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The quicker the GAA dispense with this unnatural break in games the better. It has ruined more teams momentum since it was introduced and changed the dynamics of games. Get rid of it and quickly AwbegRover (Cork) - Posts: 136 - 23/11/2021 20:39:34 2390516 Link
Replying To AwbegRover: "The quicker the GAA dispense with this unnatural break in games the better. It has ruined more teams momentum since it was introduced and changed the dynamics of games. Get rid of it and quickly" Refs not helping either. A club game last week a players went down injured for a couple of minutes, players standing about waiting. Game restarts, ball goes wide and ref blows for water break. No need . Saynothing (Tyrone) - Posts: 2012 - 24/11/2021 10:48:07 2390550 Link
Replying To AwbegRover: "The quicker the GAA dispense with this unnatural break in games the better. It has ruined more teams momentum since it was introduced and changed the dynamics of games. Get rid of it and quickly" Absolutely, it's a disaster, just an excuse for a mini team meeting. KingdomBoy1 (Kerry) - Posts: 14092 - 24/11/2021 13:57:02 2390601 Link
Careful for what you wish for though? When it's your team that is all over the place, you'd be glad of a water break to get then re-organised! Doesn't bother me too much either way tbh essmac (Tyrone) - Posts: 1141 - 24/11/2021 14:18:37 2390608 Link
Listen they make the game playable for us unfit Junior B lads. WestAwake88 (Galway) - Posts: 115 - 24/11/2021 14:20:51 2390609 Link
Water breaks are brilliant, 100% should be kept. icehonesty (Wexford) - Posts: 2550 - 25/11/2021 09:07:17 2390709 Link
If water breaks are to be kept how about pushing the games out to 20 minutes a quarter 1951andwaiting (Galway) - Posts: 83 - 30/11/2021 10:52:18 2391181 Link
Well it looks like we're saying goodbye to the water breaks. I can't say I'll miss them. WanPintWin (Galway) - Posts: 2039 - 25/01/2022 12:38:00 2396350 Link
Replying To WestAwake88: "Listen they make the game playable for us unfit Junior B lads." It was vodka breaks I needed! It's good they are gone. No health or other reason for them and they are just disruption in play. BarneyGrant (Dublin) - Posts: 2551 - 25/01/2022 12:49:29 2396353 Link
RIP Paul Kinnerck's whiteboard- October 2020- January 2022 bostonredsox (Wexford) - Posts: 4368 - 25/01/2022 12:53:14 2396355 Link
They were just the equivalent of a basketball time out. Not needed. Leitrim_12 (USA) - Posts: 207 - 25/01/2022 12:59:07 2396359 Link
Replying To icehonesty: "Water breaks are brilliant, 100% should be kept." What hell good are they….? Are the games not slow and boring enough (football) without them stopping altogether for 5 minutes….. Get rid immediately ForeverBlue2 (Cavan) - Posts: 1921 - 25/01/2022 13:12:14 2396362 Link
Replying To ForeverBlue2: "What hell good are they….? Are the games not slow and boring enough (football) without them stopping altogether for 5 minutes….. Get rid immediately" It creates quarters and if teams are clever enough they can use that to increase tempo, speed of games KillingFields (Limerick) - Posts: 3509 - 25/01/2022 13:22:49 2396364 Link
Think they were designed with Covid in mind. Pre-Covid, water bottles were regularly flung on to the pitch and passed around to any man that needed a sup. During the pandemic however, everyone had their own labelled bottle and it made sense to have a quick break so that players could rehydrate safely. Now that we're on the road to normality I think it makes sense for the water breaks to be done away with. They spolied the momentum of games and aren't needed going forward. Lockjaw (Donegal) - Posts: 9132 - 25/01/2022 13:28:45 2396370 Link
While it's great that waterbreaks are gone, it also brings back the "Maor Uisce" who are nothing but a blight on the game reffingmad (Roscommon) - Posts: 371 - 25/01/2022 14:04:00 2396381 Link
I'm glad they're gone. KingdomBoy1 (Kerry) - Posts: 14092 - 25/01/2022 14:44:13 2396395 Link
Replying To AwbegRover: "The quicker the GAA dispense with this unnatural break in games the better. It has ruined more teams momentum since it was introduced and changed the dynamics of games. Get rid of it and quickly" Do you really think that this was not something that teams would do regardless of a water break? Anyway should we also get rid of half time breaks as they also would have the same impact if that is what caused the balance of play to shift? Anyway they turned into something they were never supposed to be, if they wanted them just to be water breaks then don't allow the management or trainers near the players. It perhaps also contributed to faster games but that is only a guess just like your one on momentum - nothing to back it up! zinny (Wexford) - Posts: 1804 - 25/01/2022 15:51:34 2396415 Link
Replying To zinny: "Do you really think that this was not something that teams would do regardless of a water break? Anyway should we also get rid of half time breaks as they also would have the same impact if that is what caused the balance of play to shift? Anyway they turned into something they were never supposed to be, if they wanted them just to be water breaks then don't allow the management or trainers near the players. It perhaps also contributed to faster games but that is only a guess just like your one on momentum - nothing to back it up!" I think ye're both right. Plenty of teams that had momentum had the momentum reversed after the water break. And the breaks should definitely have given players that couole of minures rest to go full tilt again and make games faster. GreenandRed (Mayo) - Posts: 7343 - 25/01/2022 16:53:56 2396439 Link
Replying To wexico15: "RIP Paul Kinnerck's whiteboard- October 2020- January 2022" Paul Kinnerick wasn't they only one with a whiteboard. countyman2022 (Wexford) - Posts: 642 - 25/01/2022 17:14:24 2396448 Link
Replying To icehonesty: "Water breaks are brilliant, 100% should be kept." Care to elaborate on what you think made them brilliant? The_analyser (Roscommon) - Posts: 3753 - 25/01/2022 18:59:38 2396462 Link