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The greatest sport in the World is hurling. Living our side Ireland for over thirty years nothing other than ice hockey comes close. One a field sport the other an indoor sport. Both demand a discipline that is unreal. The players of both seem to have such a respect for the game and each other. If you want to challenge for excitement I am willing to listen. Canuck (Waterford) - Posts: 2660 - 01/04/2018 05:26:18 2089854 Link 1 |
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Oh Canuck you've just set yourself up for a spate of "I hate hurling/ hurling is boring" responses. Granted it has become a lot more defensive orientated in recent years and there are far too many ruck- like shemozzles in today's game than there should be, and also the sliotar is too light which is contributing to this issue as well as to sidelines being scored from the half way line (which shouldn't happen either). PoolSturgeon (Galway) - Posts: 1903 - 01/04/2018 10:08:09 2089879 Link 0 |
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I'd say you will get a big surprise later today!
Soma (UK) - Posts: 2630 - 01/04/2018 11:42:13 2089903 Link 0 |
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You wont get an enthuiastic response here. But I agree with you. Last night Tipp Limerick game, another fine game. They just keep coming. ZUL10 (Clare) - Posts: 693 - 01/04/2018 12:30:01 2089911 Link 0 |
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Don't see why these posts are always started hurling better then other sports. People like different sports. Hurling would be well down my list of favourite sports but I would repect people who love it. ros1 (Roscommon) - Posts: 1211 - 01/04/2018 12:55:49 2089915 Link 2 |
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Agree everyone has their love of sport but the 4 quarter finals and one semi so far have been brilliant. Every team scored 20 plus times. What a summer we have 8 possible winners where as football realistically only one. WildPundit (Tipperary) - Posts: 1709 - 01/04/2018 13:32:44 2089920 Link 0 |
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Why do Hurling people feel the need to keep saying Hurling is the best field sport in the world? Insecure about your game? yew_tree (Mayo) - Posts: 11232 - 01/04/2018 13:38:26 2089922 Link 2 |
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I don't think eight counties have a realistic chance of winning the All Ireland . I think the new format will put increased emphasis on the depth of counties squads. I will be surprised if the winner comes from outside Tipp, Kilkenny or Galway . Having said that there has been a leveling of standards and a great summer of hurling awaits . As for the four hurling quarter finals being brilliant, I was at the Dublin Tipp game and it was nothing more than a stroll in the park for Tipp. I agree that there will only be one winner in the football. The football championship is now where the hurling championship was for long periods of the noughties. We are watching a Documentary blue team which is one of the greatest if not the greatest team to have ever played the game. When Kilkenny were at their best I sat back and enjoyed the privilege of watching their brilliance. I look forward to doing the same this year with this Dublin team. We have had some magnificent games involving themselves and their rivals over the last few years . Hopefully we'll have more of the same this year.
Greengrass (Louth) - Posts: 6031 - 01/04/2018 13:48:37 2089924 Link 0 |
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Was Muhammad Ali the self porclaimed 'greatest' insecure? Whats your logic? People whow love Rugby think rugby is the greatet. Just read Neil Francis if in doubt.
ZUL10 (Clare) - Posts: 693 - 01/04/2018 13:55:17 2089927 Link 0 |
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Anyone suggesting there is only going to be one winner in the football really hasn't a clue. Dubh_linn (Dublin) - Posts: 2312 - 01/04/2018 14:20:18 2089934 Link 1 |
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I'm afraid so yew_tree, when people are insecure they generally seek re-assurance. Unrelated issue - I typed the word sex in a reply here earlier but HS thought it was too extreme to post, just wondering will it get through this time....sex, sexy sexy, sex sex sex. Sex ;-) Htaem (Meath) - Posts: 8657 - 01/04/2018 14:32:23 2089935 Link 1 |
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Not a very good comparison, since in boxing there is a definitive "greatest" boxer at any given point in time, and this is determined by winning boxing matches against other competitors and obtaining belts. Claiming to be the greatest boxer is a claim of ambition that can be challenged with reality. But there's no inter-sport competition to determine the best sport, and any claims of a single sport being the "greatest" is very much based on background and opinion. Claiming to play the greatest sport does come across as an insecure clap on your own back since you know you can't be proven objectively wrong. Despite being more of a hurling fan I do find the constant need to declare hurling to be the best sport on earth to be ridiculous. It's second only in annoyance to the desperate craving for the approval of random foreign people watching it; where GAA news outlets get excited and run actual articles when an someone in America or the UK with 7 twitter followers tweets ""Just saw a video of hurling, what a crazy sport the Irish have lol". It's pathetic. CastleBravo (Meath) - Posts: 1644 - 01/04/2018 14:42:36 2089938 Link 2 |
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Never said there are not other good or great sports. Expressing an opinion, getting off the fence and telling it as it is. The greatest of them all speaks for itself over and over. A hole in one in golf (great sport) requires some divine intervention. What Ronan Maher did last night demands unbelievable skill. Canuck (Waterford) - Posts: 2660 - 01/04/2018 14:59:44 2089946 Link 0 |
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The point that is being made to you is that most people when they express an opinion on a particular sport don't preface it by saying it is the greatest field sport in the world . It seems to be a characteristic of hurling people . There is no need for it .
Greengrass (Louth) - Posts: 6031 - 01/04/2018 15:44:57 2089953 Link 1 |
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You're right! Went to the match with a Wexford man. Luckily he knew it was on in Wexford Park so we did go to the right venue! Poor game really. Wexford were very disappointing. The football probably provided better entertainment today
PoolSturgeon (Galway) - Posts: 1903 - 01/04/2018 16:51:41 2089975 Link 1 |
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A lad clearly inspired and made proud by the beauty of a game that is unique and thoroughly Irish, posts a warmhearted paean on a GAA website to share his love of the sport with likeminded Gaels. And what happens? festinog (Galway) - Posts: 3097 - 01/04/2018 17:16:26 2089983 Link 4 |
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Nah you're missing the point, I love hurling, I think it's a great game to watch, it's just that the fans are a bit overbearing sometimes. They're a bit like that parent who keeps banging on and on about how brilliant their own children are, it's hard to listen to and nobody else gives a shít!
Htaem (Meath) - Posts: 8657 - 01/04/2018 17:43:05 2089997 Link 3 |
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If it causes you so much distress, then here's a friendly bit of advice: stay away from hurling threads. No one is making you read them.
festinog (Galway) - Posts: 3097 - 01/04/2018 17:55:37 2090020 Link 0 |
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Ah sure where's the fun in that festinog :-)
Htaem (Meath) - Posts: 8657 - 01/04/2018 17:59:32 2090022 Link 2 |
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Tighten yourself and spare us the nonsense. I've been watching hurling for decades and love the game . The point that was made is correct .
Greengrass (Louth) - Posts: 6031 - 01/04/2018 17:59:46 2090023 Link 1 |