All-Ireland Hurling Championship 2019***

[Julio_Geordio]

Ye’ve gone mental again lads.

[myboyblue]

Na na na nana
On the up, Laois is on the up

[Perez2017]

Sid actually does follow a club, Liverpool. Doesn’t follow a gaa club though.

[anon61878697]

Laois is on the up!

[Elvis_Brandenberg_Kr]

That may have been the original discussion. It has segued quite horrendously, though.

As usual.

[Sidney]

I think the recent “debate” (I use inverted commas for a reason) about Dublin is ironic proof that inter-county games that matter more in the minds of GAA people.

The investment in Dublin, providing GPOs etc. to clubs, is the very definition of investment in club and community, in participation, in offering an attractive outlet to children to be fit aand healthy and develop friendships and life skills through that.

It’s actually the very definition of socialism in a sporting sense.

Yet instead of recognising that and applauding it, pretty much all we’ve heard from outside Dublin is that this money is financially doping the Dublin football team - when it plainly isn’t. These whingers show no recognition of the challenges of keeping urban clubs going in an environment where financially strapped and time strapped parents and volunteers are hard to get involved, no recognition that such an investment in grass roots GAA in the country’s only large city is a very good thing.

Just a broad brush application of the imagined norms of “ould sod” “rooral Ireland” to a city of a million people, and a constant stream of whinging that the Dublin footballers are winning All-Irelands.

In terms of what the ethos of the GAA at its most grass roots level was designed to achieve, you could barely get a more spectacular missing of the point from these whingers.

There’s quite a bit of nuance involved in this point, so I won’t expect anybody with a chip on their shoulder to get it.

[Perez2017]

Ah the end of the day sid you don’t follow a club gaa team so hard for you to have an opinion.

[Malarkey]

@Sidney

The importance of inter-county games versus club games is quite easily explained

Inter-county games draw much bigger crowds, draw higher viewing figures, generate more discussion and more money, have fiercer competition, and players put in far bigger preparation to play in them than they do for club games

The proof of the pudding is in the eating

So now we have it: intercounty games generate more revenue.

All the huffing and puffing about children’s dreams and the “fact” corkscrews to money. The price of everything and the value of nothing…

There are lads I trained U14 now hurling intercounty. The feeling of satisfaction, both sides of the equation, would be lost on the likes of you.

[Perez2017]

I doubt the Christ ring final between Meath and down would generate as much discussion as a hurling county final in Kilkenny, tipp etc.

[anon61878697]

Funny Google Spelling - Gooluglu 😂😂 #shorts

[Peejaymc]

Fuck Tipp

[myboyblue]

@Peejaymc

Fuck Tipp

I’ve massive respect for Tipperary.

[Lazarus]

I don’t

[anon61878697]

@iron_mike - what’s the mood like in KK … there’s not a peep out of the bastards.

[Peejaymc]

Then fuck you too

[myboyblue]

@Lazarus

I don’t

I had to look twice there…

[iron_mike]

Not a fucking peep over here either. I might head for a few quiet ones tomorrow night and try and get gauge the mood. The only thing I heard was that they were happier to go to Croker rather than Thurles. They reckon they left it behind them in the Leinster final and only for the few brain farts the last 5 minutes, they would have got a draw at least.

[Lazarus]

We are Laois. This means more

[slimjim]

Jesus I’ve a pain in my head after reading through the last 100 posts here

[gaillimhmick]

Maybe you need glasses.