Something you wouldnt see in any other sport. Brilliant

waynoI (Dublin) - Posts: 13656 - 26/04/2012 16:37:13    1160653

This is what makes the GAA something we can all be proud in. Love it.

PadArdMhaca (Armagh) - Posts: 5 - 26/04/2012 16:56:39    1160679

i might make it yet im only 50

Stmunnsriver (Wexford) - Posts: 3026 - 26/04/2012 17:06:28    1160687

You'll now see a host of 75 year olds making a comeback, generally after a bet in the pub that they could do the same!

Pinkie (Wexford) - Posts: 4100 - 26/04/2012 17:28:02    1160713

Was he registered as a player with the GAA?

Pinkie (Wexford) - Posts: 4100 - 26/04/2012 17:28:36    1160714

Standing on the sideline bumper to bumper, wait a minute where's me Jersey WHERE'S ME JERSEY


Go on the old dogs!

ochonlir (Cavan) - Posts: 4343 - 26/04/2012 17:30:29    1160718

I was at the match, fair play to him for togging out, there were younger men on the line that wouldn't do it. It was the winning goal too, one of the last pucks of the game. You haven't seen hurling till you've seen intermediate hurling in London.

I saw a game last year where the the corner forward had no shorts so he cut his jeans into shorts, that wasn't even the funny part, the corner back marking him forgot his boots and was wearing steal toe caps.

You couldn't make this stuff up.

Outsider222 (UK) - Posts: 95 - 26/04/2012 17:39:24    1160733

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1160733 I was at the match, fair play to him for togging out, there were younger men on the line that wouldn't do it. It was the winning goal too, one of the last pucks of the game. You haven't seen hurling till you've seen intermediate hurling in London.

I saw a game last year where the the corner forward had no shorts so he cut his jeans into shorts, that wasn't even the funny part, the corner back marking him forgot his boots and was wearing steal toe caps.

You couldn't make this stuff up.


The gumshield rule should bring out the best in lads inventiveness

dhorse (Laois) - Posts: 11374 - 26/04/2012 17:43:57    1160739

brilliant reading stories like that,hats off to him............

dubbydave. (Dublin) - Posts: 3927 - 26/04/2012 21:15:55    1160950

Happened to us a few years back. Ref insisted on starting a game while opposition were waiting for a few stragglers to turn up so their manager who was well into his 60s decided to 'stand in' on the edge of the square. Myself and the full back decided we could safely ignore him. No need to say what happened next .....

Fair play to your man. There are a fair few lads playing well past the 'sell by date'. Didn't a Wicklow man in his late 60s win a junior championship two or three years ago? Civil Service here had a chap in goal for one of their junior teams who must have been in his 60s as well. Hope I am not doing him an injustice!

Fact is that many people of 'a certain age' who look after themselves are fitter physically and mentally than boys half or a third of their age.

hurlingdub (Dublin) - Posts: 6978 - 27/04/2012 08:14:24    1161027

have found out who was marking him, for the mans dignity I am keeping his identity secret... anyway here is a video of US college hurling, on a par with London Intermediate hurling
www.balls.ie/2012/04/26/so-they-have-college-hurling-in-america-now/

Rosineri1 (UK) - Posts: 2099 - 27/04/2012 10:00:59    1161078

Great achievement. However my local club won an over 40s tournament when one of the supporters, who was 81, had to play when a player went of injured and the 81 year old swung one of the sweetest points you will ever see. If gooch or bernard brogan did it youd never hear the end of it. It just shows, you get better with age

Goals_Will_Come (UK) - Posts: 375 - 27/04/2012 11:17:15    1161136