The Death of Gaelic (fist) Football

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WTF?

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GGA is dead, Spud hockey is thriving

yet both got the same viewing figures for the all Oireland final :joy:

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Maybe a more rewarding mark. Most people play through them as is so it’s not massively beneficial. Catch a mark, and you bring it forward 20 yards from where it’s caught for a proper free or something

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yes, slow down the game even more :grinning:

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the only thing I will say about the mark and even if the players play through them, thats because they are now afforded the space to move on rather than previously of letting them catch it and then swarm around and get them to over carry

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Your beloved ESRI have a different view mate

ESRI Report

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Give him a minute and he’ll go in and change the report.

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Despite the sloppy sentence construction, lack of punctuation and questionable logic,I’ve managed to make some sense from this post: It appears @HBV is a a dim partitionist

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Not dead in Kerry just yet, watched the Kerins O’Rahillys v Dr Crokes championship match last night on TG4, ended up 3-18 to 2-17…

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uber Gael alert

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Ah mate, don’t be making me blush

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It worked so well in the past.
As an aside, just ban backward handpasses in your own 65. That’d do it.

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ban the hand pass altogether. the sport is fixed there and then

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Terrible idea. Handpassing is vital to the game

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there is no skill in it.

a foot pass can achieve the same thing but there is a bit of skill involved.

lads wouldn’t be so quick to run into contact and cause a ruck if they knew they couldn’t hand pass/throw it out

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A footpass can’t achieve the same thing, imagine a ball is kicked into a corner forward who wins it and he has two runners off either side to give a quick handpass to get in on goal. A kickpass wouldn’t work in this scenario. Maybe an idea where you can’t handpass inside the two 45s could work however

Or maybe that you can’t handpass backwards further than the line you’re passed

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There is actually no reason why a kick-pass wouldn’t work in those scenarios if players had grown accustomed to having to kick the ball in those scenarios

Anything regarding hand-passing balls backwards or past a certain line or between two lines or a certain limit of hand-passes in a row is needlessly complicated, hard to enforce and I don’t think will really solve anything anyways.

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Yes there is. Kickpassing a ball takes much longer than just a quick pop handpass to a man running flat out 2 or 3 yards away

Kind of agree here. The main issue with most of the rule changes proposed is that the team being punished is the team in control of the ball, like for example a shot clock or outlawing handpassing is helping the defensive team even more.

My favourite of the proposed changes are the two points for points from outside a certain distance and cynical fouls being punished by a free from a scoreable distance when the foul is committed a long way from goal

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  • Ban all points scored by handpass
  • Handpass can only be used before ball has been bounced or soloed. If it has then has to be kick passed

Problem solved

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The first one should have been outlawed years ago but it does nothing to solve the real issue. The second one is awful anyway. Say Jack McCaffrey goes on a run up the pitch but is not in a position to shoot and he’s being closed down so doesn’t have an easy kicking option, he’ll turn around and kick it backwards instead of giving a simple handpass and going for a return pass

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