Waterford Hurling (now incorporating intermediate football) 2013 and subsequent years

[EstebanSexface]

The bitterness is strong in this one

[flattythehurdler]

@Malarkey

Here is the fiasco that was the whole Rule 42 ‘debate’. 20 years ago, the GAA – or a really large portion of it, rather – started saying in effect they no longer owned their main stadium. The idea that a soccer club is entitled to use a GAA facility arose at that moment. Hence we also had the more significant fiasco around Liam Miller’s testimonial in 2018. A soccer club is no more entitled to use a GAA facility than I am entitled to go for a swim in a lake on a golf course. We are talking about private property, not a public park.

The truth is that there is a far higher class of a volunteer in a GAA club, generally speaking, than in a soccer club. Soccer, among other aspects, is a failure of taste.

This is all correct.
I think that any GAA club should be allowed to allow anyone they want to use their facilities though. It’s not something that should be under central dictat, I don’t think. Sport, especially team sport in any form, should be facilitated wherever possible.
It should be up to the individual club to balance out the use/overuse Vs the financial side of things, just as they should be entitled to refuse if they wish.
The more team sport, the better for the population on the whole (though there are obvious caveats)

[Malarkey]

@EstebanSexface

The bitterness is strong in this one

I am not even slightly bitter about anything. Then again, my emotional life does not centre on 22 multi millionaires moving around a pitch in an English city. So I have that advantage.

I do like bitters in a gin and tonic, though.

[EstebanSexface]

No,but it seems to centre on delighting in denying 10 year old children from playing sport and ridiculing people in public for having the temerity for enjoying a sport not under the association umbrella

A man clearly at peace with himself

[Fagan_ODowd]

@Fagan_ODowd

@kerry1891

@Fagan_ODowd

@kerry1891

@Fagan_ODowd

@ChairmanDan

That was some point that Ozzie kicked for Mount Sion in that Junior Football match. He could nearly get Footballer of the Year on the back of that one score alone.

Very enjoyable football match.

What is mt sion approach to football Fagan?

kick a bit when the hurling is over I suspect

As good an excuse as any to get together for a drinking session in the winter.

I played in an intermediate final for Mount Sion. We didn’t have a football for the warm up, so we asked the opposition (Killure) for a lend of one of theirs. In fairness to them they obliged.

did mt sion sneak the odd senior football title??

Just the 5 of them.

It would have been 6 if the Brickeys supporters hadn’t run a load of horses on to pitch to get the final abandoned in what became known as the “Giddy Up” county final.

[anon76546466]

Junior Football Co. champions…I’d say ye’ve won more at football than hurling the last 15 years

[Fagan_ODowd]

@anon76546466

Junior Football Co. champions…I’d say ye’ve won more at football than hurling the last 15 years

Sure look it the wheel will turn again. At least we’re not winning county championships on ill gotten gains from soccer clubs.

[anon76546466]

Jesus I dunno, it’s hard to see the BG roller coaster being stopped anytime soon

[Fagan_ODowd]

@anon76546466

Jesus I dunno, it’s hard to see the BG roller coaster being stopped anytime soon

Sure we should have beaten them this year. They’ve had a run of great club players, the Mahonys, Coughlan, Soki, but it isn’t younger they’re getting. Apart from young Fitzgerald what’s coming through isn’t an upgrade on them.

[balbec]

The wheel always turns.

[Fagan_ODowd]

@balbec

The wheel always turns.

You know that as well as anyone.

[peddlerscross]

Once Austin gets his championship medal, that’s all that matters.

[Fagan_ODowd]

@peddlerscross

Once Austin gets his championship medal, that’s all that matters.

He’ll always have the hurler of the year award.

[balbec]

With a big screw in it today

[anon76546466]

@Fagan_ODowd

Sure we should have beaten them this year. They’ve had a run of great club players, the Mahonys, Coughlan, Soki, but it isn’t younger they’re getting. Apart from young Fitzgerald what’s coming through isn’t an upgrade on them.

Well they are winning all around themselves at underage…if what they’ve coming through isn’t better than what’s there now then neither have other clubs, unfortunately

[peddlerscross]

They were lucky Dessie came home when he did or they could have been vulnerable enough while they waited for Pauric Mahony to hand the baton onto Fitzgerald.

[anon76546466]

@peddlerscross

They were lucky Dessie came home when he did or they could have been vulnerable enough while they waited for Pauric Mahony to hand the baton onto Fitzgerald.

I dunno…apart from Sion giving them a rattle this year they’ve been 15 points better than every team the last 3/4 years, don’t think Dessie has been the differentiator

[Fagan_ODowd]

@anon76546466

@peddlerscross

They were lucky Dessie came home when he did or they could have been vulnerable enough while they waited for Pauric Mahony to hand the baton onto Fitzgerald.

I dunno…apart from Sion giving them a rattle this year they’ve been 15 points better than every team the last 3/4 years, don’t think Dessie has been the differentiator

Sure we’ll see. That’s the wonder of sport.

[anon76546466]

@Fagan_ODowd

Sure we’ll see. That’s the wonder of sport.

Agreed…in the meantime, enjoy the football success!

[Malarkey]

@EstebanSexface

denying 10 year old children from playing sport

This stuff is creepy.