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I'm really worried about our game cause as I've said before people are just going to copy the puke football that McGuinness has started especially when playing Donegal cause it's the only way to beat them. It's not sour grapes anyone can see our game is in serious trouble and something has to be done. clondalkindub (Dublin) - Posts: 9926 - 21/09/2014 18:10:29 1654571 Link 0 |
The only good thing is that Kerry proved that you can adapt and use it and with better footballers you'll still win a game of football. Systems are all very well but it was human error that cost Donegal, this type of game thrives on forcing errors, its negative and horrible to watch. But maybe the better teams with better players can adapt and vary the different styles and systems. Even at Juvenile level they are at it and if you watch the Ladies football final you'll see everyoen is employing it. arock (Dublin) - Posts: 4896 - 21/09/2014 18:24:22 1654589 Link 0 |
England won World Cup in 1966 playing a revolutionary 4--3-3 defensive system. Alf Ramsey was hailed as a tactical genius. Don Revie did the same with Leeds Utd in 1970's. However since then the English game has declined. Rockies (Cork) - Posts: 947 - 21/09/2014 18:26:25 1654591 Link 0 |
Good, get the hurls out. Poetry in motion! martinprince (Tyrone) - Posts: 187 - 21/09/2014 18:34:49 1654603 Link 0 |
Agreed. The nordies are destroying the game. The puke is as infectius as ebola foreverroyal (Meath) - Posts: 349 - 21/09/2014 18:37:25 1654607 Link 0 |
there's a reason why I go to the hurling final every year over the football and its because I cant remember the last decent football final. 2011 was alright but still not a patch on this or last years hurling finals. No matter what tactics hurling managers use it generally doesn't effect the fantastic skills the game has to offer. Of course there are still poor games and there have been a few disappointing finals down the years but this year even the thought of the hurling final in the build up gave me an adrenaline rush and it didn't disappoint. The football just didn't get me interested in the build up but I watched it on the off chance both teams might go for it and im sorry I did, nobody out there today wanted to seize the initiative or be the hero, the game was won fittingly by an error, one of many in the game. Gaelic football has a problem and im not just talking blanket defence teams. I have no interest in watching Dublin practice their shooting against smaller counties and contests effectively over before half time. In hurling seven or eight point leads at half time are not fatal because of the pace of the game but in modern football the second half is about going through the motions and keeping it respectable. I hope hurling gets more investment because football is starting to look like a lost cause SaffronDon (Antrim) - Posts: 2385 - 21/09/2014 18:44:19 1654619 Link 0 |
Miler (Mayo) - Posts: 1015 - 21/09/2014 18:53:07 1654637 Link 0 |
maybe you will see gavan duffy line out for mayo after all Miler (Mayo) - Posts: 1015 - 21/09/2014 18:58:24 1654643 Link 0 |
After both semi finals, we were saying how great the game was. One game later, we are saying it is now dead? bennybunny (Cork) - Posts: 3917 - 21/09/2014 19:19:47 1654676 Link 0 |
The game is in serious trouble? Shhh, better to keep the heads buried in the sand, kick the can down the road and say nothing ;) Sure we've been playing the game without a defined tackle and inconsistent refereeing for years now. Ned_Stormcrow (Cavan) - Posts: 1071 - 21/09/2014 19:43:13 1654728 Link 0 |
Yeh it is in such serious trouble that 82500 people turned up today, millions in Ireland, Britain and around the world watched and there are countless threads on countless websites discussing it. Get real and dry yer eyes; different sports have different styles and Gaelic football is no different. Take off the doom and gloom glasses. Ulsterman (Antrim) - Posts: 9702 - 21/09/2014 19:44:54 1654732 Link 0 |
Both teams should hang there heads in shame. It will definitely go down as the worst All Ireland ever. Thank God for Hurling. rebeltrev (Cork) - Posts: 344 - 21/09/2014 19:55:42 1654749 Link 0 |
foreverroyal MuckrossHead (Donegal) - Posts: 5028 - 21/09/2014 19:59:44 1654759 Link 0 |
Benny Hard to argue with your points. If club football was to be played like today, then its a dead duck. Players and supporters would soon loose interest seadog54 (Meath) - Posts: 2142 - 21/09/2014 20:01:27 1654761 Link 0 |
Today's game was a very poor advertisement for the game as a whole. Yes the semi finals were somewhat better, but today was not about style! It was definitely about winning - at any cost - and as a result was poor fare. carlowman (Carlow) - Posts: 1821 - 21/09/2014 20:05:05 1654770 Link 0 |
Todays game was better than the 04,06,07 finals and equal with the 2009 final in terms of entertainment. uibhfhaili1986 (Offaly) - Posts: 1296 - 21/09/2014 20:09:20 1654777 Link 0 |
Ye would want to have heard Jack O'Shea on radio 1 a short while ago. He said the way the game was played today is not the game he wants to see and he said there should be a rule introduced to outlaw short kick outs..that a kick out has to travel a certain distance or else it's penalised (on the basis that the short kick out eliminates high fielding, one of the best skills in the game). When one of the best players of all time is finding gaelic football hard to watch sometimes, you know the game is in trouble. It's a game that lost me a long time ago PoolSturgeon (Galway) - Posts: 1903 - 21/09/2014 20:29:58 1654816 Link 0 |
I'm already looking forward to next years final between Dublin and Kerry. Llaw_Gyffes (Mayo) - Posts: 1113 - 21/09/2014 20:49:10 1654854 Link 0 |
clondalkindub MuckrossHead (Donegal) - Posts: 5028 - 21/09/2014 20:52:14 1654859 Link 0 |
Get over it lads, an AI title is an AI title, they have something in the region of 268 at this stage, good luck to them :D realdub (Dublin) - Posts: 8592 - 21/09/2014 21:07:05 1654880 Link 0 |