Seo chugaibh alt a scríobh mé ar an meon diúltach atá ag na saineolaithe agus an lucht anailíse ar pheil Ghaelach - An article on the negativitiy of our anaylists and commentators towards football. It is time to accept that football is constantly changing and people need to accept it. (google translate for those who don't understand it!!

https://nadubsabu.com/2016/08/02/diultaimis-don-diultachas/

15BACSAM (Dublin) - Posts: 142 - 03/08/2016 14:36:47    1894805

Agreed, it's just the way it is though, negative comments and criticism are 'sellers'.

GetOverTheBar (Tyrone) - Posts: 1388 - 03/08/2016 14:54:33    1894826

Just watch All Ireland gold...... When football was "better"

JayP (Dublin) - Posts: 1772 - 03/08/2016 15:19:10    1894848

Crowds are down this year but its no wonder when a lot of our anaylists and commentators are proclaiming to the world that the game is crap!

15BACSAM (Dublin) - Posts: 142 - 04/08/2016 11:03:21    1895255

How much of a difference would playing the Ulster final to a possibly sell out crowd in Croke Park rather than Clones make?

Cheers RG keep worrying more about venues than player management !

Seansy48 (Tyrone) - Posts: 237 - 04/08/2016 15:37:13    1895624

GGdub (Dublin) - Posts: 260 - 05/08/2016 20:40:10    1896410

As I said a few weeks ago:

"Some very negative people on here saying the game is dead, bring back the good old days, its just defensive football now blah blah blah.

It's like hearing 6 year olds complain not knowing why they are doing it and can't back it up with reason but because their friends are complaining as well they join in to feel part of the crowd.

Here is what negative football has produced this year so fare in each province:

Ulster 33.5 points per game

Munster 38.2 points per game

Leinster 35.6 points per game

Connacht 34 points per game

In the qualifiers the average per game has been 32.7

We have had shocks and upsets, hammerings and close calls, dives and handbags, big crowds and small, the usual poor and bad refs (depending if your team won)

How is the game dead or dying? I just don't understand for one."


And:


"So to all those people who say football is dead or dying here is a quote from Spillane in 92 to show nothing has changed

"its a poor standard, its a very poor championship this year"

He goes on to say what most people with ideas that the golden days are over often think

"What I notice is one skill that is very much missing in football at the moment is the long kick pass where the ball quickly from one end of the field to the other from one side of the field to the other and getting scores."

It shows people remember mainly good games and try to forget the bad (which we have every year)

And just to make sure it is understood this is 1992 not 2016

"there's no flowing play in football anymore. its too scrappy defenses dominating."

DoireCityFC (Derry) - Posts: 1580 - 07/08/2016 18:04:43    1897500