3 and in" , "World Cup" and there was a game we played on the road called "Squares". Anyone else play that?

We played games called World Cup and Squares, not sure if they're the same as yours. World Cup was where everyone paired off (and picked a nation) and basically a ball was thrown in and everybody tried to score. Squares was when there were three squares, two on the flank, one in the middle and in each square was offense and defense. The ball started on one flank, the offense there had to get a certain number of passes and cross it to the other flank where they then had to get a certain number before putting in the center where the strikers had to try to score. Don't know about 3 and in.

[Dunny]

Ah squares, brilliant. Headers, crosses and volleys was the fav though.

[thischarmingman]

Some of the popular games were three-goals-on, backs-and-forwards, that knockout one where once you'd scored you sat down and the last one who didn't score went on goal for the next round

That;s one we played a lot athough we just had one person who would stay in goals for all 3/4/5 rounds. Some amount of running and chasing involved- the first round maybe 5 or 6 of you would be chasing the ball, all aiming for the one net. Prime mooching opportunites for the weaker/more tired.

[DmanDmythDledge]

Some amount of running and chasing involved- the first round maybe 5 or 6 of you would be chasing the ball, all aiming for the one net. Prime mooching opportunites for the weaker/more tired.

I'd never try until there was 2/3 people left, usually 2. Brilliant tactic.

[sligoman]

that knockout one where once you'd scored you sat down and the last one who didn't score went on goal for the next round

That game is called World Cup.

[thischarmingman]

It's called Knockout, I think you'll find. And the trick was to let the better players tire themselves out running around before dispossessing them at the last minute/deflecting their weary shot.

[pineapple stu]

Nope, World Cup.

[Poor Student]

I'm throwing my lot behind the terms 'toe bog', 'hatcher' and 'World Cup'.

[ifk101]

Bull-toe and lodging (as in lodging on the goal-line).