Iād believe every bit of that
āI knew I was marking one the greatest players of that time. I used to go and watch him play in challenge games for Errigal Ciaran and sit in the back of my friendās blacked out jeep so Iād get a sense of the runs he was making.ā - Enda McNulty on the challenge of marking Peter Canavan
Roy should be running the Association.
Roy is giving out that there are too many games
Iād say heās sitting in his own piss when typing that
Roy has jumped onto the āwhereās me free houseā bandwagon. Lads happily fork out for takeaway coffees, Sky sports, ā¬6/8 sandwiches and assorted other items yet whinge when they havenāt someone to wipe their arse.
Some folk have access to these non-terrestrial offerings by whatever means available to them and enjoy the content.
Fuck off with your oulā cheap moan Roy. Itās entertainment, pay for it.
Any fella watching GAA+ or Clubber on a dodgy box are treacherous cunts
Weāre just the 100 odd years governing ourselves. Weāre quite probably the only nation that escaped the colonial oppressors yoke that have thrived and prospered.
This has been achieved by the governmental machinations of some of the most treacherous fuckers that have ever held power anywhere.
And we love it, day in day out. We know thereās roguery afoot but we love it.
What about a lad who pays for clubber and watches gaa+ on a dodgy box? Asking fir a friend.
Itās a circular economy
Can someone change the thread title there
It comes down to this. Ireland is not a rural society anymore. It is a majority urban society. The split season is based on an outdated idea of rural Ireland, that the GAA is an unchanging, inherited thing passed down from father to son to grandson. That the GAA does not need to appeal to people from outside GAA ātraditionā. And that therefore, paradoxically, the GAA can fuck around with their showpiece competitions any way they like and people will still always come.
The battlegrounds for sport are in the urban areas. The GAA is losing big time there and moving your showpiece competitions into the zombie zone is a surefire way of losing a lot more.
The weekend just gone was the biggest GAA weekend of the year with the biggest GAA result of the year but nobody saw that and all anybody cares about is Liverpool.
What this will eventually lead to is a situation where GAA in urban areas becomes perceived as a no go zone for ethnic minorities, a sort of NASCAR for Ireland, and that will be a total disaster.
Liverpool had the league won months ago. Full house in Pairc Ui Caoimh at same time as Liverpool game. Quoting Gavin Cooney to back your cause is desperate measures.
A three line post spouting empty nonsense doesnāt do anything to advance your credibility.
The Leinster hurling championship as well as the All-Ireland quarter-finals and usually at least one of the semi-finals all take place in a zombie zone.
The Cork novelty will wear off soon enough when theyāve won a couple of All-Irelands and people are sick of them like Dublin under Jim Gavin.
The reason people want to attend Munster hurling is it is an EVENT. An event in an atmospheric stadium, with pints involved. Apart from Munster hurling and the Ulster final, the GAA has basically ditched its entire event calendar.
Mike gets it.
Get used to it. Finals in July again next year.
Morning Ireland sports news this morning fretting about the All Ireland Hurling Final of 2026, in its new date of the 3rd Sunday in July going head to head with the World Cup soccer final and the British Open at Royal Birkdale.
The big worry expressed was what going to happen as regards the RTE cameras at the victors banquet and all that goes with that, when everyone is watching the World Cup Final.
The bad news just keeps coming for the barstoolers who like to see the fire lit in the pub when watching the All-Ireland finals. Is there any light at the end of the tunnel for them at all?
And it a Bank Holiday weekend, up against the premier league.
We are in the end zone. The Leinster final could kill it all stone dead
Do you guys not realise before the split season every championship match was a sold out cliffhanger and jo one in the country talked about anything else?
The Ulster Final being relegated from its traditional Sunday afternoon slot to the zombie zone hour of 5.25pm on Saturday to accomodate the Trading Tarriff Cup, another sign of progress I suppose.
The Munster Hurling Final getting the same treatment in a few weeks.
Seems the 5 or 10 people still watching this absolute nonsense are enjoying it thoroughly though.