The Death of the GGA

[gilgamboa]

@Fagan_ODowd

Monty Mooney, Sheamie O Keeffe Martin Bolger, Johnny Kiely, Vinnie White, David Devereux, Robert Grogan, Tony Kelly, Brian Malone, David O Sullivan, Smiley Houlihan, Micky Grace, Pat Dermody, Paul Quiilty, Banjo Tobin, Cyril Rellis, Larry Savage and that’s just off the top of my head. I’d say mass youth participation in organized sport was a fleeting phenomenon for a couple of decades. In my time and my fathers time plenty of kids didn’t play sports and they weren’t encouraged to if they had no interest.

I was talking about mine and Kevs time. And reasons for not playing are very different and much more harmful nowadays. Your gang were sweeping chimneys and rolling churns 8 miles to the local creamery ye didnt need sport

[Julio_Geordio]

@gilgamboa

each other now than they all are with inertia

You need to use force to change inertia.

[caoimhaoin]

Ah fuck off.

You do not want to learn or debate.

Don’t waste my time

[gilgamboa]

@Julio_Geordio

You need to use force to change inertia.

[mickee321]

@Tassotti

@caoimhaoin cleaning house. A glorious sight

he’s raised the bar here allright

[maroonandwhite]

Learn what you bluffer, a few years of picking bigger lads ad you know the history of galway hurling. Mousey has you well twigged i think.

[mickee321]

@Matty_Hislop

@mickee321

i live in a very affluent area in the country

@mickee321

w.r.t rugby i can honestly say i don’t know anyone who plays this sport, no kids in my son’s school play
you’d probably be on first names terms id say with our coach here

This doesn’t add up Michael.

im what sense?
i dont know anyone in the school who is involved or playing rugby amd i live in an affluent area in the countryside

[Matty_Hislop]

@mickee321

i dont know anyone in the school who is involved or playing rugby amd i live in an affluent area in the countryside

Affluent in comparison to Cobh?

[mickee321]

@Matty_Hislop

@mickee321

i dont know anyone in the school who is involved or playing rugby amd i live in an affluent area in the countryside

Affluent in comparison to Cobh?

there are parts of cobh that are very very affluent
notwithstanding that point it has nothing to do with the current situation as outlined previous

[mickee321]

@caoimhaoin

I’M way ahead of you there fella. Years and years. I do all aforementioned things and more.

I have an edge and I embrace it. I curse. It’s who it am.

I’M alot healthier for being who I truly am and not trying to be someone out if a book.

You have to live yourself to be lived.

And I clearly love myself. As is mentioned here time and yime again

that’s unreal in fairness
ive never read a post quite like that
have people actually digested this post? phenomenal

[Ashman]

40 woodbine a day made for tough hamstrings .

[HBV]

soccer is no threat to gaa.
i see it a lot myself when young lads get tempted by the soccer but there is always one common demonitor with these young fellas. they are all soft shits who wouldnt work to warm themselves and are happy to live week to week tipping around smoking buts of fags and scratching their arses while togging out in ditches.
in a way youd be grateful for the soccer that they take these useless cunts off out of the way.

[myboyblue]

@Fagan_ODowd

@Julio_Geordio

@Fagan_ODowd

@Julio_Geordio

And I’m sure everyone thought yer generation was the worst thing that ever happened and were all clane useless

Now you have it.

They are spending all their time indoors listening to their records, have you heard that rock music shite. What’s wrong with a bit of big Tom and the main liners? And their haircuts, and the funny clothes. I’ll tell you they wouldn’t have lasted 15 minutes in our day.

The father and the uncle used to have a great laugh about hamstrings. Nobody had a hamstring in their day.

The onset of hamstrings came about as a result of lads not thinning turnips or pulling wildoats anymore. And thats not an insult, thats just a fact of life.

[caoimhaoin]

You are clutching at straws. You are gone completely away from what I originally said anyway.

As long as I remember Galway Senior Hurlers have been bigger than everyone else.

They are particularly big now but the reasons for that could be many.

Their Minor teams were always pretty skillful but we’re never short on size either. But the switch over from there was always an issue anyway. What exactly that was I do not know. Maybe there is a belief in lads excelling in County Championship before good enough to play county? I do not know. Galway people may not even know. People are not always terribly aware of their environment all the time.

Point is players come thru different subcultures in hurling. It’s part if what makes it interesting.

What makes KK so good over the years, and a small county may have forced this, is they have all sorts of hurlers. Big, small, crafty, speedsters, target me . Whatever.

[the_man_himself]

@maroonandwhite is seething that Galway only started winning when they started playing loads of gym monkeys

[TheUlteriorMotive]

East Galway always gave up a certain kind of deconstructed male who is tough as fuck and loves hurling because there is fuck all else there to love. Cryptic, contrarian cunts too.

[maroonandwhite]

Of course teams come through different sub cultures. You’ve got away from your original point that galway are just big lads who can hurl, theres that, but theres also plenty of stickmen. Thats the way its always been.
Jeffery lynskey the minor manager the last few years has said he picks lads now that he thinks will be more physically suited to progress onto the modern senior game. Likewise Cunningham picked lads who could physically stand up to dublin and Kilkenny. But galway has plenty of wristy hurlers, always had. Theres a munster blinkers that thinks we don’t though, can’t blame you for being blinded by that i suppose.

[maroonandwhite]

East galway people are positively urbane compared to south galway lads bro, as has been often noted.

[Gman]

A fuck load of posts about nothing. And you are nearly getting there. Kev didnt say they didnt have stickmen. He clearly said “not in the Tipp tradition”. It was a clear and obvious comparison of how the Tipp players are more renowned for that type of flashy play, whereas Galway arent.

When you asked what other county have better stickmen, the first and most obvious answer is Tipperary. At the moment, I doubt you’d find any other team other than Tipp and Galway with as skillful a bunch of players, the main difference right now is that Galway have an added physicality to their approach which is beneficial to them.

[caoimhaoin]

I never said any of what you are saying.

It’s funny to see you blatantly make shit up.

Are you mickee?