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[Wexford Too Cosmopolitan for Rackard]

This topic was raked over on the Wexford Supporters site as well;

Wexford Too Cosmopolitan for Rackard
http://www.wexfordsupporters.com/boards/viewtopic.php?t=749&highlight=rackard

Fair enough Zulu but I think that someone who does not enjoy it must be coming to the table with a bias and an open minded sports fan would on the balance probability enjoy the game. I sat in front of a couple of Kilkenny hurling snobs and found there attitude to the football equally objectionable, I agree we can have favourites but we should not close our mind to one or the other game and certainly there is no need to be hostile or disparaging towards them.

Soccer might be a professional game but the FAI have gone to the European Court to try and stop clubs making them pay for the use of their contracted players – so effectively they don't pay their players either – but its ok for them to charge crazy money for meaningless matches.  Plus you must be a philistine block head to have not been delighted to have the opportunity to stay on and watch our true national game played between two great teams.

I really hope Kerry give you a good beating and save you any further expense this year.

I wonder will we see Kerry collapse in the semi final or the final as they did when they overcame Dublin in 2001 versus Meath. Kerry and indeed all teams seem to rise to meet Dublin, Tyrone and Kerry seem to do so anyway.

I'm sure I've seen it before but I was still somewhat shocked to see wall to wall coverage of the Orange 'demonstrations' on but BBC and UTV ( channel who derive a significantly portion of their advertising revenue from across the border). I mean what sort of message is it that the regional broadcasters give oxygen to the celebration of  bigotry, I wonder in the South in the US do the local TV stations give the KKK such soft focus coverage?

Crazy crazy stuff!

Indiana Wexford are not in the minor final yet, we've to play Westmeath tomorrow night in Portalaoise - Dublin made the mistake of taking them for granted, lets hope we don;t make the same one!

No just Dunne, but O'Connor will hopefully one day write one too but not yet, he's too much important work to be doing!

George is a real gent, met him a couple of time and yes the hands are in bits but he is a so positive, so passionate that its infectious.

Folks, what you need to indentify is some channel that they can't ignore, some complaints procedure something that would involve them putting in significant resources and time into dealing with it. Tie them up in knots. The GAA and its supporters are being discriminated against, they are treating them as second class citizens, feck it lads a lot of people suffered so that being Irish would not mean you were discriminated against in the 6 counties. Institutionalised racism still exists, you either smash these institutions or take control of them – or I suppose smash the statelet. I suppose it's a lesson for those 'nationalists' who are comfy in the North nowadays that they'll never have real equality while the sectarian northern state exists!

Thuggery is seen as acceptable in Rugby, maybe in the same way as it is in boxing but I think its also got to do with the perception that its only a 'bit of rough and tumble among chaps' while in GAA its mob violence!
Double standards exist, another example is that rugby jerseys are usually acceptable in bars etc while GAA jerseys are excluded

Feck just when you start to look forward to this they go and throw this shit in your face!

Bollix Eddie, Myler came out after the 2007 Leinster final and said he didn't know what went wrong, he suggested it could be his fualt, that he might not be good enough, I never remember him blaming anyone, he was always looking to the positive.

Lads come on, the day of All Ireland football final, with an Ulster team competing and your accepting that their was not malice or discrimination on the part of the Hilton in not only choosing to screen the soccer but to put on a 'food and beverage' promotion along side it. They might not be willing to say so but it sounds like they don't want Gaelic games about the place. I've encountered this even among middle class nationalists, they were brought up playing the games, they still have an interest but they are slightly embarrassed about them and send their children to play rugby or soccer. The GAA is for behind closed doors and certainly not the sort of stuff you'd show in a 5 Star hotel, mind you their ice like service and bland interior would lead me to question their real 5 star status.

This type of discrimination is hard to deal with, we get some of down south too, where pubs ban soccer and GAA jerseys but allow rugby jerseys, not acceptable in my book either.

Correct me if I'm wrong but I think the GAA took to fielding teams from the lower divisions for a couple of reasons, firstly its a way of recognising these players, they don't get the glory of All Ireland Sundays so this is a way of honouring them. The hurlers were in the main hammering the Scots lads which was doing the series no good at all.

A contract is not worth a bollix, he can tear it up! He'd be some addition beside Cavanagh, a few Tyrone players are the wrong side of 30 so it would be a big boost to hold on to him.

Seems a bit grubby to me!