Is soccer boring?

[Main Street]

You weren't exactly in the mood for it Dinny were you?

[The Real Laoislad]

And much more skillfull than gaelic,soccer
A good hurling match is better than anything else if you ask me

Now I enjoy a good hurling game but to be brutally honest sitting down in Croke Park watching the game yesterday, all I could was lads hitting the ball as far as they could, poor sideline cuts, failure to pick the sliothar under pressure, terrible wides from both sides and unbelieveable amount of pulling and dragging. More skillful, not sure about that, much more skillful, definitely not.

Sure Gaelic footballers never fail to pick the ball up under pressure,and never hit terrible wides and there is absolutely no pulling and dragging in football...
Anyway it's not really an argument i want to get into, As I said each to their own but i think hurling is way above football in terms of skill..People from Clare,Tipp,Waterford,Kilkenny would agree with me those from Kildare,Kerry,Meath etc wouldn't ! such is life 

[Dinny Breen]

You weren't exactly in the mood for it Dinny were you?

But even allowing for that I still don't get the hype that surrounds hurling, the big difference for me is the way the game is reffed, a lot more is allowed to go both on and off the ball.

Now I enjoyed the game but really it's not that more skillful than football, in fact John Hayes point where he flicked the ball up with his foot was the best bit of skill on show in Croke Park yesterday.

[Niall Quinn]

Setanta sports news playing another blinder! This was about 11 last night too!!

They might have been rounding down to the factor of -1.

[GalwayBayBoy]

I've played both football and hurling and would consider hurling far more difficult to master.

If you were to not touch a hurl for a few months and were then thrown straight into a game you'd be lost. Your touch would be gone. I could easily go a few months without playing football and then play a game to a reasonable standard.

[DrinkingHarp]

Yes soccer is boring just like NASCAR (or any auto race) you watch waiting for the one or two crashes just like the one or two goals.

[Main Street]

I've played both football and hurling and would consider hurling far more difficult to master.
If you were to not touch a hurl for a few months and were then thrown straight into a game you'd be lost. Your touch would be gone. I could easily go a few months without playing football and then play a game to a reasonable standard.

Have you tried hockey or know a hurler who has?

[Rav67]

It's each to their own, and I'd actually watch plenty of soccer matches on tv and go to a few Celtic games a season but the difference is I could happily go and see an underage or junior club match in gaelic whereas soccer at even a semi-pro level is unwatchable IMO.

[Bogball XV]

I'm probably going to get shot into pieces for saying this but I find the hype about hurling from its main supporters a bit overrated.

yeah, hurling snobs are insufferable, they don't seem to to see that many hurling games are as bad as many of the football games that they constantly deride.

[Rossfan]

But even allowing for that I still don't get the hype that surrounds hurling, the big difference for me is the way the game is reffed, a lot more is allowed to go both on and off the ball.

For some reasons football refs a re whistle happy while the hurling ones only blow if they see a chop or there is a definite disadvantage to the fouled player.
The no. of times over the last few years I've lost my marbles with football refs blowing up for a mini tug on a sleeve or a jersey which has no effect on the man with the ball 
Then they go through the whole range of calling the fouler over,waving the notebook etc and allows the opposition to pack out the defence before the free can be taken. 
Talk about punishing the injured party.... Can they not look at a hurling ref in action now and again and when reffing wait a second or two before stopping the game
As for Soccer - it bores the crap out of me...and it lasts for 90 flaming minutes.

[The Real Laoislad]

I'm probably going to get shot into pieces for saying this but I find the hype about hurling from its main supporters a bit overrated.

yeah, hurling snobs are insufferable, they don't seem to to see that many hurling games are as bad as many of the football games that they constantly deride.

There is such a thing as a thing as a Gaelic Football snob too ya know,But i suppose those who prefer football over hurling won't agree or believe me on that...

[Bogball XV]

I'm probably going to get shot into pieces for saying this but I find the hype about hurling from its main supporters a bit overrated.

yeah, hurling snobs are insufferable, they don't seem to to see that many hurling games are as bad as many of the football games that they constantly deride.

There is such a thing as a thing as a Gaelic Football snob too ya know,But i suppose those who prefer football over hurling won't agree or believe me on that...

maybe LL, but they constantly pedal out the old "it's so much more skillful" argument and sure what we can say to that?  Probably plenty, but we don't want to be branded philistines who've no respect for the great traditions of the fianna and cuchullain.....  We just have to accept that they've got the moral high ground and await some lad smashing another over the head with a hurl or something and then we let loose

[carribbear]

Soccer is in general a terrible game to watch, mainly because the people playing the game don't give a stuff about the team they're playing for, its just about the money.
GAA is unique in the sense that the guys on the pitch are amateurs and are playing for the pride of the county, when they lose it hurts a lot more, not the fake tears you see from the likes of John Terry ("I missed out on a big bonus")
I can't equate that to local or international soccer though, its pretty much the same thing as GAA where you get to represent your own team, its not an obligation.
Still prefer playing Gaelic Football to soccer, too many fairies in that sport for my liking.