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zizu Kilbane
Jack Charlton Joined: 23 Oct 2007 Location: Ireland Status: Offline Points: 8355 |
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So we've gone from hating our football team to hating our national games....it's actually f**king happened...we've become 'Rugby Country'
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"Sometimes, sh*t happens, someone's gotta deal with it, and who ya gonna call?"
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SeanPeadir
Phil Babb Joined: 08 Oct 2019 Status: Offline Points: 44 |
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Maybe we should stick to what were good at. Fighting and riding.
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Dr. Pat
Kevin Kilbane Joined: 18 Jan 2017 Location: Cork City Status: Offline Points: 273 |
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This is great.
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Geremi has let Kilbane in here, cross comes out to Holland, 1:1!!
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The O'Shea
Jack Charlton I know everything and I’m NEVER wrong Joined: 16 Aug 2013 Location: Ireland Status: Online Points: 9532 |
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It is fairly pathetic alright. You'd expect that sort of vitriolic hate from the likes of Terri, but I do wonder what happened to the other lads who froth at the mouth about Gaelic football and hurling. Were they bullied by the big, bad GAA boys as children?
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We're decent enough..
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FrankosHereNow
Roy Keane I like Klopp Joined: 02 Jun 2011 Location: El Sadar Status: Offline Points: 12154 |
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Yeah, that’s it. I was bullied by a GAA player in school.
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The O'Shea
Jack Charlton I know everything and I’m NEVER wrong Joined: 16 Aug 2013 Location: Ireland Status: Online Points: 9532 |
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Well there we go then. Perhaps you should let it go, it's not healthy to harbour life long grudges.
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We're decent enough..
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FrankosHereNow
Roy Keane I like Klopp Joined: 02 Jun 2011 Location: El Sadar Status: Offline Points: 12154 |
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Robbie Keane I am MALDING Joined: 30 Nov 2014 Location: Trumpton Status: Offline Points: 44659 |
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My memories of the GAA growing up are of the local comm-meat-tea and their hatred for all other sports, completely unnecessary sectarianism towards family members and, on the rare occasion it was possible, disgusting racism.
Plenty friends were involved in it but many with a more internationalist outlook were put off it for life. The history of rule 42 and the ban wouldn't have endeared me anyway. It's a backwards looking organisation full of FFers. That may well be changing, but it will never be for me and the best thing about living abroad is being able to ignore it. The sports are sh*te too. Either watching lunatics with sticks or pound shop sumo wrestling.
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FrankosHereNow
Roy Keane I like Klopp Joined: 02 Jun 2011 Location: El Sadar Status: Offline Points: 12154 |
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For Zizu and O’Shea, do you think because I’m Irish, I have to like the GAA? That sounds exactly like the GAA mindset alright. I hate the organisation. I’m indifferent to the sports themselves
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Southstandman
Davey Langan Joined: 18 Aug 2020 Location: dublin Status: Offline Points: 802 |
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Lets be up front men. We hate ourselves .
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We are Shamrock Rovers we"re Irelands number 1 .
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Robbie Keane I am MALDING Joined: 30 Nov 2014 Location: Trumpton Status: Offline Points: 44659 |
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That 'true Gaels' thing I find very disturbing. There's something very wrong with that.
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Roberto Baggio
Robbie Keane UNBELIEVABLE JEFF Joined: 28 Jan 2010 Status: Online Points: 37279 |
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There's always marching I suppose we could take up
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depechemode
Davey Langan Joined: 04 Jun 2012 Location: capital city Status: Offline Points: 870 |
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I hate the GAA- not because of the actual sport (although kicking a ball over a bar 10 yards out or tapping a ball in to the goal with your hand is rubbish) but because of the bigoted attitude I’ve witnessed so many times .
First time I remember was My father telling me years ago as a kid taking a beating of the Christian brothers for going to Dalyer to watch ireland play. He had many stories of their hate of soccer
Over the years the comments I’ve heard from these bigots towards soccer particularly Irish soccer is sickening - worst still some of these clowns will watch Liverpool or Man utd but hate the national team or LOI . I’ve witnessed this through work colleagues - in-laws coach’s and casual acquaintances Obviously not all are like that but the smugness can still race to the top with many |
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Green Cockade
Liam Brady Joined: 22 Jan 2020 Location: Belfast Status: Offline Points: 2671 |
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Time for road bowls to be made an Olympic sport.
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OnTheOneRoad
Ray Houghton Joined: 06 Nov 2014 Location: Dublin Status: Offline Points: 4190 |
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They do not get football. The fact that these top nations have tens of thousands that attend lower league games and ‘that sh*te football’ is genuinely alien to people with this mindset. It’s something I pity as I never understand how they derive enjoyment from being pure consumers of the product that they see football as.
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No thank you Turkish......I'm sweet enough
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sid waddell
Roy Keane On a dark desert highway Joined: 20 Nov 2009 Status: Offline Points: 12173 |
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Jack Charlton himself said that the way his teams played suited the Irish temperament because it was the sort of game the Irish expected from their own Gaelic players
He was right
As a sporting nation the "get in amongst them" mentality has always been ingrained into us, or if you like, "put 'em under pressure" It's why the image of Packie Bonner grimacing and gritting his teeth before hoofing it down the pitch before Sheedy's goal against England is so iconic It's shown in the way the crowd roared on the big days and nights at Lansdowne Road, whether it was to unsettle the "soft Spanish fancy dans" in '89, to greet Roy Keane's tackle on Overmars in '01 or to put it right up the Germans with route one in 2015, it's why James McClean and Shane Duffy are the personification of modern day Irish football And to deny otherwise is sort of to erase history Edited by sid waddell - 07 Sep 2020 at 10:04pm |
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sid waddell
Roy Keane On a dark desert highway Joined: 20 Nov 2009 Status: Offline Points: 12173 |
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For every anti-association football bigot in the GAA there's an anti-GAA bigot in association football It's 49 years since the ban was lifted Get over it Anti-rugby bigotry also runs deep in both GAA and association football Normal people are not preoccupied with these things All sports can co-exist Loads of our international association football players and indeed League of Ireland legends come from serious GAA backgrounds Kevin Moran, Niall Quinn, Steve Staunton, Packie Bonner, Kenny Cunningham, David Meyler, Damien Delaney, Shane Long, Con Martin, Dave Barry, John Caulfield, Paddy Ambrose Edited by sid waddell - 07 Sep 2020 at 10:11pm |
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Robbie Keane I am MALDING Joined: 30 Nov 2014 Location: Trumpton Status: Offline Points: 44659 |
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And I love that. I would love if we could play Jack's way forever. I used to enjoy watching Pulis' Stoke City. But the game has moved on. John Beck wouldn't get a job now and Tony Pulis is only still on the merry-go-round based on glories long faded.
We have to learn to adapt, in every way, including financially, to compete for a country of our size and reputation and paying over-the-hill managers big money is what lead us to financial ruin.
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