Any cunt handpassing over the bar should immediately be black carded.
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Which word there would you italicise if you were forced to pick one?
it
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Nothing wrong with the mark in football, promotes long passing & fielding.
A simple easy fix to better the game of football is stop the handpass backwards.
If a team wants to be negative then at least the kick pass is easier to close down & properly pressurise imo.
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handpass backwards wouldnt work harry, at all, unless you focused it to a particular area of the pitch.
This goal here, for example, has a backwards handpass
The offensive mark or whatever they call it is absolutely shite
You are missing one very important score count:
-1 if you bring the keeper up and he misses it
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6 points for a goal,
3 for a point kicked outside 45 metre arc
2 for a kicked point inside the 45 metre arc
1 for a fisted point
-2 for a goalkeeper taking a shot and missing
Nobody would know what’s going on but it would be good craic.
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-1 and a black card for a fisted point, they add absolutely nothing to the game.There would also be more goals and shots at goals if it was outlawed.
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The GAA’S Central Competitions Control Committee is exploring alternative formats for Division 1 of the Allianz Hurling League from 2025 onwards.
The CCCC is acting on concerns that have been expressed by counties regarding a perceived significant gulf in standards between the strongest and weakest sides in the current Division 1A and 1B system, consisting of equivalent groups of six in which the two bottom sides play off to avoid relegation.
There is a feeling that this gap is affecting the overall intensity of the competition and that the current framework does not provide enough jeopardy for the top teams.
With regards to promotion and relegation, counties have also expressed their concern that there appears to be a yo-yo effect of a small but familiar list of counties coming up and going down from the top tier on a regular basis.
The CCCC has now decided to explore potential new structures to address these concerns but any new format, if adopted, will not come into play until the 2025 competition.
This week the CCCC signalled three potential alternatives for counties to consider. From there, any potential change in structure would need the approval of Central Council.
Option one would look at the GAA reverting to a meritocracy of 12 teams, with the top six teams in Division 1A and the next six in Division 1B, as applied from 2012-19.
Each county would play five games and the top team in 1B would join the top three in Division 1A in league semi-finals.
There would be no change to Divisions 2 or 3.
Option two would see a 12-team Division 1 with six seeded games for each county.
Teams would be seeded based on finishing positions from the previous year. Each team would play games against first, second and third seeds, ensuring that each county gets games at their own standard.
Again, there would be no change to Divisions 2 or 3
Options 3 would see an NHL of five divisions with seven teams in each. This would increase the number of teams in the top two divisions to 14 rather than the current 12 but with two teams going up and down in both divisions, it should ensure competitiveness.
It would also reduce the risk of a Liam MacCarthy Cup team being cut adrift from top-flight league hurling for a prolonged spell.
Feedback from counties must be relayed back to HQ by the end of September.
The GAA are gas. This format was brought in to give the weaker counties exposure to higher level hurling. Now they are dying of exposure.
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They should go back to Option 1. Provided we’re in Division 1.
Hurling is dying.
Hurling has been dying since before the foundation of the state
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They should remove all inter county stuff before minor.
Ban any sort of closed shop academies which look to create elitism and professionalism.
Instead invest in all schools equally.
In its current format you need millions up millions invested in teams to be competitive.
That simply isn’t right or sustainable.
Finally some good news
Currently, the rule book states that the All-Ireland senior finals shall be played in Croke Park on or before the 29th Sunday in the year, on dates determined by Central Council.
July 16th was the 29th Sunday of 2023.
An exercise in fixture fulfilment and getting it all done and out of the way as quickly as possible.
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