Sure lads love something to moan about. I put on the Sunday Game last night and Tomas O’Se and Conor McManus were telling us that there shouldn’t be Hawkeye used in Croke Park unless it’s available in places like Inniskeen as well. You know the game is in a good spot when that’s what they have to complain about.
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Hawkeye is a joke
English technology at it’s worst
Surely we have indigenous technical abilities to design a system that can be set up at ANY pitch?
Drone footage will happen and would be better than Hawkeye if used correctly.
Sean Cavanaghis a proper cunt for having a cut for Kobe for wearing pink boots
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The ending of the game is farcical.
If you are copying the rugby clock let game play on until it goes out of play or else copy the soccer / hurling clock.
What we’ve got is deeply unsatisfactory.
The people can’t ridicule other people for their fashion choices is the day we become politically correct, po faced Douglas Murrays.
In the AFL you have a siren. The siren goes on the absolute button of 0:01 turning to 0:00 left, always, every time.
The word siren sounds so much better than the word hooter. The siren itself sounds so much better than the GAA’s hooter, which sounds like a muffled fart.
The “hooter” in Gaelic football is an Irishman’s hooter. The fella with his finger on the button presses it two or three seconds late, because that’s what Irish people do. Then the button takes two or three seconds for the actual noise to sound. And mostly you can’t hear the noise.
Because that’s how the Irish do things.
Irish people jaywalk. We drink drive. We evade tax and we build without planning permission. This is no country for hooters.
Abolish it.
The desperation to takeaway common sense and the discretion of the ref is awful alright.
If the hooter when off mid air on Sunday somebody would have died.
The idea of the perfect is the enemy of common sense.
Anybody who has watched Adam Curtis’s documentaries knows this.
It’s like hamlet without the prince. the ref will be aware if he wronged a team in a game and I Always feel he’d give that side one last attack.
Just looking at previous All Ireland finals.
Kerry have appeeared in almost 50% of the finals. Incredible record of consistency down through the centuries
Abolish planning permission and drink driving laws while you’re at it.
I’d suspect the people who brought in the new rules in Gaelic football are probably drink drivers. They’re definitely people who keep unearned rent.
Security deposits grasped by insecure despots
I didn’t appreciate the tag on this thread earlier tonight, @peddlerscross. Surely even contrarian weirdos couldn’t genuinely justify the GGA tv rights deals whereby Wicklow-Offaly in the Tidy Towns is televised ahead of Kerry-Armagh in the championship. It’s just a very sad state of affairs.
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Very hard to see how anyone could argue with that idea
The BBC don’t have those games. They’re behind a paywall would you believe
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You have an awful liking for populist fluff guff for an otherwise notably intelligent person.
John Mullane is the next thing to a moron. By the way, he is notorious among other inhabitants of press boxes for his carry on during matches. They are trying to concentrate and take notes. He is meanwhile starring in his own personal pantomime.
Consistent… His own word, of course.
Nonsense – whether bruited sporadically or consistently – remains nonsense.
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I’d always try to play the ball and not the man on these things but think he’s spot on with his core point on this one.
The Kerry Football team are and always have been one of the flagship teams in Irish sport and for them to be shown on telly just once so far in five games is bizarre. Fair chance even if they win this weekend, their Quarter Final will be on GAA GO too. David Clifford is possibly the best thing to happen Gaelic Football in decades and he’s hidden away in a far corner of the Internet where there is basically only a handful of die hards watching. Its absolutely no way to promote a sport.
Hurling needs oxygen too but yet with only seven games taking place across four weekends in the prime months of June and July, they insist upon most of the games that actually take place in the busy months of April and May to again be hidden away on an app that rightly or wrongly, most elderly people can’t work and most young people are too lazy or too mean to do so.
So what you end up with is a niche sport becoming even more niche and less relevant to the wider public.
That is not a good thing.
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They need to hand over a dozen or so matches to TG4, Virgin and the BBC or a mixture of the three. Then put the remainder on gaa go. If gaa go isn’t willing or capable to stream everything then let clubber have the residual games.
Lose the punditry and have a five minute preview between commentator and colour commentator and one camera. Show two 5 minute ad breaks at half time and half the price of a stream from €15 to 7.50.
In this day and age where there are cameras at every match it is bizarre that there is no archive where every match from this year can be watched back in the days, weeks, months after the fact. Even if not televised or streamed live. Throw it up synced with local radio commentary on YouTube or set up an archive platform
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