Your trying to tell me that a primary school banned chess because they are only GAA ? Bull****e.Originally Posted by sullanefc
I'm not sure about that guys chess story, it's not beyond the realms of possiblility. From my own personal experiences in primary school, soccer was banned AND the GAA playing kids WERE favoured.
Listen, I can see where you are coming from. Yes there are soccer fans out there who are anti-GAA and will cheer when your county loses. But at least take the blinkers off and stop denying that the same attitudes are not widespread amongst GAA fans.
Last edited by sullanefc; 18/05/2006 at 12:18 PM.
Not a word of it.
You can't spell failure without FAI
I suppose the FAI and IRFU just assumed that the GAA would want to use their own state of the art 70,000 seat stadium. I wonder have they ever asked?
Agreed (I would have hoped that this is the debate stopper for all eL fans).
Together with all our hearts.
Chess is a foreign game
82,000 and i said ever. There wasn't always an 82,000 seater stadium there.
Have they ever asked ? Good point. Have the IRFU or FAI ever asked the GAA ? And were they ever turned down when they did ask ?
Bloody Russians
So its ok for the IRFU and FAI to use Croker but not for the GAA to want to use a soccer ground ?
Go to the gaaboard.com and see how many soccer related threads there are in the non-gaa discussion.
The most bigotted GAA person i have ever seen is a guy on that board by the name of Tony Fearon and hes a soccer fan
Somehow I don't think the founders of cultural nationalism had this in mind when they thought about instilling pride in Irish identity.
It's just getting petty now. "We nivir ast them de play at ders!!"
Anyway. One thing about 'soccer' - at least it wasn't made up in the late nineteenth century to mimic 'soccer'.
I'm all for the hurlin, but 'football' is a tad sh1te and false.
DCFC
There is a guy that posts on this forum who this story is about.
We were in school, lunchtime and kicking a ball about as you do, anyway this guy twists his ankle and is actually in a good deal of pain. The school is renounced for its hurling and as he hobbles down to the main building he meets the principle and he sees the situation and goes and askes him if he is alright, does he want some help, does he want ice etc. as you would think ..... he then continues to question him on how it actually happened and when he found out it happened while playing 'a foreign game' he turned around as if he just bit into a lemon and said "well it serves you right so" and turned and walked off. Un-b-fúcking-lieveable !!
The SFAI are the governing body for grassroots football in Ireland, not the FAI. Its success or the lack of is all down to them.
It think you'll find its actually the chinese .... the worstist of the lot !!Bloody Russians
The SFAI are the governing body for grassroots football in Ireland, not the FAI. Its success or the lack of is all down to them.
Russians, chinese, sure aren't they all foreign!!It think you'll find its actually the chinese .... the worstist of the lot !!
Sectarianism is never picking …. Tar them all with the one brush !!Russians, chinese, sure aren't they all foreign!!
The SFAI are the governing body for grassroots football in Ireland, not the FAI. Its success or the lack of is all down to them.
I'd imagine that Croke Park, as it currently stands, is a massive financial drain of resources. I believe this is the prime motivation behind the opening of Croke Park's doors to the FAI and IRFU. I know there are plenty of heads in the GAA hierarchy that are fans of football and rugby, but surely the decision to open Croke Park was made all the sweeter considering the amount of money the GAA will receive for each football/rugby game played there? The opening of Croke Park paints the GAA is a positive light but the amount of money they are receiving for doing so is rarely brought up. Why?
The GAA has come out now stressing that the dimensions of Lansdowne Rd arent accommodating to GAA games. Fair enough. But Croke Park wasn't built with rugby and football in mind, despite the massive investment of State money, so why should Lansdowne be re-designed to GAA games specifics? And, being prefectly honest, I doubt the FAI and IRFU would dismiss GAA usage of Lansdowne Rd if the GAA is willing to pay the same amount as what the FAI and IRFU are doing to use Croke Park. Have they actually said that Lansdowne Rd is off-limits to the GAA?
But why would the GAA pay that amount when Croke Park is empty for 8 months of the year, if not more? Why on earth would the GAA need usage of Lansdowne Rd?
If there is one thing the GAA should be applauded for, is how well the GAA is organised. They know how to use the media, fight for their interests and how to play the innocent samaritan. Just ask Shamrock Rovers.
You started this thread - and the question remains why? Everything you have said is all just general crap without any facts. Why are you so anti FAI and IRFU?
It's OK for them to use the ground. It's not OK for them to want it knocked down and rebuilt to suit them.
I read in the paper a while back that Lansdown Road has been offered for Ladies and underage GAA matches, for which it is big enough, but the offer has been turned down.
On the general point: There are people in both soccer and GAA who dislike the other code. To claim otherwise shows up a bias.
Anti GAA the top ten...
1) Glass spreading and the ban
2) The sectarianism and bigotry implicit in the foreign games ban (American Football, Aussie Rules, Boxing are all Irish apparently).
3) Tallaght
4) The way they pay managers and administrators - basically the only people that don't benefit directly are the players
5) "Sales rep" and Bank jobs for the top players as opposed to an equitable pay for play system for all players to keep the so called amateur status.
6) The millions of Government funds that actually went into build Croke Park and other GAA grounds, and the lies about them being great for doing it themselves
7) The political power they wield and the amount of money they get when compared to other sports, when they don't even have the most people playing for them.
8) The way they treat their players and then complain about burn out
9) The way that GAA fans will give you shít for an eL jersey, whilst wearing a Celtic/Liverpool jersey themselves (even when the el jersey is from the same county as they're there to support!)
10) The constant moaning about tickets for big games when the league games have attendances of a few thousand if they're lucky
If you attack me with stupidity, I'll be forced to defend myself with sarcasm.
Well in fairness i do agree with u, hurlings the best game in the world. Nothing comes close to it, and i'm not "that" much of a gaelic footy fan.
But i think your comments are a bit unfair, gaelic football did exist in "some" state for a long time before soccer/rugby in their present forms. The rules today may not represent much the "ancient" game but it did still exist.
After all soccer was originally a game played by kicking a ball between 2 people without goalposts etc :P
That's the attitude I've seen a lot, and it doesn't surprise me to see "soccer" fans sore about it.
If you want to criticise that, read up on it. The ground's not frigging big enough. The GAA have plenty of facuilities in the area and are either just angling for funding and/or planning permission or they're being spiteful enough to just be hassling Rovers. Either way is a disgrace.
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