Earlier today we asked you for pictures and videos of the worst GAA pitches around the country. Well we have a winner that we don’t think anyone can possibly argue with.
Given that we are nearly in summer, you would think that GAA pitches around the country should be in pristine condition, with a firm surface and short grass of the type we are used to seeing in Croke Park on a regular basis.
But as anyone involved in the GAA knows, the reality is far away from that ideal and even though we’re in the middle of April, you’re more likely to come across a pitch that looks like the Cordal GAA pitch in Kerry that we featured on the site earlier today than one that is in perfect nick for Gaelic Football and hurling.
Having seen the condition of the Cordal pitch, we put out a shout-put for evidence of the worst pitches around the country and were met with a few responses, the best of which was undoubtedly from Brian Mitchell, who sent us in this video of the Collegeland O’Rahilly’s pitch in Armagh from a few years back.
Yes, it’s from a few years back – we’ve no idea how we never came across it before – and was probably filmed during one of the worst spells of weather to hit Ireland in decades, but can anyone really fail to be impressed by a jetski on a GAA pitch whatever the circumstances? We didn’t think so.
This can only be topped if someone can find a video with a jetski and somebody actually waterskiiing in some GAA pitch around Ireland – we think there may be tentative attempts to do so in this one – and we wouldn’t be one bit surprised if it exists.
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