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What Are The Things You Miss Most In The GAA?

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Players being allowed to train and play with their clubs in between county games, in the middle of summer and all. Crazy concept I know..... ballydalane (Kilkenny) - Posts: 1246 - 13/04/2018 09:01:49 2092749 Link
The Shoulder charge. Last bit of a power tackle almost extinct. PeggyShippen (Limerick) - Posts: 300 - 13/04/2018 10:14:00 2092755 Link
Replying To culmore: "The thing I miss most is watching Gaelic Football being played by two good teams, what they play now is pass the ball . Something has to be done to make the game worth watching again, maybe do away with both the hand and fist pass , Good job my playing days are over , the present game cant be very enjoyable to be playing in when all you are allowed to do is keep ball , don't let the other team score and hope your team scores a few points on the break." Yet average scores are higher than ever... gotmilk (Fermanagh) - Posts: 4971 - 13/04/2018 10:33:29 2092760 Link
loved the big massive crowds of the 90s , really miss that also miss in hurling ball on ground two lad going shoulder to shoulder and pulling on it, youngmunstersman (Limerick) - Posts: 80 - 13/04/2018 11:15:01 2092772 Link
Replying To youngmunstersman: "loved the big massive crowds of the 90s , really miss that also miss in hurling ball on ground two lad going shoulder to shoulder and pulling on it," the massive crowds have definitely dwindled since straight knockout stopped woops (Kerry) - Posts: 2073 - 13/04/2018 11:27:21 2092776 Link
The sense of relief when a match finished in the old Páirc Uí Chaoimh and the leg spasms torture that followed trying to tuck into those tiny seats in the main stand was finally over!! TheHermit (Kerry) - Posts: 6354 - 13/04/2018 11:42:07 2092784 Link
The Smell of Match day Cig Smoke on the terraces.. Buying choc ices on a hot day Your da lifting ya over the turnstyles in Croker. Looking for you da in the crowds coming out feeling panicked but alas he was always there! Ground hurling and all the excitement it brought. More open football with more kick passing The crowds no matter what game you were at. The buzz you'd get when your Da would ask your mother if it was okay for me to go to the match sunday .. The train to croker getting off and being warned to stay close watch for the dubs trying to pick pocket ya and sell ya stupid things. The buzz of buying a programme and reading it on the train on the way home People on trains talking to each other from different counties the slagging and few cans of harp ...Not people stuck on their phones ! Hearing radios going at matches with commentary of that match or other scores coming through. Again people talking to each other about them scores. strangers just chatting on match days from different parts of the county that never happens much anymore. The guys in Dublin with the sailors hats on Jones road that would mind your car for a green pound note(and by God you'd be afraid not to give it to him don't want the car on blocks when ya came out ha ha) Eating the tayto sambos and drinking the tea out the back of the car before the pubs like Phillys Ryans opened ...Big rush at the door when they opened and that smokey smell. Being told to find a seat and drink out of the coke bottle with a straw while your father and his friends mopped about 6 pints before the game. Being bought a headband maybe even two for a pound by an uncle thinking you were as cool as fcuk with it around your head going into the game. Stopping for Grub on the way home the thrill of getting food outside your own kitchen being in awe of people eating all sorts of stuff around you. Chatting to the players in the local that night about winning that day ! BigJohn.6_8 (Galway) - Posts: 704 - 13/04/2018 11:59:12 2092790 Link
Expaning on Big Johns comment...Choc ices on a hot day! We dont get "championship weather" anymore! I remember when I was younger getting scalded in the terraces in Pair Ui Chaoimh and Semple Stadium. I'm beginning to think the only think wrong with the Munster cship these days is the weather!! tiobraid (Tipperary) - Posts: 4119 - 13/04/2018 14:32:03 2092843 Link
Very little. Tis not bad at all at the minute :) jimbodub (Dublin) - Posts: 20600 - 13/04/2018 15:07:05 2092847 Link
Replying To jimbodub: "Very little. Tis not bad at all at the minute :)" Ha! D'you not miss getting bet out the gate by Kerry, Tyrone and Meath?!!! Yeah me neither! MesAmis (Dublin) - Posts: 13718 - 13/04/2018 15:56:57 2092865 Link
Kick-passing. Tacaí Liatroma (Leitrim) - Posts: 1042 - 13/04/2018 20:56:55 2092911 Link
The forties and fifties when my beloved Wee County were one of the top teams in the country. In them two decades Louth won five senior Leinster championships, five minor Leinster championships, two Leinster junior championships, one All Ireland senior championship and one All Ireland minor championship. The 22nd September 1957 is the biggest day in Wee County history as the smallest county in Ireland beat the biggest county on a scoreline 1-09 to 1-07 to win Sam for the first time and win their third All Ireland. OLLIE (Louth) - Posts: 12224 - 18/04/2018 14:21:18 2093801 Link
Simple The thing I miss most in GAA, is Meath Liamwalkinstown (Dublin) - Posts: 8166 - 18/04/2018 14:42:12 2093803 Link
Replying To Liamwalkinstown: "Simple The thing I miss most in GAA, is Meath" Went missing during the Celtic Tiger but should be back soon. Toney (Meath) - Posts: 298 - 18/04/2018 15:00:45 2093807 Link
Good shoulder to shoulder hard pulling. Dickie Murphy. Bon (Kildare) - Posts: 1913 - 18/04/2018 20:08:21 2093854 Link
Dickie Murphy still refereeing in Wexford. Pinkie (Wexford) - Posts: 4100 - 19/04/2018 11:55:57 2093934 Link
Ulster finals in Clones ! The finals are still there but we don't play in them anymore :-) Ulster finals were great - chip vans on the big hill, half melted choc ices, flasks of tea, the ref scrambling for safety as his blew the final whistle ( especially if it was a close game) and being escorted off the field by Gardai as the crowd invaded the pitch, programmes official programmes being yelled ( as if there were fake ones) pop up bars on the main street, smell of chips and burgers everywhere. Anyone with a field or patch of ground turning it into a car park with the hope of making a few bob on the day. The atmosphere is great in Clones on Ulster final day, both off and on the pitch. It'll be hard to create that if Casement gets the nod ! StirringIt (Cavan) - Posts: 374 - 19/04/2018 15:09:20 2093982 Link
Replying To skillet: "Straight forward knock out championship hurling. Granted we were usually the ones licking our wounds and gone early but the sheer joy when we managed to beat Cork or Tipp in the munster championship, let alone win the munster final. I hated the back door when it came in,felt it just gave stronger teams a second chance. I still remember the shock on the Cork supporters when we beat them at home by a point in 2001.. The absolute silence on the Cork terrace at the final whistle. Defending munster champs, won the A I the year before that yet gone after one game. Don't have too many good memories from Cork, but that's one of them. :)" I remember '96 better and of course the Footballers winning by 10 points there in 2003. As an old friend said, in the Cork Fans Free Zone that the bar under the stand was, after the game in '03, 'my mama said there will be days like this' Oldtourman (Limerick) - Posts: 4338 - 19/04/2018 17:29:56 2094004 Link
Replying To Oldtourman: "I remember '96 better and of course the Footballers winning by 10 points there in 2003. As an old friend said, in the Cork Fans Free Zone that the bar under the stand was, after the game in '03, 'my mama said there will be days like this'" my two favourite days in de park youngmunstersman (Limerick) - Posts: 80 - 19/04/2018 22:39:04 2094047 Link
My playing days bumpernut (Antrim) - Posts: 1852 - 20/04/2018 10:35:14 2094084 Link