Wow - way to miss any points I made.
Subjective opinion, I disagree. My granny wouldnt know who they are either. Nor would most of my girlfriends.
GAA is quite popular again in dublin clubs and has been on the increase over the last 5+ years. Hurling suffered a lot but after some good investment at club level and good senior management they are now a good side. Hurling and football popularity among your 'country' friends can depend on the parish and county they came from and their personal level of interest. They obviously havent much.
Never said the Dubs werent into the GAA. How many farmers wives do you think are into football?
As it is observation day; Some of my 'Dublin' friends tell me they spent their school days high on cocaine. I'd bet thats the case then for 80% of Dubliners of school going age.
I was simply countering someone elses bet on 99%.
You didnt recognise the footballers in the ad so you've deemed the ad a failure?? I dont recognise half the fake tan plastered faces splashed across most of the womens magazines or make-up/shampoo etc. etc. ads on telly yet I know that they have selected a target audience and selected models to suit.
It would appear I am a part of Aons target audience though, they sell household insurance, which I buy. I had a call from them just 2 days ago. Im quite sure Im not the only person disinterested in football who buys insurance from them.
Besides which - thats not the only reason I deemed it a failure. Bad lighting, cheap production costs.
Just because you saw a sports star wearing sports attire and with a British accent you saw thuggery/drug abuse. Going along those lines,every womens magazine should be taken off the shelves for advocating prostitution.
Again, you missed the point completely. I saw a badly lit individual who looked like a heroin addict because of the lighting. I heard badly delivered lines that brought to mind a lack of education and the look of drug use plus the bad delivery coupled with some kind of sports jersey I thought it could be one of these football hooligans we read about in the news.
So bad lighting, bad delivery, cheap production values coupled with a complete lack of recognition of who these people were, connotations of heroin addiction and shiny sports tops.
Nothing to do with them being sports stars - I didnt know they were sports stars.