GAA

Bluerover · April 27, 2014

Not soccer but a great football game.

Hurling is the supreme test of skill.

Dublin winning the football League Final by 1-15 to 1-5

God Bless the Dubs!!

Cork Evertonian · May 5, 2014

Cork for the hurling and football double this year!

rascal · May 5, 2014

This belongs in general chat as otherwise we'll have all sorts of other crazy sport threads in here such as American Football and Rugby. Indeed it repulses me and makes me visibly retch that a hurling thread would appear in the world football forum.

Neiler · May 5, 2014

http://www.grandoldteam.com/forum/threads/the-g-a-a-thread.45656/

Already have one lads, yeah Dubs are ace!

Sky just bought the rights to screen Gaa games incidentally!

TippEverton · May 5, 2014

Neiler said:
http://www.grandoldteam.com/forum/threads/the-g-a-a-thread.45656/

Already have one lads, yeah Dubs are ace!

Sky just bought the rights to screen Gaa games incidentally!

Could someone merge these threads?

Another great game yesterday, we seem to have a habit of losing in these type of matches, awful decision from our keeper to try the short free near the end of extra time.

Bilko · May 25, 2014

Cork Evertonian said:
Cork for the hurling and football double this year!

where's this Waterford performance coming from,poor league performance all season ,and then a great first half,

Bluerover · May 25, 2014

Bilko said:
where's this Waterford performance coming from,poor league performance all season ,and then a great first half,

It was a great game to watch from a neutral point of view. Brilliant skill from both teams so early in the season. Waterford seemed to tire with 15 minutes to go and I thought they had lost it but they kept going for a great draw.

Antrim beat Laois so it will be the winners of Antrim and Wexford playing Dublin in the Leinster Hurling Semi Final. That is not until 14 June so a long lay off for Dubs.

As for Derry v Donegal earlier...I suppose some football did break out in the second half!!

Bilko · May 25, 2014

Bluerover said:
It was a great game to watch from a neutral point of view. Brilliant skill from both teams so early in the season. Waterford seemed to tire with 15 minutes to go and I thought they had lost it but they kept going for a great draw.

Antrim beat Laois so it will be the winners of Antrim and Wexford playing Dublin in the Leinster Hurling Semi Final. That is not until 14 June so a long lay off for Dubs.

As for Derry v Donegal earlier...I suppose some football did break out in the second half!!

not really up on the football but I'm told the Dubs are streets ahead of the rest at the moment.my in laws are Tyrone so I hope they do well as I'd get a trip to croke park
fantastic goal by the Waterford lad,but your right they fell away in the last ten minutes,must be feeling like they left it behind them.

The T-Dex · May 25, 2014

Mrs and her family trying to get me into this as is a lad I work with. He says I'd be pretty good at it.

Is it worth getting into. Even just watching?

superkeeper · May 25, 2014

AdamDex said:
Mrs and her family trying to get me into this as is a lad I work with. He says I'd be pretty good at it.

Is it worth getting into. Even just watching?

I'd say it is, I've been over to Ireland quite a few times and whenever I've been, I always try to take in a fixture or two and enjoy what I see everytime I watch one of the games.

What I like about it as well is that it's an amateur sport, so effectively, anyone of the players that has won a final could be fixing your electrics the day after. Considering it's an amateur sport, the players are ridiculously fit.

thirdmantackle · May 25, 2014

Games can be good.

Unpaid players giving their all for the places where they were reared and live, supportered by people they know, with very little diving or cheating.
I like the fact they all have normal jobs to go to on a Monday morning.

Doesn't have a lot of the stuff which makes football ugly - transfer fees, obscene wages, agents, diving, cheating.

Watch a game or two and decide for yourself.

Bluerover · May 25, 2014

This year's National Hurling League Final between Kilkenny and Tipperary was just awesome. They went together toe to toe for 90 minutes (including 20 extra time) and yet it was only decided by one point scored 10 seconds from the very end.

I am a Dub who has lived in KK for over 24 years and am married to a Tipp woman, with a daughter who plays camogie and is a KK fanatic.

I was therefore reasonably neutral and I was just enthralled from start to finish.

Neiler · May 25, 2014

Bilko said:
not really up on the football but I'm told the Dubs are streets ahead of the rest at the moment.my in laws are Tyrone so I hope they do well as I'd get a trip to croke park
fantastic goal by the Waterford lad,but your right they fell away in the last ten minutes,must be feeling like they left it behind them.

Dubs are the all ireland champions mate and just walked the league, roaring hot favourites for the championship, but this game as a habit of favourates being landed on their arses!

Dubs first game weekend after next!

Bilko · May 25, 2014

AdamDex said:
Mrs and her family trying to get me into this as is a lad I work with. He says I'd be pretty good at it.

Is it worth getting into. Even just watching?

great sport to watch,i'd be too old myself to be playing, the lads are so fit and the commitment to training is quite remarkable

my village is fantastic for getting all the youngsters involved from about the age of six all the way up to the senior team,and there's such local pride.

Azzurri · May 25, 2014

Gaelic team train on the university grounds where we do. Work hard them let me tell you. Their warm up is as intense as our main session if not more. Seems to be a theme at all levels of the sport.

I like it. Couldn't name you a single player now and only a few teams but it's a good watch.