Rugby now more popular than football AND GAA?!

**bennocelt** · 07/10/2011, 10:48 AM

Originally Posted by mypost

Show us your passport.

We all have a love-hate relationship with the FAI. But we have to put that crap aside when the national team are playing.

Doesn't make me any less Irish

**bennocelt** · 07/10/2011, 10:52 AM

Originally Posted by Fixer82

Why does it have to be a threat? I don't know any GAA club that worries about soccer over-shadowing the GAA, even though it often does in certain communities. There are enough sports clubs around for anyone to play whichever of our 4 most popular sports.

LOLOLOL, thats funny. Wow

**Stuttgart88** · 07/10/2011, 10:58 AM

Originally Posted by drummerboy

The game was on Setanta AFAIK

It was, and it was a poor enough game imo.

Doesn't necessarily refute Fixer's post though.

**Fixer82** · 07/10/2011, 12:08 PM

Originally Posted by bennocelt

LOLOLOL, thats funny. Wow

Maybe where you live but I haven't noticed it where I live with the obvious exception of Thomas Davis.
You will always get managers, members of clubs from all codes that will be suspicious of the other (being small-minded basically) but to be honest most lads I've grown up playing GAA with played a bit of rugby and soccer and it was never an issue with the GAA club. And I saw it as well with other friends who played in other clubs in Dublin.
I see a lot of paranoia in soccer about the GAA when the fact generally is that the GAA is very community based in one parish. Soccer can have 3 or four different clubs in one parish and doesn't have the same community strength behind it.
I think the days of GAA clubs being totally against the 'foreign sport' are long gone. I've watched World Cups and Champions League finals in my GAA club on many occasions

**Fixer82** · 07/10/2011, 12:10 PM

Originally Posted by drummerboy

The game was on Setanta AFAIK

Well I was talking about the league overall but Setanta showing the games can only help too.
I do think though that RTÉ's coverage is better. MNS also helps raise profile of the league

**bennocelt** · 07/10/2011, 12:17 PM

Originally Posted by Fixer82

Maybe where you live but I haven't noticed it where I live with the obvious exception of Thomas Davis.

I have seen it on many occasions where Gah training sessions have changed so they would clash with football fixtures and training , knowing full well that many football lads play both codes.
Also Mullingar ath's pitch was dug up a few years ago - mmmm

The gah can be very petty, sure just watch O Rourke, Spillane, Morrisey and that tool from Derry on RTE, anytime they knock football they do

**Charlie Darwin** · 07/10/2011, 12:24 PM

Originally Posted by Fixer82

I see a lot of paranoia in soccer about the GAA when the fact generally is that the GAA is very community based in one parish. Soccer can have 3 or four different clubs in one parish and doesn't have the same community strength behind it.
I think the days of GAA clubs being totally against the 'foreign sport' are long gone. I've watched World Cups and Champions League finals in my GAA club on many occasions

Plenty of parishes in Dublin have more than one GAA club and plenty of them are permanently at one another's throat. Thomas Davis fight with everyone, including themselves.

**an_ceannaire** · 07/10/2011, 12:57 PM

http://www.rte.ie/

3 sports stories on their front page
2 Rugby one boxing
and the football match is tonight

Says it all lads............

**OwlsFan** · 07/10/2011, 1:25 PM

And if the Soccer team was playing in a World Cup quarter final in Brazil and the rugby team was playing Georgia in a World Cup qualifier in Georgia, which do you think would be mentioned on rte.ie ?

Says it all lads........

**drummerboy** · 07/10/2011, 1:31 PM

Head of sport on RTE is now Ryle Nugent, who happens to be a rugger bugger

**SwanVsDalton** · 07/10/2011, 1:45 PM

Originally Posted by an_ceannaire

http://www.rte.ie/

3 sports stories on their front page
2 Rugby one boxing
and the football match is tonight

Says it all lads............

There's nothing new to report on the Ireland game until kick-off, RTE's coverage of the game has been prominent all week. So I think it says the opposite of what you suggest ie nothing.

EDIT - Says it all lads...

**Charlie Darwin** · 07/10/2011, 1:58 PM

Originally Posted by SwanVsDalton

There's nothing new to report on the Ireland game until kick-off, RTE's coverage of the game has been prominent all week. So I think it says the opposite of what you suggest ie nothing.

EDIT - Says it all lads...

Ryle Nugent's DONE IT NOW >:O

**jinxy lilywhite** · 07/10/2011, 2:25 PM

if i could throw my 2 cents in. i dont see the problem. there is enough of us out there who enjoy all codes of sport. sure i played rugby, gaelic and football very badly up until i was about 17 or 18. the biggest threat to irish sport imo is not the rival sports but from kids with nothing to do, taking up smoking, hanging around shop corners, general anti social behaviour.
sports clubs around the country should be focused on that aspect, working together to solve the problem rather than thinking they are in direct competition

**Bungle** · 07/10/2011, 5:11 PM

Originally Posted by jinxy lilywhite

if i could throw my 2 cents in. i dont see the problem. there is enough of us out there who enjoy all codes of sport. sure i played rugby, gaelic and football very badly up until i was about 17 or 18. the biggest threat to irish sport imo is not the rival sports but from kids with nothing to do, taking up smoking, hanging around shop corners, general anti social behaviour.
sports clubs around the country should be focused on that aspect, working together to solve the problem rather than thinking they are in direct competition

Spot on mate.

**Stuttgart88** · 07/10/2011, 5:19 PM

Yes, well said Jinxy.

**Fixer82** · 07/10/2011, 7:07 PM

yep well said Jinxy. I'm not gonna get sucked into slagging anyone off. Just calling it as I've seen it from my experience and that has been all fairly positive. Maybe cos I'm a glass half full kind of guy

Anyway, COME ON IRELAND!

**Jinxy** · 07/10/2011, 9:26 PM

Of the 3 codes, rugby is probably the most popular with people that aren't that interested in sport to begin with.
I figure this is a result of clever marketing and good brand management, because lord knows I've watched plenty of games in the company of people that hadn't a clue what was going.
And some of them are Leinster season ticket holders.