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I think Johnny Heaney (Galway) has just made a nonsense of any argument of hand slapping a goal. Great goal Sindar (Roscommon) - Posts: 348 - 22/07/2017 19:38:59 2021056 Link
2 great goals from hand slaps for Galway tonight.The opening poster must be furious. uibhfhaili1986 (Offaly) - Posts: 1296 - 22/07/2017 19:54:54 2021072 Link
Replying To uibhfhaili1986: "2 great goals from hand slaps for Galway tonight.The opening poster must be furious." They were caught and then thrown in surely??? Great goals and Galway are playing some great stuff. GreenandRed (Mayo) - Posts: 7337 - 22/07/2017 20:13:40 2021092 Link
Replying To GreenandRed: "They were caught and then thrown in surely??? Great goals and Galway are playing some great stuff." well for "handslap goals" they were good goals..if you could say such a thing that is...Kerry wont leave much room for handslap goals next weekend I bet... Fairplayalways (Offaly) - Posts: 1034 - 23/07/2017 21:48:44 2022078 Link
Replying To Fairplayalways: "well for "handslap goals" they were good goals..if you could say such a thing that is...Kerry wont leave much room for handslap goals next weekend I bet..." You'd need to ask one of the Kerry team that one. GreenandRed (Mayo) - Posts: 7337 - 24/07/2017 02:37:53 2022206 Link
Replying To uibhfhaili1986: "2 great goals from hand slaps for Galway tonight.The opening poster must be furious." Yes indeed, the hand slap is alive and well after last weekend :( ........What a crap way to end a great team move. The GAA needs to get their act together on this one. Donegal_D (Donegal) - Posts: 61 - 24/07/2017 20:27:46 2022804 Link
Replying To Donegal_D: "Yes indeed, the hand slap is alive and well after last weekend :( ........What a crap way to end a great team move. The GAA needs to get their act together on this one." It's a great way to end a team move as you end it with a sure goal, take away the hand slap and you decrease the chances of that great teamwork being reward. GAA supporters really are some of the biggest whingers of all sports fans.the amount of complaining over trivial stuff that the changing of which would ahve no benefit is ridiculous. uibhfhaili1986 (Offaly) - Posts: 1296 - 25/07/2017 08:30:11 2022961 Link
OK so maybe it looks dodgy sometimes but its legal and part of the game currently. However a Question ; if a midfielder executed the same move to get the ball out of a tight spot to a man in space would the ref whistle it up. Pretty sure he would? Or is that a case of the bleedin' obvious. timmyhogan (UK) - Posts: 290 - 25/07/2017 09:33:59 2022994 Link
Replying To uibhfhaili1986: "It's a great way to end a team move as you end it with a sure goal, take away the hand slap and you decrease the chances of that great teamwork being reward. GAA supporters really are some of the biggest whingers of all sports fans.the amount of complaining over trivial stuff that the changing of which would ahve no benefit is ridiculous." Everything evolves - that's the law! If anyone is trying to show a youngster that GAA football is a classy sport that produces skillful goals they'll show footage of Mulligans classic goal against the Dubs or some other piece of footballing brilliance. They certainly won't impress anyone with a hand slap goal, by saying "look at how well the team worked the ball up the field" - stop the rot before its too late. Donegal_D (Donegal) - Posts: 61 - 25/07/2017 11:54:27 2023102 Link
Replying To timmyhogan: "OK so maybe it looks dodgy sometimes but its legal and part of the game currently. However a Question ; if a midfielder executed the same move to get the ball out of a tight spot to a man in space would the ref whistle it up. Pretty sure he would? Or is that a case of the bleedin' obvious." midfielders break high balls down by slapping it towards one of their players - its fair game in that instance... but you don't see a short pass hand slapped onto another player (at least not yet anyway!) Donegal_D (Donegal) - Posts: 61 - 25/07/2017 12:03:45 2023114 Link
Replying To Donegal_D: "midfielders break high balls down by slapping it towards one of their players - its fair game in that instance... but you don't see a short pass hand slapped onto another player (at least not yet anyway!)" Yes, because you can hand pass? m_the_d (None) - Posts: 1099 - 25/07/2017 12:54:18 2023164 Link
Replying To Donegal_D: "Everything evolves - that's the law! If anyone is trying to show a youngster that GAA football is a classy sport that produces skillful goals they'll show footage of Mulligans classic goal against the Dubs or some other piece of footballing brilliance. They certainly won't impress anyone with a hand slap goal, by saying "look at how well the team worked the ball up the field" - stop the rot before its too late." Not every aspect of a sport hs to look classy.There are numerous great goals in soccer that are scored by a tap in after team work, nobody has an issue with them and why would they. This thread just deals with a nonensense non issue. uibhfhaili1986 (Offaly) - Posts: 1296 - 25/07/2017 13:51:39 2023223 Link
Replying To uibhfhaili1986: "Not every aspect of a sport hs to look classy.There are numerous great goals in soccer that are scored by a tap in after team work, nobody has an issue with them and why would they. This thread just deals with a nonensense non issue." if I want to see good slam dunks I'll watch basketball. Donegal_D (Donegal) - Posts: 61 - 25/07/2017 14:47:51 2023269 Link
Replying To Donegal_D: "Yes indeed, the hand slap is alive and well after last weekend :( ........What a crap way to end a great team move. The GAA needs to get their act together on this one." Why do you want to change leave football alone changing rules every year us aloada muck Tarismelting22 (Roscommon) - Posts: 760 - 25/07/2017 15:08:20 2023281 Link
Replying To Donegal_D: "if I want to see good slam dunks I'll watch basketball." They are not slam dunks. The ball is being slapped out of the air into the net. uibhfhaili1986 (Offaly) - Posts: 1296 - 25/07/2017 15:12:59 2023285 Link
The rule should at least be changed to single open hand. The two handed slap just removes any basic level of skill, and makes it easier to fool the ref by fouling the ball. Forpucksake (UK) - Posts: 130 - 25/07/2017 15:32:34 2023300 Link
Replying To Forpucksake: "The rule should at least be changed to single open hand. The two handed slap just removes any basic level of skill, and makes it easier to fool the ref by fouling the ball." Or the rule should be left as it is because the only a few GAA cranks seem to have a problem with it. It takes no skill to kick the ball over the bar from 15 or 20 metres out, should that be banned also? uibhfhaili1986 (Offaly) - Posts: 1296 - 25/07/2017 21:08:00 2023483 Link
Replying To uibhfhaili1986: "Or the rule should be left as it is because the only a few GAA cranks seem to have a problem with it. It takes no skill to kick the ball over the bar from 15 or 20 metres out, should that be banned also?" Why would you want to ban kicking the ball over the bar from 15 or 20 yards? That's stupid? Fouling the ball by throwing it into the net, which a lot of these double-hand "slaps" are, should not be allowed though. Gavvygavgav (Dublin) - Posts: 382 - 25/07/2017 21:46:06 2023498 Link
Replying To Gavvygavgav: "Why would you want to ban kicking the ball over the bar from 15 or 20 yards? That's stupid? Fouling the ball by throwing it into the net, which a lot of these double-hand "slaps" are, should not be allowed though." It's no more stupid than banning a goal being slapped into the net which has been of the game forever. That's the point I was making. uibhfhaili1986 (Offaly) - Posts: 1296 - 26/07/2017 05:44:37 2023616 Link
Replying To Gavvygavgav: "Why would you want to ban kicking the ball over the bar from 15 or 20 yards? That's stupid? Fouling the ball by throwing it into the net, which a lot of these double-hand "slaps" are, should not be allowed though." Start giving actual examples of goals scored oboe the last few seasons where the ball was thrown into the net to at least try and prove your point. Get onto YouTube there and post us up some links to a goal scored in football by the ball being thrown in. I've a feeling your going to either completely ignore this or come back with examples that'll you'll just claim are throws when they are clearly not. MesAmis (Dublin) - Posts: 13705 - 26/07/2017 09:14:26 2023652 Link