Opening space is the key if you ask me. Donegal beat dublin based on defense and packed that space, everyone has copied since preventing teams that can play football being effective. The dublin 6 in a row team were so good it really delayed what we see now
I wouldnât be taking anything from AFL. A horrendous game
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And donât forget the league final was a wonderful game of Gaelic football.
By the time the split season was finished with the teams they can barely walk by the all Ireland series.
Galway have fine footballers and play a nice brand but were playing with 6/7 injured players in the final thanks to the format.
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This will be news to Tyrone!
Could we consider scrums as a form of restart ?
It would create space for the forwards if the backs were tied in an 8 man push.
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+1,000. Despite my admin responsibilities & potential legal obligations, I mute all the AFL threads. Who gives a fuck if Billy Bob Buchanan from Tubbercurry has earned a contract with Fremantle Scavengers? An absolutely putrid activity.
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Arm wrestling is a better watch
The bitching and moaning about the state of Gaelic Football was going on then too.
Some sort of fair play in between Clifford and Mick Fitz?
Break!!! Fitzy break!!!
No hugging!!
Would ye not shake hands lads?
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Youâre gone full-tilt I see
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There is and has been since at least the mid-2000s.
https://twitter.com/SmallerFishGAA/status/1846845082428653764
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 canât 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 countyâs to make them more appealing to sponsors.
The Westmeath wildsharks
Derry dominoâs
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 donât think gaelic football can be salvaged, despite these current efforts. Once you lose the hearts & minds of the people, allied with trends moving on, itâs very difficult to recover lost ground even when you scramble around trying to make things relevant again. Iâd point to the example of things like conkers, space hoppers & snooker where theyâre 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 canât 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 hadnât 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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