Does anyone else hate the way the GAA has gone so PC and soft?...

I really wish football especially would man up, too many players diving around looking for frees and too many refs blowing for nothing and booking lads for the smallest things. It really grinds my gears. If i had my way it would be back to the way of the 70s where men were men and everyone knew would be tough but just got on with it.... Bring back the sideline off the ground, bring back the linesman placing the ball, bring back the short shorts and big hair..

Theres no excitement anymore, just boring blanket defences and 2 forwards. Football is a beautiful game which has been ruined by modernism.
Its time for a revolution, free football!! give us back our game

miketyson (Limerick) - Posts: 2748 - 11/10/2010 08:36:13    793900

Bring back the football that Down and Meath played in 91 or Derry and Down played in 94..Too much pussy footin around nowadays..Stupid silly rules like the sidline kick and stupid yellow cards for the least contact..Its win at all costs stuff nowadays.....Cork showed that..Overpaid managers and hangers on draining CBs funds ..Managers ruining games with negative tactics..Let the game flow, bring back the honest to good auld shoulder,Stop this back passing to the keeper,limit this handpassing across the back 7..Because at the moment its glorified soccer and basketball all rolled in2 one

richiej (UK) - Posts: 1430 - 11/10/2010 11:43:15    794053

Bring back the running kick in the ****!

hurlingdub (Dublin) - Posts: 6978 - 11/10/2010 11:50:36    794063

richiej
County: UK
Posts: 600

bring back the honest to good auld shoulder

- could not agree with you more

Derry_ledd (Derry) - Posts: 2093 - 11/10/2010 11:51:15    794064

miketyson
County: Limerick

"bring back the short shorts and big hair..

Theres no excitement anymore"

Hope you didnt get too excited by the short shorts

whiterbannnas (Mayo) - Posts: 2441 - 11/10/2010 11:52:35    794068

miketyson
County: Limerick
Posts: 1575

793900 Does anyone else hate the way the GAA has gone so PC and soft?...


It's not good to wake up of monday morning with Hate on your mind.

But yes you are probably correct the GAA has gone soft, I put it down to the introduction of dressing rooms especially them ones with showers.

dhorse (Laois) - Posts: 11374 - 11/10/2010 12:07:23    794089

dhorse,

Exactly right. Plus the use of deodorants, shampoo etc, not healthy at all !! Lads going around smelling like women of the night !! Like its not just manly !!

Cavan_Slasher (Cavan) - Posts: 10253 - 11/10/2010 12:13:51    794097

we have had the best footballing championship in a very long time in 2010 .. Don't know why you's are complaining , yea less physicality and tactics etc have changed .. but over time things change .. thats always been the case in all situations in life weather it be sport or not and GAA in the last 5 years or so has proven that ..

waynoI (Dublin) - Posts: 13656 - 11/10/2010 12:25:37    794109

I don't think this year was as bad as last year for it.

Floops (Dublin) - Posts: 1623 - 11/10/2010 12:29:21    794112

I do agree that the lack of physicality is a bit frustrating .. when you see a good shoulder put in and the ref blows against your team its absolutely infuriating but nothing stays the same forever .. why its changed i dont know .. i suppose you could liken it to soccer .. where a good hard hitting tackle can get you dropped from your national team (Nigel De Jong for his tackle on Hatam BenArfa .. which im sure most of you know broke Ben Arfas leg , but it was a fair challenge) .. 10 15 years ago a tackle like that would have been welcomed and if a player got such a bad injury itd be seen as unlucky but tuff **** it was a fair tackle .. Just shows how football has changed .. and its the same in GAA .. i dont like the changes in both sports .. but it happens .. nothing we can do

waynoI (Dublin) - Posts: 13656 - 11/10/2010 12:37:39    794126

Everyone seems to think that it was better years ago. I don't want to back to the 70's football where players got kicked & hit arond. Do you remeber what happend to Mickey-Ned O'Sullivan aginst Dublin in the 1975 All-Ireland (year could be wrong). He nearly got his head taken off & only woke up in hospital after the match was over. The Dublin full-back didn't even get sent off which was typical of the time. Connacht & Ulster were cannon fodder in the 70's & 80's, Cork & kerry had it all to themselves in Munster & Leinster only had Dublin, Meath & Offaly.

We have a very competitive championship now & while it isn't perfect, it is way better to back then.

county man (Limerick) - Posts: 1156 - 11/10/2010 13:14:56    794176

Just on a tangent that someone else mentioned.... football gone boring with blanket defences etc

I think generally this is a situation that's been fading away in last couple of season, but especially in matches where Kildare are involved, for some reason.

Our matches against Wicklow and the Dubs in 2009 were real shoot-outs. Our big wins against Laois, Wexford, Derry etc were all marked by high scoring. Even in our disastrous showing against Louth the scoreline was 1-16 to 1-22 and I don't think anyone could say our semi against Down was boring. Maybe it's just Kildare, but i don't think so.

As for physicality - no problem in hurling anyway! The tackle in football is so ill-defined though. The problem is knowing what you can do, rather than being hard enough to do it. Also players are so fit it's sometimes hard to catch the little *******!

Count_Awesome (Kildare) - Posts: 736 - 11/10/2010 19:24:50    794551

waynoI
County: Dublin
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Just to say De Jong was allegedly dropped because the manager was hoping that no-one would notice that Van Bommell, the real target of the Dutch critics, was still there.

It would appear that it worked.

patrique (Antrim) - Posts: 13709 - 11/10/2010 19:35:08    794559

i hate when a lad busts someone else with a fair shoulder but is blown for a free. also you can't touch small jinky forwards nowadays. its like they have there own rules because there small and not big and strong

BettystownRoyal (Meath) - Posts: 3353 - 11/10/2010 20:33:58    794627

Couldn't agree with you more county man. Sometimes you find yourself watching All-Ireland gold on TG4 and wondering what everyone is pining for from the old days and these are the pick of all the games from back then. Players are currently techincally, tactically and physically superior to what has gone before them. An average inter-county player now would have been a superstar in the 1970's.

doublehop (Kildare) - Posts: 4172 - 12/10/2010 08:41:06    794738

Just look at the rubbish we have to watch today?? You cant even touch a player but he falls and rolls over..Get the free clench the fist bang the chest and kick it wide..Its **** glorified Basketball compared to what Down/Meath or Derry/Down showed in the early 90s..Yes its exciting because matches are close..but thats all it is..

richiej (UK) - Posts: 1430 - 12/10/2010 13:08:59    794963

Gaelic football has become more sleekit and cowardly in many ways. There are some awful off the ball hits and referees are being targeted physically much more than they were in days gone by. We see fellas going down hardly touched while getting men deliberately booked and sent off has crept in. This waving hands and fingers at refs to get players a card really annoys me. I also think refs are too quick to give the foul to a man who has a couple of players around him who are actually not fouling.

Ulsterman (Antrim) - Posts: 9837 - 12/10/2010 14:22:58    795031

Obviously I'm delighted that Cork won the AI. There are a lot of great GAA men that now have the medal that they so richly deserve. I'm glad for them.

On the other hand, I have to say that if I were neutral I'd probably get very little joy out of watching Cork. The way they play (particularly against Dublin this year) is almost coma inducing. They have every right to do whatever it takes to win, but it's a pity that this is what it takes to win!

Without meaning any offence, I wonder if Counihan's departure might make things a little better on the entertainment front? I feel that Cork are capable iof much more entertaining football, if they were encouraged to play it. I must confess that my love of hurling might be contributing to my ignorance and my bias, but I am genuinely trying to call it as I see it, and what I saw from this years AI champions was effective, but rather boring. Of course that does not take from the fact that they are the best team in the country, and their acheivement is as valid as any other AI wiing team.

Culchie (Cork) - Posts: 799 - 12/10/2010 16:56:16    795148

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHuU3EdJ1NQ

jimbodub (Dublin) - Posts: 20763 - 12/10/2010 17:06:39    795164

I remember that well. You could hear the sound of that thump in the Upper Hogan !! How he got up from that i'll never know. He is some man to have played on after getting such a thump. They don't make them as hardy as that in the North !!

Cavan_Slasher (Cavan) - Posts: 10253 - 12/10/2010 17:23:18    795179