I for one think the 00's does not even compare to the 90's in terms of football. The 90's had 11 different finalists with 9 different winners. The 00's had 7 different finalist and only 4 different winners. Its turned so predictable with the same teams contesting it every year. Hopefully we can look forward to a better 10's.

sammaguire09 (Kildare) - Posts: 101 - 22/09/2009 19:00:43    433520

The 90's any day for me. I think the introduction of the current qualifier system has greatly damaged the championship with the provincial championships now meaning little or nothing. The intensity has totally gone out of the start of the summer. The 90's provided us with matches like the Meath v. Dublin epic 4 matches in '91, what did the 00's bring us? The first Monaghan v. Derry match this year. Great.

Royal_Girl2k9 (Meath) - Posts: 2107 - 22/09/2009 19:51:56    433569

Oh the Tyrone Mafia won't like this thread, according to them Gaelic Games only began in the oo's, they have selective memory loss. 90's by a long shot.

PJ (None) - Posts: 2288 - 22/09/2009 20:07:25    433584

The 90s was a great year for football and hurling too. football had Derry and Donegal making the breakthrough, Galway and Down re-emerging. in hurling we had Offaly, Clare and Wexford and the start of a good Waterford side. A great decade for GAA. Now PJ, don't be a wise a**!!

wise_guy (Tyrone) - Posts: 1584 - 22/09/2009 20:25:57    433606

yet 2005 is widely regarded as the best all ireland championship ever

ffgg (Longford) - Posts: 2571 - 22/09/2009 20:34:07    433617

Nah we should have won it in 95 buh thats football for ye PJ, Tyrone brought football to a new level and Kerry and cork are the only teams to match them.

smacky (Tyrone) - Posts: 193 - 22/09/2009 21:03:03    433644

ffgg
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yet 2005 is widely regarded as the best all ireland championship ever


News to me. The three Armagh V Tyrone gams were memorable I grant you, although only the 3rd was great football, the first two were good games. The drawn game should have been won by Tyrone, when Armagh won I thought Tyrone should have taken it, and I thought Armagh should have won the semi, when Tyrone took the honours. Always difficult to separate those two.

It was also a good final. But this year we had the emergence of Wicklow, Antrim, a great Derry V Monaghan game, some good Kildare games and many others, so I am not convinced 2005 was any better.

patrique (Antrim) - Posts: 13709 - 22/09/2009 21:15:11    433666

my bad i should have said the 90s was a great decade not year!!

wise_guy (Tyrone) - Posts: 1584 - 22/09/2009 21:33:41    433694

The 90s was a great decade but 00s was far better and the 05 final was the best i have ever seen .

Dellboypolecat (Tyrone) - Posts: 15069 - 22/09/2009 22:13:16    433754

Of course it would be Dell, sure the 90's were before 03

Niamh (Derry) - Posts: 2397 - 22/09/2009 22:16:15    433757

I mean i can understand why you would say the 00's was better but at the start of each 00's championship you could always see where the contenders were coming from bar a couple of surprises up until maybe the semi-final stages. Even many of the finals were useless...the one's with Mayo, the one's with Cork, the emergence of negative football coming to the fore and beginning to overcome freeflowing football.

sammaguire09 (Kildare) - Posts: 101 - 22/09/2009 22:22:23    433766

The 90's for me, not because we won 2 All Irelands in the 90's and we've been crap in the 00's. But simply down to the fact that football was far more physical in the 90's, even though its not that long ago, but football for me has changed completely and not for the better. Like did you ever see a player from any county dive in the 90's or lie down to get an opponent sent off??????????

No.15 (Down) - Posts: 193 - 22/09/2009 22:44:20    433808

00s....Football is just better now, Players are fitter and stronger, its marketed better, theres much more debate. Its just a better more modern game.

GetOverTheBar (Tyrone) - Posts: 1388 - 22/09/2009 22:49:00    433816

GetOverTheBar
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00s....Football is just better now, Players are fitter and stronger, its marketed better, theres much more debate. Its just a better more modern game.


Now think about this.

Do you honestly believe that if the Wexford 4 in a row team of 1915-18 were alive now they would be doing the training they did then?

patrique (Antrim) - Posts: 13709 - 22/09/2009 23:06:30    433850

I thought the 60's were better than the 70's

thykingdomcome (Kerry) - Posts: 1206 - 22/09/2009 23:08:44    433855

No because they would be about 129 years old

your.right (Longford) - Posts: 74 - 22/09/2009 23:16:19    433869

The 90's by a country mile. We never had any of this negative football and the provincial championships meant something to the fans and the players, not like nowadays.

bountyhunter (Cavan) - Posts: 302 - 22/09/2009 23:17:37    433875

No.15
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433808 The 90's for me, not because we won 2 All Irelands in the 90's and we've been crap in the 00's. But simply down to the fact that football was far more physical in the 90's, even though its not that long ago, but football for me has changed completely and not for the better. Like did you ever see a player from any county dive in the 90's or lie down to get an opponent sent off??????????

Spot on No 15, its creeping into todays game,

PJ (None) - Posts: 2288 - 22/09/2009 23:18:01    433876

I think the 90s saw an increase in the belief by many more counties in their ability to compete at the top level, but it also coincided with the demise and rebuilding of the Kerry team from 1986 through to 1999, with only the 1 title in 97 (which they won thanks to MAYO!!!!!!!!!). Since 2000, Kerry have re-established themselves at the fore-front with the majority of teams conceding defeat before or in the case of Dublin, Cork and Mayo in recent years, immediately after throw-in. Thanks be to God for Armagh, Tyrone and Galway for they'd have won the bloody lot otherwise. I think financial resources is going to play a big part over the next 5 years or so, which leaves Tyrone with reasonable prospects as long as the Club Tyrone keeps raking it in

On_the_ditch (Tyrone) - Posts: 98 - 22/09/2009 23:51:55    433925

Gaelic games started and ended in 1993 :)

bosch (Derry) - Posts: 873 - 23/09/2009 08:27:22    434006