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The Story Of The GAA Championships So Far In 8 New Cliches

The Story Of The GAA Championships So Far In 8 New Cliches
Mark Farrelly
By Mark Farrelly
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In the football championship, goalkeepers have suddenly become the most important thing in the world; prompting a name change to their position...

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The hurling championship has been brilliant so far, resulting in many lamenting certain World Cup matches, the entire football championship and episodes of Coronation Street...

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Although there have been a couple of red cards incidents but as Ger Loughnane says 'he didn't hard him hard enough to hurt him' or as a particular favourite line of Cyril Farrell goes...

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Meanwhile in football, the country have debated no end on how to beat Dublin. Various theories have been put forward but then someone always brings up the elephant in the room – the one thing that no one has an answer for...

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Last weekend saw reigning All-Ireland champions, Clare knocked out while Armagh upset the odds against Tyrone to advance in the football qualifiers. Oddly enough, they were both using the same tactics....

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Of course, lots of other teams have been knocked out of both the hurling an football championships and all for the same reason...

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The entertainment value in the football championship has been absolutely dirt if we're being honest. So much so that today, Ciaran Whelan has brought back one of our favourite ever GAA cliches when proposing a change to the championship structure...

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Lastly, Oisin McConville has written his first column on GAA.ie today, adding to his presence on the BBC Championship coverage, Second Captains' podcast and their RTÉ Radio One show. This means that we'll be hearing this phrase approximately 835 times over the rest of the summer...

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Also read: 50 Classic GAA Cliches

 

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