Poll
Question:
If yards and metres were exactly the same, which would you prefer in GAA?
Option 1: Yards
Option 2: Metres
Hi there I'm new on here! I was just noticing lately on the commentary of the matches, some commentators speak about distances in yards and others in metres. Some sports use yards like soccer and golf but others are metric like GAA and rugby, but some pundits speak in yards.
They're both pretty much the same, so I was wondering if hypothetically if 1 yard was exactly equal to 1 metre (if they were just two words to mean the same thing). Which would you prefer the GAA to use? As they're the same, it would come down to how the word sounds I guess.
I am an avowed anti imperialist, no some doubt others here have pro imperial views.
What is especially ridiculous is that 25 years after the changing the field measurements to metres, GAA programmes still contain player information only in ridiculous feet and inches and even more ridiculous stones, when those players weren't born when the field measurements were changed to metric.
Time for the GAA to go the full yard on this matter.
It will always be the 14 yard line and a 50 to me.
From 'The Onion' (http://www.theonion.com/article/metric-system-thriving-in-nations-inner-cities-458)
I say the 14 and 21 and after that switch to the 45 and 65! They're virtually interchangeable for most distances in football anyway.
A 50 is, was and will always be a 50.
Quote from: 5 Sams on September 10, 2016, 09:14:37 PM
A 50 is, was and will always be a 50.
Saying that probably means you are 50!
Quote from: armaghniac on September 10, 2016, 04:36:36 PM
I am an avowed anti imperialist, no some doubt others here have pro imperial views.
What is especially ridiculous is that 25 years after the changing the field measurements to metres, GAA programmes still contain player information only in ridiculous feet and inches and even more ridiculous stones, when those players weren't born when the field measurements were changed to metric.
Time for the GAA to go the full yard on this matter.
Not so found of the pints then?
You do get that its the name of a measurement system, nothing to do with building empires?
Quote from: 5 Sams on September 10, 2016, 09:14:37 PM
A 50 is, was and will always be a 50.
So how do you play on the 'Forty'? :)
Quote from: armaghniac on September 10, 2016, 04:36:36 PM
I am an avowed anti imperialist, no some doubt others here have pro imperial views.
Can't help but notice you said that using the
English language!
I thought silly season threads only started after the All Irl Final :-\
Quote from: omaghjoe on September 10, 2016, 09:37:01 PM
Not so found of the pints then?
You do get that its the name of a measurement system, nothing to do with building empires?
Of course it is a measurement system imposed by the Evil Brutish Empire!
It is also bizarre.
Yesterday on the BBC coverage the Derry keeper picked the ball up in the '6 yard box'.
Interestingly, it's over four decades since the GAA went metric and 50s became 45s, 70s became 65s, 14 yard frees became 13 metres frees and refs no longer brought the ball up 10 yards.
Rugby also switched to metric in that era. However I've never heard anyone in rugby call it the '25 over the 22 for example, the way GAA people still use the old standard.
I wonder why did rugby make the switch far easier when the UK still very much holds onto imperial units such as feet, yards, miles, pounds and ounces?
Quote from: Bord na Mona man on May 16, 2022, 03:57:50 PM
Yesterday on the BBC coverage the Derry keeper picked the ball up in the '6 yard box'.
Interestingly, it's over four decades since the GAA went metric and 50s became 45s, 70s became 65s, 14 yard frees became 13 metres frees and refs no longer brought the ball up 10 yards.
Rugby also switched to metric in that era. However I've never heard anyone in rugby call it the '25 over the 22 for example, the way GAA people still use the old standard.
I wonder why did rugby make the switch far easier when the UK still very much holds onto imperial units such as feet, yards, miles, pounds and ounces?
Crazy lol.. I'll tell players to stand back 13 meters for free's but shout 70" in hurling and 45 in football
It's a bit of both with me. You have to be multi dimensional to play gaa
More important, what's the right metric for misses:
Missed by inches
Wide as a gate
Yards wide
Miles wide
I don't think I ever heard a commentator say he missed by a meter.
And of course a player that wintered well is always carrying a few extra pounds.
14, 21, 45, 65...
Remember hearing one of the RTE commentators in the last few weeks going on about the ref bringing the ball forward more than 10 yards.
Of course he did you tullip, the distance is 13 metres.
The GAA should rid itself of imperial crap. It is ridiculous when programmes have stones and whatever and no indication of the weight of the player in rational units. Most of the players weren't born when the field measurements were changed, why keep this nonsense?
Quote from: armaghniac on May 16, 2022, 09:58:10 PM
The GAA should rid itself of imperial crap. It is ridiculous when programmes have stones and whatever and no indication of the weight of the player in rational units. Most of the players weren't born when the field measurements were changed, why keep this nonsense?
Don't agree with you there tbh, if you tell me someone is 6 foot 2 and 15 stone i know hes a big lump of man.
Quote from: Armagh18 on May 16, 2022, 10:00:16 PM
Quote from: armaghniac on May 16, 2022, 09:58:10 PM
The GAA should rid itself of imperial crap. It is ridiculous when programmes have stones and whatever and no indication of the weight of the player in rational units. Most of the players weren't born when the field measurements were changed, why keep this nonsense?
Don't agree with you there tbh, if you tell me someone is 6 foot 2 and 15 stone i know hes a big lump of man.
Agreed. Although less of the big lump (I wish I was only 15 stone :'()
Last few programmes had no height or weight, not even sure they had occupation.
Quote from: weareros on May 16, 2022, 08:20:29 PM
More important, what's the right metric for misses:
Missed by inches
Wide as a gate
Yards wide
Miles wide
I don't think I ever heard a commentator say he missed by a meter.
And of course a player that wintered well is always carrying a few extra pounds.
I knew a fella who would always shout "Wide as a duck's arse"