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Move this to General discussion!!!
Did I just prove your point ???
Well we're just coming to the end of a break in the league so there hasn't been much football played, so not a whole lot to talk about on this side of the board.
Plus, the country is shagged, so people prob have more important things to be worrying about than who's playing corner forward on Sunday ;)
Pre-championship slump, the yearly curse. Will pick up again shorhly, but rufuseach has been notable in his absence of late in all things Armagh :(
The board is fucked. Im losing 'the gra' for it lately.
I remember when I first joined, people were more positive and constructive when talking about Mayo football at least. In the last couple of years there has been too much bullshit to get through and topics were dragged out to the end. It was painful. (This has improved slightly in recent weeks)
Aside from that, there has been some "Everyone Vs the Dubs" and "Everyone Vs the Northern Teams" type lingo and topics that was not there when I first started posting. There is a bit of a divide in that sense which makes for depressing reading sometimes.
Badly needs more Meath lads if you ask me.
Quote from: Jinxy on March 04, 2009, 10:41:07 AM
Badly needs more Meath lads if you ask me.
As does the meath team
I'm perfectly happy with the quota of Meathmen here.
A few less Tyronies would help
Quote from: Minder on March 04, 2009, 10:47:20 AM
A few less Tyronies would help
I was waiting on someone to suggest that. Funny enough, I concur completely.
Too many johnny-come-latelys that think they are big-time-charlies! :o ;D
Every year someone posts this! And it's always around early-March.
Quote from: The Gs Man on March 04, 2009, 11:18:01 AM
Every year someone posts this! And it's always around early-March.
:D :D i think its allways barney thats post it
It's all Biffo's fault !
Quote from: tyrone86 on March 04, 2009, 10:54:23 AM
Quote from: Minder on March 04, 2009, 10:47:20 AM
A few less Tyronies would help
I was waiting on someone to suggest that. Funny enough, I concur completely.
I agree with this as well. If only there was a way to set some kind of quota. The sheer amount of them means that all potentially good threads/discussions will deviate to the following discussions :-
Mickey harte is a bollox (Pre July last year)
Mickey Harte deserves a nighthood (Post september)
Mcmenaman is a p***k
McMenaman is a hardy boy
How much better is Sean Cavanagh than everyone else in the country?
Is Canavan the best player ever to lace boots? Is he f**k, what about Frank McGuigan, 5 points from the left...........
Was Mugsys goal the greatest score ever at Croke Park? Was it f**k. what about Doohers point last year
Tiger Woods comeback from injury? reminiscent to Brian McGuigan......
Brian Doohers bravery....???!!!
Brian McGuigan is awful unlucky isn't he (i agree with this by the way, just doesn't need to be reasserted in a daily basis
Leona Lewis the best singer to be discovered on reality tv show - what about Malachy Cush?
Kerry have some full forward line - its not better than ours
Beards - hilarious!!!??
Phone numbers on arms
Goading on the ground
Bollock fiddling
Dog fighting
Shite Irish news articles by Harte
Needless to say, it slightly irritates me that every conversation turns to one of the above!!!
Quote from: Tim Buzaglo on March 04, 2009, 11:55:21 AM
Quote from: tyrone86 on March 04, 2009, 10:54:23 AM
Quote from: Minder on March 04, 2009, 10:47:20 AM
A few less Tyronies would help
I was waiting on someone to suggest that. Funny enough, I concur completely.
I agree with this as well. If only there was a way to set some kind of quota. The sheer amount of them means that all potentially good threads/discussions will deviate to the following discussions :-
Mickey harte is a bollox (Pre July last year)
Mickey Harte deserves a nighthood (Post september)
Mcmenaman is a p***k
McMenaman is a hardy boy
How much better is Sean Cavanagh than everyone else in the country?
Is Canavan the best player ever to lace boots? Is he f**k, what about Frank McGuigan, 5 points from the left...........
Was Mugsys goal the greatest score ever at Croke Park? Was it f**k. what about Doohers point last year
Tiger Woods comeback from injury? reminiscent to Brian McGuigan......
Brian Doohers bravery....???!!!
Brian McGuigan is awful unlucky isn't he (i agree with this by the way, just doesn't need to be reasserted in a daily basis
Leona Lewis the best singer to be discovered on reality tv show - what about Malachy Cush?
Kerry have some full forward line - its not better than ours
Beards - hilarious!!!??
Phone numbers on arms
Goading on the ground
Bollock fiddling
Dog fighting
Shite Irish news articles by Harte
Needless to say, it slightly irritates me that every conversation turns to one of the above!!!
Could not have put it better myself.
its been dead a while. Too many silly threads and too many bulllshit artists north of the border. Real lack of debate here.
could be something to do with the precious attitude of many of the senoir members . the pedant the spell checkers and the topic police . moving the hurling was a bad move to the oneness of the noard.
maybe its time to start a recruitment DRive .
Im sure gaelic life would give us a bit of coverage not to mention the national dailies during a quiet wee they see it a a column filler.. But i cant see many here actually wanting that
Quote from: INDIANA on March 04, 2009, 12:03:29 PM
its been dead a while. Too many silly threads and too many bulllshit artists north of the border. Real lack of debate here.
Indiana nobody makes you enter the silly threads. Anyone that finds them entertaining and a laugh, leave them to it. You don't walk into a chinese restaurant and complain they don't do pizza! Each to their own.
Personally those "silly threads" gave me a hell of a lot of laughs over the few weeks they were about. Lack of debate? You will find there is plenty of debate on the board, you won't find it in if you keep looking in the sill thread though ;)
Don't agree , too many good threads are hijacked by bullshit artists. If you want to deal in the banal then stick to the non-gaa board.
Quote from: SidelineKick on March 04, 2009, 12:12:26 PM
Quote from: INDIANA on March 04, 2009, 12:03:29 PM
its been dead a while. Too many silly threads and too many bulllshit artists north of the border. Real lack of debate here.
Indiana nobody makes you enter the silly threads. Anyone that finds them entertaining and a laugh, leave them to it. You don't walk into a chinese restaurant and complain they don't do pizza! Each to their own.
Personally those "silly threads" gave me a hell of a lot of laughs over the few weeks they were about. Lack of debate? You will find there is plenty of debate on the board, you won't find it in if you keep looking in the sill thread though ;)
I used to do it all the time. But it's just not PC anymore. :'(
Now thanks to our multiculturalism everyone says 'Ni hao' to a chinese waitress or 'Gin Dobre' to a Polish waitress, even my father! (Except he says 'Ní hea' and 'Gin double'.)
With all due respect Indiana, you cannot tell me where to post. If I have an opinion on something GAA related then I will certainly post it in the GAA section, as I have done many times before. What you might consider bullshit may not be what everyone else considers bullshit. Some might say you need to lighten up.
Out of interest, which particular thread have been hijacked by "bullshit artists"?
Quote from: INDIANA on March 04, 2009, 12:49:11 PM
Don't agree , too many good threads are hijacked by bullshit artists. If you want to deal in the banal then stick to the non-gaa board.
Aye because the "banal" is never apparent in the Gaa Section.
A slight criticism of mine is that it is a little too centred on the North imo. Would love to hear more about the rest of the country. Still a good forum all the same.
Quote from: Canalman on March 04, 2009, 01:08:58 PM
A slight criticism of mine is that it is a little too centred on the North imo. Would love to hear more about the rest of the country. Still a good forum all the same.
Thats a fair enough assessment, though there is a strong northern representation on here. Whenever a northern issue arises then everybody from here has an opinion on it hence the discussion is centred on the north.
Quote from: Canalman on March 04, 2009, 01:08:58 PM
A slight criticism of mine is that it is a little too centred on the North imo. Would love to hear more about the rest of the country. Still a good forum all the same.
I would agree, but where are the boys from Wicklow, Wexford, Carlow, Waterford and Kilkenny?
I agree sometimes its crap, and abusinve even, but there are sublime moments of high quality from many posters:
Its not inspiring at the moment OK - there should be more emphasis on orgininal viewpoints and off the wall articles, composed by the contributors and less on the day to day news within the GAA. We have enough writers / journos on here to keep the quality high. When times are bad O Neill usually comes up with a gem or two.
Quote from: Tim Buzaglo on March 04, 2009, 11:55:21 AM
Quote from: tyrone86 on March 04, 2009, 10:54:23 AM
Quote from: Minder on March 04, 2009, 10:47:20 AM
A few less Tyronies would help
I was waiting on someone to suggest that. Funny enough, I concur completely.
I agree with this as well. If only there was a way to set some kind of quota. The sheer amount of them means that all potentially good threads/discussions will deviate to the following discussions :-
Mickey harte is a bollox (Pre July last year)
Mickey Harte deserves a nighthood (Post september)
Mcmenaman is a p***k
McMenaman is a hardy boy
How much better is Sean Cavanagh than everyone else in the country?
Is Canavan the best player ever to lace boots? Is he f**k, what about Frank McGuigan, 5 points from the left...........
Was Mugsys goal the greatest score ever at Croke Park? Was it f**k. what about Doohers point last year
Tiger Woods comeback from injury? reminiscent to Brian McGuigan......
Brian Doohers bravery....???!!!
Brian McGuigan is awful unlucky isn't he (i agree with this by the way, just doesn't need to be reasserted in a daily basis
Leona Lewis the best singer to be discovered on reality tv show - what about Malachy Cush?
Kerry have some full forward line - its not better than ours
Beards - hilarious!!!??
Phone numbers on arms
Goading on the ground
Bollock fiddling
Dog fighting
Shite Irish news articles by Harte
Needless to say, it slightly irritates me that every conversation turns to one of the above!!!
Well done, you've turned this into a Tyrone thread!!
Quote from: Orior on March 04, 2009, 01:26:08 PM
Quote from: Canalman on March 04, 2009, 01:08:58 PM
A slight criticism of mine is that it is a little too centred on the North imo. Would love to hear more about the rest of the country. Still a good forum all the same.
I would agree, but where are the boys from Wicklow, Wexford, Carlow, Waterford and Kilkenny?
This is something that I've wondered since I joined about 18 months ago.
Why is the board so Ulster centric? What happened in the evolution of the board that pushed it this way?
Is it simply that there is more interest in the GAA in the north (don't really think thats the reason myself)? Or do the rest stick to sites like hoganstand or specific county message boards?
The board would improve greatly if there was a more rounded representation of the whole country.
It isn't dead yet, by a long shot. We have only had a few reincarnations so far since the original board. 5/6 cat lives left yet.
Quote from: Stall the Bailer on March 04, 2009, 02:31:58 PM
It isn't dead yet, by a long shot. We have only had a few reincarnations so far since the original board. 5/6 cat lives left yet.
So you're saying Stall the Burier, Stall the Bailer? ;)
Quote from: AFS on March 04, 2009, 02:24:10 PM
Quote from: Orior on March 04, 2009, 01:26:08 PM
Quote from: Canalman on March 04, 2009, 01:08:58 PM
A slight criticism of mine is that it is a little too centred on the North imo. Would love to hear more about the rest of the country. Still a good forum all the same.
I would agree, but where are the boys from Wicklow, Wexford, Carlow, Waterford and Kilkenny?
This is something that I've wondered since I joined about 18 months ago.
Why is the board so Ulster centric? What happened in the evolution of the board that pushed it this way?
Is it simply that there is more interest in the GAA in the north (don't really think thats the reason myself)? Or do the rest stick to sites like hoganstand or specific county message boards?
The board would improve greatly if there was a more rounded representation of the whole country.
This might be co-incidental, but from what I've noticed over the years is that membership of the board has generally increased in proportion to the availability of broadband. As broadband became more common, then membership of the board has increased and with (almost) 100% coverage in the North then it gradually has become more Northern centric with an influx of new posters. The patchy rural broadband coverage in the Republic seems to have impacted the growth of the Southern membership. Interestingly, the number of Mayo lads seems to buck the trend.
Aye, Mayo and maybe Dublin are pretty much the only non-Ulster counties that you could get a decent bit of reciprocal discussion out of in a thread.
The threads for Armagh's first 2 league games have been 95% centred around Armagh with only 2 Wexford lads adding a couple of comments and no one from Laois. This gets very boring after a while, its nice to read a different perspective on things from time to time.
Quote from: tyrone86 on March 04, 2009, 02:41:52 PM
Quote from: AFS on March 04, 2009, 02:24:10 PM
Quote from: Orior on March 04, 2009, 01:26:08 PM
Quote from: Canalman on March 04, 2009, 01:08:58 PM
A slight criticism of mine is that it is a little too centred on the North imo. Would love to hear more about the rest of the country. Still a good forum all the same.
I would agree, but where are the boys from Wicklow, Wexford, Carlow, Waterford and Kilkenny?
This is something that I've wondered since I joined about 18 months ago.
Why is the board so Ulster centric? What happened in the evolution of the board that pushed it this way?
Is it simply that there is more interest in the GAA in the north (don't really think thats the reason myself)? Or do the rest stick to sites like hoganstand or specific county message boards?
The board would improve greatly if there was a more rounded representation of the whole country.
This might be co-incidental, but from what I've noticed over the years is that membership of the board has generally increased in proportion to the availability of broadband. As broadband became more common, then membership of the board has increased and with (almost) 100% coverage in the North then it gradually has become more Northern centric with an influx of new posters. The patchy rural broadband coverage in the Republic seems to have impacted the growth of the Southern membership. Interestingly, the number of Mayo lads seems to buck the trend.
I agree with the above and there seems to be too many Mayo fellas on it for my liking at times! Especially when we lose! Anyway, where have all the Tipperary hurling men gone?? Colombia, Galteemountainboy, Home of hurling etc, those lads used have great posts on hurling and I even used like reading about the club scene in Tipp because of their posts.
Quote from: Fear ón Srath Bán on March 04, 2009, 02:33:33 PM
Quote from: Stall the Bailer on March 04, 2009, 02:31:58 PM
It isn't dead yet, by a long shot. We have only had a few reincarnations so far since the original board. 5/6 cat lives left yet.
So you're saying Stall the Burier, Stall the Bailer? ;)
Your right Fear ón Srath Bán, Stall the Burier!
Though the board can stall at times (not very often), it is not long before someone comes on with their yarns about tractor reversing or the likes and then farney man with his words of wisdom.
Quote from: AFS on March 04, 2009, 02:52:59 PM
Aye, Mayo and maybe Dublin are pretty much the only non-Ulster counties that you could get a decent bit of reciprocal discussion out of in a thread.
The threads for Armagh's first 2 league games have been 95% centred around Armagh with only 2 Wexford lads adding a couple of comments and no one from Laois. This gets very boring after a while, its nice to read a different perspective on things from time to time.
i was going to say there are a good few galway lads who always have plenty to say ;) :D as can be seen from the tyrone galway thread however i went through the tread there and in the 5 pages of posts there are only 5 posts from 3 galway lads so yeah ye nordies have the board fcuked :D
"Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows."
Pope Paul VI (1897-1978)
Tír Eoghain abu.
I really feel the board has died a wee bit. but these are the dry months when not much ball is being played so i no it will pick up soon. some good threads on general to keep the thing going thou.
Quote from: AFS on March 04, 2009, 02:24:10 PM
Quote from: Orior on March 04, 2009, 01:26:08 PM
Quote from: Canalman on March 04, 2009, 01:08:58 PM
A slight criticism of mine is that it is a little too centred on the North imo. Would love to hear more about the rest of the country. Still a good forum all the same.
Why is the board so Ulster centric? What happened in the evolution of the board that pushed it this way?
I honestly believe you might have people coming on the board and seeing that it seems to be 80% Tyrone and Armagh people and just not bothering with it.
Have noticed that the amount of southern posters seems to have diminished a bit recently. Then again maybe it's just one of the board's intermittent quiet spells.
I'd say it is- just look at that cork hurling thread. Now it's personal vendettas and a vast number of people with no clue what they're talking about.
Referee posts and various shite stirring on the antrim thread hasn't helped my opinion.
Should get better come championshi- hopefully...
If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.
Maya Angelou
Quote from: the Deel Rover on March 04, 2009, 03:04:29 PM
Quote from: AFS on March 04, 2009, 02:52:59 PM
Aye, Mayo and maybe Dublin are pretty much the only non-Ulster counties that you could get a decent bit of reciprocal discussion out of in a thread.
The threads for Armagh's first 2 league games have been 95% centred around Armagh with only 2 Wexford lads adding a couple of comments and no one from Laois. This gets very boring after a while, its nice to read a different perspective on things from time to time.
i was going to say there are a good few galway lads who always have plenty to say ;) :D as can be seen from the tyrone galway thread however i went through the tread there and in the 5 pages of posts there are only 5 posts from 3 galway lads so yeah ye nordies have the board fcuked :D
Sure them Tyrone bucks started that thread on Feb 16th and anyway we were too busy what with the hurlers in action a few times since and NUIG goin well in the Sigerson, Corofin in the club football and the outstanding Portumna in the hurling. Them Tyrone feckers have only one team to be botherin with ;) ;D ;D ;D ;D
Can I suggest supporting your club/county in the Scór while there is little football on the go?? County final/provincial semis on at this stage so it should be good quality entertainment! :D
Half a loaf is better than no bread folks, never forget that.
If you have greener pastures - then by all means move on. If not, put up, shut up, debate or do whatever the hell you want. Just do it with a little respect for everyone else and lets drop the sanctimonious claptrap. Different strokes for different folks.
There have been more incarnations of this particular thread than any of the tyrone threads.
By the way - where is ULADH? I even put him in the allstar team to keep him here, even though he couldnt kick snow off a ditch.
Quote from: Puckoon on March 04, 2009, 04:46:32 PM
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By the way - where is ULADH? I even put him in the allstar team to keep him here, even though he couldnt kick snow off a ditch.
Don't mention that All Star team Puck not one mayoman on board ffs, christ that was bad enough but hen ya had to go and pick a sligo man ;) :D
Would the decrease in the numbers of posters be in correlation with the increase in the unemployment rates, many posters used to post from work in between spells of working hard, such as Puckoon ;)
Ive actually been upping my production rate - and sure with the board away to hell, whats the point in posting anyways.
Here are a couple of previous incarnations of this thread but I can recall a lot more.
Is it worth bothering with this board any more? - Aug 2007 (http://gaaboard.com/board/index.php?topic=4485.0)
Are jokers ruining this Gaa Board - Oct 2007 (http://gaaboard.com/board/index.php?topic=5106.0)
I can't understand these type of threads, as muppet points out this type of thread pops up every now and again but why I'm not sure. I find the board to be as good now as it has ever been, there are loads of threads that don't interest me or I mightn't know enough to post on but there are plenty of very good threads that relate to the GAA generally and all of us can post on. Anyway the board is what we make it, if you find it lagging a bit why don't you start a few topics yourself or engage in a few threads.
We get this thread every couple of months now.
Dont mind them galway buck s mid l at this stage your self and zulu are adopted mayo fans for yere troubles