Cork Hurlers - Part 2

tell me you are a band wagon fan and not a gaa member without etc etc
If only you knew ;) but a bit rich to be throwing stones coming from an individual who was on here posting incessantly the night Clare won the All Ireland last July. Tell me someone is not within an asses roar of any Clare GAA club involvement without etc etc

I see you do not disagree with what I say.

In fairness I am not asking for much only (1) a plastic seat (2) running water - ability to wash hands and flush toilet (3) a fair shot for the general public to be given a chance to buy tickets.

Plenty of scope to improve the current grounds if Clare put the investment in.
 
At least when we play Tipp we'll be very unlikely to come up against incessant niggly fouling combined with throwing themselves to the ground as though shot. Should be an honest toe-to-toe contest.

Tipp would be mortified at the thought of one of their hurling men taking a dive - but it's seen as a badge of honour in Clare.
To win an AI, they would in their hole? Stop talking absolute bollix. You do what it takes to win an AI, KK did it, Limerick did it, Clare did it. What did we do for 20 years? Whinged and complained about how they did it.
"No AI this year but at least we didn't cheat and dive " ffs posters here would want to get a good long hard look at themselves.
 
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Don't mind the "band wagon" jibe - it's like Clare hurlers, they're only hoping for an intemperate over-reaction.

Time was one could follow Cork, or any other county, the length and breadth of the country without ever being a member of a particular GAA Club. League matches as well as championship, win, lose, or draw.

As well as intercounty games I was going to club matches in various codes, in various age-groups and standards, for nigh on 50 years but, until relatively recently, wasn't a paid up member of any club - though I did help out on occasion.

Even All Ireland Hurling finals back in the day weren't always sold out - though that wasn't the case with the Football ones. Tickets went on general sale to the public - I can well remember taking an emergency day off work and queuing all day down the Pairc for tickets to one particular Cork v Tipp game in the late 80s early 90s; or going to Belfast and getting a spare ticket from a guy who'd not missed an AIFinal Hurling or Football in over 30 years; and always being there rain or shine to welcome home an AIF team win or lose - except when celebrating too much in dublin and missing the train 😜 .

And there were many hundreds perhaps thousands like me that you'd see at various venues that you knew weren't current club members either. There were a crowd of us from a particular pub that I'd regularly have organised a bus down to Killarney or we'd go to Thurles or Limerick and the only guy who was a member of any club was one of our number who played for Father O'Callaghans. One of about a dozen or more guys. I met one of them last night and he still isn't a member of a club (he played for the barrs 50 odd years ago) and he goes to all Cork hurling matches, has a season ticket.

But with more disposable income and cars more prevalent and road networks improved, as well as dramatically improved stadia, many matches are now generally out of reach of the general public because of demand, certainly Cork hurling ones are.

The clubs are rightly imho seeing after their members first now that the demand is outstripping supply, but spare us the "band wagon" pish!
 
Don't mind the "band wagon" jibe - it's like Clare hurlers, they're only hoping for an intemperate over-reaction.

Time was one could follow Cork, or any other county, the length and breadth of the country without ever being a member of a particular GAA Club. League matches as well as championship, win, lose, or draw.

As well as intercounty games I was going to club matches in various codes, in various age-groups and standards, for nigh on 50 years but, until relatively recently, wasn't a paid up member of any club - though I did help out on occasion.

Even All Ireland Hurling finals back in the day weren't always sold out - though that wasn't the case with the Football ones. Tickets went on general sale to the public - I can well remember taking an emergency day off work and queuing all day down the Pairc for tickets to one particular Cork v Tipp game in the late 80s early 90s; or going to Belfast and getting a spare ticket from a guy who'd not missed an AIFinal Hurling or Football in over 30 years; and always being there rain or shine to welcome home an AIF team win or lose - except when celebrating too much in dublin and missing the train 😜 .

And there were many hundreds perhaps thousands like me that you'd see at various venues that you knew weren't current club members either. There were a crowd of us from a particular pub that I'd regularly have organised a bus down to Killarney or we'd go to Thurles or Limerick and the only guy who was a member of any club was one of our number who played for Father O'Callaghans. One of about a dozen or more guys. I met one of them last night and he still isn't a member of a club (he played for the barrs 50 odd years ago) and he goes to all Cork hurling matches, has a season ticket.

But with more disposable income and cars more prevalent and road networks improved, as well as dramatically improved stadia, many matches are now generally out of reach of the general public because of demand, certainly Cork hurling ones are.

The clubs are rightly imho seeing after their members first now that the demand is outstripping supply, but spare us the "band wagon" pish!
Rattled by a jibe aimed at another poster and posts a PS sponsored diatribe, don't ever change Sound_Y :ROFLMAO: :ROFLMAO: :ROFLMAO: :ROFLMAO:
 
Don't mind the "band wagon" jibe - it's like Clare hurlers, they're only hoping for an intemperate over-reaction.

Time was one could follow Cork, or any other county, the length and breadth of the country without ever being a member of a particular GAA Club. League matches as well as championship, win, lose, or draw.

As well as intercounty games I was going to club matches in various codes, in various age-groups and standards, for nigh on 50 years but, until relatively recently, wasn't a paid up member of any club - though I did help out on occasion.

Even All Ireland Hurling finals back in the day weren't always sold out - though that wasn't the case with the Football ones. Tickets went on general sale to the public - I can well remember taking an emergency day off work and queuing all day down the Pairc for tickets to one particular Cork v Tipp game in the late 80s early 90s; or going to Belfast and getting a spare ticket from a guy who'd not missed an AIFinal Hurling or Football in over 30 years; and always being there rain or shine to welcome home an AIF team win or lose - except when celebrating too much in dublin and missing the train 😜 .

And there were many hundreds perhaps thousands like me that you'd see at various venues that you knew weren't current club members either. There were a crowd of us from a particular pub that I'd regularly have organised a bus down to Killarney or we'd go to Thurles or Limerick and the only guy who was a member of any club was one of our number who played for Father O'Callaghans. One of about a dozen or more guys. I met one of them last night and he still isn't a member of a club (he played for the barrs 50 odd years ago) and he goes to all Cork hurling matches, has a season ticket.

But with more disposable income and cars more prevalent and road networks improved, as well as dramatically improved stadia, many matches are now generally out of reach of the general public because of demand, certainly Cork hurling ones are.

The clubs are rightly imho seeing after their members first now that the demand is outstripping supply, but spare us the "band wagon" pish!
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Do you not remember the mega-whinge in the media that Pairc Ui Caoimh isn't next to the railway station or that some people from Clare got caught in traffic on the way home from a stadium with a capacity twice that of Ennis. Their county board didn't even want to have to come to PUC becuase "it's too far away" as though some how Ennis to Cork is further than Cork to Ennis.

Every stadium has its drawbacks certainly but I think PUC, far from perfect and still a huge financial burden, is now the best GAA stadium in Munster. Hopefully in time we can have the intercounty teams to match its stature
Agree 100% Yermon. But let whingers be whingers though; we don’t need to ape them.
 
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