Anonymous
6/13/2025, 6:14:50 PM
No.149156738
6/13/2025, 6:14:50 PM
No.149156738
>>149156598
It's not really like that, skangers (Dublin bogans/chavs) would think that though but they think it's posh wankery to dip chips in garlic sauce.
Cricket was sort of seen as a protestant sport for awhile because of the ban on foreign games thing, rugby sort of was too, not exclusively protestant but a sport protestants would play unlike any of the GAA. That was the perception. Thing is everyone in Ireland knows what cricket is it's doesn't have the popularity of many other sports, this goes back to the ban on foreign games which essentially meant there was no government funding from the 30s until it was lifted in the 70s for anything outside the GAA.
So rugby and soccer and cricket had to take care of themselves, rugby was fine because it's a schoolboy sport in Dublin and up north and there are some old established clubs in Limerick and Cork. Soccer was professional already and because of proximity to England and the common travel area it's easy to be decent soccer player and get sold to/earn your wages in England (also Scotland to an extent. Cricket wasn't like that at all it was more of a social game organised by clubs and with work teams and stuff, like most places, so cricket stayed alive anyway and kept going but it couldn't grow but slowly really.
It's not really like that, skangers (Dublin bogans/chavs) would think that though but they think it's posh wankery to dip chips in garlic sauce.
Cricket was sort of seen as a protestant sport for awhile because of the ban on foreign games thing, rugby sort of was too, not exclusively protestant but a sport protestants would play unlike any of the GAA. That was the perception. Thing is everyone in Ireland knows what cricket is it's doesn't have the popularity of many other sports, this goes back to the ban on foreign games which essentially meant there was no government funding from the 30s until it was lifted in the 70s for anything outside the GAA.
So rugby and soccer and cricket had to take care of themselves, rugby was fine because it's a schoolboy sport in Dublin and up north and there are some old established clubs in Limerick and Cork. Soccer was professional already and because of proximity to England and the common travel area it's easy to be decent soccer player and get sold to/earn your wages in England (also Scotland to an extent. Cricket wasn't like that at all it was more of a social game organised by clubs and with work teams and stuff, like most places, so cricket stayed alive anyway and kept going but it couldn't grow but slowly really.