Gga is finished
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Bullshit. Tiresome long winded bullshit.
How did Fed & the Tennis go, pal?
Glad i went to it but not exactly an away game at the brandywell in terms of atmosphere
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You said only one of those clubs had won a title in the last 20 years. That was a patently incorrect statement. As I’ve pointed out to you Glen Rovers are current title holders in Cork and Austin Stacks & Dr Crokes had won all 5 titles in Kerry from 2010 to 2014. Now that you’ve been found out yet again with a badly thought out and constructed argument with a complete inability to grasp basic facts, you’re feebly attempting to move the goalposts. I’d direct you yet again to what you said.
I was referring to All Ireland titles. YOU misunderstood me.
No you weren’t. You’re only referring to All Ireland titles now that you’ve been caught out.
Up your game, you’re just just embarrassing yourself here.
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It was clear it was all ireland titles
No. I was referring to All Irelands and I’m factually correct. Once again you have shown yourself incapable of handling a quick and precise rebuttal.
Informative rating.
For someone who’s asserting the weakness of the GAA in urban centres, you seem to have overlooked the fact that the last decade has seen clubs from Galway city and Belfast win All Ireland club football titles for the first time.
Na Piarsaigh from Limerick city have won three of the last five Munster club titles and are favourites for this year’s hurling club title (which if they did pull it off would make them the first club from the county of Limerick to do so). @Fagan_ODowd has already chronicled the revival of hurling in Waterford City and how its all but seen off soccer. De La Salle from Waterford City were the first Waterford City side to reach a club All Ireland hurling final in almost 30 years in 2009. Even Kilkenny city (which would traditionally have been weaker than rural clubs) has seen a revival of the city clubs since the turn of the millennium. James Stephens ended a near quarter century of a drought for a county title, then went and won the club All Ireland. O’Loughlin Gaels won their first ever county title in 2001, have 3 now in total and were in the 2011 club final.
Urban centres that you cited in Armagh, Derry City, Sligo, Dundalk, Drogheda - throw in Athlone as well were garrison towns that historically gravitated to soccer. At intercounty level Armagh, Derry, Sligo, Louth & Westmeath are essentially weaker counties which over 130 odd years have rarely contested for the big prizes.
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You need to stop living in the past Jeff.
You were not. We were discussing the strength or weaknesses of urban gaa.
Winning All-Irelands has nothing to do with. As usual you have the wheels fixed to the goal posts.
I was.
It has.
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Its i set the parameters of the discussion.
If it came from a balanced wise head like fagan or geoff i’d be offended, but you’re a narrow minded twaat, so you are wasting your time.
Counties with predominant urban populations don’t tend to go well at Gaelic Football than those with mainly rural populations was the point I made.
Obviously with the exception of Dublin who have a population base disproportionate to the rest.
After all the Kerry bashing you’ve down over the years this is quite the capitulation.
Moving down from Kerry’s pre-eminent position at the top of the pile, Dublin, Cork and Galway who are next on the roll of honour have the largest, third largest and sixth largest urban centres on the island.
I told you to stop reverting to the past which is not relevant to the current debate.
Cork and Galway have had 3 All Irelands in the past 26 years in football. Not very good and goes against the grain of what you’re trying to represent.