Henshaw played senior Gaelic football at 18 for his club.
Good to see lads here comparing playing Minor for County and senior club football to C team underage rugby for a school. @Little_Lord_Fauntleroy
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Not sure what you are arguing?
Any kid playing rugby now past 14 needs his head examined.
Rugby may be going down the soccer route of dangling a professional contract in front of young lads and sure of course some of them will chase that but as a recreational sport it’s not in most of their interest to continue given the known risks of brain damage.
A good few of Crokes players play rugby - some I know are playing first team junior cup. The pressure they are put under by the school to skip GAA games is outrageous. It is what it is but it’s a toxic environment.
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Irrelevant point, please go to the relevant thread and stop deflecting.
Reality is that the GGA loses out for the best athletes. It’s quite telling that the spine of the decade of dominance for the Dubs were mediocre schools rugby players.
Any useful lad would be playing senior at 18. Surely there’s teamsheets somewhere with all of these Dublin lads on C teams
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We’re sick hearing we’d be better than NZ at rugby except GAA hoovers up talent.
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If they want to commit to playing cup rugby at 15, then they will of course have to make choices.
Same goes for them playing football.
Rugby schools were playing bogball in the 70s back when the GGA still had one of their sectarian bans in place.
We’re better than them now partly because we are getting more of that talent.
Football is a different story as harder to be better internationally but the GGA still loses out increasingly.
Bogball. GGA.
Train on blackrock rugby pitches as they’ve no teams themselves to use them.
The best athletes ? Have you seen the Irish pack. They simply couldn’t play GAA. It’s either rugby or darts.
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Why would you see teamsheets of that? It’s telling there are plenty of the players you are slating for playing Minors. Here’s one for you anyway, multiple All Star and All Ireland Man of the Match.
Xabi Alonso and Socrates defected to association football after they couldn’t hack underage GAA.
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You seem to get a real horn from being able to rent a pitch from someone else, odd.
That’s just completely normal in non sectarian sports but is quite the revelation for GGA types.
You also still seem rather giddy about “Crokes” and “Cuala”. These are mega clubs in a catch meant of hundreds of thousands. Nothing particularly impressive about them.
You seem giddy that young lads who were successful at GAA didn’t take rugby too seriously and only played it because they had to play/were encouraged in school.
It’s a bizarre angle.
Calling it GGA or bogball shows you up as a bit of a gobshite with a chip on your shoulder.
GAA is the biggest sport now in rugby’s traditional heartland and that ates you up as it cuts the aspirational element of rugby open. You’ll see more Crokes and Cuala tops now than Leinster tops.
Rugby is now like soccer - trying to seduce young lads with professional contracts. I’d say the traditionalists hate it has to whore itself like that.
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It’s terrible when the SoCoDu lads fall out like this.
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Nobody is forced to play rugby mate. You might be asked for the first term and that’s it.
Again, “Crokes” and “Cuala” are not that impressive, they have full reign over hundreds of thousands of people. In South Dublin I would say football is number 1 followed my rugby (my sport of choice). I’m objective, being delusional won’t stop the GGA’s continued slide.
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It’s only lads from Limerick who all think the same. SoCoDu allows nuance and different perspectives to flourish
@Tim_Riggins is a rubby man and I understand he doesn’t like the rise of the GAA in its heartland
Isnt the gga littered with palyers that failed at pro sport?
Who is that lad for the dubs that couldnt get his game for ucds b, mannion
Cluxtons first sport is football and he was a junior player
Some superstar limerick hurler is struggling in junior football at the moment
I thought Dean Rock played senior cup rugby for his school for 2 years? Ryan Tubridy was telling him on the Late Late one night what a pity he didn’t keep it up as he could have made a real difference in Japan at the world cup.
Stephen Bradley was called into the Dublin Minor Squad
He had played 3 GGA games in his life & all for his school
Its an easy game mate that any pro sports player would shine in
Sure the aussies play it for 3 weeks & beat the Irish more times than they lose 
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For CUS mate.