A "Real GAA Man" Views on the LOI - Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid

[oldyouth]

Why don't they just go the whole hog and let the GAA collect the licence fee direct?

Because they have to give half of it to the Barclays Premier League silly

[Source]

You can't blame the GAA for trying to promote there own game, maybe if the FAI try to promote the Eircom League better over the years we would have more coverage.
At least the are trying now, but 20 - 30 years too late.

[Erstwhile Bóz]

They've had well over a hundred years and still haven't managed to define the tackle yet.

How are we getting on with our everchanging offside rule, by the way?

I suggest you try and spread that message around the GAA. It was on exactly that basis (ie mutual exclusivity) that the GAA was founded and thrived.

I do hope you have overlooked the historical context of the foundation of the GAA and are not deliberately ignoring it or trying to reduce it to the phrase "mutual exclusivity". Because that would be absolutely ridiculous.

And "I suggest you try and spread that message around the GAA"? Maybe he could drop them a note at the next home soccer international.

[Jinxy]

Which does more damage to Irish soccer. The GAA or the Barstoolers?

[Bluebeard]

Which does more damage to Irish soccer. The GAA or the Barstoolers?

The FAI...

[thischarmingman]

The FAI...

...did more damage. They're far from the main culprits in the last year or so.



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...100 Posts!!!

[John83]

...did more damage. They're far from the main culprits in the last year or so.



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...100 Posts!!!

Steve Staunton?

[Macy]

Which does more damage to Irish soccer. The GAA or the Barstoolers?

The barstoolers are partly the result of the GAA indoctrination about football being a foriegn game. It's okay to watch it on tele or go abroad to watch it, but not to participate at a local level. It's the same kind of twisted logic that says paying players grants based on training and match attendance isn't paying them for training and playing.

[Bluebeard]

...did more damage. They're far from the main culprits in the last year or so.



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...100 Posts!!!

I know, but I wasn't going to resist the obvious gag. As a hardline LOI-er, I'm currently a big fan. Ish.

Congrats on knocking off the milestone, and doing it properly, and not with makey-uppy posts.

[OneRedArmy]

I do hope you have overlooked the historical context of the foundation of the GAA and are not deliberately ignoring it or trying to reduce it to the phrase "mutual exclusivity". Because that would be absolutely ridiculous.

Whatever about the historical context of building and propagating an association whose aims implicitly (and arguably explicitly) included the degradation of other sports, what is certain is that this kind of approach should have no place in a modern Irish republic. Things change.

[Jinxy]

The barstoolers are partly the result of the GAA indoctrination about football being a foriegn game. It's okay to watch it on tele or go abroad to watch it, but not to participate at a local level. It's the same kind of twisted logic that says paying players grants based on training and match attendance isn't paying them for training and playing.

You know too much. Watch your back.

[KevB76]

Which does more damage to Irish soccer. The GAA or the Barstoolers?

At local level, the GAA.

For example;
1. Not allowing lads to play junior ball during the GAA season (lads who would quite happily do both if permitted)
2. The "Community" centre mysteriously being re-branded the GAA ground and the junior football team being evicted.
3. The jeckyll and hyde type transformation of a seemingly normal and respected adult into a red-faced, eyes and veins bulging, spitting bellowing completely unreasonable arsehole when one of his neighbours naively dares to question why her sons team cant use the "community" centre ground anymore.

I think you will find a lot of GAA people also fall into the "barstooler" category.

[Erstwhile Bóz]

The barstoolers are partly the result of the GAA indoctrination about football being a foriegn game.

I know you said "partly", but even so that theory would seem to fly in the face of soccer attendances here at the height of GAA and Catholic Church opposition to the foreign game.

A high proportion of barstoolers are of the vital football demographic who a) make soccer the biggest participation sport, but simultaneously b) make LOI attendances crap. These are the feckers that should be annoying you, not the enormous easy target of imagined GAA indoctrination.

"Foreign game" is just an anti-GAA buzzword and it has nothing to do with why these people play five-a-side twice a week, surf football.guardian.co.uk and Liverpool websites all day in work, socialise a million miles away from LOI grounds on Friday evenings, probably talking about English football for much of the night, and watch the Premiership all weekend.

[Erstwhile Bóz]

Whatever about the historical context of building and propagating an association whose aims implicitly (and arguably explicitly) included the degradation of other sports, what is certain is that this kind of approach should have no place in a modern Irish republic. Things change.

Agree with that.