Just stop Keepers taking any free outside of their own 45m line.

dufferman (Down) - Posts: 156 - 23/09/2015 15:46:15    1791450

Dublin used it as a delay tactic towards the end of the final and it shouldn't be allowed to be used as an advantage. When a ref awards a free, immediately after he sorts out any disciplinary issues he should blow his whistle to restart the game and a kicker should be given 20-30 seconds to kick the ball.

Time keeping is a massive issue in GAA and is my pet hate.

seany16 (Dublin) - Posts: 1658 - 23/09/2015 15:48:27    1791452

MesAmis / withnof - enough of that common sense now.

We should ban left footed keepers taken frees on the right side of the pitch in the second half

HenryHill16 (Dublin) - Posts: 249 - 23/09/2015 15:50:11    1791453

You are following the RTE agenda or rather the agenda of a particular clique in RTE Sports. Focusing on any negative in GAA. Remember when the issue was sponsorship by drinks companies. Big issue on Joe Duffy etc. GAA reacted and drinks Guinness sponsorship of the Championship was discontinued. Guinness now involved in other sports, this appears not to be an issue for media any more. You have to face the reality that there are those who don't like GAA and are looking for any excuse to complain. You will never keep them happy so don't bother. Time wasting takes place in all sports, soccer in particular and media are not clamouring for rule change there. Responding to this incessant fault finding of GAA only encourages them. Time to grow a pair!

mod (Mayo) - Posts: 859 - 23/09/2015 16:00:05    1791459

icehonesty
I would love to see your idea introduced where the player fouled has to take the kick as especially at inter county level every player regardless of his position should be able to execute that skill. However in practice it could never work. What if the player fouled is genuinely injured and needs treatment? if it's a blood injury he has to go off for treatment. And of course then it would be open to systematic abuse where a fouled player could feign injury so as to not have to take free. All in all would probably end up slowing the game down even more..

Greenwood (Meath) - Posts: 210 - 23/09/2015 16:12:22    1791465

change time limit to 30 mins. But time stops for all frees and kick outs. What do ye think ?

blueeyedrover (Galway) - Posts: 45 - 23/09/2015 16:15:03    1791467

People let's be honest here. This is I believe the biggest problem in Gaelic football. The amount of time the ball is in play is ridiculous and the additional time is a joke. I have said if for the whole year on this website but have been ignored. Give the referee the ability to STOP THE CLOCK for injuties, frees, and other stoppages. We will have a much more enjoyable game and games will be higher scoring. Job sorted

PoppinPoints (Meath) - Posts: 225 - 23/09/2015 16:45:34    1791497

HenryHill16
County: Dublin
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1791453 MesAmis / withnof - enough of that common sense now.

We should ban left footed keepers taken frees on the right side of the pitch in the second half

Yeah you can be as paranoid and flippant about it as you like. But in both the drawn semi and the final Cluxton missed a number of frees that he may have stuck over if there wasn't so much confusion and delays. Tactic or not, it was counter-productive to the dubs and could have cost ye.

Breffni40 (Cavan) - Posts: 12133 - 23/09/2015 16:51:58    1791501

Sheehan took 2 full minutes to take Kerry's last free

jimbodub (Dublin) - Posts: 20608 - 23/09/2015 17:26:31    1791529

It was not intended to be anti-Cluxtons as many county and club teams do it. Some teams mess around trying to decide whO is going to kick the free, with the ball being thrown from player to player simply to run down the clock. Now that we are coming towards the end of the year seems a good time to air such things.

neverright (Roscommon) - Posts: 1648 - 23/09/2015 17:41:12    1791535

jimbodub
County: Dublin
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1791529
Sheehan took 2 full minutes to take Kerry's last free

The one in injury time?

Superglue (Kerry) - Posts: 1283 - 23/09/2015 17:44:42    1791538

jimbodub
County: Dublin
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1791529 Sheehan took 2 full minutes to take Kerry's last free

Interesting, are you suggesting Kerry intentionally wasted time and maybe INTENDED TO LOSE THE GAME? This is big jimbo, real big.

Breffni40 (Cavan) - Posts: 12133 - 23/09/2015 17:49:52    1791542

I think Jimbo's point is that for a lot of Dublin's frees on Sunday that were delayed may not have been all down to Dublin time wasting.

The last one for example where Cluxton/Connolly did the will he come won't he come up routine was all done whilst the referee was talking to players. Then inexplicably two Kerrymen stood about 5 yards in front of Connolly delaying the free kick from being taken.

It's like when McStay added up all the time Cluxton wasted on free kicks in the Leinster Final a couple of years ago. It came up to about 7/8mins or something. People were up in arms! Ban frees by keepers etc. However around 80% of the time "wasted" was due to an injury to one of the Meath players!!!

MesAmis (Dublin) - Posts: 13725 - 23/09/2015 18:09:07    1791548

Honestly Breffni39 i wasnt being flippin' paranoid - i dont even see this as a Dub specific issue.

But seriously how would this 10/15/20 second rule be enforced?
it obvious that teams would foul on purpose to make it easier to win back possession.
the other team will stay down injured to buy time.

The answer is obvious, as stated by MesAmis, the ref's shouldnt be afraid to add on as much time as they like.
if a team wants to bring their keeper up to take the free, the ref should add another minute, simple as.
nothing wrong with 8-10 mins stoppage time being added

HenryHill16 (Dublin) - Posts: 249 - 24/09/2015 09:12:50    1791650

Honestly Breffni39 i wasnt being paranoid - i dont even see this as a Dub specific issue.

But seriously how would this 10/15/20 second rule be enforced?
it obvious that teams would foul on purpose to make it easier to win back possession.
the other team will stay down injured to buy time.

The answer is obvious, as stated by MesAmis, the ref's shouldnt be afraid to add on as much time as they like.
if a team wants to bring their keeper up to take the free, the ref should add another minute, simple as.
nothing wrong with 8-10 mins stoppage time being added

HenryHill16 (Dublin) - Posts: 249 - 24/09/2015 09:49:13    1791668

Slow free taking shows up 2 issues, either a team is time wasting or the free taker isn't confident enough to make up his own mind, how many times have you seen free takers looking at their manager to see what to do when near the end of the game, damn it either take the quick point and win the next kick out or take a quick free at goal, don't be looking at your manager while the opposition put every man between the ball and the goals

riverboys (Mayo) - Posts: 1389 - 27/09/2015 21:17:03    1792833