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The 10 Types Of GAA Fan You Will Definitely Find On The Internet

Conor Neville
By Conor Neville
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We looked at the Irish football fans you will find on the internet, here are Gaelic football and hurling fans you'll struggle to avoid online...

The people who don't believe its possible for jokes to grow old 

'There wont be a cow milked in (insert name of county or English capital here), tonight, ha! That just came to me there... Can you believe that? I surprise myself sometimes with the things I come out with.'

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The much persecuted Ulster GAA supporter

An embattled individual, he spends his Sunday mornings praying for crap matches in Leinster, Munster and Connacht, so he can write something along the lines of, 'If that game was in Ulster, they'd be calling it cynical puke football #freestaters #southernbias '

The people who want Joe Brolly to be fired from the Sunday Game

There is an army of folk out there who are apparently immune to the playful charms of the loquacious one from Derry.

Every Brolly performance is accompanied by a blizzard of tweets denouncing him in the most angry tones. The phraseology of the tweets is never as original or interesting as Joe's own phrase-making, though one must, in fairness, allow for the character limit. One will see more tweets of this nature than one will on the matches themselves.

The day of the infamous Cavan-Marty Morrissey business saw Brolly and his comments hog the twittersphere altogether. The only folk tweeting about the actual Cavan-Monaghan game were those manning accounts with official sounding names like @CavanGAA and who thus felt duty-bound to update people on the score.

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The Hogan Stand commenter who knows about 15 better club players than the ones the county manager is picking

It's a deeply enlightening experience logging onto a county's Hogan Stand forum page.

A manager, whose failings have evidently not been probed with sufficient zeal by the national media, will be revealed as a dullard who wouldn't know a decent player if he came up and gave him a dunt with the butt of a hurl.

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Why is he leaving all the best lads off the panel? So many of whom, by sheer coincidende, also hail from the same club as the commenter.

The people who spend their Sunday afternoon tweeting abusively about the co-commentator

The job of co-commentator is one of the dangerous in sport. Perhaps only bankers receive rougher treatment from the public than the humble co-commentator. Tommy Carr and Martin Carney have received truckloads of abuse in the last couple of weeks.

Very, very enthusiastic Mayo supporters 

On the Friday before the 2013 All-Ireland final, Willie Joe Padden was being interviewed by RTE News and he claimed that there wasn't much hype in Mayo this time around. In contrast with previous years, Mayo fans were keeping the build up low key.

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I don't know what planet Willie had been living on for the previous two weeks but they clearly didn't have broadband there.

Whether it's daubing 'Mayo 4 Sam' on every landmark in the world, or making sure every parish releases it's own patented Mayo 4 Sam' song, no county's fans are more energetic or seemingly organised online (or offline, for that matter) than those in Mayo.

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Read more: Why Did The Mayo Players Enjoy More Support Than The Galway Players During Heave?

The people who get huffy when the anthem is 'disrespected'

The GAA top brass tend to frown upon the practice of roaring over the final line of the national anthem and they have a small but tenacious band of supporters online.

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In truth, it's a rather pompous complaint by people who fail to recognise the reality that the roar that drowns out the final line of the anthem is now an integral part of the actual anthem.

The lad who hates the Premier League

His favourite thing is comparing the fare on offer at the All-Ireland hurling final between Kilkenny and Tipperary with that of a humble Premier League encounter between 'Stoke and Middlesbrough or someone...' And he wears the fact that he doesn't know that Middlesbrough are no longer in the Premier League as a badge of honour.

The fury and distaste with which he spits out the names of these admittedly unfashionable is quite frightening.

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Dublin fans who are keen to tell everyone they'd love to travel outside Croke Park

The furore about Dublin playing all their games in Croke Park has died down now, partly because the Leinster championship is over, partly because it's obvious Dublin would win it away (home advantage isn't that fine a thing) and partly because the advocates for change have a pain in their face making the same arguments.

Dublin supporters have struck various poses when confronted with the question. Some have gotten defensive and insisted that they're only giving the culchies what they want - a day out in the capital. And sure they'd win down in Mullingar in anyways.

But the majority have been cordial, saying that there's nothing they'd love more than a road trip, nothing they'd love more than a trip down to Portlaoise or Longford, if only county boards in those places would give them the chance.

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Read more: Balls Remembers: Dublin's Last Championship Game Outside Of Croke Park

The anti-hurling snob

As a concept, the hurling snob has become a cliche in recent years. As have many of his utterances. And it is in the nature of cliches that they produce a backlash.

That has become especially apparent in the 2015 season - as the hurling championship has failed to reach the heights seen in the 2013 and 2014 seasons.

The classic anti-hurling snob comes from a traditional football county - anecdotally, they seem to proliferate in the border counties.

Read more: The 11 Types Of Irish Football Fan You Will Definitely Find On The Internet

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