I hear the 4 points for a goal and 2 points for a 45 are likely to be removed. A good move on both fronts.
Are these rules likely to introduced across the board at club level too? If not then you’re essentially playing two different games (inter-county v club). Would make it difficult for club players without extensive underage inter-county experience to break through. But the conundrum is the sheer volume of work a referee would need to do on their own at club level to police the multitude of new rules.
Taking the 4 point goal and leaving the 2 points from play is silly as philly explains here. The game will just be all about working a two point shot like they work 3 pointers in basketball.
Miguel Delaney made a comment on the Second Captains podcast on Thursday about the new Champions League group stage which I think is relevant to Gaelic football with all the endless format changes and now the endless ridiculous rule changes and the sanitisation of the whole thing.
It was along the lines of:
It feels like there’s so much empty space in this group stage. It will come around to January and that last night probably will be really good, and there will be all sorts of debates about “oh this was worth it”, this is why they did it.
But there’s this three months where not only do you not know what’s going on, but it’s hard to care, and that is a real issue for the sport.
You get to a point where you feel matches don’t really matter, or else that because of the economic framework, that things have been made predictable. It essentially works like slow acting poison on a sport.
Gaelic football is in a place of anomie. Anomie is a sociological term to describe a feeling of drift, of pointlessness, of confused aimlessness because the established norms in a society have suddenly broken down and nobody knows what’s what any more.
A feeling of anomie was described by Durkheim as a major category of suicide.
All this aggregated bullshit that has been heaped on Gaelic football since the black card came in has been a slow acting poison on the sport. Nobody now knows what the championship is or what it’s supposed to be. Now nobody knows what the sport is or what it’s supposed to be.
In the future, Gaelic football will only be played in Tyrone, and Tyrone people will make the rules, and it will go back to being great, in Tyrone only.
I haven’t heard any good argument in favour of having the 2 points arc and the goal only being worth 3? Have heard the reasoning for the 4 point goal and it seems to make sense.
Obviously yeah but I suppose it’s probably good to discuss it too. 4 pointer would have really discouraged the infamous fisted point for a start. I presume Jim and co have a good reason for changing it back to three I just haven’t heard it.
A lad a yard outside the 40 metre arc potentially gets twice as much reward as a fella kicking a point from 50 odd metres if you account for the angle on the 45 line. Just seems like an odd one to me
Maybe they think the best way to encourage teams to go for goals is ultimately to make a point and a goal of equal value and this is only a first step.
Oh I agree with the changes. I just don’t get why removing the 4 point goal and 2 point 45 was being done. They could at least have run it for O’Byrne Cup or League games and seen what it did in proper intercounty games
