Stick hurling: Parental Guidance advised

[myboyblue]

You knew hurling was fucked when Offalys pure hurling style wasnt effective anymore.

[Ashman]

The amount of bad /lazy tackling is a consequence of the emphasis on possession . The huge amount of “handpassing” is the genesis.

[TheBlackSpot]

@Aristotle

I’d nearly be in favour of a rule that said you had to handpass with the opposite hand

Seen that suggested by somebody. Now it’s more than likely a lack of imagination on my part, but how would that work? Does it mean you’d have to juggle the hurl to the other hand too?

[maroonandwhite]

@TheBlackSpot

but how would that work?

Very very badly at junior level

[TheBlackSpot]

@maroonandwhite

Very very badly at junior level

I never attained those heights.

[peddlerscross]

When crowds come back it will all be fine again.

Even the Antrim v Wexford game the other day was like a different sport to other nonsense that was played.

[maroonandwhite]

Without it going pure Aussie rules mayhem is placing an emphasis on not being caught in possession not a good thing? It can be moved quickly and accurately along with pulling or flicking.

I just want ground hurling back dammit.

[Ashman]

The ball should be handpassed off the Hurley .

[TheBlackSpot]

@Ashman

The ball should be handpassed off the Hurley

That would certainly eliminate the throw.

[Ashman]

Yes

[TheBlackSpot]

But it wouldn’t solve @Aristotle 's problem of the bottled up player having some out.

[StoneCold]

Total hurling

[Ashman]

The reason players get bottled up is because they are too ponderous on the ball .

[Aristotle]

It’s difficult to execute but if the idea is to discourage people from handpassing?

[TheBlackSpot]

@Ashman

The reason players get bottled up is because they are too ponderous on the ball .

Not so sure about that. You’d often see a player raise the sliotar off the ground and immediately be surrounded by opponents.

[Ashman]

Ah ya - that will happen a good bit but more often than not it will be lads being a bit slow

[TheBlackSpot]

A bit more of this is what we wnat

[habanerocat]

@TheBlackSpot

@habanerocat

Sure you’d have to do every hurl in the parish

but in club matches if the home club were smuggling illegal hurls into play the away club wouldn’t be long in drawing the ref’s attention to it.
No doubt enforcement would have problems at the start but I think it should be possible to overcome them.

Yesterday’s discussion I know but they’d be a certain, I’m not a cry baby attitude in the GAA.

I remember years ago when I did some coaching at county underage level and I’d have been fairly familiar with all the players in the county. A certain small county club came into us one evening for an all county league match and they were playing two illegal players.

I said it to the club secretary anyway and he started laughing at me. “We’d be the laughing stock of the county” he says, if I complained about that. He was right of course. A wiser head than mine at the time. It’d be the same with illegal hurls.

[habanerocat]

@TheBlackSpot

A bit more of this is what we wnat

“Over the bar” says Lory Meagher…

[habanerocat]

@Ashman

The ball should be handpassed off the Hurley .

This is the rule I want to see trialled. It really goes side by side with the dropping the hurl rule.