This is what the GAA is all about.
Sort of.
Club football is the lifeblood of the organisation and junior B is the cells of that blood.
The GAA is an all-inclusive society. It’s a community. It doesn’t matter if you’re no good, if you haven’t played before or if you’re old or overweight, there’s a place for you in a GAA club and, if you really want to play, there’s a place for you on a junior B team.
Junior B hurling and football has provided us with some of the finest, most classically Irish moments down through the years and they just keep coming. So, as a new season dawns, here’s our favourite so far.
11. There’s a time and a place for handbags.
“We were playing a rough team who didn’t mind mixing it. At half time, no lies, our trainer turned to our full forward and said: ‘You’re you’re a fighter. You’re not a footballer.’ He then turns to the rest of us: ‘Lads, will ye pass the ball to him!'”
10. Hurler for sale on DoneDeal.
9. The score’s not important when you have such a good joke up your sleeve.
From Neil Merrigan.
8. No such thing as a drinking ban.
@SportsJOEdotie no drinking ban but a burger ban, #juniorbforlife pic.twitter.com/JIVmHOvby8
— James Cunningham (@JamesC90KK) August 23, 2015
7. When you need something really special to get back into a game.
From Mark Corboy.
6. Anyone have the Jaffa Cakes… or the fags?
Ice packs, cigarettes, hangovers and Sunglasses….Top class Junior B bench #GAA pic.twitter.com/qr7MM0tZbx
— Rory's Stories (@RorysStories) July 19, 2015
5. No-one likes a full-kit w**ker.
Billy Dunne of Oulart the Ballagh wears what he wants.
Via Hurling Banter Page.
4. Referee interrupts to kick a point.
3. We’ve all struggled to fill the team.
In Longford, Shroid Slashers had to resort to calling on 63-year-old Davy Ward to play corner forward to make up 13 players.
No bother to him.
From Jamie Mulligan.
2. When you’d rather take a Snapchat than watch the goals.
From Eoin Gaffney.
1. The most reasonable excuse ever.
Junior B's finest excuses!! #HonestyIsThebestPolicy @JOEdotie @SportsJOEdotie @The42_ie @The42GAA @PunditArenaGAA pic.twitter.com/HqJFSHWjtM
— Keith Hogan (@YogieHogieBear) August 3, 2015
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