East Belfast GAA

Started by nearlymad, June 02, 2020, 12:53:43 AM

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johnnycool

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East Belfast's first fixture:
Div 4 Round 1 Friday 17th July at 7.30pm
St Michael's v East Belfast
There have been a few clubs come and gone in last 25 years or so in Down

Ballela
Killyleagh
Ballykinlar

I think 1 of the biggest issues will be that they will probably take a lot of beatings in the first few years unless they can get a few 1/2 decent players and it hard to keep the interest up if that is the case.  St Michael's might be 1 of the easier fixtures to start of with but it is a long way to Magheralin.  It will probably seem like a long drive on a Friday night from Dundrum if a lot of the players are only learning how to toe tap a ball and they take a bit of a beating.  Hurling even more so I am not sure at senior level it will be possible to be competitive unless they can get mostly players who have played before.  Underage they should be fine if they have the numbers and half decent coaches.

Balella are still going at the hurling.

I'd say East Belfast could avail of the GAA pitch in Ormeau Park if they're stuck.
Yeah they tried football for a season in the mid 90s but they took a lot of bad beatings and stopped.  Football should be easier if you have played rugby and are fairly fit you should be able to catch and kick the ball.  Not sure hurling will work well unless more or less all the players have played a bit before and are now living in East Belfast.

I saw the other day that Ballygalget lost out to Loughinisland in an Intermediate league decider in 1968, things could have been different if they had won that game :)

My Da would have played on that team and by his own admission they'd a few handy footballers but also more than their fare share of course christians with one particular team never stripping out in the changing rooms and always parking on the roadside for a quick getaway...

Better for everyone that they gave up the football then.
haha better to let them on to the field with hurly sticks then ;D
36 inches of ash is a great leveler.   ;D

imtommygunn

Was magic not a half decent footballer?

johnnycool

Quote from: imtommygunn on July 06, 2020, 12:04:01 PM
Was magic not a half decent footballer?

Played for Loughinisland and got to a Down senior final with them only to bollox up his ankle 15 minutes in.

One of the more senior members of that Loughinisland team who played county for years told me he'd never had played in the Down final if it hadn't of been for Magic stripping out for them.
I think he'd a trail run out with the county footballers under wee James but didn't come to anything.

Dubh driocht

Johnnycool, think it was Ross that gave Magic a couple of games, he wasn't the worst but you could see he was a hurler trying to think as a footballer.
Any more word of where EB are playing their games and what sort of a squad are they pulling together?

Rossfan

I see these lads have adopted an official Crest with a tri lingual motto on it.
Davy's given us a dream to cling to
We're going to bring home the SAM

Eamonnca1


Never beat the deeler

Purely from an aesthetic perspective, why is the letter 'E' different in Irish than it is in English (or Ulster Scots)?

Quick google suggests its consistent with Farset Feirste from the street signs.
https://muirmcneil.com/project/farset-feirste/

Surely for the crest you'd pick one or the other?

As for the tri-lingual, I'm far removed but I always thought U-S was some sort of in-joke
Hasta la victoria siempre

Fear Bun Na Sceilpe

Quote from: Never beat the deeler on July 16, 2020, 11:00:00 PM
Purely from an aesthetic perspective, why is the letter 'E' different in Irish than it is in English (or Ulster Scots)?

Quick google suggests its consistent with Farset Feirste from the street signs.
https://muirmcneil.com/project/farset-feirste/

Surely for the crest you'd pick one or the other?

As for the tri-lingual, I'm far removed but I always thought U-S was some sort of in-joke

It is.

Orior

Going by news on the transfer front, EB will have a strong enough team.
Cover me in chocolate and feed me to the lesbians

imtommygunn

First game ongoing. Currently playing magheralin (I thought they were in Armagh d'oh)

Rois

Not an uneducated assumption - it is close to being an Antrim club too. Out on its own - nearest other Co Down club is probably Carryduff or Tullylish?
Sounds like the game is tight enough.

imtommygunn

That's a good question. My geography of that area wouldn't be fantastic so not sure. I'd imagine there's nearer than carryduff so tullylish maybe a good call.

All went quiet on their Twitter. Suspect that means they're not winning any more...

[edit] ah beat by four. Still - respectable start.

Nanderson

Quote from: imtommygunn on July 17, 2020, 09:00:03 PM
That's a good question. My geography of that area wouldn't be fantastic so not sure. I'd imagine there's nearer than carryduff so tullylish maybe a good call.

All went quiet on their Twitter. Suspect that means they're not winning any more...

[edit] ah beat by four. Still - respectable start.
Magheralin would be probably the weakest team in Down. Although not too long ago Aughlisnafin would have been the bottom team in Down and now they are in Division 3 so shows if a team knuckle down there isn't much between the teams in div 4.

Don Johnson

Quote from: Rois on July 17, 2020, 08:38:15 PM
Not an uneducated assumption - it is close to being an Antrim club too. Out on its own - nearest other Co Down club is probably Carryduff or Tullylish?
Sounds like the game is tight enough.

Would be closer to Tullylish, they used to amalgamate under age teams together a few years ago.

Tony Baloney

I don't think they'll appeal to too many of the locals, but maybe they feel if they water things down a bit they'll have an easier life than if they were called Na Fianna with a tricolour kit.