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Look-Up!

Quote from: From the Bunker on November 02, 2024, 11:36:03 AM
Quote from: Truthsayer on November 02, 2024, 10:58:48 AMFind it hard to warm to Duff, always complaining and begrudging. And never forgave him for comments about GAA being 'f***ing dinasaurs'. A lazy disrespectful comment. Was time soccer wanted Páirc Uí Chaoimh for Liam Miller tribute game.. which they got.
 Probably has no idea of what the GAA brings to communities while I've never seen local soccer clubs out selling tickets and helping themselves or putting on community events other than matches.
Loved him as a player for Ireland though.

Liam Miller played with Duff so the F***ing Dinosaurs comment was understandable (if possibly erratic) considering the emotion of the occasion and the dragging out of the saga the GAA did.

It all ended up well in the end with the GAA reading the room and coming out well in the circumstances.

The GAA have been slow to move with the times in many circumstances and this is not always a negative.
Sometimes it's no harm not to change for some fad or short term agenda.




I don't remember it like the GAA reading the room and changing their mind. They had their own procedures to go through to ratify the match and I think it was always going to be approved. Duff was being a right high and mighty p***k in the media about it instead of just letting the process play out. GAA has a lot of faults but getting their knuckles rapped from some tin pot organisation without a pot to piss in, and with their cap in hand no less, was all a bit much.

Truthsayer

Quote from: Look-Up! on November 02, 2024, 11:47:37 AM
Quote from: From the Bunker on November 02, 2024, 11:36:03 AM
Quote from: Truthsayer on November 02, 2024, 10:58:48 AMFind it hard to warm to Duff, always complaining and begrudging. And never forgave him for comments about GAA being 'f***ing dinasaurs'. A lazy disrespectful comment. Was time soccer wanted Páirc Uí Chaoimh for Liam Miller tribute game.. which they got.
 Probably has no idea of what the GAA brings to communities while I've never seen local soccer clubs out selling tickets and helping themselves or putting on community events other than matches.
Loved him as a player for Ireland though.

Liam Miller played with Duff so the F***ing Dinosaurs comment was understandable (if possibly erratic) considering the emotion of the occasion and the dragging out of the saga the GAA did.

It all ended up well in the end with the GAA reading the room and coming out well in the circumstances.

The GAA have been slow to move with the times in many circumstances and this is not always a negative.
Sometimes it's no harm not to change for some fad or short term agenda.




I don't remember it like the GAA reading the room and changing their mind. They had their own procedures to go through to ratify the match and I think it was always going to be approved. Duff was being a right high and mighty p***k in the media about it instead of just letting the process play out. GAA has a lot of faults but getting their knuckles rapped from some tin pot organisation without a pot to piss in, and with their cap in hand no less, was all a bit much.
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100%. We don't need lectures from Duff or the FAI on how to run our organisation. For all the GAA's faults it was them came cap in hand again..
He needs to engage his brain before spouting off... this year he was at it again and had to apologise to the FAI for this:
Duff: "I would - how would I word it - raze Abbotstown to the ground because it's the most uninviting, unenthusiastic workplace, not in world football but in the world," he said of the FAI's headquarters.
"So I'd level it and I would probably sack 90% of the workforce."

From the Bunker

Yeah ye are probably right - don't remember a whole load of things about the situation.