havent seen the late late show yet but have it recorded believe it was very interesting....

dubbydave. (Dublin) - Posts: 3927 - 09/12/2012 18:02:12    1308277

artisan
County: Down
Posts: 1272
It's a sad reflection on the modern game that what happens on the pitch, no longer stays on the pitch. I don't think players should be yapping to newspapers. Sort it yourself or get on with it.
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Probably one of the most stupid comments ever seen on this forum, especially given the context of the thread.

A GAA pitch is not some sanctuary for thugs and racists, and those participating in racial abuse, jaw breaking, assaults and the likes should not be given a pass simply because their anti-social behaviour was carried out on a sports field.

Thomas Clarke (Tyrone) - Posts: 1002 - 09/12/2012 19:58:55    1308325

Racism does need to be eradicated in the game,but fair play to Liam O Neill for stressing that ALL forms of sledging need to be tackled.Id have sympathy for someone who was racially abused during a game,but Id have just as much sympathy who had to listen to a deceased relative being mocked,or for someone who was slagged off for having medical condition.
Why arent these people getting threads dedicated to them?

joncarter (Galway) - Posts: 2692 - 09/12/2012 20:18:12    1308342

09/12/2012 17:49:06
artisan
See where you're coming from donkeyford. It's a sad reflection on the modern game that what happens on the pitch, no longer stays on the pitch. I don't think players should be yapping to newspapers. Sort it yourself or get on with it.
Wha????
Racism has no place anywhere and yes everyone who gets racially abused should yap to newspapers if nothing was going to happen to the racists who gave the abuse or to promote the disgusting crap that racists spout.

ormondbannerman (Clare) - Posts: 13473 - 09/12/2012 20:22:38    1308351

I'm not saying let people of with anything on the pitch. I'm saying sort it yourselves and get on with it. Man up I think is the modern term.

artisan (Down) - Posts: 1794 - 09/12/2012 21:27:46    1308396

artisan
County: Down
Posts: 1273

1308396 I'm not saying let people of with anything on the pitch. I'm saying sort it yourselves and get on with it. Man up I think is the modern term.

What do you say the the guys who just want play gaa and not have to hit someone because they were getting racial abuse. join a different sport.
stoneage thinking.

AthCliath (Dublin) - Posts: 4347 - 09/12/2012 21:46:16    1308411

Racism won't be eradicated unfortunately,just look at what goes on across the water in soccer.

Plus,whether we like it or not,there is a culture of indiscipline in GAA copperfastened by what Joe Brolly called an "omerta" code of silence to go with it.

All very depressing I'm afraid.

Muilleann (Tipperary) - Posts: 114 - 10/12/2012 11:35:10    1308483

Racism is only a small part of the abusive & downright hatefulness that goes on in games up and down the country every Sunday.

To separate it from some of the other stuff that goes on is short sighted, referees, umpires & linesmen must hear the crap that is part & parcel of games at every level & yet nothing is done. While I am happy to see racism stamped on It is only a small part of a much bigger picture.

MuckrossHead (Donegal) - Posts: 5028 - 10/12/2012 11:42:11    1308486

Very well put Muckrosshead.

I've seen mentors and parents involved in physical altercation at U-12 game on a Sunday morning this year.

No wonder kids drift out of GAA to other sports.

Muilleann (Tipperary) - Posts: 114 - 10/12/2012 12:51:58    1308535

There's probably abuse in all sorts of sports but it's one of the reasons why I stopped playing gaelic football when I was 16, the 'sledging' by players and even during training sessions with your own team, the massive egos of some players as well but that's just my experiences.

WarriorHibernia (Derry) - Posts: 16 - 10/12/2012 13:42:58    1308562

no place for racism anywhere and the lads involved in it would do well to remember some of the muck that was said to players, fans and officials by foreign soldiers not that long ago because we were perceived to be racially inferior. stamp it out now. artisan your viewpoint is appalling.

CheFinny (UK) - Posts: 1358 - 10/12/2012 15:10:22    1308633

for those on here who say that sledging and specifically racially motivated sledging is fair game and should be given and taken without any squeeling think about this scenario. just presume for one moment that the ref is fully miked up like in rugby and so are linesmen and everything that is said by players gets picked up and recorded and possibly transmitted live on telly or radio. would the perpetrators still do it. No! because they would be afraid. the reason why they do it is because they think they can get away with it. no one in the wider community can hear it. I say to you players, if someone racially abuses you, break his jaw. you you find he doesn't do it again.

s goldrick (Cavan) - Posts: 5520 - 10/12/2012 15:23:57    1308693

The GAA are nearly as bad as FIFA by letting players away with this racist abuse. i see 1 the kilcoo players got off with it and another got their ban reduced. ridiculous

goalpost (Armagh) - Posts: 215 - 08/01/2013 13:03:08    1315202

The player who was found innocent has been given natural justice, I mean he's innocent. My only issue is with the one who was banned as its say for four
months so he'll be back playing in April.

arock (Dublin) - Posts: 4953 - 08/01/2013 14:25:36    1315286

Joeh Cunningham was on the radio earlier and he was fuming and rightly so. He basicallly said that his son didn't get any justice from the GAA and that once again many people have just buried their heads on the matter. It's true, the Association has bad form at this and just turns away from anything like race/partition abuse within the GAA. Joey said that senior GAA officials were at the Cross/Kilcoo game and quite clearly heard the racial attacks on his son but he believes they have remained largely silent and hidden behind 'internal prodecures'. He was fizzing on Radio Ulster today and who could blame him?

Ulsterman (Antrim) - Posts: 9816 - 08/01/2013 16:10:47    1315401

i have to agree with horsebox and donkeyford we are making a mountain out of a molehill, there was a time when racism was called banter and you gave back as good as you got, and it very rarely ended in a scrap.

KingdomBoy1 (Kerry) - Posts: 14092 - 08/01/2013 18:30:17    1315509

Is it any different then calling a fat man FAT or a bald lad BALDY and what ever else you can think of.it s name calling that's all

Midlu1 (Louth) - Posts: 790 - 08/01/2013 19:10:39    1315530

KingdomBoy1
County: Kerry
Posts: 59

there was a time when racism was called banter and you gave back as good as you got, and it very rarely ended in a scrap.

when was that in the american deep south in the 1950s, honestly do you live in a cave in kerry.

AthCliath (Dublin) - Posts: 4347 - 08/01/2013 19:28:47    1315539

Midlu1
County: Louth
Is it any different then calling a fat man FAT or a bald lad BALDY and what ever else you can think of.it s name calling that's all
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Is that a joke? You can't possibly be serious, right? I'm tempted to say 'of course its different', but its so obvious that is, almost redundant, that I feel I've de-evolved a little bit for having participated at all. Yikes.

Marlon_JD (Tipperary) - Posts: 1823 - 08/01/2013 19:40:32    1315549

yes i live in a very expensive cave in kerry ath cliath thank you very much, and also that was a very west britt thing to say lol.

KingdomBoy1 (Kerry) - Posts: 14092 - 08/01/2013 20:06:46    1315558