Game-time!!!

[nrico2006]

Some real tripe has entered the lexicon of the game alright.

Whoever first started shouting "touch tight" at a GAA game has alot to answer for. Everyone is at it now. "emptying the bench", "primary possession"...... (ie catching the ball), "putting in a good shift" etc etc. It's getting worse.

The 'good shift' one is up there with the worst.  All it takes is for one pundit or columnist to coin a phrase and next thing you know they are all at it.  I hate reading any article with the old 'how many times can they go the welll' line stuck in.  Or the one that the token Mr Motivator (Manager Ass Licker/Captain) and Manager from most teams would use about 'Inches' dung talk, FFS everyone has seen the movie but it is corny hearing it preached at you all the time.

[ballinaman]

Why do egg chasers insist on calling it 'the football' and not just 'the ball'? Aggghhh....

I never heard anyone in rugby refer to it as 'the football', now if said 'the pill' I'd agree.

In next couple of years you will hear GAA pitches referred to as 'the Paddock' and it will all be about 'dominating the collision'. Intensity and tempo have crossed over nicely this year.

Aye and i can see breaking ball being replaced by the breakdown soon too!! well annoying!

[sheamy]

second-phase possession

[spuds]

Nicholas Roche and his recycled posession

[tbrick18]

"turnover's" really annoy me....another rugger term that's sneaked in.
"phases of play"....grrr...

[paco]

"Goal" being used as a verb annoys me. You hear it mostly when you're watching highlights, for example: some player or another "goaled" after the break to put his team 2 points ahead. Only noticed it recently but I find it annoying!

[Bogball XV]

impact sub - been around for a while, but still...

[Jinxy]

Hard yards.

[Hardy]

Kieran McGeeney's Kildare, Mick O'Dwyer's Wicklow, etc. Such shite. And it's only used for relatively famous managers. You never hear about Maurice Horan's Limerick or Pat Flanagan's Westmeath.

[Jinxy]

Or Seamus McAneaneys Meath....

[Hardy]

I would have included that, but I couldn't bring myself to type it.

[ross4life]

Cathal Dineen could have done with some "game time" before he was used as a "impact sub" in the Connacht final.

[Lar Naparka]

You bucks won't be happy till the bishop is throwing the ball in at the start of games again to lads wearing hats. Where did it all go wrong ?

At the point where Micheal O'Hehir stopped telling us "...and there's a schemozzle in the parallelogram!"