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Tyrone (feckers) will win. Shall be watching it.
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Originally Posted by Dublin12
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I knew this would happen.
Now, Armagh will hump Tyrone and meet Kerry who humped Cork today....snigger
Go on Armagh!
And well done to the Down minors, into the final, would be class - Down for the minors and Armagh for the seniors, sweet............
Hurling I would agree with. Gaelic football following observation.
Soccer is played in 217 countries worldwide. Gaelic football is played in how many? As to why 78,000 people attended , well how many would you get at a GAA National League (same opposition)in the depths of March with a chilly wind blowing and it bucketing down with rain? Less than 10,000 unless it was the final
Might it have something to do with windy chilly buckets of rain? I don't know, I am stumped.
Often enough you get league games with 15,000 attending which covers the average total EL weekly attendance.
What is the point of coming onto a gaelic football thread and making some facile point about Gaelic not dominating the world? I suggest you might be more at home in some other forums where you can use imaginativly discriptive words like "bogball" etc. without recrimination. I come to this forum to follow a thread on Gaelic football.
The basic point is Championship fans don't go the National League games, in the same way that Rugby International ticket buyers ignore the AIL and Republic of Ireland so called supporters ignore the EL.Might it have something to do with windy chilly buckets of rain? I don't know, I am stumped.
Often enough you get league games with 15,000 attending which covers the average total EL weekly attendance.
What is the point of coming onto a gaelic football thread and making some facile point about Gaelic not dominating the world? I suggest you might be more at home in some other forums where you can use imaginativly discriptive words like "bogball" etc. without recrimination. I come to this forum to follow a thread on Gaelic football.
We are a nation of bandwagon jumpers and Event attenders. And if the same two teams played in November the crowd would be way lower.
As regards Gaelic football it is just a game for bad hurlers
If it was your point you kept it well disguised coming after making a disparaging comparison about gaelic's popularity worldwide compared with soccer.The basic point is Championship fans don't go the National League games, in the same way that Rugby International ticket buyers ignore the AIL and Republic of Ireland so called supporters ignore the EL.
We are a nation of bandwagon jumpers and Event attenders. And if the same two teams played in November the crowd would be way lower.
As regards Gaelic football it is just a game for bad hurlers
To respond to your point about support,
In GAA, the first loyalty is to the local club and the competition to win is the county championship. After that then the county gets support and the championship is the competition. If they end up in Croke Park like Armagh 3 times and Tyrone have 4 times this year (so far!) and their followers travel in their tens of thousands. Its churlish imo to describe that support as event junkies.
Played at its highest level, is it as good as any other field sport in the world? I don't know, its apples and oranges. Maybe Superhoops made that statement after the Tyrone and Dublin game. I would say that those two games, the athmosphere, the excitement, the ethos and the game quality is as good as it gets anywhere in the world. Its a game which reached a peak in a packed stadium and he is rightly proud of it, thats how I understood his comments, its that simple.
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