Sledging is this year’s cancer of the GAA.
These things tend to go into remission as the seasons pass and we’re left to fight another battle anyway but, for now, it’s the big bad beast of our games.
You can’t deny though that it has an effect. It rattles boys. It gets them off their game – well, good sledging can anyway. Not ‘good’ sledging… you know what we mean.
Sledging comes in all forms. The bad ones are good. The good ones are bad.
1. City b*st*rd.
Accurate, yes. Insulting? Not really.
2. F**king culchie.
Tough one to go for, you’re usually outnumbered.
3. Nice hair.
Hey, don’t knock it. It hurts.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqdgqnsKn9I
4. Go back to soccer.
A direct threat on your manliness.
5. You’re only on to hit the frees.
What does that say about you? You’re marking me.
6. Hahaaaaaa!
Doesn’t sound like much but it’s the most effective.
7. Are you heading out tonight?
Full sense of security. A Tomás Ó Sé classic.
8. Do you have any football in you at all?
9. Why don’t you meet me afterwards and we’ll see who’s hard?
This man has no intention of ever doing you any harm.
10. They’re finished boys, they have nothing else.
Who the f**k are you talking about?
Don’t underestimate the value of being passive aggressive.
11. Roast that man, Jimmy.
Pretty hurtful when they’re shouting it about you.
12. What’s the craic?
Sometimes, that’s all it takes.
Who will win, Dublin or Mayo? Paul Galvin joins Colm Parkinson on The GAA Hour. Subscribe here on iTunes.
