Poll
Question:
Are we getting older?
Option 1: 25-29
votes: 4
Option 2: 30-34
votes: 6
Option 3: 35-39
votes: 15
Option 4: 40-44
votes: 18
Option 5: 45-49
votes: 33
Option 6: 50-54
votes: 16
Option 7: 55+
votes: 25
Option 8: Under 25 (wise up and get on the tictok)
votes: 0
I've a bad feeling we're getting older
Ah, crap!
Ok fess up, who is 55+?
Past your bedtime at this hour.
Quote from: RedHand88 on March 27, 2025, 09:41:32 PMOk fess up, who is 55+?
Past your bedtime at this hour.
I bet he's wearing skinny bottoms, whoever he is ;D
Quote from: RedHand88 on March 27, 2025, 09:41:32 PMOk fess up, who is 55+?
Past your bedtime at this hour.
Definitely O'Neill going by his post in the Age Appropriate Dress forum
Quote from: Mourne Red on March 27, 2025, 10:15:11 PMQuote from: RedHand88 on March 27, 2025, 09:41:32 PMOk fess up, who is 55+?
Past your bedtime at this hour.
Definitely O'Neill going by his post in the Age Appropriate Dress forum
And MR2
Quote from: Mourne Red on March 27, 2025, 10:15:11 PMQuote from: RedHand88 on March 27, 2025, 09:41:32 PMOk fess up, who is 55+?
Past your bedtime at this hour.
Definitely O'Neill going by his post in the Age Appropriate Dress forum
He's the type of boy who would start a thread like this right before he moves up a bracket.
Haven't met anyone that got younger as for myself I've aged like a fine wine.
One more year in trackies!!
Quote from: RedHand88 on March 27, 2025, 09:41:32 PMOk fess up, who is 55+?
Past your bedtime at this hour.
Me, for one. I first appeared on your screens in 1935.
Quote from: tonto1888 on March 27, 2025, 10:16:35 PMQuote from: Mourne Red on March 27, 2025, 10:15:11 PMQuote from: RedHand88 on March 27, 2025, 09:41:32 PMOk fess up, who is 55+?
Past your bedtime at this hour.
Definitely O'Neill going by his post in the Age Appropriate Dress forum
And MR2
Not yet, but getting close!!
Nobody 25-29!!!
I joined the board when I was 22 does that count??
Midlife lads!
Half the board not old enough to remember Canavan and Tohill in their hayday,foreby Kerry the golden years.
The old school user experience isn't recognisable to the young folks.
We opened our pitch many years ago and we had that Great Kerry team up to play Antrim, Jack O'Shea Spillane and the rest, was a golden era team..
From football perspective that was a great day at the club to have them up, the night before and for the celebrations afterwards
Antrim drew with Kerry that day ;D
Quote from: ONeill on March 27, 2025, 09:24:50 PMI've a bad feeling we're getting older
It's a fact!
The alternative isn't great.
Am disappointed to see that there isn't options for 55-60, 61-70, 71-80 and 80+
Quote from: Orior on March 28, 2025, 09:01:06 PMAm disappointed to see that there isn't options for 55-60, 61-70, 71-80 and 80+
An oul fellow like you would.
But why not 55-59, 50-64 65-70 etc?
51...Unreal where the years have went. Don't know when I first went on here but it was prob about 20-25 years ago. When I was young and the Mucksavage thread was at it's peak I couldn't get any work done for laughing after reading all the lies but they were good honest lies
I've been 19 years of illdecide but had others before that...lol
Joined here in 2001. Gaelic games was at an exciting stage. Croke Park was a fresh stadium everybody wanted to go to. The back door in Gaelic was brought in. Counties like Westmeath, Sligo and Fermanagh could dream of big days.
On this forum there were some serious good contributors back in the day.
Lads with serious knowledge and passion of Gaelic football.
This was the place to go to for Match previews and match reviews.
Lads on here were attending games, knew the players from club level and seen tactics.
You realised the Colm O'Rourkes, Spillnes, Brolly's et al writing in Sunday Papers were bluffers running with the herd narrative or against it just to be controversial.
The hurling side of this forum never took off.
The Board is getting older and there is no feed of young people to keep the average age down.
Quote from: seafoid on March 29, 2025, 08:07:16 PMThe Board is getting older and there is no feed of young people to keep the average age down.
GAA board is clearly social media for the 35+ Year olds , without the selfies and the photos of their dinners/pints
Sure youngsters have to be noticed, so being a member of a mostly anonymous forum would be alien to them
Quote from: AustinPowers on March 29, 2025, 08:17:59 PMQuote from: seafoid on March 29, 2025, 08:07:16 PMThe Board is getting older and there is no feed of young people to keep the average age down.
GAA board is clearly social media for the 35+ Year olds , without the selfies and the photos of their dinners/pints
Sure youngsters have to be noticed, so being a member of a mostly anonymous forum would be alien to them
Forums will have their day again.
Reddit's resurgence is evidence of this.
Uncontrolled, unfiltered, non-sequitur conversation - like on Facebook and Twitter - is initially brilliant and refreshing. But it is ultimately shallow, for it is impossible to have a serious or elongated conversation on those platforms.
There's a legion of young Irish men who would love to while away their days chatting GAA shit on the internet.
They just don't yet know that this opportunity exists.
Quote from: AustinPowers on March 29, 2025, 08:17:59 PMQuote from: seafoid on March 29, 2025, 08:07:16 PMThe Board is getting older and there is no feed of young people to keep the average age down.
GAA board is clearly social media for the 35+ Year olds , without the selfies and the photos of their dinners/pints
Sure youngsters have to be noticed, so being a member of a mostly anonymous forum would be alien to them
Though not social media, I love taking a pic of a good dinner or stout and posting into the family WhatsApp group and love seeing others do the same.🤤
Wouldn't be big on grown men wearing full tracksuits or having moustaches (saves posting on the other group) but everything else is 100% fine
This site has been part of my usual online routine for around 20 years.
Used to be a great place to go on a Friday night to get the Down results.
It beat Aertel 592 on a Sunday evening.
Back in the noughties after a big championship game you could come home that night and have 20 pages to trawl through.
Some memorable threads:
AZ Offaly's account of Ferbane GAA and Mucksavage thread spring to mind. Serious nostalgia.
Quote from: Milltown Row2 on March 27, 2025, 10:28:36 PMQuote from: tonto1888 on March 27, 2025, 10:16:35 PMQuote from: Mourne Red on March 27, 2025, 10:15:11 PMQuote from: RedHand88 on March 27, 2025, 09:41:32 PMOk fess up, who is 55+?
Past your bedtime at this hour.
Definitely O'Neill going by his post in the Age Appropriate Dress forum
And MR2
Not yet, but getting close!!
Ditto
Just 11 months off the big 55
Country bumpkin and bannside won't even quote on this,
Technically they're 55 plus, fair enough, but......
I'm saying no more
Went to Meath v Dublin under 20's during the week in Ashbourne, my mates young lad was playing for Meath, I was at the lads christening.
But it's great that we're still here, albeit some in different guises but sure so what.
My first decade or so was a battle with Fearon for the craic. We even were approached by RTE (I think it was) to do something on the 2003 final.
Joined in 2003. Living overseas for most of that time, it's been a great insight into developments in the game and gossip too.
I just realised I am in the top age profile for the survey. Time is definitely ticking away
Quote from: ONeill on March 29, 2025, 11:28:30 PMBut it's great that we're still here, albeit some in different guises but sure so what.
My first decade or so was a battle with Fearon for the craic. We even were approached by RTE (I think it was) to do something on the 2003 final.
I saw the boul Fearon at the Derry / Armagh game last week.