Hurling (Sport)

yeah, sums it up. Radio commentary described them as the best team to ever grace croke park, of either code. Missed second half, but tipp looked good value in the first.

ffffffffffff
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcRwbuSoGyc

^ gets it

but why are the goalkeepers the only ones NOT wearing helmets

― visit europe more (acoleuthic), Monday, 9 August 2010 14:26 (1 month ago)

because nobody fucking argues with a hurling gk. see video.

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)

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.

I don't know what my commas are up to in my last post. Sometimes they get away from me.

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

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.

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

HURLING HAS A GAY GOALIE SO THERE

lol at (sport) in the thread title here

it seemed easier to just put that out there really

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.

no, you now know the full of it basically

the rules are the same ones as in patton's speech to the troops

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!"

<3 thugs

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.

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.

Good part of the book imo.

so hurling is a real thing, huh? i always confuse it with shirling.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gu3mbl8SAk

oooh burst testicle

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.

puts bert trautmann into perspective

Sorry, don't have book with me or wd supply more details.

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!

and cork and dublin too

i think that you've supplied all the detail i'd want laurel tbh

Camogie's where the real brutality's at.

I hear you got a lifetime ban from Croke Park, Michael B.

America was the same with the cricket aiui, squeezed out by baseball and nationalism.

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.

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.jpg
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2490/3878546491_258c3db181_b.jpg

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.

i remember you watching it last year.

Klkenny are perennial favourites, getting beaten in the final is a bad year for them

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.

games...

donegal do not play 'great stuff' imo

"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.

'look forward to'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSH10CVC014

xxxxxxp, thanks for the suggestion. I'll look into it.

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!

missed this due to hospital visit to ms mac's granny. Anyone catch it?

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.

ok, from score i thought it might have been close but analysis seems agreed that the cats had them locked down

up the fucking dubs

indeed. im sick of kerry winning the damn thing. i hope its a good game!