Talk:Gaelic football

message: Somebody might want to explain that word.... 79.138.193.11 (talk) 17:06, 8 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Under-12s?

message: A chairde Gael,
I am looking for a very old thesis, the very same thesis used in this article as a reference, to assist on my dissertation on the rise and decline of player numbers in rural GAA clubs in Co. Kerry and though the thesis by Father William Ferris is sited a lot I can't find the actual thesis.
I have been looking for it in the catalogue of the special collections section of the Boole Library at UCC, on JSTOR, on archives.org, in the catalogue if the National Library of Ireland and even on google scholar, but so far it has eluded me.
Do you know of any way to find the test of this thesis?
The name of the thesis is: 
The traditional game of Caid by father Willam Ferris.
He was parish priest of Glenflesk from 1938 to 1943.
I would really appreciate it if you could help me find the thesis.
Is mise le meas,
Seoirse Ó Duic Jorgenpfhartogs (talk) 15:36, 24 August 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: referencing

message: How is it that the game was invented by 2 guys in 1949, yet the rules were already set by 1887? I don't see any mention of 1949 in the history section of the GAA website. --Booch 06:00, 8 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Invented?

message: "Some plays include a ducking and weaving movement where the player in posession will run towards an opponent, and at the last minute change direction after wrong-footing the defender. Passing takes place to players on the run, so rather than passing directly to a team-mate, players will pass the ball into mid-air just ahead of the receiving player so that he can run into it."
Erm... that would be the same for Soccer, American Football, Handball... looks like fluff to me...?!? DevSolar 09:13, 5 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: General Description

message: Hello,
You don't know me but i'm a user formely known as User:Jebus Christ.  I was blocked some time ago because wikipedia didn't like my username.  I've only just now created my current username.
Some of you may be aware that the Football article has been overtaken by a fraternity of Australian Rules supporters.  This fraternity includes at least one administrator that i'm aware of.  His name is Snottygobble.
Regardless of what you may think of the current vote going on in that article, it is blatantly obvious that the article has a major overrepresentation from Australian Rules fans.  The Football article needs more input from people with interests such as yours.  This should even out the content a little resulting in an article written from a global perspective (as opposed to the southern australian perspective).
With regards to the current vote, whether you agree or not with the proposal, there are definitely some very twisted tactics being used.  Currently, almost every person who has voted differently to that the AFL fraternity has been accused of being a sockpuppet of the person who initiated the vote.  Through pure frustration, several users made the same accusation of some of the AFL fraternity.  Immediately those people were blocked for 'making sockpuppet accursations in bad faith' by administrator and Aussie Rules fraternity member User:Snottygobble.
I'm not here asking anyone to partake in the vote.  What i'd like to see though is more input from people outside of the Assie Rules Fraternity.
Thanks in advance,
Jimididit 13:45, 16 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Football Needs You 

message: hi my name is Pablo and i'm from Bolivia, i didn't know anything about Gaelic Football but seems like a very exciting game. I love almost all the sports, and i play the most i can: football, rugby, baseball etc. And i love to try new sports (like tapeball cricket right now) Is there any set of rules?...i'cant find the anywhere, and one question to the irish guy: u play this game in a pick-up fashion? or just in formal games?...tell me plz
:Well the best place to go for information on the ages that you are looking for is the website of the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) at http://www.gaa.ie, it's basically like FIFA for Gaelic sports. Their you can find out the basic rules and regulations for Gaelic Football, as well as Hurling and Gaelic Handball. They are also coded the rules which you can find here (this is a PDF document). Their is also a separate Gaelic football for women, Ladies' Gaelic football, but the difference are relatively minor. As for pick up games, i guess you could i never have, but not in the same way that you would with football. --Boothy443 |  trácht ar 07:41, 25 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The Rule Book, of any sport should not be classed as copio and should be able to be used on websites like this. If not then anything like teaching them to youngsters should violate copyright. Kaeso Dio (talk) 11:48, 23 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Where are the official rules? 

message: The ball used looks just like the type used for Volleyball.  Is there any connection?  Ubermonkey 20:49, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: No cpnnection at all a gaelic football is extremely heavy and hard when compared with a volleyball (Gnevin 20:56, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: User:Grant65 and a guy callled B.W.O'Dwyer would tell you there is a connection, but it is unnofficial.  Apparently some Irish gold miners decided to play a game of Gaelic Football on an indoor tennis court in Springfield, Massachussets.  It can't be disproved, so it must have happened. --Rulesfan 02:14, 3 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  "It can't be disproved, so it must have happened." Em. Are you serious? Conor 20:15, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

text: You have a sense of humour, I'll give you that.  --Rulesfan 00:32, 9 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Volleyball connection? 

message: It can be carried in the hand for a distance of four steps and can be kicked or "hand-passed", a striking motion with the hand or fist. After every four steps the ball must be either bounced or "solo-ed", 
taken from []
(Gnevin 19:53, 8 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  steps 

message: Am I seeing things? Are the lefts and rights swapped in the Team of the Millenium? Frelke 07:01, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: What do you mean ? (Gnevin 17:24, 20 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  I think he means that usually the left-backs and left-forwards are on the left side of the field as seen when facing the goal that they're attacking - ie when the goalie looks upfield, the left-backs are on the left and the right-backs on the right.  For example see the diagram at http://www.gaelicfootball.com.au/mens.htm - in this wiki page they're opposite. Thrapper 20:56, 23 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Fixed (Gnevin 21:53, 23 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Left or Right

message: A good addition to this page would be a description (preferably with links) to gaelic football outside Ireland.  I know there are plenty of people who play in America, and I'd be surprised if England (and probably Australia) had at least a few teams playing locally.
LordHedgie 02:05, 18 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: A good idea.  There are a few in Australia, but the code really struggles here.  Most of the teams are based in the south eastern cities of Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide.  The association is very disorganised and only recently appointed a full time development officer.  There has been a lot of growth in the ladies game though.  Recently they have trialled a summer competition so as not to compete directly with Aussie Rules.  International Rules is becoming more common to give the Irish guys more of an opportunity to play against opposition, but I have noticed a trend of a lot of the Irish tourists playing both codes, or even switching completely to Aussie Rules, and many of the players are actually Australians who aren't tough enough to play Aussie Rules.  --Rulesfan 05:56, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Gaelic football outside Ireland 

message: The referance to the story about a referee being locked in a boot be disillusioned players after a game is not a urban legend but a true story.I am not sure about the year it happened but the team and place involved was Rathnew, Co. Wicklow. The Referee had sent off a player of the Rathnew team. After the game the Referee was locked in his own boot and subsequently driven up the Wicklow mountains. I am not sure how he managed to get out of the boot or wether the player were disaplined but I'm sure someone else knows.
User:ruthiemac 13:23, 24 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Not Urban Legend but true story 

message: Both Hurling and Gaelic football need this.  Most other sports have it.  --Rulesfan 23:53, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pictures of a Pitch 

message: Says they were published in United Journal in 1887, but what were they in a nutshell ?  How similar was that game to what is played today. --Rulesfan 00:31, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  First Rules of Gaelic Football 

message: It is football afterall, maybe some photos of the kicking action would help improve the article.  --Rulesfan 01:32, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Kicking photos ? 

message: Does anybody know of a North American source for instructional videos (such as DVD or VHS) appropriate for teaching classes how to play Gaelic Football?
If not an instructional video, have there ever been any dramatic adaptations of Gaelic Football from literature (or real life historic matches) to cinematic form?  198.177.27.11 06:30, 24 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I'd suggest emailing either the GAA or some one at North American GAA (Gnevin 13:20, 24 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Instructional videos on DVD 

message: Resemblance to caid. I realise that they are linked but it seems to be copy and pasted with minor changes. Kaeso Dio (talk) 11:55, 23 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  History Section 

message: Right, buachaillí, do any of ye have a source for the claim that the first record of football is in Slane in 1712, as the article currently says? Thanks/Míle Bhuíochas. 86.44.1.115 (talk) 13:46, 9 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Slane in 1712

message: I think this might be a bit vague? Surely this implys that shoulder charging from the front and back are legal? Anyone have any complaints about changing it to "shoulder to shoulder contact" or something like that? Kyro (talk) 21:05, 13 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Shoulder Charging

message: I have removed the following text from the section "All-Ireland Final":
"However, the 2005 All-Ireland final was played on the fourth Sunday of the month, due to overlapping TV coverage of the Ryder Cup tournament by RTÉ."
As clumsily stated by someone in the section "See also" (before I removed it as well): "There was no ryder cup in 2005".
If that first chunk of removed text contains any truth in it, someone can hopefully sort out what the article should actually be saying about it!
Andrew Gwilliam (talk) 00:39, 14 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  2005 

message: There are two references in the "History" section to "Prior, 1997".  Can someone expand this reference into something more useful?  Andrew Gwilliam (talk) 17:37, 14 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Prior, 1997" 

message: Looking at the article it says the ball has a "circumference of 69-74cm (27-29')".  I've not seen the game but surely that isn't right?  Unless the players really are 6m tall and it's just a scale thing....
Perhaps your confusing circumference with diameter. The stated range of circumference is similar to soccer balls, volleyballs and even basketballs and is not out of whack with the pictures in this article. Wschart (talk) 18:47, 9 January 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ball Size? 

message: Anybody got information on the Football team of the century ?.
It was a team selected by the GAA as part of their centenary year celebrations in 1984 to pick the best gaelic football team in the first 100 years of the GAA.
It was something similar to the way the GAA picked a Team of the millenium only it was picked in 1984.
I have heard people talking about various players who were picked on it but can not find the actual team picked on the internet.
Will put it in as a wikipedia page if I find it.
Leo1977 12:54, 30 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  GAA Football Team of the Century 

message: Worth mentioning new rules or at least a section on new rules that were trialed? for example the Black Card. Cos Nua 12:10, 30 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rules 

message: We have televized matches in Washington, D.C., USA fed from G4 in Ireland. Is this the right article for noting televized matches? Boy in the bands (talk) 00:50, 26 November 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Televi(s)zed matches? 

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message: does this game have rules or laws?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.18.56.232 (talk) 20:03, 20 September 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  does this game have rules or laws? 

message: The section 'Dissent' states: "To fail to comply with a referee's instruction to use an orifice guard".
I google'd 'orifice guard' and there is no mention of such a thing.
Surely it is a mouthguard, the human body has several orifices but I think the only one in question here is the mouth. Andrew ranfurly (talk) 23:43, 30 May 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Orifice guard - really? 

message: read intersex no. I was watching a game navy vs notre dame,  navy's men's team had female players one goalie, at least one on the pitch 75.115.148.17 (talk) 22:24, 19 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Intersex