This message has been edited - 13-jun-2012 @ 22:43

Originally posted by KeepOnHurling:
Whenever a championship game ends in a draw, nobody having a clue (including the ref) if it is extra time or straight to a replay.

Originally posted by Hitch:
...and if it's a replay no one knows when or where it will be, (as if it never dawned on the fixtures comm-it-tay that there could be a draw)!

Originally posted by frasiercrane:
That so many grounds have electronic score boards but nobody seems to have thought that perhaps it would have been a good idea to have incorporated a clock in these scoreboards to avoid the dreaded time towards thee end of the second half when people get panicky and ask "Did you time it"

Originally posted by uachtaran:
1.Club players that go mad training in January and go missing by the time championship comes round, kinda like fat people joining gyms really.2. Players playing with injuries. In most sports fellas might play on niggles, but you have lads starting championship matches up to and including Kilkenny, playing with cruciates and shoulders that pop on contact. Then there's the "ah it was worth a go" when they come off after 5 mins.3. At club level, the way some fans seem to think the sidelines and endlines are only approximations of where the the game should be played. You know if the ball goes close to the corner of the pitch, a spot where it mightn't be all year, you'll get the 'oul lads roaring that its out, even when its five yards inside the endline. 4. 2 mins additional time (including at All-Ireland finals) when there have been ten substitutions in the second half.5. Also on subs, (club level) when you have a squad of 24 and you put back on a fella you've taken off. Often happens in games that go to extra-time(see below)6. Extra-time being a "new game", with red cards and potential suspensions all forgotten about (or has this changed)7. The CCCC8. Provincial Councils9. Trying to get into croke park on Patricks day for the All-Ireland Club. 25,000 queuing at one white trailer for a ticket and then again at one turnstile to get in. Meanwhile, your club is inside on the pitch playing on the hallowed turf for the one and only time in your lifetime and you're still in the queue with 15 mins gone and have missed seeing your younger brother stick it over from the sideline.10. "Dublin supporters" who wouldn't know where their local club is but look down their nose at culchies coming up to their patch.11. The notion that footballs glory years were the late 70's (finally put to bed when TG4) destroyed the myth that Dublin-Kerry was the greatest game of all time12. The fact that the Dublin media never even mention Derry-Down in the 1st round of Ulster in 1994 which is and remains the greatest game of all time.13. Joe Brolly14. Ger Canning commentating right now on Holland-Germany.15. The idea that a team of Sean Boylan's wasn't really dirty, cos he's such a nice guy himself. (Check out recent comments from Liam Hayes on the 87-91 period)16. The idea that Seanie Johnston transferring is scandalous while almost every club and county manager is paid....expenses of course17. Umpires that put up their hand when the corner back hits the corner forward off the ball, and then take it down again because the ref is too busy following play at the other end of the field. 18. Referees being picky about where frees are taken from, then when they decide to penalise someone for dissent, they pick the ball up and drop it about 25 yards up the field, when its supposed to be a 10 metre penalty.19. The "fair shoulder" ref, a one off annual event, which in reality requires players, ball and planets to be aligned in order for it not to be a foul.20. The way purists are still appalled when someone does something "soccerlike" on the field despite 75% of the game being a cross between basketball, netball and international handball.

Originally posted by rebelrebel30:
1. Every GAA match must have 2 mins added time.......You could have the battle of the bulge, pitch invasions, you name it you get 2 mins...gas stuff.

Originally posted by Hitch:
Except if it's Clare v Offaly ...you get -5 minutes!

Originally posted by dubshurlingfan:

2. His language is utterly alien to GAA circles. When is the last time you were at a junior match and heard someone saying: "a real judicious effort; fine mixture of skill, panache and no little effort"?3.

This message has been edited - 23-jun-2012 @ 23:57

Originally posted by singing goalie:
Having possibly the highest profile hurler - Henry Shefflin - wearing a helmet that is probably older than he is and held together with insulating tape and cable ties. No advertising endorsement deals there!

This message has been edited - 24-jun-2012 @ 00:14

Originally posted by Scaoil Amach an Bobailín:

Ha, I remember Conor Hayes used to wear an auld gold coloured .... plastic píss-pots you might find beneath the bed long ago...No strap or nothing on it!