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Agreed with often less big days in the sun to boot
Damothedub (Dublin) - Posts: 5193 - 23/02/2018 17:40:43 2079536 Link 0 |
Club championships are far superior to intercounty. The changes made to the intercounty championships over the last 20 years have made it only the elite can win either code now tonorio (Offaly) - Posts: 608 - 23/02/2018 18:15:32 2079540 Link 0 |
1. Dublin do not receive enough funding from the GAA. They can't afford to ensure another 75 years of dominance unless the GAA put their hand in their pockets and stop short changing the capital. Forpucksake (UK) - Posts: 130 - 23/02/2018 18:36:03 2079544 Link 3 |
Careful now :D
realdub (Dublin) - Posts: 8571 - 23/02/2018 18:55:44 2079548 Link 2 |
I've another (may keep them coming) waynoI (Dublin) - Posts: 13650 - 23/02/2018 19:28:26 2079558 Link 1 |
let me clarify... on his day. he is the greatest dublin footballer I've seen. the most talented footballer I've seen. period. however. he isn't consistent enough. That's all. not consistent enough to be labelled the greatest ever dublin player in my opinion. consistency is his problem. well. unless he is up on disciplinary charges. he is up on them quite a lot unfortunately waynoI (Dublin) - Posts: 13650 - 23/02/2018 19:30:18 2079559 Link 1 |
Monaghan are a very lucky team. Discuss foxes_denn (Cavan) - Posts: 129 - 23/02/2018 19:36:23 2079561 Link 1 |
If GAA top brass aren't cateful the intercounty scene will be dead by 2030. They plan to create a top tier of elite counties and care little about narrowing standards between top and bottom. GreenandRed (Mayo) - Posts: 7290 - 23/02/2018 19:51:17 2079564 Link 6 |
Only yankin' your chain Wayne, I would tend to agree with you, BB is in a different league in that respect so I know what you're saying. Now on the hurling matter, couldn't agree less, the deft touch needed at the top level is as silken as any other skill in sport IMO. realdub (Dublin) - Posts: 8571 - 23/02/2018 20:29:54 2079578 Link 3 |
Certain referees favour certain teams for certain reasons. Donegalman (None) - Posts: 3830 - 23/02/2018 21:03:05 2079582 Link 1 |
What Ronnie of sullivan has many would consider genius. There are players who have played most sports who are outstanding and make the game look easy. When you look at any game played by mediocre players it will not appear great. The game is not what makes it great it's the mastery of the skills that make it something special. Hurling played at the highest level is up there with any sporting occasion anywhere. Dubh_linn (Dublin) - Posts: 2312 - 23/02/2018 21:19:27 2079589 Link 2 |
In order to begrudge one has to be looking up
mhunicean_abu (Monaghan) - Posts: 1042 - 23/02/2018 21:27:53 2079592 Link 0 |
I hate free kicks out of the hand. They're easier to do than the kick off the ground. The justification, that they 'speed up the game', is not worth the loss of the 'high noon' drama, the test of nerve and the test of pure skill that is a good old-fashioned free off the ground. And every player that takes a kick out of the hand always steals a few yards and always straightens the angle. So it's also basically legalised cheating. If you just want to pass the ball, you should have the option out of the hand, but if you're going for the score, put the ball down, take a few steps back, let the crowd go silent, scowl at the target, step up and bang it over. The mark of a real player. Scoring out of the hand is a dull cop out. essmac (Tyrone) - Posts: 1141 - 23/02/2018 21:55:30 2079597 Link 4 |
The amount of funding given to Dublin by the GAA, at the expense of the rest of the country, is a disgrace & harmful to the GAA in the long run. MuckrossHead (Donegal) - Posts: 5028 - 23/02/2018 22:11:38 2079600 Link 3 |
Wouldn't agree with you on it being easier. I would suggest there are more moving parts involved when kicking out of the hand and more room for error. Of course the top free takers will generally put them over out of the hand but I'd reckon the best free takers have taken them off the ground and would say the same. Dubh_linn (Dublin) - Posts: 2312 - 23/02/2018 22:20:07 2079603 Link 0 |
It's better.
GreenandRed (Mayo) - Posts: 7290 - 23/02/2018 22:26:19 2079604 Link 2 |
1. Mayo won't win an all Ireland unless they drop Kevin McLoughlin and Seamus O Shea. HurlingSnob (Dublin) - Posts: 220 - 24/02/2018 03:46:11 2079621 Link 0 |
1. Joe Brolly is a Great pundit oakleafersir (Derry) - Posts: 808 - 24/02/2018 10:31:05 2079635 Link 0 |
football snobs are as bad as hurling snobs sometimes worse Damothedub (Dublin) - Posts: 5193 - 24/02/2018 10:55:23 2079637 Link 2 |
Agree. Hurling is actually a poor sporting spectacle. Any sport where the main tactic of both teams is to drive it in close to the opposition scoring zone and hope you get a break in there is a very limited sport and not in fact entertaining. Northern hemisphere rugby falls into the same category. Soccer and football are better than both IMO Also the famed skill required for hurling is only applicable when learning the game. Once this has been done, scoring in hurling is actually far easier than football, and the basic skills are easier than football. why (Kildare) - Posts: 142 - 24/02/2018 10:58:17 2079638 Link 0 |