Likes and Dislikes - Issue 12

 

I've no problem with them being praised in the context of their own game but I take exception to the constant comparisons with Soccer by GAA die hards who are using it as a vehicle to berate any of us that talk about and support soccer. I was a GAA player for many years and not bad one even if I say so myself but I gave it the 2 fingers after my club gave me the ultimatum of giving up playing soccer if I wanted to remain a GAA player. I chose soccer because of this narrow minded attitude that still prevails today. Why cant they just praise the merits of their own game without having to resort to pointing out the perceived flaws in other codes?

If they want to whinge about highly paid soccer players why don't they just pay their OWN players? They wont even give them the €5M the Government set aside for GAA players vis a vis GPA Chief Dessie Farrell having to threaten a strike to get it??!!

The GAA continue to compare apples with oranges when comparing GAA to soccer because they're so fookin insecure about the popularity of their own game that they feel the need to attack soccer in the hope that it will persuade young people from choosing to play it. I played both codes quite successfully until I was told I had to choose one over the other. Isnt there room for us all? As for soccer players "rolling around after gettin a little tip", well we all hate to see that, but I've seen the 'feigned injury' charade in GAA as well Ryaner, and after all, this is the organisation that has been whinging and crying that the Aussies were too rough with them in the International rules! Suck it up lads. Stick to commenting on yer own game and its merits and not rubbishing other codes to try and make yerselves look better. It's a bit pathetic and old at this stage. 

 

Well said. I was in a pub the other day and say a lad wearing a scarf with a t-shirt. Did he not realise he was a walking contradiction?

 

 

LIKES; not back to work until friday week

 

DISLIKES; no holiday hours left for Xmas