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The keeper needs to be left in the goalmouth.
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Have they thought of awarding a point to a player who bounces the ball with his left hand and then handpasses it with his right?
You really need to reward the exceedingly difficult skills like that.
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Inter County Football pretty much fell off a cliff entertainment wise after 2017 but the zealots can’t admit to being wrong and will have us all down in Australia playing AFL if they dont put away the shovels and stop digging.
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We could rebrand county’s to make them more appealing to sponsors.
The Westmeath wildsharks
Derry domino’s
Dublin dinosaurs
I would like to see an experiment with a rule in Gaelic football where no defensive player bar the goalkeeper can go inside their own 21 unless an attacking player has first gone inside the 21.
Like a reverse offside for defending teams.
Just for the hell of it. It actually sounds better to me than any other rule change in the last 20 years.
Mate
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Do they still play that trampoline basketball? I remember it was Rte 20 years ago
Gaelic football new rule idea:
Kickouts must be directed aerially into an area of 10 square metres in the centre of the pitch in which two players from each team have their own personal trampoline. These four players compete to win the ball using the trampolines to jump as high as possible.
The trampolines will encourage the traditional skills of high jumping and catching in midfield.
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I personally don’t think gaelic football can be salvaged, despite these current efforts. Once you lose the hearts & minds of the people, allied with trends moving on, it’s very difficult to recover lost ground even when you scramble around trying to make things relevant again. I’d point to the example of things like conkers, space hoppers & snooker where they’re still used/played but only as a niche activity in small geographical pockets. There has been a multitude of factors converging to get us here:
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Gaelic football was meant to be based on contests & wan on wan battles. It was to be enjoyed mainly by rural people of below average intelligence who would go out, run around & belt each other for an hour. But Twitter coaches have over-engineered things & devised tactics focused on risk averse, defensive & possession without penetration football, thus removing the main selling points. Muldoons can’t think on their feet or go against instructions so they robotically follow the game plan. The game has become rubby without the collisions, as teams line up in their own half & fist pass the ball around sideways & backwards.
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The pandemic saw people take stock of their lives, careers & hobbies in ways they hadn’t before. They started to deeply analyse what they were doing & where they were spending their money. People woke up & stopped just following pursuits because of tradition or accessibility. People are now being more selective & have realised that Gaelic football is diabolical stuff.
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The awful stewardship of the association in recent years & disastrous decision making & communication. The split season was the GAA themselves deciding to make their games largely irrelevant to the wider public and nobody really cares any more.
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The CIA and the FBI have destroyed Gaelic Football.
CIA = Coaching Imbeciles Association
FBI = Foot Ball Idiots
FBI could also stand for “Fall Back Immediately” or “Foul Ball Immediately”.
The game has become infiltrated by online FSB (Fake Skills Broadcasters) double agents.
All we see now are KGB (Kill Games Basketballing) tactics.
Dublin’s dominance was the biggest issue in the game at inter-county level during the period from 2013-2020. Thankfully that suffocating dominance seems to be on the wane but it’s kind of ironic that the manager who instigated said period is now in charge of rectifying Gaelic football’s current malaise. The blanket defence emergence in 2011 certainly didn’t help but the game felt much better before 2010 because it was so much more competitive across all provinces and at all levels.
I’d argue that the blanket defence most debilitating effect is at club level where coaches on the “coaching circuit” introduce negative defensive systems while pocketing upwards of €100 per session. The funny part is that most club teams would perform better with an off the cuff approach with rudimentary tactics.
They were whinging about the blanket defence
In 2002
+1. There’ll be at least 2 (two) more unhappy players on every club panel across the country. Would they still allow 5 subs even? Plus there wouldn’t be sufficient peripheral players to power a 3rd team (or 4th team in bigger areas) by two players being cut from senior/intermediate and junior A/B. It would be a nightmare for lads on the cusp of starting on a team.
It has happened at underage levels in smaller rural clubs mind you.
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2003 perhaps and Tyrone’s swarm defence? There were some tremendous championships in the early 00’s when we’d have first started following GAA. The 90’s seemed like a tremendous period too. A pity the gulf grew between the haves and have nots in the meantime.
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It’s like an igloo.
It’s like a gaa pitch with an extra line
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Additional arcs, at least one of which looks like it needed a second go with the protractor, morse code or something across centrefield, and lingering rugby lines.
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3 lines