The GAA snob

[Dinny Breen]

http://www.davehannigan.com/2013/07/the-official-guide-to-being-gaa-snob.html?spref=tw


Fair to say we all fit into one of these categories

[All of a Sludden]

Only one?

[Bingo]

It was much easier than that:

What would he know, sure he/his father never won a championship.

Or, sure he's from XYZ club, what would he know.

[trileacman]

Rule Number one of being a GAA snob= Today's matches are shite, not like in my day/ modern tactics are the summation of all known evil.

Number 2 = Anyone applying sports science to the game is a bollix - clipboard man, ear-piece coach, sports psychologist, tight jerseys guy.

[muppet]

http://www.davehannigan.com/2013/07/the-official-guide-to-being-gaa-snob.html?spref=tw


Fair to say we all fit into one of these categories

I fit into all of them.

I thought they were the rules!

[Jell 0 Biafra]

Failing to know the names of all your county's players on the pitch.

[theticklemister]

Failing to know the names of all your county's players on the pitch.

Buying yer coffee and sandwiches from a coffee house instead of sitting in the back of yer boot surrounded by horseshit in a field and eating yer sandwiches yer ma made ye washing it down with a flask of tae

[Farrandeelin]

If the rest are saying before the match your team will win handy, you'll vouchsafe it'll be much harder than everybody expects.

That's me.

[IolarCoisCuain]

http://www.davehannigan.com/2013/07/the-official-guide-to-being-gaa-snob.html?spref=tw


Fair to say we all fit into one of these categories

I fit into all of them.

I thought they were the rules!

Nice one, Muppet. 

[artisan2010]

Add
Showing no sign of any emotion at even the most tense game and looking down on those that do.

Sandwiches out of the boot of the car, on the train to a game I saw a man with his complete Sunday dinner between four slices of plain bread, cabbage, spuds and meat.

[Shamrock Shore]

Buckos complaining about dressing rooms facilities - no hot water etc.

In my day we togged out behind bushes/in boots of cars and played on fields full of cow shite.

Of course the shyer ones of us used to turn up with the togs on under the trousers 

[Rois]

Buckos complaining about dressing rooms facilities - no hot water etc.

In my day we togged out behind bushes/in boots of cars and played on fields full of cow shite.
Of course the shyer ones of us used to turn up with the togs on under the trousers 

Is this not the snobbish behaviour discussed?! 

[ONeill]

Call that boy a full back?

John's Pat from Brocagh used to lepe about 20 feet into the air and stay there for 10 seconds.

[Shamrock Shore]

Is this not the snobbish behaviour discussed?!

Yes Rois - that was my point.

I remember fondly heading to matches in one of theses - Gerry Carroll's finest



None of these air conditioned leg room yokes nowadays......

[tonysoprano]

"Seven: You look down on whichever code your county is weaker at. To sound convincing, you must denounce it at every opportunity."

This is based on the average Derry fan's attitude to hurling.