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Goals should certainly be at 4 if a certain type of point is worth two. Changing it back just seems to be to appease the people who thought there were too many new rules without actually looking at the reasoning behind them and how they ‘dovetail’. Surprised at gentleman Jim and his erudite specs.
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The gpa done away with the OBC sadly but plenty to be said to trialing this. A 45 shouldn’t be 2 points but I’m ok with the 2 point arc. Happy to let it be trialed. Those of us watching games not on the telly know how broken the game has become. There’s an appetite for change so it’s time to change.
Ah sure you’d change nothing ever despite also agreeing the sport is very boring to watch most of the time.
Maybe Jim and the lads only ever expected to get 2-3 changes through so they suggested 6 knowing they could pull a few out and get the ones they wanted in.
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I’d have banned the handpassed point 30 years ago. Jim and the lads want it kept.
I don’t think so I think they all nearly went together. With this one a key element of it. The throw in one seems the only completely stand alone one. I can’t see that having a hugely negative or positive impact.
Hard to see why they are keeping that but I would bow to their greater knowledge in general and feel they have good reasoning behind trying most of the new rules. Easy enough to just sneer away and be negative about everything
You should be negative about things that are shit.
This is the best rule change idea anybody has come up with. It would return Gaelic football to a one on contest sport and eliminate mass defence at a stroke.
Yeah that was a good one alright they might trial that next year
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Believe it or not there were some awful simpletons opposed to the 4 points for a goal change because they reckoned if a team got 2 goals they would lead by 8 points rather than 6 and the game would be over. Neglecting to factor in that a team losing by 8 points would be losing by 2 scores, just as a team losing by 6 would be under the current rules.
I suspect the real reason for them dropping it is because they didn’t want the scoring system to be different to hurling, camogie and ladies football.
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Most of them lads would prefer that the ball was an oul pigskin and lads still played in a cap.
If it was 4 for a goal, and the GAA tried to change it to 3, the very same group would be complaining that it doesn’t reward the talented overweight goal hanging full forward and should go the way of smallpox.
Notable that the advanced mark with automatic free advantage inside the 20m line stays. It is the poorest of the proposed changes and effectively gives a point for catching the ball whether you go looking for it or not.
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Wasn’t the real reason that some intercounty players last weekend couldn’t count?
And if the attacker plays on the play can still be brought back for the mark of he loses possession, his shot is blocked or he doesn’t score.
Nonsense
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Makes sense. People were complaining about scoreboards having to be repeatedly reprogrammed to calculate the goal’s value correctly. But I doubt there are many scoreboards around the country that aggregate the points tally in the first place.
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Croker.
Thurles.
SuperValu.
Doubt there’s many more.