SKY SOCCER PUNDIT Niall Quinn says he is looking forward to seeing the reaction to GAA as it’s set to be shown to a wider audience encompassing Britain as well as Ireland this summer.
The ex-Dublin minor hurler, who has ruled himself out of contributing to Sky’s coverage of the sport, believes the players’ diligence and refusal to exaggerate injuries will provide a refreshing antidote for UK audiences all too accustomed to the diving and cheating that’s currently prevalent in British football.
“I can’t wait for the UK reaction to players getting walloped and pretending they’re not hurt at all,” he said. “It’s going to be so different.
“I did the Arsenal-Hull game shortly after it was announced and it wasn’t the most dynamic game, so I found myself talking about GAA on air with the commentator. I said when you see this, you’re in for a shock. Players hide their injuries and don’t go rolling around. So that’s going to be interesting and a lot of people in England will pat GAA players on the back for that.
“I did a fans’ forum recently and the one thing that kept coming out was players’ diving and feigning injury, and guys getting penalties when they shouldn’t. I can assure you they’ll be doing the exact opposite of that in GAA.”
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Quinn also dismissed recent criticism of the Sky deal, saying that the move will ultimately be of benefit to the sport.
“I’m delighted they see themselves as becoming a friend of the GAA. They’re not the giant coming in that are going to manipulate and dominate the game as some people think.
“I’ve spent 30 years telling everyone in England that, despite what you think of soccer, despite what you think of the Premier League, we have two brilliant sports in Ireland. That was my instant reaction — we have this brilliant sport on our doorstep and up to 10 million viewers can watch our sport and what we know is a brilliant thing.
“Aside from that, the production will be first class. It might take a little bit of time to get there as the guys who do the production find their way, but they’ll understand and get what the GAA is about very quickly.”
Quinn also played down concerns that certain GAA fans would be unable to afford seeing their team play.
“The counter argument to people not being able to afford it is that Sky are looking to put the packages into affiliated GAA clubs at a knockdown rate, and I think that will soften the argument. It’s on in your local GAA club.”
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(Niall Quinn has tipped Rachel Wyse to be a success in her role as Sky’s GAA presenter)
“I’ve never met Rachel Wyse but she’s someone I know of from behind the scenes at Sky. She’s someone they think an awful lot of.
“It’s very difficult for women breaking into business, breaking into sport. She’s cracked it and she’s a great ambassador for Irish sport, so I’m really pleased she’s going to be the face of GAA in the UK.
“She’s very professional and I know the bigwigs in Sky think very highly of her and she will bring nothing but professionalism to it. Joe Brolly made his comment and retracted it very quickly, and I think that in itself shows you everyone knows Rachel is top class and she can hold her own in any sport, particularly GAA. And Brian Carney’s a good guy too — he does some rugby, but he’s a GAA man at heart. And then the rest of them, Nicky English, who I know very well, Paul Earley, people like that — they just want to promote the sport to a wider audience.”
Niall will be commentating for Sky Sports on the Ireland v Turkey friendly match from the Aviva Stadium this Sunday from 6pm.
The UK public already have this example from rugby. Agree totally though. Faking injury is a major frustration in soccer. That, and the outrageous salaries.
They get enough eye gouging, stamping and tip tackling to make up for it. I like rugby but I don’t know why rugby fans always try to take the moral high ground, especially when football is being discussed
The one that annoys me more than the diving is the calling on referee to book an opponent. Happens in every premiership games these days. Imagine seeing that in Thurles on Sunday….it would not be tolerated….
That’s exactly it Sean, I like rugby too but countless times there are cases of eye gouging, biting, punch ups, spear tackles, stamping, but then the rugby guys like to come on and profess Rugby is a beacon of sportsmanship
Ciaran if some of the stuff that goes on on a rugby pitch happened on a soccer pitch it would be front page headlines, it’s just brushed aside as part of the game
Yeah but paul you have to accept that theyre 2 different sports and people will always overstep the mark in a sport thats naturally more physical and combative. Personally id rather see a player on my team sent off for punching rather than diving and not being punished, theyre supposed to be men after all
I’m not condoning diving but I would rather a player dived than broke someone’s jaw or gouged their eye, at least theres a chance the ref would cop it or it will be highlighted on TV later, too late for the lad with the broken jaw or gouged eye
I’m a fan of both GAA and Rugby.But this envy and obsession fans of both sports have with football,is getting tiring.The popularity and money that football generates is something that both sports will bever even come close to attaining,so instead they focus their efforts on b*tching about the problem of simulation(is taking a dive worse then stamping on someone’s head?) and the astronomical salaries in football.As if any gaa or rugby player would not jump at the chance to earn that kind of money.
The truth is most football fans hardly know those sports exist.Close to 350 million people will watch the CL final tonight.The Heineken Cup wouldn’t even get a tenth of that.
Something being popular doesn’t mean it is actually any good. McDonalds is probably the most numerous & popular restaurant in the world but only an oaf would suggest it serves up the best food. One direction are insanely popular, but they are kack.
Rachel is gorgeous and articulate and passionate about Ireland. What is it that rte women have over her???
Do we need a minger to get respect. Marty morrissey makes me cringe on tv to look at so rte could do with a few lookers for tv tbf ;)
leave Marty alone, he has what many sports reporters want, knowledge and passion for his sports and the articulation to talk about them. A living legend!!
Luckily the majority of people are open minded to new things and will appreciate a new sport for what it is. There seems to be a niche of fan, especially on this site, who thinks by disliking other sports it makes them a bigger fan of the sport they like, which is of course nonsense.
They also seem to feel the need to tell everyone how little they like x sport or y sport, everyone has their own preferences & opinions, fair enough, repeatedly having a dig at a sport you don’t like really just comes across as pretty pathetic & narrow minded.
Shane just cos I don’t have the same opinion as you doesn’t mean I’m narrow minded.and can you please stop stalking my comments on here anytime I comment here you seem to appear looking for an argument
Neenee your endless negative posting on GAA threads is not the carry on of an open mind. Opinions are all well and good but yours are always negitive. That’s why you come across as narrow minded.
How is that a negative approach?would you not a agree that in any sport worldwide that it really gets interesting at the quarter final stage?do you think they will be in awe of the skills involved in say for example Leitrim v Roscommon.im not bad mouthing the GAA I’m just saying that a majority of the matches might not have much quality to lure the English audience
You used the word amateurish, which we know for a fact, given past conversation on here, is something you don’t respect. In every sport that exists the majority of matches are average or the result is entirely predictable and it’s only when the top teams meet do you see real quality. Does that stop people watching endless dull matches in other codes? No because we’re all waiting for the classic or the shock. The biggest issue, in my opinion, is the terrible competition structures, good luck to anyone trying to explain that to a new audience.
And yes i realise they are amateurs, it’s not an insult to describe amateur sports people as that, except you clearly meant it as a put down for Gaelic football in general.
An old quote…
Rugby Union is a game for gentlemen, played by ruffians. Rugby League is a game for ruffians, played by gentlemen. Suspect GAA fits into the latter category, to it’s credit.
No joe, the actual quote is about rugby being a thugs game played by gentlemen, and soccer is a gentleman’s game played by thugs. It’s just typical rugby snobbery anyway. You see far more violence on a rugby pitch then a soccer pitch, for obvious reasons.
Shane, quote has been in use in the north of England for a very long time. It originated as a way for the colliery workers, who pretty much started Rugby League, to have a dig at the toffs who played Union.
I am and always have been a rugby supporter but do not agree with the denigrating of other sports. Always look into your own heart first and certainly I have noticed certain practices creeping into rugby. Constant gesturing to the touch judges, waving of imaginary yellow cards, scrum halves gesticulating at the base of rucks, intimidating refs into going upstairs etc etc. No sport occupies the high moral ground.
Scrum halves & backs gesturing at the base of the ruck is nothing new. They’ve been doing it since Adam was a kid. Generally they’re saying, “In there? You want me to go in there? Are fecking serious?”
Exactly.Quinn has a quaint,old fashioned view of GAA.He obviously has not been watching the football in the last few years.Otherwise he would have noticed that diving,cynical fouling and feigning injury have all crept into the modern game.Quinn probably hasn’t watched a GAA match since he left for England in the 80s.
Yea Niall sure. Exactly how many English people do you think will be watching what they consider a foreign sport, during a world cup summer which the English team is competing in?? Get real. English people would watch Saudi Arabia V Malta in soccer before they’d even consider watching an All Ireland played by Dublin and Kerry.
The World Cup ‘summer’ you speak of is from June 12th to July 13th. 1 month. The All Ireland Championship is on for the whole summer. Plenty of time after the World Cup is over for them to take an interest in the GAA if they choose, just in time for the Provincial finals too when they get to see the best teams in action.
The World Cup will be over 2 months before they have to ‘consider watching an All Ireland played by Dublin and Kerry’ so I don’t think they’ll have to worry about choosing between that and Saudi Arabia v Malta.
This Sky deal would NEVER have happened if the last three all ireland football winners were KERRY, DONEGAL, MAYO.
But the current dublin team are exciting and fit and (most importantly) fast enough to be taken seriously as sporting entertainment. They are also good looking fellas which certainly won’t hurt the sport. Gooch doesn’t look as well as bernard brogan.
Hurling will be incredibly exciting and unpredictable for the next 3 years too, so if ever this deal is going to gain interest across the puddle, it is now.
Nonsense. Donegal team were far physically superior to dublin . Also im not sure the sloping jawed social housing estate look of dublin players like cluxton, connolly et al is particularly enticing to female fans .
They won’t watch it plus it’s all very well mouthing out saying GAA players are hard when you can only tackle with hands or by pushing, take a 2 footed lunge by a 6ft 2 professional footballer across knee, shin, ankle see how hard they are then. GAA supporters so insecure they have to compare it to football. No comparison, the World loves and supports football from Buenos Aires to Botswana. Only a few interested in GAA. It’s a good game and no disrespect to those who support or play it just no need to be insecure or compare it to something infinitely superior
Quinn would of course say its good for sport cause he is a pundit and is biased! Brolly’s comments were out of order but he premised them on a valid point though; Rachel Wyse & GAA? There are three to four very competent female GAA analysts across RTE & Tg4 who would offer a better insight. My own views are Rachel are WTF does she know about GAA. She may surprise me but then again SKY are sh*t when it comes to sport analysis!
If you balanced the constant negativity with the occasional positive or constructive comment, you could be taken seriously, but no, you pop up on GAA thread after GAA thread having wee digs at the GAA all the time. Reflects badly on you.
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Best comment of the week by Niall……
The UK public already have this example from rugby. Agree totally though. Faking injury is a major frustration in soccer. That, and the outrageous salaries.
Yeah, you would never find a Rugby player using a blood capsule to pretend…….ooppppsssss!
Great example there Paulie. Have you any more???
Good man.
Yeah and he was banned for 6 months and his coach for 3 years, how often has that happened in football when a player has faked an injury?
They get enough eye gouging, stamping and tip tackling to make up for it. I like rugby but I don’t know why rugby fans always try to take the moral high ground, especially when football is being discussed
The one that annoys me more than the diving is the calling on referee to book an opponent. Happens in every premiership games these days. Imagine seeing that in Thurles on Sunday….it would not be tolerated….
That’s exactly it Sean, I like rugby too but countless times there are cases of eye gouging, biting, punch ups, spear tackles, stamping, but then the rugby guys like to come on and profess Rugby is a beacon of sportsmanship
Ciaran if some of the stuff that goes on on a rugby pitch happened on a soccer pitch it would be front page headlines, it’s just brushed aside as part of the game
I’m a football supporter but even I’ll admit the game is being ruined by the divers and cheaters.
Yeah but paul you have to accept that theyre 2 different sports and people will always overstep the mark in a sport thats naturally more physical and combative. Personally id rather see a player on my team sent off for punching rather than diving and not being punished, theyre supposed to be men after all
I’m not condoning diving but I would rather a player dived than broke someone’s jaw or gouged their eye, at least theres a chance the ref would cop it or it will be highlighted on TV later, too late for the lad with the broken jaw or gouged eye
Not crying like babies, and no eye-watering salaries.
They just won’t understand it at all!
I’m a fan of both GAA and Rugby.But this envy and obsession fans of both sports have with football,is getting tiring.The popularity and money that football generates is something that both sports will bever even come close to attaining,so instead they focus their efforts on b*tching about the problem of simulation(is taking a dive worse then stamping on someone’s head?) and the astronomical salaries in football.As if any gaa or rugby player would not jump at the chance to earn that kind of money.
The truth is most football fans hardly know those sports exist.Close to 350 million people will watch the CL final tonight.The Heineken Cup wouldn’t even get a tenth of that.
Something being popular doesn’t mean it is actually any good. McDonalds is probably the most numerous & popular restaurant in the world but only an oaf would suggest it serves up the best food. One direction are insanely popular, but they are kack.
Rachel is gorgeous and articulate and passionate about Ireland. What is it that rte women have over her???
Do we need a minger to get respect. Marty morrissey makes me cringe on tv to look at so rte could do with a few lookers for tv tbf ;)
leave Marty alone, he has what many sports reporters want, knowledge and passion for his sports and the articulation to talk about them. A living legend!!
I am pleased that our neighbours will get to see some of our culture. It is a positive, so enough with the comments full of negativity.
They can watch GAA now if they want. It isn’t a positive or negative. It’s nothing
GAA will find its audience on Sky Sports 4.. like tractor-pulling on Eurosport. Leitrim v Roscommon = tasty!
Leitrim and ross was actually a good enuf game
Eurosport hasn’t had tractor pulling on in over 15 years.
Emlyn mulligan is a class footballer.
We’re the best tractor pulling fans in the world!
I can’t imagine Brits will be too bothered watching GAA if they already don’t.
Afraid the GAA football (not hurling) will be to amateurish looking for them.you only see quality when you get to the quarter final stages
Why wouldnt they!? Both codes are an incredible spectable when in full flow, throw in the fact its an amateur sport i think people will take to it!
Both sports are great spectacles to those with an open mind, a lot of narrow minded people on this site.
Luckily the majority of people are open minded to new things and will appreciate a new sport for what it is. There seems to be a niche of fan, especially on this site, who thinks by disliking other sports it makes them a bigger fan of the sport they like, which is of course nonsense.
They also seem to feel the need to tell everyone how little they like x sport or y sport, everyone has their own preferences & opinions, fair enough, repeatedly having a dig at a sport you don’t like really just comes across as pretty pathetic & narrow minded.
Shane just cos I don’t have the same opinion as you doesn’t mean I’m narrow minded.and can you please stop stalking my comments on here anytime I comment here you seem to appear looking for an argument
Neenee your endless negative posting on GAA threads is not the carry on of an open mind. Opinions are all well and good but yours are always negitive. That’s why you come across as narrow minded.
How is that a negative approach?would you not a agree that in any sport worldwide that it really gets interesting at the quarter final stage?do you think they will be in awe of the skills involved in say for example Leitrim v Roscommon.im not bad mouthing the GAA I’m just saying that a majority of the matches might not have much quality to lure the English audience
You used the word amateurish, which we know for a fact, given past conversation on here, is something you don’t respect. In every sport that exists the majority of matches are average or the result is entirely predictable and it’s only when the top teams meet do you see real quality. Does that stop people watching endless dull matches in other codes? No because we’re all waiting for the classic or the shock. The biggest issue, in my opinion, is the terrible competition structures, good luck to anyone trying to explain that to a new audience.
And yes i realise they are amateurs, it’s not an insult to describe amateur sports people as that, except you clearly meant it as a put down for Gaelic football in general.
Ah Shane go pick a fight with someone else
Spot on Shane
Good man, Niall.
I love that headline! :D
Maybe for the namby-pamby soccer watchers Niall, but I don’t think the average rugby audience will be too surprised by it…
Soccer – 90 minutes of pretending you’re hurt
Rugby – 80 minutes of pretending you’re not…
An old quote…
Rugby Union is a game for gentlemen, played by ruffians. Rugby League is a game for ruffians, played by gentlemen. Suspect GAA fits into the latter category, to it’s credit.
You got that quote totally arseways.
Shane, you may think that, but the quote exist s. Whether, or not, it is true is open to debate.
No joe, the actual quote is about rugby being a thugs game played by gentlemen, and soccer is a gentleman’s game played by thugs. It’s just typical rugby snobbery anyway. You see far more violence on a rugby pitch then a soccer pitch, for obvious reasons.
Shane, quote has been in use in the north of England for a very long time. It originated as a way for the colliery workers, who pretty much started Rugby League, to have a dig at the toffs who played Union.
I am and always have been a rugby supporter but do not agree with the denigrating of other sports. Always look into your own heart first and certainly I have noticed certain practices creeping into rugby. Constant gesturing to the touch judges, waving of imaginary yellow cards, scrum halves gesticulating at the base of rucks, intimidating refs into going upstairs etc etc. No sport occupies the high moral ground.
Stringer’s been at that for 15 odd years though, has there ever been a ruck where he isn’t wildly gesticulating at the referee for a penalty.
Scrum halves & backs gesturing at the base of the ruck is nothing new. They’ve been doing it since Adam was a kid. Generally they’re saying, “In there? You want me to go in there? Are fecking serious?”
You are right and just looking at habana nothing to be proud of
He must have forgotten about Tymoan when he made that comment. Sean Cavanagh could be the new Jurgen Klinsman.
Exactly.Quinn has a quaint,old fashioned view of GAA.He obviously has not been watching the football in the last few years.Otherwise he would have noticed that diving,cynical fouling and feigning injury have all crept into the modern game.Quinn probably hasn’t watched a GAA match since he left for England in the 80s.
Best headline I’ve seen in a while, in fairness the GAA lads really do show up some of ponses that play professional football these days.
Yea Niall sure. Exactly how many English people do you think will be watching what they consider a foreign sport, during a world cup summer which the English team is competing in?? Get real. English people would watch Saudi Arabia V Malta in soccer before they’d even consider watching an All Ireland played by Dublin and Kerry.
The World Cup ‘summer’ you speak of is from June 12th to July 13th. 1 month. The All Ireland Championship is on for the whole summer. Plenty of time after the World Cup is over for them to take an interest in the GAA if they choose, just in time for the Provincial finals too when they get to see the best teams in action.
The World Cup will be over 2 months before they have to ‘consider watching an All Ireland played by Dublin and Kerry’ so I don’t think they’ll have to worry about choosing between that and Saudi Arabia v Malta.
This Sky deal would NEVER have happened if the last three all ireland football winners were KERRY, DONEGAL, MAYO.
But the current dublin team are exciting and fit and (most importantly) fast enough to be taken seriously as sporting entertainment. They are also good looking fellas which certainly won’t hurt the sport. Gooch doesn’t look as well as bernard brogan.
Hurling will be incredibly exciting and unpredictable for the next 3 years too, so if ever this deal is going to gain interest across the puddle, it is now.
Nonsense. Donegal team were far physically superior to dublin . Also im not sure the sloping jawed social housing estate look of dublin players like cluxton, connolly et al is particularly enticing to female fans .
They won’t watch it plus it’s all very well mouthing out saying GAA players are hard when you can only tackle with hands or by pushing, take a 2 footed lunge by a 6ft 2 professional footballer across knee, shin, ankle see how hard they are then. GAA supporters so insecure they have to compare it to football. No comparison, the World loves and supports football from Buenos Aires to Botswana. Only a few interested in GAA. It’s a good game and no disrespect to those who support or play it just no need to be insecure or compare it to something infinitely superior
Quinn would of course say its good for sport cause he is a pundit and is biased! Brolly’s comments were out of order but he premised them on a valid point though; Rachel Wyse & GAA? There are three to four very competent female GAA analysts across RTE & Tg4 who would offer a better insight. My own views are Rachel are WTF does she know about GAA. She may surprise me but then again SKY are sh*t when it comes to sport analysis!
In what way are they sh*t?
She is a big Dublin gaa fan Aodhan so I assume she knows a fair amount about the sport…and employed by sky so kinda makes sense to have involved.
GAA has been tried before on UK television – and failed. As have the games failed to be of any interest to the world at large!
They’re only played here, and by a few emigrants.
Over 2b people will watch the Rio World Cup – of a game played in every country on earth: All 209.
An unimpressive organisation, the GAA have had more than enough time to export their games….
All slogans and predictions but the game ends up overhyped & undercooked!
Isn’t everyone a Dublin fan? I would prefer to see ex-players or managers front the games not this type of tosh!!
Blah blah blah Glenn, most sports fans are more open minded then you, thankfully.
If you balanced the constant negativity with the occasional positive or constructive comment, you could be taken seriously, but no, you pop up on GAA thread after GAA thread having wee digs at the GAA all the time. Reflects badly on you.
LONDÁIN AGUS TIOBRAID ÁRANN ABÚ! :)
Jaysus, he hasn’t wat hed GAA for a while if he thinks thats what it’s like
I don’t pay for Sky Sports, but will there be GAA updates and discussion on Sky Sports News?
Quinny mustn’t have watched any football or hurling over the past decade. There is plenty of diving in the GAA these days.
Very true Sean!
Wait until they see Sean cavanagh at 6 foot 4 falling around after getting tackled by wind
People could always watch Gaa in the UK with premier sports or setanta sports
Niall Quinn obviously wasn’t watching pat cronins antics in all Ireland hurling final replay last year.. Worst diving I’ve seen in years
I think its only a matter of time before GAA turns pro because of the sky coverage and the players start earning a few quid from it.
Based on what? Their deal was only worth a a fraction more then the last deal with tv3
I thought GAA was on a pay for view type scheme,like a box office type job no?
Nope, just on sky sports
Big Niall obviously didn’t catch Pa Cronin in last years All ireland hurling final replay.