its easier to run 5 leagues well, running 85 leagues is a harder task
Of course pal, but TWCB was talking specifically about Dublin in an effort to skew the stats in his favour. Obviously taking Laois into account would have painted a different picture.
There are 9 divisions in under 13 football alone you clown. Multiply that by all the different age groups and then throw in the hurling and youâll come up with a number far higher than 5.
Not to mention the inroads the GAA have made in the Americas, Britain and Europe. I believe there was a thread glorifying the rise of Gaelic games in Italy recentlyâŚ
End? They barely start with 11. Laois is a football county.
Youâre confusing yourself here, mate.
[quote=âmyboyblue, post: 841690, member: 180â]I called it about McGeeney, cheers buddy 
Laois lost to Louth Longford and Wexford in recent years in Leinster, all thing being equal O Flathartha is the level weâre at in attracting big names without big money behind it.
Laois is a hurling county anyway[/quote]
[quote=âSidney, post: 845963, member: 183â]Youâre confusing yourself here, mate.
Boom!
[quote=âMark Renton, post: 845919, member: 1796â]Junior soccer is massive in Limerick, mate. Players earn more playing for junior clubs than LOI players⌠Teams like Pike Rovers also have a higher attendance than Limerick.
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agreed, soccer is massive at a local level
In Cobh there are 5 ( five) soccer clubs, 1 LOI, 1 MSL and 3 * junior, 1 of those fields 2 adult teams
we can barely field a junior A football team
[quote=âSidney, post: 845963, member: 183â]Youâre confusing yourself here, mate.
FFS lads, spot the joke :rolleyes:
Laois is quite obviously a dual county.
[quote=âmickee321, post: 845966, member: 367â]agreed, soccer is massive at a local level
In Cobh there are 5 ( five) soccer clubs, 1 LOI, 1 MSL and 3 * junior, 1 of those fields 2 adult teams
we can barely field a junior A football team[/quote]
Cobh wouldnât exactly be a good indicator and representative of the general population to say the least.
it is very similar to Limerick in many ways
And Sidney just knocked it out the park.
That esri survey is misleading. As stated already full kit wankers who play 5 a side and even worse tag rugby players consider themselves âplayingâ a sport. Swimming is our most popular sport because lads who do decent attempts at drowning themselves when attempting to navigate their way around a pool answer that they participate in that weekly too. Soccer is growing but so is gaa and especially into south dublin, this must concern soccer and rugby coaches. Gaa cant grow as such in rural areas as its already at saturation point, but using dublin as any model is schewed thinking, as in any urban area participation especially amongst kids in organised team sport is way behind levels in rural areas in my opinion. Adult rugby playing numbers are negligible compared to the other sports when you take the tag figures into account.
Soccer has all the exposure, is inexpensive and easy to play at various levels, is the prederred sport of our large immigrant community, isnt that physical resulting in injuries that todays litigation happy society are worried about/interested in and yet cant establish a decent league and in a few decades (at most) will be left with no national stadium for a substandard and foreign sourced national team.
more relevant graphs would be [ATTACH=full]868[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]869[/ATTACH]
[quote=âmickee321, post: 845966, member: 367â]agreed, soccer is massive at a local level
In Cobh there are 5 ( five) soccer clubs, 1 LOI, 1 MSL and 3 * junior, 1 of those fields 2 adult teams
we can barely field a junior A football team[/quote]
I am not sure that Queenstown is representative of the country as a whole.
[quote=âmickee321, post: 845966, member: 367â]agreed, soccer is massive at a local level
In Cobh there are 5 ( five) soccer clubs, 1 LOI, 1 MSL and 3 * junior, 1 of those fields 2 adult teams
we can barely field a junior A football team[/quote]
:rolleyes:
Cobh is the home of little englanders, riddled with scrotes from years of local tars riding the english sailors itâs no surprise that soccer is popular there. You may as well be in some shithole like Blackpool as be in Cobh.
would you like to provide a better example?
[quote=âmaroonandwhite, post: 845973, member: 1406â]That esri survey is mifrom the ESRIsleading. As stated already full kit wankers who play 5 a side and even worse tag rugby players consider themselves âplayingâ a sport. Swimming is our most popular sport because lads who do decent attempts at drowning themselves when attempting to navigate their way around a pool answer that they participate in that weekly too. Soccer is growing but so is gaa and especially into south dublin, this must concern soccer and rugby coaches. Gaa cant grow as such in rural areas as its already at saturation point, but using dublin as any model is schewed thinking, as in any urban area participation especially amongst kids in organised team sport is way behind levels in rural areas in my opinion. Adult rugby playing numbers are negligible compared to the other sports when you take the tag figures into account.
Soccer has all the exposure, is inexpensive and easy to play at various levels, is the prederred sport of our large immigrant community, isnt that physical resulting in injuries that todays litigation happy society are worried about/interested in and yet cant establish a decent league and in a few decades (at most) will be left with no national stadium for a substandard and foreign sourced national team.
more relevant graphs would be [ATTACH=full]868[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]869[/ATTACH][/quote]
fuck all people play GGA but a lot of muldoons drink cheap piss in the clubs. that was why their was such outrage from the ESRI report, GGA clubs with fuck all playing members were getting sports grants, mental shit
the GGA isnt growing mate, the report states itâs in decline
good to know that more people watch football than hurling, thats reassuring
Yknow this forum has been crying out for a thread like this for years. Good to see some honest reasoned debate on such a thorny subject.
Cobh is the home of little englanders, riddled with scrotes from years of local tars riding the english sailors itâs no surprise that soccer is popular there. You may as well be in some shithole like Blackpool as be in Cobh.[/quote]
im not denying that is the case,
Cobh is the exact same as any town in west limerick really, junior soccer is king, you know this, we fucking played against each other enough
Are the kids walking away from it also?
A number of clubs in Limerick will fold in a few years, or just about make do until gaa season is over.