The Game - The Story of Hurling

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Imagine cycling back down from Dublin hungover. :nauseated_face:

Jesus Christ I can barely do it in the car.

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No mobile phones to track em down either.

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Mate we won an All Ireland in 1915 :cry:

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Watching this on +1.

Serious skelping in that 67 final

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That was savage why didnā€™t they mention who took your mans eye out?

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Interesting from an Enda McEvoy piece a few years back

It was the most innocuous of mishaps. He and his marker Tony Wall were wriggling around as Paddy Moran shaped to take a sideline cut under the Cusack Stand. Walsh, anticipating the flight of the sliotar, turned back into Wall and as he did so, Wall felt the butt of his hurley make contact with his opponent. Looking down from the upper deck of the Cusack where he was watching the action armed with a Panasonic walkie-talkie, the Kilkenny coach Fr Tommy Maher saw the incident and immediately recognised it as a complete accident

Wall would be in his mid 80s now, so not sure what good there is in mentioning him by name on the programme

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Ok fair enough

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Interesting that complete accident happened to occur in a game littered with incidents of lads taking lumps out of each other.

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It was all fun and games until somebody lost an eye.

I caught the first episode on repeat over the weekend and saw most of last nightā€™s one. Itā€™s a peculiarly enjoyable show. Some of the ex players and current pundits who are shit at analysis actually have a good way of reminiscing about the game and the old footage is great.

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Didnā€™t see a second of it but I hear catching the ball and a hand pass were startling innovations in the game over 3 quarters of a century.

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Mary Whitehouse

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They areā€™nt as innovative as sticking your finger up your opponents arse, but they were grand changes to the game all the same.

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Repeated on Sunday night is it?

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Yup at 11:30pm.

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This is easily the best documentary that iā€™ve ever seen.

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How many documentaries have you seen?

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as of last night, 657.

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As opposed to picking up the ball and running with it as early as the 19th century.

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thatā€™d make a great documentary

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Thought they might have shown Ciaran Careyā€™s point when they did the segment on solos. :frowning: