Itâs more important to the two teams competing in the county final
Ah yeah, Iâd accept that, Iâm the very definition of neutral myself given my circumstances, but I think youâll agree with my overall point
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My 9 a side primary school final in Croke Park was more important to me than that yearâs Dublin senior football final
Which was more important in the general scheme of things
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Donât see the term neutral there. Do you?
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The school final was more important to you and presumably your teammates
What would you call someone who goes âto a county final that doesnât involve their own clubâ?
Your words not mine
That doesnât mean it was more important in the general scheme of things, or, to use another word, reality, does it
Winning an internet argument is more important to certain posters here than the fate of children who have to drink toilet water in a concentration camp in Texas
Which is more important
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Thereâs a difference between underage schools and senior clubs. Most people who have played for a club up along and support both club and county would see club success as more important
Has anyone who is a member of a club come on here saying intercounty is more important yet?
When I played for a club the fate of the other teams in the club meant absolutely nothing to me
Yet I attended all of my countyâs home games in senior football and some away games too, and some senior hurling matches
I only started playing for a club because I went to the four Dublin-Meath matches in 1991
Thatâs an experience I imagine is pretty similar to most kids in Dublin who have played GAA
⌠and therein you have defined the argument for yourself and hopefully you can re-read what youâve written and learn from it. The experience you describe is not typical, although it might be typical of Dublin supporters where GAA is a minority sport.
Outside of the games I played in myself, I attended every game at every level that my club were involved in, and I would say I am typical of most GAA club members around the country, then and now.
You are in a minority of GAA players and supporters, nothing wrong with it, but very untypical of the average player or supporter around the country.
You are nuts
Nobody outside munster plays or gives a fuck about inter county hurling. Even less than nobody cares or knows anything about club hurling.
Have you heard of Kilkenny?
Fuck off with your balanced views.
Very creepy behaviour from @flattythehurdler alright. But at least he didnât stalk him across Australia.
Gas cunts
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You were sent off in two of them as well.
+1.
Have they never played AIBâs the toughest journey?
Succeed with the club first and then with the county. Therefore county > club.
How come iron Mike doesnât have a club?
You donât choose such things, you either feel them or you donât. Such is life. I felt worse losing a Warwickshire league final replay (delayed from the previous year), than I ever felt after galway lost a match.
That said, I find it utterly depressing that club players in certain western counties canât pull together unequivocally for the county team. Thereâs no doubt thereâs plenty of people fully invested in the county teams. I love the day out, and the bitching and grousing when they lose, and enjoy nothing more in sport than watching a galway team play well but thatâs about all I hope for. Winning or losing, I feel happy or sad for the players (the camogie was heartbreaking for that), but Iâd have forgotten about it in a day or two, and find people still genuinely crowing about it weeks and months later odd. I also find it bizarre that people wonât go to league games or games they perceive as âsmallâ. There is great pleasure to be found watching bits of any game of hurling or football really, if not great drama.
All Iâd ask for from the county team is to play like it means something to play for the county. They invariably do.
I remember being despondent at the manner of some of the losses under mcintyre, when an oul galway head said, look, all those lads are trying their best, and he was right.