Ohhhh fuck THAT! This is unthinkably cruel
― Windsor Davies, Sunday, 24 November 2013 15:48 (ten years ago) link
fuck fuck fuck
― Number None, Sunday, 24 November 2013 15:48 (ten years ago) link
The twenty thosand native southside dub irish and anyone from limerick who went to a private school, away ta fuck
― 30 ch'lopping days left to umas (darraghmac), Sunday, 24 November 2013 15:49 (ten years ago) link
farcical
― Number None, Sunday, 24 November 2013 15:50 (ten years ago) link
Ah this is some bullshit, what a way to lose
― Windsor Davies, Sunday, 24 November 2013 15:52 (ten years ago) link
oh I am sincerely disappointed.
― estela, Sunday, 24 November 2013 15:54 (ten years ago) link
Lol ruling class
― 30 ch'lopping days left to umas (darraghmac), Sunday, 24 November 2013 15:56 (ten years ago) link
Sexton must be feeling like a reet chump. Dunno what you've got against this sport Deems, Ireland quite good and likeable and enjoyable to watch.
― Windsor Davies, Sunday, 24 November 2013 16:00 (ten years ago) link
― 30 ch'lopping days left to umas (darraghmac), Sunday, November 24, 2013 3:49 PM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark
i am very far from either
― Number None, Sunday, 24 November 2013 16:02 (ten years ago) link
I watched the last ten minutes after seeing a good part of my twitter timeline going nuts, and it was ten of the most tense minutes of sport I've seen in quite some time. Fuck knows how much anyone who actually supports Ireland must have been feeling, I was shitting it on their behalf all the way up to the All Blacks' try and have no loyalties whatsover.
― ailsa, Sunday, 24 November 2013 16:04 (ten years ago) link
Some ulster man you imo
Celtic tiger overrun, this tolerance of popularity amongst the oiks
― 30 ch'lopping days left to umas (darraghmac), Sunday, 24 November 2013 16:06 (ten years ago) link
deems how would avb have turned out if he had been born in the equivalent class in ireland rather than portugal
― carla jenkinvingne (nakhchivan), Sunday, 24 November 2013 16:08 (ten years ago) link
for this thought experiment he will also have had an english grandparent as he does irl
― carla jenkinvingne (nakhchivan), Sunday, 24 November 2013 16:09 (ten years ago) link
the important thing is never to talk about rugby with anyone in public
― Number None, Sunday, 24 November 2013 16:10 (ten years ago) link
Bankrupt but getting away with it. Heda been cheering thu goys on today for sure.
― 30 ch'lopping days left to umas (darraghmac), Sunday, 24 November 2013 16:11 (ten years ago) link
Worst sickener ever IMO. Awful. We just can't let this be another one in five passion performance, have to play at that level in every game.
That final pen we conceded was criminal, seconds from victory. Awful.
― Legitimate space tale (LocalGarda), Sunday, 24 November 2013 17:00 (ten years ago) link
This is bollocks obviously, about Limerick in particular. And rugby is increasingly popular on the north side, not just the posh bits either. You only have to see how tabloid coverage of it has ramped up in recent years.
Shouldn't even dignify this comatose grab for attention with a response but just this once.
― Legitimate space tale (LocalGarda), Sunday, 24 November 2013 17:04 (ten years ago) link
<3
― 30 ch'lopping days left to umas (darraghmac), Sunday, 24 November 2013 17:28 (ten years ago) link
Took you long enough mind
Dundrum shopping centre was erupting that last five mins tbf
― 30 ch'lopping days left to umas (darraghmac), Sunday, 24 November 2013 17:35 (ten years ago) link
darragh mac is declan lynch and i claim my five euro. i know (we all do) the certain rugger bugger loafer wearing type darragh is referring to and i esp. hate the way said they rag on soccer ("rugby is a thugs game played by gentlemen, soccer is a gentlemans game played by SHUT THE FUCK UP). but yeah the whole of limerick city is rugby mad not just the toffs. i couldnt give a shit about munster though (exacerbated by the fact of working in rugby-mad pub here in limerick) but ive always been psyched for the ireland rugby team since i was a kid. today was heartbreaking tbh, watched the last 30 mins in a shopping centre too.
― subaltern 8 (Michael B), Sunday, 24 November 2013 18:33 (ten years ago) link
Haha, took me long cos I was getting over the game. I'm from the north side and went to private school on the north side, FYI for future reference. Escaping on a technicality.
As the pain eases I can say that was one of the best rugby matches I've ever seen.
xpost
― Legitimate space tale (LocalGarda), Sunday, 24 November 2013 18:34 (ten years ago) link
Michael otm tho, the partisan stuff on both sides has faded so much. Plus the success of the Irish sides breeds popularity. I actually think the club rugby at Heineken Cup level is the best sports event there is.
― Legitimate space tale (LocalGarda), Sunday, 24 November 2013 18:36 (ten years ago) link
Australia Ireland in the 91 WC is my earliest and most painful sporting memory. You'll never take that away from me darragh
― Number None, Sunday, 24 November 2013 18:38 (ten years ago) link
I remember that well, I think I was too young to feel the pain. It's more my first memory of exhilarating sport.
― Legitimate space tale (LocalGarda), Sunday, 24 November 2013 19:02 (ten years ago) link
Game face off for a sec, wc 95 and simon geoghegan and all that seemed like the advent of rugby taking off (out west obv) and the golden generation and club successes have made it a widespread sport to follow all over (except connacht i still think)- but i also think you'd have to acknowledge it can prob only fall from current popularity, and ime there is no grassroots outside of the rugby schools.....
Fair play to them tho theyve punched well above their weight a long time now, and could really teach our footy lads (and mayo obv) a thing or two abt matchday mentality
― 30 ch'lopping days left to umas (darraghmac), Sunday, 24 November 2013 19:05 (ten years ago) link
is it falling from popularity though? i dont see that. it seems as popular maybe even more popular than GAA in rural areas atm
― subaltern 8 (Michael B), Sunday, 24 November 2013 19:14 (ten years ago) link
Think they manage it well around the gaa calendar- would say that it co-exists happily with the gaa but soccer seems to be viewed as a competitor (prob cos national team, trips to dub and abroad to watch them both, etc?) and thats been at a low ebb as rugby has powered on....monkeano 2 reverse that once bod dies
― 30 ch'lopping days left to umas (darraghmac), Sunday, 24 November 2013 19:17 (ten years ago) link
ireland must be in the top ten or so countries in the world for amount of fuck given about sports per capita
― carla jenkinvingne (nakhchivan), Sunday, 24 November 2013 19:18 (ten years ago) link
all the anglo sports except cricket and maybe tennis with above average interest in golf and horses, and gaa on top of that
― carla jenkinvingne (nakhchivan), Sunday, 24 November 2013 19:19 (ten years ago) link
yeah we fucking love sports
― subaltern 8 (Michael B), Sunday, 24 November 2013 19:21 (ten years ago) link
Athletics does well interest wiseGaa goes crazy for the few months of the year
Rugby- half of us go mad for it
Golf- half mad
horses- half mad
Soccer- mad
We'll watch anything if we can drink during sure
― 30 ch'lopping days left to umas (darraghmac), Sunday, 24 November 2013 19:49 (ten years ago) link
And to continue to claim malahide as northside is shambles on every level except for geographically imo, disgraceful sleight-of-land imo
― 30 ch'lopping days left to umas (darraghmac), Sunday, 24 November 2013 19:51 (ten years ago) link
wrong. it's not a poor area but north county dublin is a v diff place to south dublin. i don't have any personal claims about my class or whatever but i don't really get the south dublin thing either, it's a v diff world, compact, close-knit, nearer south city centre etc.
― Legitimate space tale (LocalGarda), Sunday, 24 November 2013 19:56 (ten years ago) link
no way it can only fall from popularity though, the sport is well-run, frequently entertaining, and ireland have some of the best players and clubs in the world. connacht is growing too, it's all growing, as long as international football remains turgid and faintly corrupt rugby will keep growing. we can't claim to produce any significantly good footballers anymore, not relative to rugby when we have 2/3 all-time greats and 4/5 world class players.
― Legitimate space tale (LocalGarda), Sunday, 24 November 2013 19:58 (ten years ago) link
aiden mcgeady would be a world class football player if it were only played in ireland/uk, new zealand/australia/south africa/france/italy/argentina/polynesia
― carla jenkinvingne (nakhchivan), Sunday, 24 November 2013 20:09 (ten years ago) link
although maybe argentina in that list raises the world class level a bit about poor old aiden
― carla jenkinvingne (nakhchivan), Sunday, 24 November 2013 20:10 (ten years ago) link
/above/
will you stop banging on about mcgeady? everyone knows hes shit
― subaltern 8 (Michael B), Sunday, 24 November 2013 20:12 (ten years ago) link
he wouldn't be world class even if it was only played in ireland/uk
― Legitimate space tale (LocalGarda), Sunday, 24 November 2013 20:17 (ten years ago) link
not shit! but anyway, he's a placeholder there for the argument that world class necessarily means less in rugby than football, replace him with james mccarthy and he would probably be one of the best ten midfielders from that list of nations, but wouldn't be in a list of thirty worldwide
― carla jenkinvingne (nakhchivan), Sunday, 24 November 2013 20:19 (ten years ago) link
this supports lg's reasoning though, that success breeds popularity and the reasonable prospect of international success is in the favour of rugby wrt football
― carla jenkinvingne (nakhchivan), Sunday, 24 November 2013 20:21 (ten years ago) link
can't argue with that, but i'm not sure that relative lack of meaning translates to fans, plus the smaller size of union does tend to mean better teams playing each other more often. that concentration of power does have its advantages.
xpost yeah like it's not that diff from gaa really, nobody is going to start talking about world class in an ireland-only sport but on a small island people are still going to get excited when an accessible team sport based on technical skills and aggression is practised well. rugby does appeal to the disgruntled uk/ire football fan too in some ways, with less of the class stuff in ireland to drag it down (despite what deems says!)
― Legitimate space tale (LocalGarda), Sunday, 24 November 2013 20:27 (ten years ago) link
International rules football (Irish: Peil na rialacha idirnáisiunta; also known as inter rules in Australia and compromise rules in Ireland) is a team sport consisting of a hybrid of football codes, which was developed to facilitate international representative matches between Australian rules football players and Gaelic football players.
― carla jenkinvingne (nakhchivan), Sunday, 24 November 2013 20:29 (ten years ago) link
There is a great Apres Match clip about international rules.
http://youtu.be/CTog_cbfH-g
― Ramnaresh Samhain (ShariVari), Sunday, 24 November 2013 20:36 (ten years ago) link
nakh has prob repped for mcgeady more than anyone else who has ever had to watch him on ilx
to the level of trolling tbfh
― 30 ch'lopping days left to umas (darraghmac), Sunday, 24 November 2013 22:29 (ten years ago) link
Rugby is ridic popular among all the GAA types I know, including the All-Stars. Popularity of golf and horse-racing probably underrated upthread too.
― gyac, Sunday, 24 November 2013 22:31 (ten years ago) link
did we? i thought we paid them due respect tbh!
― 30 ch'lopping days left to umas (darraghmac), Sunday, 24 November 2013 22:33 (ten years ago) link
idk, maybe it was my ~circles~ but people fucking LOVE their golf and horses ime, and anything else seems underrating it.
― gyac, Sunday, 24 November 2013 22:36 (ten years ago) link
heh maybe
my 'half mad' is a reference to half of the country being fucking *mad* about em tbf
― 30 ch'lopping days left to umas (darraghmac), Sunday, 24 November 2013 22:37 (ten years ago) link
― carla jenkinvingne (nakhchivan), Sunday, 24 November 2013 19:19 (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
they qualified for the T20 World Cup only today
― veneer timber (imago), Sunday, 24 November 2013 22:38 (ten years ago) link