Can play with both. It’s happened on the men’s side.
Gleghorne ,Sloan and Ames made the switch. They’d to sit out for 3 years because they’d caps for us.
There was high profile one recently. Gonzalo Peillat is one of the best drag flickers in the world. Played with Argentina, then fell out with management. Sat out for 3 years, now plays with the Germans
We’re a strange little country in many ways
The men are half way there but living on a prayer
The drag flick.
Not like the Brick flick.
Watching the men here on rte.
Is the whole aim of this game to hit the ball off someone’s feet so you can get a penalty corner?
As a sport it’s a tough watch. When you see them playing 5-a-side games at training you can see the skill levels involved but the number of spectators there today reflect the sports overall appeal. I saw Irelands most capped player doing 30 minutes in a junior hurling match earlier this summer - he was undoubtedly a loss to hurling but the hockey took him to more glamorous places than the Down club scene would.
Any time I watch hockey I’m completely confused about what is a foul and what isn’t. Seems completely random to my uneducated eyes but obviously isn’t.
Hockey as a sport has to be the biggest underachiever I can think of. It has the potential to be a very good sport but the penalty corner stuff ruins it. The goals need to be bigger and the obsession with penalty corners needs to be abolished. The ball is probably too hard as well. The stick needs to be modifed to look more like a hurley and you need to be able use both sides of it. The pitch should be grass and you need to be able to raise the stick above waist height.
Just make hockey hurling
Ireland got it launched into the full forward there.
Hockey could be a better version of hurling, the version Christy Ring envisaged, with no points and no Limericks throwing the ball.
I do like the no helmets policy of hockey to be fair.
We should be class at this.
Ah christ, just score
Jaysus they could easily have drawn
We were all over those convict cunts there. We had them rattled to within 83 centimetres of their lives.
Leak Hole should of scored
The ladies hockey team in World Cup action against Spain now. Didn’t realise they use Ireland’s Call like their rugby brethren.
The lovely Chloe Watkins is retired now and on punditry duty. I hope @mickee321 young lad kept up the hockey and met a daughter of some Big 4 stakeholder.
Sure tis loads of nordies and a few posh lads from Dublin
And the odd Munster Protestant.