Linfield Help the GAA

[Lionel Ritchie]

not John Byrne is it?

[eoinh]

not John Byrne is it?

no......

[Plastic man]

Surely it should say 'by existing.......'

Fair play to David Jeffrey(Linfield manager)(& the GAA ghirls for asking!)..... doubt Glumfield's H*n constituency would approve,mind

Linfield don't have a board of directors, but a committee who are voted in by the supporters and removed by the supporters also at the agm at the end of each season if need be!
The Linfield support don't mind, we like to help our neighbours when they are in need, can the GAA claim to help anyone but themselves!

[eoinh]

people really need to look at how they use word IMO... telling GUFC to f off is bigoted???? idiot.

I can remember what was said by the GAA about Galway UTD and football people in general at the time ....... maybe you dont.

Sorry maybe that should be the GAA suits, as it was a Connemara club whos ground was not owned by the GAA who rescued UTD at the time.

The sight of the Groningen bus pulling in among stone lined walls was surreal.

[lopez]

Linfield don't have a board of directors, but a committee who are voted in by the supporters and removed by the supporters also at the agm at the end of each season if need be!
The Linfield support don't mind, we like to help our neighbours when they are in need, can the GAA claim to help anyone but themselves!

Exactly f*ck all. This is the problem I have with the Grab All Association - or rather the people who run it, because a straight democratic vote amongst the members would remove the rule banning 'foreign' games being played on their grounds. In Britain for years whenever they wanted a ground on any level of the game it was provided (for a fee obviously). Wembley, Brentford, etc. down to the tory run council park behind where I grew up. They asked for it and they got it. It would serve them right if they were in future told to f*ck off.

[Plastic man]

What is the exact wording of the GAA rule, would I be right in thinking that the "Special Olympics", American/Aussie Football and boxing have been hosted in the past at GAA grounds!

[eoinh]

What is the exact wording of the GAA rule, would I be right in thinking that the "Special Olympics", American/Aussie Football and boxing have been hosted in the past at GAA grounds!

It should, as you noted, have stopped all these activities but didnt. To me essentially its an anti-football rule. Although they dont see the irony in going to other countries and playing Gaelige Football and Hurling on Football pitchs.

In essence all foreign games are banned from GAA Grounds.

[CollegeTillIDie]

This is a welcome development. Maybe thanks to the benign gesture of one of Ireland's Oldest Soccer clubs , it might make a mind set change in the so called grassroots of our so called National games regarding the use of certain GAA facilities by other codes.

Reminds me of a joke.
Ian Paisley has an accident goes into a coma and wakes up in 10 years time.
When he comes to he asks what is the latest news. Ian Junior tells him Linfield beat Cliftonville in the game last night. Ian Senior's face beams with a smile, what was the result he asks.... 2 goal and 9 points to 1 goal and 8 points is the reply

[gspain]

I can remember what was said by the GAA about Galway UTD and football people in general at the time ....... maybe you dont.

Sorry maybe that should be the GAA suits, as it was a Connemara club whos ground was not owned by the GAA who rescued UTD at the time.

The sight of the Groningen bus pulling in among stone lined walls was surreal.

I think the pitch in Connemara was community owned. I was at the game as well - totally surreal.

I don't recall any GAA backlash against the local club in Connemara.

However Galway's next European game was played in Ballindereen. Again a community owned pitch but the lcoal GAA club couldn't have been more helpful. they came under intense pressure from the county board and further afield to cancel the game but they just said the pitch was community owned and out of their hands. the local bigots got their revenge though as they didn't get to host a club championship game for 8 years afterwards.

[Macy]

To me essentially its an anti-football rule.

It's a sectarian rule, as only what they perceive as protestant games that are banned - i.e. football and rugby.

Although they dont see the irony in going to other countries and playing Gaelige Football and Hurling on Football pitchs.

The GAA wouldn't survive throughout the world but for the rugby, football, cricket etc grounds they use. Christ, even in this country they use rugby and football clubs facilities for training.

[lopez]

It's a sectarian rule, as only what they perceive as protestant games that are banned - i.e. football and rugby.

Essentially it's an anti-British rule. I mean while Boston College and Notre Dame have been welcomed in a game pioneered by Yale and Harvard unis, the same isn't the case with Celtic or Hibernian. Personally its pure bigotry. Previously the seaons never clashed so that the GAA could have made a packet out of soccer. But then who said logic ever overcomes passions such as love and - in this case - hate.

[Duncan Gardner]

Someone has obviously already pointed out to the GAA how Irish Leftfield are

[Plastic man]

D.O.B thats not very nice !

[lopez]

D.O.B thats not very nice !

...but totally acceptable it seems if it comes from someone 'of that fine tradition' (in other words a 'Prod') . Take it you've met Adieu Adair on another footy forum? Good to see him and his pal JB coming to some agreement on a subject, this time over whether it would have been better for the 'OSC' if 'IKP' was taken from the world, er, a little earlier (40 years earlier at least), something 'the good senor' would have trouble disagreeing with. Perhaps DG aswell.

[Plastic man]

...but totally acceptable it seems if it comes from someone 'of that fine tradition' (in other words a 'Prod') . Take it you've met Adieu Adair on another footy forum? Good to see him and his pal JB coming to some agreement on a subject, this time over whether it would have been better for the 'OSC' if 'IKP' was taken from the world, er, a little earlier (40 years earlier at least), something 'the good senor' would have trouble disagreeing with. Perhaps DG aswell.

I haven't got a clue, to what your on about!!

[Troy.McClure]

PS - Can anyone name the LOI player who played (and successful) for Groningen quite recently (well in the last 15 years or so)?

Liam Buckley

[-lamb-]

Try OWB***** .............. http://www.ourweecountry.co.**

if you were any more bitter the lemons would be jealous.

[Duncan Gardner]

...but totally acceptable it seems if it comes from someone 'of that fine tradition' (in other words a 'Prod') . Take it you've met Adieu Adair on another footy forum? Good to see him and his pal JB coming to some agreement on a subject, this time over whether it would have been better for the 'OSC' if 'IKP' was taken from the world, er, a little earlier (40 years earlier at least), something 'the good senor' would have trouble disagreeing with. Perhaps DG aswell.

Ah yes, that old game. Paisley (like many other individuals in NI) has gone a great deal of damage. But for all his influence he reacted to events as much as shaping them. I'd join with Mrs P and junior in persuading the old bugger to retire, though

The sanctimonious finger pointing from yourself, Macy, DG and the other self-appointed guardians against bigotry in Ireland would have me in tears. No, Lopez, tut, tut, tut, you're generalising, bogitted (sic.), chip on shoulder, etc. Wonderful fans these. I think that's where the Ballywestbrit comes in

Bad form this, getting threads closed before I get a chance to reply. Or am I generalising?

[Plastic man]

Bet it really ****es davros off that Protestants/British and Roman Catholics/Irish can actually get on and help each other!!

[-lamb-]

Not really,nothing would make me happier...... unfortunately,as a Prod.(albeit lapsed),who's resided in the osc & observed the worst excesses of some of the local dinosaurs ,this appears to be an exception to the rule!

Dont agree with the excesses of the GAA elsewhere,but in this part of the world can understand some residual paranoia......due to the less than accomodating attitude of certain Planters!

so, you had some bad experiences where you lived and decided to vent your anger and bitterness against a whole swathe of society.
it would appear that anything related to Northern Ireland is fair game for your potshots due to the deep and ingrained bitterness you feel to a handful of people.........way to go davros.
MUST you bring your bitter politics into ever sporting discussion on Northern Ireland?
let it go, get a life.