I found myself agreeing with you there on a subconscious level
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Women’s GAA is crap.
The pace of the games is incredibly slow, the fitness isn’t very good, the skills are awful - the players find it difficult to solo the ball, they can’t shoot, they keep dropping the ball. The players don’t appear to have much tactical nous or spatial awareness you regularly see passes aimed at where the target recipient is rather than the position they should be expected to run into.
The coverage of the games is also incredibly patronising - it’s similar to what you get for the Paralympics - pretty much no criticism is ever allowed of either camogie or women’s Gaelic football and “the standard” is always praised, even if it’s really, really bad, as it was today, and constant references are made to how much the games are “growing”.
I don’t recall TG4 mentioning the point that was waved wide at half-time and I doubt they’ll mention it here either - OK they actually have now.
But until the coverage stops being patronising and brushing the poor standard under the carpet women’s GAA cannot expect to be taken in any way seriously as proper sport.
Women’s tennis, gymnastics, athletics and probably a few other individual sports can be be taken seriously. Team sports like hockey and basketball have women’s games that can be taken seriously. Even a physical sport like rugby (certainly the 7s at the Olympics) contains players who look like genuine athletes with genuine skill. These sports have women that can reasonably be called elite. Women’s GAA contains neither proper athletes nor proper skill. It’s miles away from being able to call itself “elite”.
Obviously there’s always going to be a massive gap between it and men’s hurling and football but what’s on show year after year is undoubtedly a poor product.
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The ladies would not be his only job.
He is a Golf S&C Specialist. Its not that hard to comprehend.
What the fuck is wrong with people here. Its unbelievable how used to being liars Irish people are, they won’t believe and resent anyone doing something cool?
It really is our weakest trait. Our dislike of people doing something they like and going places, especially in something they don’t understand, is on a ridiculous level.
Training golfers and women is not cool, you imbecile.
You got badly exposed as being a spoofer today and are on the warpath as result. Shut your stupid mouth, idiot boy.
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It’s amazing how they get live tv coverage and Croker for that shite.
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Exposed at what?
Eh.
It’s fairly obvious, even calling a game as predictable as women’s football you are found wanting. You are a spoofer who hasn’t a notion what he’s talking about. It’s no wonder you are feeding on the crumbs of women’s sport.
It’s a bit like the pdc darts in terms of the patronising coverage it gets whereas men’s football receives more critical and honest BDO-style coverage, as befitting its elite status.
+1. There’s the patronising praise but then there’s the genuine comments from simpletons about it being a better standard and spectacle than the men’s game. These people are mentalists.
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They surely rent Croker?
Serious question. If the game was a draw would there have been a clamour to reply next Saturday in Croker ??
2 others said largely the same thing.
You have a terrible existence. Its particularly sad.
Ooooft, don’t be taking your anger out on me.
I know you’d love to have people that concerned about your opinion or sad life, but nobody does.
It’s so easy to criticise. I’m guilty of it myself but to completely dismiss these girls and women because you think they don’t suit a particular team sport really is a very poorly thought out, stupid, heartless and immature mindset.
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You’re a very angry man.
No shortage of that here
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Did lads actually tune in to watch this today
And then come on here to slate it and threaten violence
Even better
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its what Cork is reduced to, crowing about winning womens football 
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What a fucking donkey. Some prediction.
G’wan Valerie, and your memory.