Association football is the best of the lot, nothing better than supporting an EL side in Europe or Ireland abroad. What equivalent is there in GAA, or even rugby, playing 5 European teams every year as oppossed to the possibility of 53 European teams for a qualifier, ye cant even compare the 6.5 nations to a Euro champs.

pronane (None) - Posts: 324 - 18/09/2008 12:26:22    102400

The Seal : well if i was from cork id follow rugby too.
Your Gaelic football team is comical!!

You seem to have forgot last years semi final pretty quickly! Actually, you seem to have forgotton Meath this year even quicker!!!

macattack (UK) - Posts: 584 - 18/09/2008 12:26:23    102401

rugby is shocking.no skill etc.if your big then you have a chance to play the game at a high level.

daytona11 (Kildare) - Posts: 4012 - 18/09/2008 12:36:50    102413

How anyone can claim that rugby is better than football, hurling or soccer is beyond me. Most boring sport ever - Munster won the Heineken Cup because their fat lads were better than pushing than the fat lads on the other team. How can a sport be any good where kicking the ball out of play is actually seen as progress is beyond me.

Considering rugby as a global game, it doesn't compare with almost any other global sport - there are even more people worldwide that prefer cricket to rugby. Within Ireland, there are only about 4 areas of the country where it is treated even half seriously - how can you compare it to GAA?

jason (Mayo) - Posts: 139 - 18/09/2008 12:55:31    102430

If things continue as they have been in Cork for the last few years we will have no GAA players in a few years they are all going to play sports that they are paid for Damien Delaney / Soccer ... Tomas O'Leary / Rugby ... The O'Alpin brothers / Aussie Rules .... etc etc


Would you blame them for switching sports ?

Redhot (Cork) - Posts: 739 - 18/09/2008 13:08:17    102442

People really are suckered in by the sky sports hype machine, its sad. The champions league was on in our house last night, Manchester and Celtic both 0-0, a painfully boring evening of 'sport'

bad.monkey (USA) - Posts: 4649 - 18/09/2008 13:19:52    102458

Daytona - Rugby is the sport for all shapes and sizes or at least it was.

Enjoy both pretty much on a par with each other but a really good GAA match is leagues ahead of a great Rugby match.
Even in great rugby matches one team can slow the game down much easier than in football.
The speed and excitement of Dublin-Meath, Cork-Kerry, Armagh-Tyrone games, for example, is unequaled in any sport.

Not a big Hurling fan so have excluded it.

Royal_Gunner (Meath) - Posts: 534 - 18/09/2008 13:21:15    102459

Pronane, have you nothing better to do than come with yet another rhetorical question. The answer is that nothing compares to Gaelic Games. Our own games!

Cavan_Slasher (Cavan) - Posts: 10253 - 18/09/2008 13:30:14    102470

1. Football
2. Soccer
3. Hurling
4. Basketball
5. Tennis
6.Golf
7. Volleybal
8. Snooker
9. Rugby
10. Horse racing

Goal (Kildare) - Posts: 117 - 18/09/2008 13:35:36    102475

macattack
County: UK
Suppose your going to tell us soccer is better.!

the seal (Meath) - Posts: 583 - 18/09/2008 13:37:54    102481

18/09/2008 12:55:31
jason
County: Mayo
Posts: 31

Munster won the Heineken Cup because their fat lads were better than pushing than the fat lads on the other team.

LOL. A unique description of Munsters success.

RMDrive (Donegal) - Posts: 2202 - 18/09/2008 13:41:05    102485

1-football,2-hurling,3-rugby,4-soccer,5-athletics.

OLLIE (Louth) - Posts: 12224 - 18/09/2008 13:45:21    102491

get off the site..rughb some game...catch the ball and kick into the crowd..throw it back in and kick into the crowd again...roll on the ground pushn each other for god knows how long..please go to a rughby site...stop wasting our time

colin (Cork) - Posts: 233 - 18/09/2008 14:08:16    102520

I see my comments were censored again so i will only state that the G.A.A. games are best. Is that ok administrator ?

Cavan_Slasher (Cavan) - Posts: 10253 - 18/09/2008 14:16:48    102526

rugby = egg chasing.

daytona11 (Kildare) - Posts: 4012 - 18/09/2008 16:29:49    102648

Not at all Seal. But 15 soccer players would have done a better job in the championship than you 15 Meath "Footballers" this year!!!

macattack (UK) - Posts: 584 - 18/09/2008 17:38:30    102707

this is gaa site.

wise_guy (Tyrone) - Posts: 1584 - 18/09/2008 17:40:07    102710

You have to laugh, 2nd and 3rd rate GAA county sides berating rugby for being too limited in terms of competition. Soccer is a rich pursuit best left to oligarchs with no respect for human rights, and prols with no sense, other than those who are paid well over the odds to play one of the most boring games on the face of creation. Deary me, I hope I haven't come across as being biased against the tedious brigade.

plike (Kerry) - Posts: 569 - 18/09/2008 17:48:02    102719

Goal, how can you say that soccer is more exciting than hurling???? Hurling has gotta be one of the most exciting sports to watch in the world!

As for the guy who started this thread:

(1) You could be right in a way. Rugby is never as exciting as hurling but it could come close to football in my opinion.
(2) It's a pretty pointless argument to put up on a forum designed for and filled with GAA fans.

SamiPremier08 (Tipperary) - Posts: 177 - 18/09/2008 17:58:38    102730

1.Hurling=Soccer
3. Gaelic Football
4.Rugby
5.Darts
6.Golf
7.Horse Racing
8.American Football
9.Athletics
10.?

Clash-of-da-ash (Galway) - Posts: 927 - 18/09/2008 18:12:22    102738