ffffffffffffhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcRwbuSoGyc
― cozen, Thursday, 9 September 2010 13:28 (thirteen years ago) link
^ gets it
― k¸ (darraghmac), Thursday, 9 September 2010 13:33 (thirteen years ago) link
but why are the goalkeepers the only ones NOT wearing helmets
― visit europe more (acoleuthic), Monday, 9 August 2010 14:26 (1 month ago)
― acoleuthic, Thursday, 9 September 2010 13:34 (thirteen years ago) link
because nobody fucking argues with a hurling gk. see video.
― k¸ (darraghmac), Thursday, 9 September 2010 13:55 (thirteen years ago) link
Took the tour of Croke Park yesterday. Quite the stadium indeed - it feels really intimate despite its 82,300 seats, and this was empty so it must be positively claustrophobic when full. The capacity seems unbelievable actually, when it's almost totally open at one end. The views were great.
Anyway, fun tour of the stands, boxes, dressing rooms etc, ending up in the museum which had an interactive bit - some of which even worked, so I got ten minutes thrashing about with the ball-and-stick* in the nets. Proud to report that the speed gun clocked my best effort at a mighty 64 mph.
* (yes I know they have special names, I just can't remember them right now)
― Ismael Klata, Sunday, 12 September 2010 21:50 (thirteen years ago) link
I used to play shinty when I was a kid, in Campbeltown, Kintyre. Lots of people watch hurling there, and I dig it, I've just never played. I used to play shinty for the school, though I was rubbish and I only got a game once everyone else had been smashed up. Put me in good stead for hockey later in life, on the east coast though, because we didn't have any pads for the goalie I just got stuck at that position, as all fear of the injury had long since been knocked out of me.
I'd be too scared to play either shinty or hurling these days, but they're good games if your fear is abated by being young, stupid or drunk - preferably all three.
― textbook blows on the head (dowd), Sunday, 12 September 2010 22:19 (thirteen years ago) link
I don't know what my commas are up to in my last post. Sometimes they get away from me.
― textbook blows on the head (dowd), Sunday, 12 September 2010 22:21 (thirteen years ago) link
huh IK i was in dublin last night in temple bar, which tbh isn't a common occurrence. yeah croker's a beaut of a stadium alright, the intensity when full is something else
ps sliotar, hurl = ball stick
dowd maybe a belt of an aul sliotar has taken the comma part of yr brain out of action
― k¸ (darraghmac), Sunday, 12 September 2010 22:24 (thirteen years ago) link
Ah, chance spurned there for the fap thing - I was staying in there. Ships in the night etc.
The thing that seems wrong with both the big GAA games is that you can score by hitting over the bar. Half the footage seemed to be of heroic goalies achieving the impossible, and the other half unchallenged long punts rendering their efforts pointless.
― Ismael Klata, Monday, 13 September 2010 06:38 (thirteen years ago) link
goals worth three points tbf, and also tbf to the outfield players, it's usually a case of getting a shot in from any angle before you get brained so swings and roundabouts really
― k¸ (darraghmac), Monday, 13 September 2010 07:45 (thirteen years ago) link
HURLING HAS A GAY GOALIE SO THERE
― the salmon of procrastination (darraghmac), Thursday, 7 April 2011 20:01 (thirteen years ago) link
lol at (sport) in the thread title here
― ENBB, Thursday, 7 April 2011 20:01 (thirteen years ago) link
it seemed easier to just put that out there really
― the salmon of procrastination (darraghmac), Thursday, 7 April 2011 20:03 (thirteen years ago) link
Read a good bit about Tipperary and someone, doing this, in a book called Our Man in Hibernia the other day. Now I almost understand what hurling is in a vague sense not involving knowing any of the actual rules.
― Back up the lesbian canoe (Laurel), Thursday, 7 April 2011 20:05 (thirteen years ago) link
no, you now know the full of it basically
― the salmon of procrastination (darraghmac), Thursday, 7 April 2011 20:05 (thirteen years ago) link
the rules are the same ones as in patton's speech to the troops
― the salmon of procrastination (darraghmac), Thursday, 7 April 2011 20:06 (thirteen years ago) link
Btw, Laurel, hurling is an excellent sport to watch. I have an Irish friend who likes to recount how, "Soccer is a gentleman's game played by thugs. Rugby is a thug's game played by gentlemen. Hurling is a thug's game played by thugs - with sticks!"
― Si tu parles, tu meurs. Si tu te tais, tu meurs. Alors, dis et (Michael White), Thursday, 7 April 2011 20:08 (thirteen years ago) link
<3 thugs
― Back up the lesbian canoe (Laurel), Thursday, 7 April 2011 20:10 (thirteen years ago) link
It's good fun, really. It's tremendously athletic, fraught with danger and passionately supported and while there's more scoring than in soccer, it doesn't look easy at all.
― Si tu parles, tu meurs. Si tu te tais, tu meurs. Alors, dis et (Michael White), Thursday, 7 April 2011 20:13 (thirteen years ago) link
He starts out with hurling in myth and Cuchlaininnnninn (or someone) getting that name by killing someone's dog by hurling a sliotar down its throat and then tells all about this v dramatic game btw Tipperary & whoever the reigning champs were, p much going play by play. Interspersed w little sport anecdotes, liek the one about some historic keeper who was hit in the junk in a first half, played the whole game in agony, and was later found at the hospital to have one testicle burst open and split in half.
― Back up the lesbian canoe (Laurel), Thursday, 7 April 2011 20:14 (thirteen years ago) link
Good part of the book imo.
― Back up the lesbian canoe (Laurel), Thursday, 7 April 2011 20:15 (thirteen years ago) link
so hurling is a real thing, huh? i always confuse it with shirling.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gu3mbl8SAk
― adult music person (Jordan), Thursday, 7 April 2011 20:16 (thirteen years ago) link
oooh burst testicle
― the salmon of procrastination (darraghmac), Thursday, 7 April 2011 20:17 (thirteen years ago) link
and was later found at the hospital to have one testicle burst open and split in half.
Now there's a hard man for you.
― Si tu parles, tu meurs. Si tu te tais, tu meurs. Alors, dis et (Michael White), Thursday, 7 April 2011 20:26 (thirteen years ago) link
puts bert trautmann into perspective
― the salmon of procrastination (darraghmac), Thursday, 7 April 2011 20:28 (thirteen years ago) link
Sorry, don't have book with me or wd supply more details.
― Back up the lesbian canoe (Laurel), Thursday, 7 April 2011 20:28 (thirteen years ago) link
someone was telling me that before the GAA took over Irish sport in the late 19th century, cricket was the most popular sport in ireland. cricket strongholds of the time = kilkenny and tipperary!
― Michael B, Thursday, 7 April 2011 20:35 (thirteen years ago) link
and cork and dublin too
i think that you've supplied all the detail i'd want laurel tbh
― the salmon of procrastination (darraghmac), Thursday, 7 April 2011 20:36 (thirteen years ago) link
Camogie's where the real brutality's at.
― Costumes By Maureen Of Hollywood (ShariVari), Thursday, 7 April 2011 20:38 (thirteen years ago) link
I hear you got a lifetime ban from Croke Park, Michael B.
― Si tu parles, tu meurs. Si tu te tais, tu meurs. Alors, dis et (Michael White), Thursday, 7 April 2011 20:39 (thirteen years ago) link
America was the same with the cricket aiui, squeezed out by baseball and nationalism.
― Ismael Klata, Thursday, 7 April 2011 20:47 (thirteen years ago) link
Any suggestions for pubs in North / Central London where i can get a decent lunch and watch the All Ireland final? Thinking 12 Pins but it's a bit of a dive. Porterhouse might be a better alternative.
― A little bit like Peter Crouch but with more mobility (ShariVari), Sunday, 28 August 2011 16:00 (twelve years ago) link
I don't really follow hurling but I do know that Kilkenny is supposed to be virtually untouchable yet Tipperary have managed to beat them in the final before. Would like to see the clash.
In front of the Cork airport a couple of years ago I took these photos -
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3454/3878540757_cf6d67d1d7_z.jpghttp://farm3.static.flickr.com/2490/3878546491_258c3db181_b.jpg
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Monday, 29 August 2011 15:01 (twelve years ago) link
never watched games in central ldn shari...i watch gaa in a pub on broadway market called the perseverance...it doesn't do food but there are lots of restaurants around. is a really good place to watch sport and generally not too busy.
― LocalGarda, Monday, 29 August 2011 15:03 (twelve years ago) link
i remember you watching it last year.
Klkenny are perennial favourites, getting beaten in the final is a bad year for them
― lolled @ 'timeboom' (darraghmac), Monday, 29 August 2011 15:04 (twelve years ago) link
i thought as of last year it's kinda felt that tipperary are better than kilkenny. haven't seen any hurling this year tho, watched a lot of dublin's football gams so far.
― LocalGarda, Monday, 29 August 2011 15:06 (twelve years ago) link
games...
donegal do not play 'great stuff' imo
― lolled @ 'timeboom' (darraghmac), Monday, 29 August 2011 15:08 (twelve years ago) link
"the game from hell", colm o'rourke said. kerry will beat dublin easily imo but it's nice to have a final to look forward to at least.
― LocalGarda, Monday, 29 August 2011 15:16 (twelve years ago) link
'look forward to'
― lolled @ 'timeboom' (darraghmac), Monday, 29 August 2011 15:23 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSH10CVC014
― Michael B, Monday, 29 August 2011 16:42 (twelve years ago) link
xxxxxxp, thanks for the suggestion. I'll look into it.
― A little bit like Peter Crouch but with more mobility (ShariVari), Monday, 29 August 2011 17:01 (twelve years ago) link
Tipp are a solid outfit, but much as I hate them, I can only see Kilkenny taking it.
Sadly, I have a job interview the next morning so I'm going to probably stay home and torrent the thing. I can't believe RTE will make the Toy Show available outside Ireland, but not this!
― gyac, Tuesday, 30 August 2011 19:10 (twelve years ago) link
missed this due to hospital visit to ms mac's granny. Anyone catch it?
― even blue cows get the girls (darraghmac), Sunday, 4 September 2011 16:25 (twelve years ago) link
yeah. the scoreline flattered tipp tbh. kilkenny defence was outstanding and tommy walsh the motm. dont think tipp got a point from open play in the first half.
― Michael B, Sunday, 4 September 2011 16:31 (twelve years ago) link
ok, from score i thought it might have been close but analysis seems agreed that the cats had them locked down
― even blue cows get the girls (darraghmac), Sunday, 4 September 2011 16:34 (twelve years ago) link
up the fucking dubs
― When a German communicates, you listen (LocalGarda), Sunday, 18 September 2011 12:14 (twelve years ago) link
indeed. im sick of kerry winning the damn thing. i hope its a good game!
― Michael B, Sunday, 18 September 2011 12:18 (twelve years ago) link
wish i was at home for it, have to settle for watching it in a pub, possibly on my own as my friends who like gaa are going to it.
― When a German communicates, you listen (LocalGarda), Sunday, 18 September 2011 12:20 (twelve years ago) link