Parkinson is correct. However, in gaelic football, it seems to be very difficult to seperate defensive play from cheating. The seem to come as a single entity. If these can be seperated then different styles can be feasible.
1472828 It must be said it was a really great game of football - the best spectacle we have seen all year and that is including the hurling. We seen dublin outgun kerry in a straight shootout - I think it is a shame that people are so set on concentrating on searching out negatives here, it comes across a bit biased in fairness. Most examples are being used to qualify something else that happened in another game. I could do the same myself with cluxton going down holding his face after being shouldered late. But why concentrate on that when the game was so good? It wasnt littered with these incidents, and you will always get a few of them. There was no game played like this all year, case closed as far as Im concerned. Ok, the cooper thing is a talking point, as is the mcmahon and ROC issues, as they could be revisited, but besides that it was a great game of football, and if more played like that our game would be the greatest show around.
This post could be addressed to you and many many others after every game an Ulster team plays. The out and out hypocrisy of it is the real shame. All those incidents you excuse as "talking points" are highlighted and exaggerated when committed by certain teams. Please don't talk about "our game" when you have a deep dislike of so many GAA members
I'm afraid people are being led by the Sunday game panel. The Sunday game is a formula that is on one hand populist that refer to the mysterious "purist" when making a point that suggests best practice or variance from it, and the polemicist view that is designed to irk the Ulster teams and is ultra successful at doing it.
So in terms of being led, the notion that the purist has a view of how the game should be best played at some particular point in time and that games like last Sundays confirmed somewhat to that norm is ludicrous, the number of posters who share that view are in my view guilty of taking the path of least resistance. High scoring is good, poor defending is overlooked, in fact the game is not a team sport any more but a game where the backs facilitate the forwards from the opposing team and contribute somewhat to the spectacle.
In other countries they have a more mature view on their sports and celebrate good defending and laud tacticians and embrace evolution.
Think back to the great defenders the majesty of their play they controlled the square managed the 40 yards man, they are but irritants in the notional Sunday (purile)game