As soon as the evenings close in, so too do Ballysteen
Sure take your own opinion over the word of a fella who did both. How long are you in Cark again?
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To be honest soccer games involve more running for longer times but they lack the intensity of a knock out game
The one point that soccer has ahead of GAA is an agreed league structure over the season . Where soccer used to annoy me when I played both was that if a team in the league went on a decent cup run or the Oscar Traynor team went well there were no games . Add that to often wet winters and you ended up in April and May playing on hardening bumpy pitches .
I accept with better pitches and floodlight Astro pitches this has changed . In soccer the two games a week are to catch up
You know for 2 weeks in advance your schedule in soccer, almost without fail.
The GAA have a much more difficult and dynamic calendar to organise. It must be a fucking nightmare
Maybe they weren’t hard done by by fixtures and there was nothing the county board could do, but it’s strange to maintain that there wouldn’t be any drawback to playing two finals in the space of a couple of days. Clearly there would be, physical, mental, and reduced focus and preparation time.
They weren’t two finals. Focus time? For fuck sake. Its amateur sport
Is this the rock you’ve selected to die on?
Yeah, you’ve all the other ones taken
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Might as well have been a final. Adare will win it now. It was a massive game.
Individual county boards make rods for their own back.
Dublin gaa despite having a huge amount of clubs runs pretty much like clockwork from a master schedule perspective. Depending on the level and code you are playing you have a match every two weeks at the same time - top three divisions 5pm on a Saturday, next three Sundya mornings at 11am and the remainder at 3pm on a Sunday - one week is exclusively hurling and the next week exclusively football with a handful of mid week games thrown in from May to early August.
I don’t know why this model isn’t adopted in other counties.
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They’ve committed to playing without IC players have they?
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Maybe they have such a big pool of players they can overcome some fixture obstacles?
Youd have matches being called off in some parishes in counties because of shift work
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You can call off a match because of shift work?
You’ve never seen a match moved because lads were working?
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I’ve never seen a match called off because of shift work.
Ok mate
Try be clearer in future.
Sure you’re deferring to a fella from a stronger county. Where are you from again?
I deferred to the fella that has experience of both at a decent level. By your own admission you never played gah to a decent level. 