Twee alert
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Some seriously dirty hands on display
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I would say the club v county thing depends on the club more than anything.
Where there is tradition and heritage in a club, it will always come first.
However there are many places who have never been successful and donāt have the ambition to better themselves. For them itās easier to build their years around getting minibuses to County games in the summer and spending winter Sundays in the pub watching Ford Super Sunday.
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Iāll be in a quandary when my son gets a bit older, as I donāt want to get involved with a Dublin club. Can you imagine having to interact with middle class sunglasses on heads types like @Spidey & @binkybarnes ?
Despite scoring all the points for Faythe Harriers in the 1993 U12 Wexford County Final (Roinn 2), Iām not particularly close to individuals in the club due to my eye injury enforced retirement in my later teens, living in Dublin for the last 20 years, inability to get on with people at a human level and so on.
Naturally I like to see them do well, but Iām a few years past specifically going down to Wexford to catch their club games. I might head to one if Iām home rather than heading home specifically to catch one, if you know what I mean.
@anon61878697 your post was educational about how one might not have a club allegiance, yet possess a love for the game by virtue of growing up in a non-GGA stronghold.
Where do we stand on great clubmen building a house slightly outside the parish in rival territory and sending their sons to play for the rival club so as not to be growing up playing against their school pals?
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Kids should play for the parish they grow up in, they should support the county of their own birth/upbringing,
RoCo is in the parish of Douglas is it?
For real kudos I was gonna add that I have shifted both of Pat Hartiganās daughters (cc @Elvis_Brandenberg_Kr) the Limerick lads would have been really impressed with that but I dont like to brag.
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The clamour for a TFK GAA club get louder and louder.
If you threw in the wife as well then we would all be impressed
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Given the high saturation of clubs in and around the general environs of the the North side of Dublin it is surprising that there isnt a club in Killester. Assume the likes of Vincents, Clontarf, Raheny, Craobh Ciaran and even the likes of Jospehās and Scoil Ui Connell all pull players from the area.
Thatās just plain weird
There mustnāt have been much going on where you came from
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So glue is more important than the club?
It holds the community together in Moyross
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Utter tripe - limerick were getting crowds of 1k in the league last year. Turning up now is just bandwagonism
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Any chance he might play one of the popular sports or he might choose what sport he likes?
Iāve asked @tazdedub to pop him on the waiting list for kidsā membership of Ratoath Lawn Tennis Club if thatās what youāre getting at.
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Get it right ya prick - I wear my sunglasses on a string around my neck.
Alan Brogan, despite being adamant it wouldnāt happen a few years ago, has moved his lad from his club Plunketts to Castleknock where he lives and all the rest of his sonās mates play.
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Choose Kilmacud Crokes and heāll play in the Wexford and Harriersā colours.
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The Irish soccer ball team get an average of 20k at home games and 100k head abroad when big tournaments happen ā¦ whatās your point, bro?
I stopped reading after nuanced.
Fuck me. Nuanced indeed.