Replying To Seanfan:  "I see Croke Park to have a friendly soccer match between 2 English teams next August!!!"

Replying To Seanfan:  "I see Croke Park to have a friendly soccer match between 2 English teams next August!!!"

Replying To TerraPovera:  "I saw that yesterday and assumed it was an April Fools. Unbelievable that they would do something as crass as this at a time that would have been (should be) peak Gaelic games season."

Replying To 32_4_1:  "Spot on? It's rubbish. The tighter the pitch, clearly it's easier to stifle the better team. Put 30 players on a pitch the size of a tennis court and talent has no bearing whatsoever.

Expand the dimensions, inferior teams, their players get isolated. Wondering would anyone pick up on the Kerry/Donegal point after the league final. Kerry will do them when it matters.

GAA unique as it's player for player, position for position. In the past on a bigger pitch, Tyrone tried to shut down the space against Kerry, by rushing them in numbers. Teams do it to Cork in hurling.

It's done for a reason, to offset the talent dearth in the weaker team. Give the better team time, you'll be isolated on bigger pitches. Narrow the dimensions and it stifles the better teams!"

Replying To 32_4_1:  "Spot on? It's rubbish. The tighter the pitch, clearly it's easier to stifle the better team. Put 30 players on a pitch the size of a tennis court and talent has no bearing whatsoever.

Expand the dimensions, inferior teams, their players get isolated. Wondering would anyone pick up on the Kerry/Donegal point after the league final. Kerry will do them when it matters.

GAA unique as it's player for player, position for position. In the past on a bigger pitch, Tyrone tried to shut down the space against Kerry, by rushing them in numbers. Teams do it to Cork in hurling.

It's done for a reason, to offset the talent dearth in the weaker team. Give the better team time, you'll be isolated on bigger pitches. Narrow the dimensions and it stifles the better teams!"

Replying To Viking66:  "You need more talent to operate well in tight spaces, not less. Why do you think there's such a shift in modern coaching towards small area small sided games?"

Replying To 32_4_1:  "You need more talent to operate in small spaces as your advantage is being lessened all the time, that's the point. Until it's nullified at a point.

Talent will still have a bearing in smaller dimensions but is lessened as the dimensions get smaller, that advantage.

Barcelona can operate in tight areas in football, but it's still not ideal versus open space. So you take the space away to lessen the advantage.

Yes real talent can shine here but it's not as ideal as open space. Tighter dimensions offset the talent deficit the more they are reduced. There's a reason Tyrone never went man to man with Kerry, or why KK even at their best, wouldn't play Cork in an open game of hurling!

Weaker teams shut the space, rush in numbers and become physical, to overwhelm the better team, and hope they've done enough so the better team doesn't have time to exploit leftover space.

Last year's hurling final an anomaly in a way. Cork a good example of the point. Generally they've now sussed the KK Limerick physical approach, can play around it, and let the raw talent shine through.

KK and Limerick can't get close to them in individual and raw talent, never really could. It's why Cody adopted the physical approach he did to offset the talent deficit between them and Cork, man for man. Rush them, hit hard, and close the space basically!"