Whenever there is an inquest over hurling being too free flowing like Cork 05 or Tipp 10, Kilkenny come along and up the âintinsityâ and we get an inquest about bottling players up and holding the spare arm
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They have the best player in the country. Heâs singlehandedly keeping them in the top 3/4 teams.
Similar rule in ice hockey and it works.
I think Kk arent world beaters but on any day will be hard beat .
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Are penalties awarded for technical fouls at present?
TJ must be 32 or 33 at this stage but showing no signs of slowing up. If teams could shut him down or avoid conceding a lot of freesâŚ
I said most
Kk will be hard beat. I think someone probably will, but Iâm not sure who or when. Theyâll earn it whoever does. Theyâre better than last year I reckon and winter mullocking will suit them and Limerick
Do you mean in field hockey? No such rule in ice hockey
Leave it alone ye cunts, canât ye see the bollocks theyâve made of football
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Ok, technically you have me there. I said similar. Youâre not going to score from far out in Ice Hockey anyway, but they have a rule about icing the puck which basically means you canât hit it long. The offside rule isnât like soccer, itâs about moving the puck from zone to zone . You canât pass long. So thatâs what I meant by similar. The rules are structured to stop long striking.
No, a technical foul is always a 21*. Personal fouls are penalties.
*Please donât tell me there are no such things as 21s any more.
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Bar empty netters I can only remember one long range goal which was a goalie fuck up. But yes the rules help negate long aimless clearances and at the other end just hanging out at the goal. Of course they used to be more restrictive. But nothing wrong with using rule changes to better gameplay. Football have tried to improve their wojus product, hurling only needs a few tweaks.
If football banned to backward handpass it would solve a huge amount of its problems
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Do things need to be changed to try and limit the abilities of the top 1%, when they will also have an impact on the other 99%
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True, but the tackle is the real issue, thereâs as much diving in it now as soccer.
Itâs still quite hard to score from inside your own half as Diarmuid Byrnes can attest to.
Managers and coaches will adapt tactically to any changes to give them the best chance to win. Do you not think that reducing the opportunity to score from your own half completely would cause teams to drop a few players back to choke the space even further?
I saw a piece somewhere that maybe they should look at making the sliotar lighter rather than heavier as it would lose some of its aerodynamism.
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It would,but is that not what we want, more players and tighter marking and tighter shooting opportunities instead of the unmarked shots that are too easily worked now. I think altering the ball would change the whole game, a lighter ball might fly out of play more, making it more stop start? A heavier ball would be a bit more dangerous plus would change touch entirely, crisp passing and interplay is one of the most attractive parts of it. Iâd make the posts narrower before that.
You could go down the route of restricting numbers in a half, say to 9/10 but thatâs hard to police
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Sorry pal, theyâre 20m frees now 