Replying To Lockjaw: "I never really got the obsession with comparing hurling with football. Two vastly different sports. Hurling is way more helter-skelter than football and there are more one-on-one duals to win possession. Each to their own."
Hurling has a different problem with points scored at ease from all angles and distances. Maybe a 5-pts goal might cure this.
I wonder if the two-pts arc could be used 'in reverse' in hurling - a 2-pointer from 'inside the arc' after an Advanced Mark (a '40/40, akin to football's '45/20', but from inside the defensive arc to inside the attacking one, a puck of 65m or so).
It has been a great year of football. From the national football league, provincial championships, Tailteann Cup, All Ireland championship, county/club championships and on to provincial club championships - since the end of January to mid December we have been spoilt with great football. It has been absolutely fantastic. The poor hurling folk have had as much to cheer about. Football has rounded off 2025 as the top dog!
Replying To legendzxix: "It has been a great year of football. From the national football league, provincial championships, Tailteann Cup, All Ireland championship, county/club championships and on to provincial club championships - since the end of January to mid December we have been spoilt with great football. It has been absolutely fantastic. The poor hurling folk have had as much to cheer about. Football has rounded off 2025 as the top dog!"
Replying To legendzxix: "It has been a great year of football. From the national football league, provincial championships, Tailteann Cup, All Ireland championship, county/club championships and on to provincial club championships - since the end of January to mid December we have been spoilt with great football. It has been absolutely fantastic. The poor hurling folk have had as much to cheer about. Football has rounded off 2025 as the top dog!"
Enjoyed the Football this year for sure. Only rule tweak Id like to see would be some sort of handpassing restrictions, but not absolutely certain what. Maybe handpassing only allowed in a forwards direction? There's been great hurling too! Leinster club championship was brilliant, plenty close games Senior, Intermediate and Junior. Looking forward to the AI series now!
Replying To Viking66: "Enjoyed the Football this year for sure. Only rule tweak Id like to see would be some sort of handpassing restrictions, but not absolutely certain what. Maybe handpassing only allowed in a forwards direction? There's been great hurling too! Leinster club championship was brilliant, plenty close games Senior, Intermediate and Junior. Looking forward to the AI series now!"
"If you receive a handpass you can not give a handless". What could be simpler?
Replying To PoolSturgeon: "Well actually I'm a hurling man through and through and couldnt bear to watch the boring rubbish gaelic football had become for most of the previous 20 years but this year I'm fully engrossed in the football championship. I've no problem admitting that the football championship has been infinitely more entertaining. Even heard Shane McGrath, ex-Tipp hurler and current RTE hurling pundit, say as much in an off the cuff remark on radio a couple of weeks ago.
What's more -- and as a hurling man I never thought in a million years I would ever say this --- i think gaelic football is a better product than hurling at the moment and I expect this situation to continue into next year and in the years to come. My love of hurling has diminished quite a lot in recent years --- too many hurling people will brook no criticism of the game and for me the game is being tarnished by current interpretation and application of the handpass. I dont think anyone can deny that a large percentage of handpasses APPEAR to be throws. If they appear to be throws they should be whistled as throws -- if a CLEAR STRIKING ACTION by the hand and separation of ball from hand is not visible to the naked eye it should be called a foul. But of course we are told it's just the speed of execution that makes most of them appear to be throws and referees are afraid to call them as throws as tv pundits will highlight in slow motion replays of incidents where technically they call it wrong. As a Kilkenny man said to me recently when we were discussing this , either change the rule and allow throwing of the sliotar all the time or apply the rule as written and call any handpass that APPEARS to be a throw as a foul.
Gaelic football has faced up to its issues and has developed into a wonderful product as a result of the new rules. I wish hurling would do the same."
Why not ban the hurling handpass, entirely. It's hardly a great skill.
Replying To Aibrean: ""If you receive a handpass you can not give a handless". What could be simpler?"
Forward handpasses shouldn't be restricted. The problem with handpasses in Football is that many are backwards with the sole aim of retaining possession, rather than creating a score.
Replying To Aibrean: "Why not ban the hurling handpass, entirely. It's hardly a great skill."
I agree handpassing has got so fast that its hard to police. So I think underarm throwing should be legalized. Hurling doesn't have the same problem as Football with multiple handpasses purely with the aim of keeping possession for many minutes on end in order to restrict your opponent from scoring. It's easier to block handpasses with the hurl compared to blocking them with just your hands. You have 3 feet of extension both sides.