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Ban The Hand Pass In Hurling. What Are The Alternatives?

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Replying To Viking66:  "I belong to a club where all our adult players play both football and hurling. All my kids get the same hours of coaching and matches at football and hurling. I'm a mentor for 1 of their teams and we spend exactly the same time coaching both sports. The GAA was formed to promote both equally and that's what I, my family, and club, do. Maybe lads like you should just #### off and form some sort of GFA because you aren't being true to the ethos of the GAA and therefore don't belong in it."
Ah boohoo.
At least 20 Counties look upon hurling as a small insignificant nuisance that they have to put up with.

Seanfanbocht (Roscommon) - Posts: 1988 - 21/08/2023 17:53:18    2501675

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Replying To Seanfanbocht:  "Raise ye're own money hurling snobs.
Time we football people stopped subsidising yer minority sport."
In fact come to think about it you aren't even into Football. Wasnt it 8 minutes and however many seconds Roscommon passed the ball backwards and forwards across the pitch and back to the keeper multiple times before they even had a shot at the posts? That isn't Gaelic football. I'm not sure what you would call it but it was ##### to watch for any real football fan like me!

Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 14047 - 21/08/2023 18:17:52    2501677

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Presumably Wexford is one of these middle tier counties in need of more money. My own county clearly not based on respective championship meetings in recent years.

Claretandblue (Westmeath) - Posts: 1931 - 21/08/2023 18:27:29    2501680

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Replying To Viking66:  "In fact come to think about it you aren't even into Football. Wasnt it 8 minutes and however many seconds Roscommon passed the ball backwards and forwards across the pitch and back to the keeper multiple times before they even had a shot at the posts? That isn't Gaelic football. I'm not sure what you would call it but it was ##### to watch for any real football fan like me!"
Yeah we should have kicked it aimlessly into a Dublin back and let them tear up the field and score a goal against us, like poor oul Laois, Louth and Sligo did against them.

Seanfanbocht (Roscommon) - Posts: 1988 - 22/08/2023 10:55:58    2501725

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Replying To Seanfanbocht:  "Ah boohoo.
At least 20 Counties look upon hurling as a small insignificant nuisance that they have to put up with."
Because you are all too s###e to play a proper sport. Much easier to handpass a ball around in the name of "entertainment" when it has the entertainment value of baseball.

ExiledInWex (Dublin) - Posts: 1260 - 22/08/2023 11:22:31    2501733

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Replying To Seanfanbocht:  "Ah boohoo.
At least 20 Counties look upon hurling as a small insignificant nuisance that they have to put up with."
Ah yes the English influence still bites deep in many parts of the country ok; )

Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 14047 - 22/08/2023 11:46:48    2501740

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Replying To Claretandblue:  "Presumably Wexford is one of these middle tier counties in need of more money. My own county clearly not based on respective championship meetings in recent years."
For sure! We need investment in both hurling and football. We haven't beaten you in either in championship since the last decade.

Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 14047 - 22/08/2023 11:47:52    2501741

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Replying To Seanfanbocht:  "Yeah we should have kicked it aimlessly into a Dublin back and let them tear up the field and score a goal against us, like poor oul Laois, Louth and Sligo did against them."
Just getting back on topic though isn't football called football because you are supposed to kick it? Hurling is called hurling, another word for throwing?!

Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 14047 - 22/08/2023 11:49:39    2501743

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Replying To Seanfanbocht:  "Yeah we should have kicked it aimlessly into a Dublin back and let them tear up the field and score a goal against us, like poor oul Laois, Louth and Sligo did against them."
No you should've kicked it to a team mate for him to kick it over the bar or into the net.

Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 14047 - 22/08/2023 13:58:19    2501770

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Replying To ExiledInWex:  "Because you are all too s###e to play a proper sport. Much easier to handpass a ball around in the name of "entertainment" when it has the entertainment value of baseball."
I actually quite like baseball Exiled! Go Cubs!

Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 14047 - 22/08/2023 14:49:03    2501783

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Replying To Viking66:  "No you should've kicked it to a team mate for him to kick it over the bar or into the net."
We did 77 times and at the end we finally managed to create an opening in the 14 man Dublin defence and scored an excellent point.

Seanfanbocht (Roscommon) - Posts: 1988 - 22/08/2023 16:22:26    2501810

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Replying To Seanfanbocht:  "We did 77 times and at the end we finally managed to create an opening in the 14 man Dublin defence and scored an excellent point."
So ye dont bother with hurling yet ye were beaten several times by hurling counties in football in recent times.All yer glorious handpassing is really paying off,

ZUL10 (Clare) - Posts: 708 - 23/08/2023 12:22:33    2501890

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Replying To Seanfanbocht:  "We did 77 times and at the end we finally managed to create an opening in the 14 man Dublin defence and scored an excellent point."
Most of those were backwards or sideways. Not the same as kicking it in to a lad who then kicks it over the bar. I agree the end result is what you were aiming for. But as a spectacle I've never seen a passage of play as boring to watch as it in any game of hurling from u6 upwards. No matter how many handpasses were in the game. Or most other games of football either tbh. In fact I don't think I've ever seen an 8 minute segment of a baseball or cricket game which had so little excitement in it.

Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 14047 - 23/08/2023 13:11:12    2501910

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Replying To Seanfanbocht:  "We did 77 times and at the end we finally managed to create an opening in the 14 man Dublin defence and scored an excellent point."
The best passage of play was the "free" that drew the game at the end. It's on stage in the Abbey he ought to be ..

BarneyGrant (Dublin) - Posts: 3195 - 23/08/2023 15:13:01    2501955

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Replying To BarneyGrant:  "The best passage of play was the "free" that drew the game at the end. It's on stage in the Abbey he ought to be .."
Did the Ref not award that?
So obviously he saw a foul.
Your comnent suggests Ros decided twas a free !!

Seanfanbocht (Roscommon) - Posts: 1988 - 23/08/2023 18:49:53    2501987

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Replying To Seanfanbocht:  "Did the Ref not award that?
So obviously he saw a foul.
Your comnent suggests Ros decided twas a free !!"
I was only busting your chops. The incident is totally irrelevant now, as it was then. Offaly beat Dublin in O'Byrne Cup, for relative purposes ...

BarneyGrant (Dublin) - Posts: 3195 - 27/08/2023 23:55:18    2502529

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Replying To Seanfanbocht:  "Raise ye're own money hurling snobs.
Time we football people stopped subsidising yer minority sport."
Oh come on. Limerick have as many AIF titles as ye have and Tipp have twice more and we come out of a Province that has won about three times more All Irelands than ye have.

Oldtourman (Limerick) - Posts: 4468 - 13/09/2023 07:54:15    2504063

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Replying To Oldtourman:  "Oh come on. Limerick have as many AIF titles as ye have and Tipp have twice more and we come out of a Province that has won about three times more All Irelands than ye have."
Talk about living in the past!

Seanfanbocht (Roscommon) - Posts: 1988 - 13/09/2023 11:19:12    2504106

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Replying To Seanfanbocht:  "Talk about living in the past!"
And 1943 and 44 is yesterday

Oldtourman (Limerick) - Posts: 4468 - 14/09/2023 09:56:14    2504233

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Replying To ExiledInWex:  "Because you are all too s###e to play a proper sport. Much easier to handpass a ball around in the name of "entertainment" when it has the entertainment value of baseball."
least in football they handpass it 32% of all passes in hurling are throws i see

Stmunnsriver (Wexford) - Posts: 2896 - 29/09/2023 19:35:46    2506304

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