I dunno the last time I did a fitness test before pre season thatās what we were measured on as far as I can remember.
Im not comparing the fitness or saying who is fitter, my point was soccer players play 3 times a week for 90 minutes, the gaa lads would surely cope with correct recovery protocols etc
Itās a retarded discussion.
Would we compare carpenters and electricians in who is able to dig a hole faster???
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A thatās a cracker Kev
I merely made the comparison between a limerick hurler and a limerick fc player. It makes sense soccer lads are play 90 minutes 3 times a week while Gaa players before were playing 70 minutes ever three or four weeks. Weāll see but Offaly and kilkeny got hammered after playing three weeks in a row and looked very tired. Tipperary donāt look particularly fit or nimble to me and cork looked wrecked in the second half yesterday. I personally donāt think Gaa players are as fit as we think.
No such thing
In that case Iāve a feeling that LOI soccer players arenāt as fit as you think either.
Thereās an awful lot more contact in the gaelic games, assuming youāve played the games youāll realise that a different type of fitness is required but you can coast through soccer games far more comfortably because youāre not getting mullocked or dunted around the place non stop. I think youāre mistaken here,
Iāve played both and would find 90 minutes of soccer far tougher. Thereās hardly a shoulder in gaa anymore.
I can vouch for this. I played league of Ireland u21 with UL annacotty and i was a lazy useless cunt to train
Maybe. More robust game.
So external recovery as opposed to internal.
Both sports have both but soccer would have alot more system recovery which pure rest helps with.
Where as gaa players need more muscular-skeletal recovery.
Different animal.
Both need mental switch off.
Work for GAA players actually is a blessing in disguise I think
Absolute nonsense
I played both as well.
Centre half in soccer is a fucking doddle
What level GAA did you play at, junior C? Thereās more contact than ever in the games
Personally i find that hard to believe, i played in the half forward line while i was in my peak as a footballer, anywhere across the middle in soccer, thereās no comparison, you could turn up hungover and boss a soccer game. I have no idea what kind of gaelic football you played, itās a seriously physical game in comparison.
Striker and corner forward to be fair.
You clealry didnāt play to a very high level of soccer if you were turning up hungover.
Didnāt a GAA man go to a premier team on that toughest trade thing and he wasnāt up to fitness standards?
It happened from time to time, a lot higher than you Iād imagine though
I think this is LOI weāre discussing
My apologies.
I played on a Limerick u18 side with Eoin Keating and pat Tobin, whoād been involved with Limerick gaa teams and they were miles ahead of us in physicality. Aerobacially weād be similar but these had knacks for using their bodies in contact. The ferret was a particularly horrible little cunt to mark in training.
Look at Shane long. He bullies men way bigger than him cos he has the physicality from the gaa, the knack of taking a belt
It was Aaron Kernan and he made a show of himself by both Premier League and GAA standards