GAA Violence

warmhands.coldheart

highrisklowreturn wrote: »

Football is a game for gentlemen played by thugs....

Wouldn't agree with this at all.... have you seen some of the supporters at a Linfield game?? :rotfl:

highrisklowreturn wrote: »

Rugby is a game for thugs played by gentlemen.

This I would agree with to a degree... but at least they are respectable thugs

NAR

sparky40 wrote: »

i was bought up in a working class area in Belfast and whilst I was fortunate enough to get a grammar school education,

Yeah the 11 plus got a lot easier as the years went on! :whistle:
(only a wee joke! :beer: )

bjo_2

NAR wrote: »

Yeah the 11 plus got a lot easier as the years went on! :whistle:
(only a wee joke! :beer: )

The GAA do not need the PSNI inside their grounds for fans safety unlike glentoran /linfield

Artofdookie

warmhands.coldheart wrote: »

Wouldn't agree with this at all.... have you seen some of the supporters at a Linfield game?? :rotfl:

I was going to say have you seen the supporters at a Ballymena Utd game? but there isnt any

sparky40

bjo wrote: »

The GAA do not need the PSNI inside their grounds for fans safety unlike glentoran /linfield

Perhaps recent events might suggest otherwise. In the news there has been 2 quite serious attacks on match officials who are there to do a job without which there wouldn't be a game in the first place and who also do it for very little recompense.
I believe this sort of behaviour begins at the top and feeds down, and if in GAA, football or whatever sport it may be the governing body needs to take a zero tolerance stance early on.
If the FA Premier League started giving red cards to players for dissent/abuse then the first few matches of the season would finish 6 a side but I am sure the players would quickly learn (Or be told by their coach!!) that this is unacceptable when their star players are missing for 3 matches at a time for abusing an official. These players are supposed to be role models and of course they are going to copy what Rooney, Gerrard, Terry do, and it is very easy to lip read what they're saying on tv. It is very easily stamped out but I dont believe there will ever be anything done about it.
I also dont understand what gives people the right to think it is ok to assault someone who is doing their hobby and facilitating a game (I think one game was an Under 16 match). After all, the saying rings true...... It is only a game!!!

thefreckle

highrisklowreturn wrote: »

Nothing.

Football is a game for gentlemen played by thugs; rugby is a game for thugs played by gentlemen.

Indeed...

If I could post a link I'd have a picture here of Trevor Brennan punching a supporter with a Santa hat on before he even comes onto the pitch to face Ulster.

Maybe it's just the players then? The fans are grand perhaps. No wait - why was it he said he hit that fella...

"The French club claimed that fans had made repeated references to the forward's mother and added that 'such supporters have no place in any sporting arena and even less so in rugby'." (from the BBC report)

Gentlemen my rear end!!

NAR

Bet Trevor Brennan didn't get any Christmas presents that year!
And Santa knows everybody, including Trevor's mother! :rotfl::rotfl:

lazer

NAR wrote: »

Yeah that woman, at the right hand side strangling that child, should be locked up!

It looks more likely that the woman with the child is turned away from the fight to try and shield her child from it - take a second look at the photo!

D.A.

lazer wrote: »

it looks more likely that the woman with the child is turned away from the fight to try and shield her child from it - take a second look at the photo!

*whoooooooooosh*

warmhands.coldheart

D.A. wrote: »

*whoooooooooosh*

lol........