GAA: Ireland 52 Bushwackers 55

Tohill is a clown!

Was offered free tickets and would still not go to that garbage.

Had to laugh at the front page of the Indo and the star today, Brave Ireland???? My god they just got hammered in two games of gaelic football by Australia. If anything these Irish players were not brave just my honest opinion as they played both nights when the game was over and may have fooled some people into thinking the late rallies looked good and late on were the only time they seemed to move the ball with speed as well over all lack of heart to get beaten by what is basically your own sport. It would be nice if we can have a civilised chat on the subject.

too little too late.. why did they only show up in the last quarter in both matches

indo , star , i lost ya then , sad , pathetic , mmmmmmmmmmmm

Toby whats wrong? :)

I asked for a civilised chat as to the reasons Ireland were beaten by Autralia at gaelic football and you turn around and call me sad and pathetic?

You should keep your concern for your own sport of soccer Rocket. Watched rovers on friday night, absolutely shocking, couldn't string two passes together, most of their players looked unfit and they're supposed to be the best soccer team in Ireland.

We've some really good soccer players here, who play when they've no Gaelic commitments, who would easily match that Bray team (a lot of them have played soccer with and against them so they know them well), so where does that leave us, an average local gaa side, with Shamrock Rovers who were outplayed by Bray for long periods of that game.

Dazza we must try and beat Australia at our own game (Gaelic football) before trying to muscle in on the champions league reps of Ireland

How could Shamrock Rovers or Bray Wanderers or even the wider public even take our Gaelic football boys seriously if we can't beat guys who never played it up to 2 weeks ago and were still jet lagged

The "wider public" certainly don't take Shamrock Rovers or the LOI seriously, hardly nobody goes to or takes an interest in their games.

I'm pointing out to you that if you think an Irish team (who are light years ahead of their LOI counterparts in fitness and overall sporting ability) losing in a hybrid exhibition Aussie Rule/Gaelic game is an embarrassment you must be thoroughly ashamed of our LOI soccer standards.

I'll draw a few form or standard lines for you, as I said our local GAA committed occasional soccer players have already proven themselves every bit as good at soccer as the Bray lads that outplayed Rovers(Irish champs).
These same fellows can't get near, by All Ireland standards, a very average county GAA team and the players on that county team can't get anywhere near the International Rules squad.
So as these lads are every bit as good, if not better, Gaelic players than soccer players where does that leave LOI standards.

GAA muck savage amateurs to the extreme
a nation with 200 years experience playing the "sport" gets beaten by a country with 2 weeks experience.
i've picked more talent out of the crack of my ar5e after a heavy session.

Im not being Homophobic chingachgook,but i cant see there being much interest in your sexual conquests,your private life is best left private shirley!

Dazza they had only a week and a half of kicking a round ball, some of those lads never even seen a round ball before. And they beat our national team, our gaelic football players. Jeez all you have to do is look at Jason Sherlock proven to not have the fitness to last 90 minutes no LOI team would touch the lad but yet was getting his game for Dublin, i know this broke Jason heart. Dazza i suppose it shows the skill set is a lot lower in gaelic football compared to Hurling, Soccer, Rugby, Golf, Rounders etc etc ?

Chingachgook please leave it out Dazza can't take any more humilation

Rocket,seeing as were taking it a gimmie that LOI players are about 4 levels below top Gaelic footballers, if thats chingachgook's assesment of Gaelic players I don't think I'd like to hear his description of LOI players.

Gary Twigg got motm on Friday night and all he did was stand there for 50 mins with his hands on his hips with a fat arse, a little belly  and at least 3 or 4 chins. The chap looks totally unfit and about 2 stone overweight and he is one of the best players in the league.

Dara is actually right the standard and fitness levels on Friday night were apalling from so called national champions.

Daza i know it must help you and wayside to lash out Twigg was injured played through the pain barrier something League of Ireland players can do better than Gaelic footballers.

This is our national game and i for one love gaelic football, But Daza, Wayside, Toby and Gantoo please look away now you won't like what you are about to read. In 2005 during the mid point of the season a comparison test was made between LOI players and gaelic footballers, and guess what LOI players came out as far far better atheletes, fitter, not fatty slobs with big bellies and a more arobic body also very interesting they can a greater treshhold to pain i.e. greater men.

If you don't believe me contact Tralee IT

[i]Results: Significant differences were reported for % body fat (p

Results: Significant differences were reported for % body fat (p

Link

http://bjsportmed.com/content/39/7/437.abstract

Game set and match Daza i would say :D

I'm worse to be arguing with the forum fool, you're some chancer. I've actually seen 3 or 4 genuine assessments over the years and the all had Gaelic footballers streets ahead of LOI soccer players.

Haven't any more time to waste in childish arguments you build your life around Rocket, but I'll leave you with Mick Galway's (someone who knows what he's talking about and a professional Rugby man) recent opinion that he believes GAA players are  the finest athltetes and sports people we have in Ireland. I think we both have to defer to his experienced knowledgable and impartial opinion, good evening.

imagine if Eric the eel and his equatorial guinea comrades beat Michael Phelps and the US in
a 200m butterfly relay after 2 weeks of swimmimg lessons.[smiley:crazy][;)]

I think we'll stick with the scientific results Dazza

chingachook lol superb stuff, i wonder did Eric and his boys all have cushy govt jobs like our gaelic footballers???

http://www.gaa.ie/about-the-gaa/international-rules/player-profiles/

How many of them lads have Government jobs?.

Not interested in lies or smiley faces......

gantoo but it does not give their jobs would guess 70% to 75% and up from speaking to lads ITK in the gaels clubhouse this evening. We have some lads who play dual, our captain was with a LSL club but hardly plays and they consider him to fat. [:)]

For starters they were not playing gaelic football, if they were they would have beaten the aussies. The aussies are also professional athletes.

A good mate of mine played LOI football and gaelic football. He gave up playing the former because, rightly or wrongly, gaelic football in Ireland always has been and always will be more appealing than loi soccer. There were more people at a a made up gaelic football/aussie rules game on saturday night than the combined attendances at all of the final loi games. QED.

Not playing Gaelic football? :) The sportaroos had never even seen a round ball before two weeks ago, sure they were not even allowed to tackle

last game of the season at bray and the couldnt even fill a 3k capacity "stadium".lads dont be arguing with this guy.he thrives on it.

Kavvie Bray are small club with a small ground but fair play it was over sold out as per RTE website "With the Carlisle Grounds a sell-out, several hundreds more thronged to the seaside venue for a crowd in excess of the expected 3,000."

Some of you just are just obsessed with soccer i came on here to talk about the recent gaelic football match v Australia. "Take the Aussies and freebies out of Croker and i doubt there was more than 3,000" said one high ranking official i know from the GAA.

ur high ranking gaa officials are a figment of your imagination and every one here knows it.tell me why there were vast empty spaces either side of the goals in bray?and lots of empty seats in the stand facing the cameras?!!?.they mustnt be great at counting or estimating capacity?.also there were 60000 people at the game in croker.are you saying 57000 were freebees and kids?good one that!

You wouldn't be able to move through Rockets phonebook for the amount of people he must have saved as high ranking officials who always share his view 100%

Ireland have been poor this rules series and we have ourselves solely to blame. Two years ago we played good stuff and were scoring goals for fun over there, this year its constant hand passing and players who seem unable to kick for goal two in 8 quarters is not enough.

The Australians were better then expected Malthouse is a Grand Final winning coach and he showed why in both games he lorded it over Tohill had his team well organised and kept Ireland quiet untill the final quarter of both games. The pace of the likes of Dane Swan and Adam Goodes is something the GAA players couldn't get a handle of.

In fairness the Carlisle grounds was certainly sold out, absoloutely no way you would have been paying on the gate anyways tickets were certainly in demand and the Carlisle grounds would not be allowed to hold more due to health and safety, this was Bray's biggest crowd in 10 years.

The test is the Fai Cup Final, the FAI have made a good move with the 10 euro tickets, two teams who want to be there including the best supported team in the country, the ticket sales have looked good, for a tenner I have no problem heading down to it and will.

24,500 or so were at the Womans Gaelic football final this year, the FAI would want to beat that.

Rocketfingers-you make the point several times that the aussies 'never saw a round ball til 2 weeks ago'. You trying to tell us that Aussie kids grow up never having played soccer??

Irishro hard to believe alright, one of the lads who would be ITK in the clubhouse tonight, said they played soccer with the oval ball and that he had met some of them out around town on Sat night and they confirmed this as FACT.

Hard to believe is right.

"they played soccer with the oval ball"  rocket if you're not just a wind up merchant, you are seriously off your head.
Always easy to know when you've lost an argument cos your rantings go from the bizzare to the downright plain crazy.

Rocketfingers...........You didn't answer my question.....back up your claim.....I know the answer.......you claim they have cushy govt. jobs then you say it doesn't say what they work at.

gantoo and wayside no more games please girls, i have given you scientific proof (i only deal in this) about gaelic footballers and LOI players and which is better. Not leave it at that you boys are starting to drag your knuckles again

By the way gantoo no probs i get all my info from the top at Croker i hope this helps

Rocketfingers Joined: 20 May 10
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I think we'll stick with the scientific results Dazza

chingachook lol superb stuff, i wonder did Eric and his boys all have cushy govt jobs like our gaelic footballers??? 


Go on sure have a guess.................If you get it right I will send you a few tickets for the cheap seats at the fai cup final...I believe they are €10 or are they the dear ones.................fair play for giving the young kids freebies to fill up the seats...nice touch by your boys.........For that sort of money I might even take a trip up myself........

gantoo i lead to believe the vast majority of the Irish players have govt cushy jobs. gantoo i don't think there are actually any tickets left for the cup final maybe the GAA will again copy the FAI and now be forced into lowering prices and filling up some of those half empty grounds we are seeing more and more of in the summer. There is a recession on :(

At least you have changed your mind and now believe the recession has dented crowds at sporting events...well done.

I think your high ranking GAA friends are pulling your leg.......I reckon 1 player off that list is a paid employee of the state. I am open to correction.

What harm is there in an amateur organisation following the lead of a professional outfit like the fai.

Link gantoo please? They are all voting FF as well you'll probabl find i'd say. I know this for a fact.

Link for what.......What's FF got to do with this..........

Rocket, there was more people at the ladies football final than the last 3 rounds combined attendances of all games of one of the closest ever finishes of the LOI premier division involving the two biggest soccer clubs in the country.

So even comparing your LOI soccer to ladies gaelic is doing the good women of Ireland an enormous disservice as these hard facts show at least 20 to 30 times more interest from the general Irish public in ladies gaelic than LOI soccer.

No link gantoo and no more games. You do know FF are in power gantoo? :D

Can you back up your claim about the govt. jobs......Rocketfingers.

Sorry lads i have given you facts Dazza is showing his counting skills although Dazza there was far more people paid in to the last round of LOI matches than was at that ladies football final. Actually did anybody pay in . Sisters wee kids were almost begged to go they went felll asleep during it woke up and left, i think you got a free hot dog if you went kids coming in eating their free hot dogs and walking out comical stuff.

gantoo i am 100% right i know lads ITK.

As someone has already said, you know Rocket has lost the argument when his posts go from bizzare to crazy, i.e your last post.
You've obviously got your facts mixed up with last years FAI cup final where school kids from the Fingal area were forced to wear colours, carry flags and bussed off to the match to try and make up a crowd.
Now renamed as The "Rent a Crowd" FAI Cup Final
Good day to you.

Well that may or may not be the case but all tickets had to be paid to the FAI, ignore that 7,000 that travelled from Sligo why don't you Game was sold out what more can you ask? certainly none of the tickets were free clubs in LOI value their product too much to give out free tickets ala the Ireland v Bushwackers.

This year the FAI have made the tickets 10 euro which is an amazing gesture to the people of Ireland it will sell out and bar the hurling final i don't the GAA could say that this year about any match will nto any gaelic football match, sure not even the ALl Ireland sold out .

Rocket, can your clearly searing intellect, explain to an uninformed like myself, why the the product that is the LOI premier league can cater for approximately 50,000 on any given day when all its grounds are full? I just dont understand.

El gato no time this thread is way off topic

Rocketfingers Joined: 20 May 10
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Had to laugh at the front page of the Indo and the star today, Brave Ireland???? My god they just got hammered in two games of gaelic football by Australia. If anything these Irish players were not brave just my honest opinion as they played both nights when the game was over and may have fooled some people into thinking the late rallies looked good and late on were the only time they seemed to move the ball with speed as well over all lack of heart to get beaten by what is basically your own sport. It would be nice if we can have a civilised chat on the subject. 

Dazza, gantoo please get back to this why did the outback kangeroos beat Ireland at gaelic football?

thought so

Rocket, on the basis that your mind is so brilliant it can probably only deal with one item at a time, lets answer your question first.

The outback kangaroos were faster, stronger, hungrier and ultimately better at the compromise game than the Irish. A compromise game that is certainly closer to our game than theirs. They were also professionals competing against amateurs and the irish clearly didnt gel together as team very well. From that perspective it was a bit like the loi team that lost 7-1 to the man utd reserves. A man of your intelligence will have understood the reasons for that as well Im sure.

Now back to my question skippy.......

El garto your example would hold up if Man U were say a Ice Hockey team and had never seen a round ball before

now rocket neither of us truly believe an ice hockey team would beat a loi selection. no i just dont see it.

Can you help me out with my query, i cant figure it out

I could easily pick a team from the GAA clubs in my own (very average) county who would no doubt after a week together would easily beat the top LOI selection at soccer.

Would be made up of lads who went across the water and didn't quite make along other very talented footballers who also wouldn't bother with the rubbish LOI (despite being begged to play by LOI clubs) and concentrate on GAA instead because its where the public interest is here in Ireland.

Rocketfingers......Any chance of answering my question......if you just made it up for fun admit it and all will be forgiven.

To make it simple for you name 3 off the panel I put up that are in state employment.

Rocket i guess neither of us can explain it. Will remain one of the great mysteries. I met a bloke once who said it was because the standard was shyte and no one had any interest in it. How stupid was he?