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Can Gaelic Football (Handball?) Be Saved?

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Replying To WEX98:  "I'm just wondering what type of game the "experts" are expecting......the FRC committee is made up of former managers.......they brought in the tactics they now want to change.........I don't recall Stephen Cluxon kicking the kickouts past the 40. Apparently he was the greatest goalkeeper ever due to the quality of his kick outs, I often wondered how good would his kicks have been if he was kicking out to the Wexford footballers!!"
Cluxton was the first keeper to be able to accurately hit a kick out 65m to a man on the run, thus avoiding the need for high fielding midfielders.
He changed the way kick outs are done. If you missed it, you didn't know what went on in Gaelic football for the past 15 years.

In every match Dublin were out under pressure on kick outs early on (Kerry 2011, Kerry&Mayo in 2013, Mayo replay 2015, Kerry, Mayox2 in 2016, Mayo 2017 and 19) Cluxton stepped up and hit his kickouts long in the 2nd half to over come a deficit. If he hadn't that in the locker Mayo & Kerry would have dominated that decade and Dublin would have had 4-5 less all Irelands in that decade.

tirawleybaron (Mayo) - Posts: 1179 - 16/10/2024 01:50:16    2575189

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