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Which approach is likely to win out in the battle for All-Ireland honours? legendzxix (Kerry) - Posts: 7757 - 22/07/2014 10:15:03 1623678 Link 0 |
I prefer the negative approach, much more entertaining than the shoot out at the okay corale. You get tired of constant goal getting and point scroing, much more interesting when the tactics are more complex, a bit like soccer were its a thinking mans game and not an all out goal fest which to be fair gets boring pretty quickly Game2Halves (Tyrone) - Posts: 265 - 22/07/2014 10:25:47 1623686 Link 0 |
Hopefully, Attacking Football every time. Fionn (Dublin) - Posts: 3684 - 22/07/2014 10:34:08 1623697 Link 0 |
Attacking Football vs Defensive Football Breffni40 (Cavan) - Posts: 12103 - 22/07/2014 10:42:11 1623704 Link 0 |
Attacking football -v- Dreadful football waynoI (Dublin) - Posts: 13650 - 22/07/2014 11:04:48 1623734 Link 0 |
I wouldn't say that I have a preference for defensive football over attacking football and therefore think the title is a bit of a misnomer as is putting the game in to one of two categories. Offside_Rule (Antrim) - Posts: 4058 - 22/07/2014 11:05:27 1623736 Link 0 |
Defensive football when done by a great team is almost impossible to beat with all out attack. MesAmis (Dublin) - Posts: 13692 - 22/07/2014 11:09:05 1623742 Link 0 |
Breffni39 Fionn (Dublin) - Posts: 3684 - 22/07/2014 11:12:05 1623746 Link 0 |
To be honest I find the whole thing intriguing. As it stands we are still waiting for the top teams to come across each other with the exception of a couple of provincial championship games but what lies ahead will be knock out. It will be over the next month or two that we will see the best attacking teams against the best defensive teams (on one side of the draw anyway) and I for one cannot wait to see how these games play out. Naysayer (Antrim) - Posts: 2071 - 22/07/2014 11:15:47 1623751 Link 0 |
Defensive play is also great to watch... seeing the Dubs getting stuck into the Meath forwards was great jimbodub (Dublin) - Posts: 20587 - 22/07/2014 11:19:53 1623755 Link 0 |
There needs to be a distinction. High quality defensive football isn't the same as getting as many men back behind the ball and in front of the goals as possible, to crowd the opponents out rather than actually defend to a high quality level. For instance, the AI final last year was quite a defensive game, yet there wasn't any sweepers or packed defences. TheMaster (Mayo) - Posts: 16187 - 22/07/2014 11:31:49 1623773 Link 0 |
how to cut crime rate........... instead of jail make criminals watch ulster football re runs for years to fit the crime a lot worse than jail Stmunnsriver (Wexford) - Posts: 2823 - 22/07/2014 11:34:27 1623775 Link 0 |
jimbo, I wonder would you make the same point about Dublin in 2011? Actually, I genuinely don't believe that that same point made about Dublin would make it through the admins, as that is the way the site has gone, unfortunately. TheMaster (Mayo) - Posts: 16187 - 22/07/2014 11:40:19 1623785 Link 0 |
First & foremost, I absolutely love the game of Gaelic Football, in all its forms. OffalyBigBall (Offaly) - Posts: 625 - 22/07/2014 11:41:28 1623788 Link 0 |
Themaster jimbodub (Dublin) - Posts: 20587 - 22/07/2014 11:51:42 1623801 Link 0 |
Name of the thread is rubbish. A pure lack of intelligence for different sports strategies and acceptance for teams that are more defense minded in their strategy. You have defensive syles in so many different sports the world over and it is seen as a viable and accepted thing. Not to the Irish though, who love to bemoan anything they can. There are defensive snooker players, card players, the famous 'Catenaccio' in soccer, the neutral zone trap in ice hockey, there are chess players who play more defensively than offensively. The aim is always to give yourself the best chance of WINNING based on the resources at your disposal. This Puke football argument has rumbled on on the threads of this site for 3 years now and it shows a real stupidity and ignorance on our behalf as sports fans that this cannot just be accepted and then analysed for what it is. I agree attack is better to look at but defense allows more evenly contested and intriguing games when the resources / skillset of a certain groups of teams far outweigh the others. I have no faith that this will ever be resolved, so i guess i just have to resign myself to defeat. fire_in_belly (Donegal) - Posts: 59 - 22/07/2014 11:56:50 1623806 Link 0 |
OffalyBigBall - that is probably the best post I have read on the subject across a number of threads. Naysayer (Antrim) - Posts: 2071 - 22/07/2014 11:57:40 1623807 Link 0 |
You need a balance. Dublin...anytime they loose the ball everyone in effect becomes a defender, good tackling to get the ball back. Mayo also do this well when we play well. Intensity, Intensity as Pat Spillane loves to say. yew_tree (Mayo) - Posts: 11219 - 22/07/2014 12:01:31 1623812 Link 0 |
Defensive football isnt necessarily bad football, if your county is playing you'll be gripped by it either way. For a neutral thou, i can see why theyd prefer an open attacking game. HenryHill16 (Dublin) - Posts: 249 - 22/07/2014 12:03:59 1623816 Link 0 |
If you look at Dublin, they have excellent pacey attacking players. These are backed up with pacey running midfielders and maybe 2 half backs with exceptional pace. Dublin's other defenders are decent, but hardly outstanding by any means. GaryMc82 (Derry) - Posts: 3017 - 22/07/2014 12:15:09 1623827 Link 0 |