A couple of years back, I was organising a weekly 5-a-side game with the lads from work. The plan? A weekly kickabout—simple. With a core group of 15 or 16 of us, getting 10 should’ve been easy. Reality? Eight reliable souls, and late dropouts killing the rest.
As the organiser, as I’m sure many reading this know, it was a nightmare. You’d book a pitch in block payments, no refunds, and last-minute “Sorry, can’t make it” texts would leave us scrambling. Below 10, we’d call it off; nobody fancied a half-empty game. Too many weeks, we lost the pitch and the cash. I kept thinking, “If only there was a spot to shout out for players…” Why I didn’t start AnyGames.ie then? I’ll never know.
Where did the name come from? Anyone remember being a kid and walking up to a group of lads playing a game of ball and jumping in with the socially accepted icebreaker, “Any Games?” That’s what this is, a place to go and ask that same age-old question. The space is there so jump in, use it, and let’s grow this community together.