Why wont die hard GAA fans admit football these days is muck?

Th most obvious start they can make to improving football is to get rid of the 3 from 4 out of the group stage and the league SF's.

There's virtually no jeopardy in the group phase until the last game, and even at that most of them games need only a draw for the 3 from 4 to progress. Limit it to two from each group, and the suddenly the tension and desire to go out and win goes up massive from the off as one bad result and you're staring down the barrel. A very obvious move.

Remove the league SF's. We don't need them.

That's two rounds of games removed throughout the year, so two weeks freed up in the calendar as well.

I would also have the 1st round of the provincials played after round 5 of the league, the provincial QF's after round 6, have round 7 of the league and then the League Finals, then the Provincial SF's and finals the two weeks after the league finals so some teams aren't waiting as long as others for their opening game in the Championship/Tailteann Cup.

And FFS, rename the Tailteann Cup the All-Ireland Intermediate Football Championship (because that's what it is) and give the winners guaranteed entry into the following seasons senior championship. A small difference, but ending the season as All-Ireland Intermediate Champions is an easier sell then Tailteann Cup winners, if it's good enough for the clubs, then it's good enough for the counties..

Relax! No need to get edgy about the football, it's only brought on because there is a buzz after the provincial round Robins in the hurling. That sideshow is over and the hurling fizzles out now as the All Ireland series isn't exciting. The football starts to slowly stretch its legs with the All Ireland series leading into knockout games that get the pulse racing as the big boys come face to face in cracking matches. It's the same every year, no need for all the drama over the state of the game

Sorry, got completely confused with previous years. You are of course correct, thanks for the correction.

Magnificent idea. At least worth a try.

On the arc things, it's an interesting idea. Have the tip of the arc half way at 35m and do a semi circle from the middle of the goal. So if the arc is in play, also bring in something like the drag down rule from hurling, a deliberate pull down in this area is a penalty instead of a black card, with a deliberate pull down in the penalty area is a penalty and a black card, to encourage teams to go for goal more.

most players these days are supremely fit but have very little if any traditional Gaelic football skills - many of them seem to be only to handpass and never kick the football

All of which contributes to a large proportion of football games that I watch are pedestrian borefests.

Definitely lessening the teams to 12/13 aside will automatically create more space for creative players

If you pass the ball back to the keeper he shouldn’t be allowed catch it and has to play with his feet , would encourage teams to put pressure on from the front

Give 4/5 points for a goal and hope it encourages more attacking risks

But doing something please !!!

Many club football teams locally train and wouldnt have any footballs at training, all running and sprinting and a session in the gym before or after .

Its Athletics these days Gaelic football , Athletics Ireand will be trying to lure gaelic footballers into running for Ireland in the near future , some inter county footballers would give any athlete at 1500M or even 5000M a good go.

The GAA is after all the Gaelic ATHLETICS association so footballers have become Athletes these days not footballers with the exception of 4/5 county teams Dublin/Kerry/Donegal/Galway/Derry who can also play football along with been 110% fit

Not sure that would work personally in Football. Encourages absolutely packing the defensive area anyway, making it nigh-on-impossible to score. Works for Basketball to an extent due to it only being 5-on-5 and having multiple referees, some of which are also timing the players inside the 'paint' which they are penalised for too

If they are stupid enough to pack the defense they just leave themselves no outball meaning they'll constantly violate their shot clock just giving away score after score after score from the repeated turnovers. They'll have to leave men up to at least recieve the clearances and relieve pressure otherwise they might aswell lie down and have a nap.

Its not so much the 5 on 5 that makes it work as its the strict time rules. They only have 10 (8 in NBA) seconds to GTFO of their half and then only 30 (24 in NBA) seconds from the start of the possession to get the shot away. Teams have no choice but to attack when they have the ball.

The NBA brought these in because pre-clocks you had teams desperately just playing keep-ball and passing anywhere and everywhere just to keep stalling the gameclock and hope they could keep it away from the other team, with no interest in actually scoring. It was causing attendances to crater for the sport.

The same exact problem thats been happening in football. Teams need to be forced to attack now.

Exactly the solution isn't some big mystery. Its been proven to work and improve the game.

Very few inter county players would make the top 50 in the national cross country.

To run a 3mins 40 sec 1500 metres requires running 15x 100m in just over 14 and a half seconds. That requires a very specific training over a long period of time.

Genuinely curious why not. Obviously the timings would need to be different but other than that its a clock, its not exactly complicated.

No Pee not hankering to “where it was before” just stating that the current shunting of teams back and forward

via handpasses forwards and backwards is not a good watch.

Accepting that changes are needed to bring back the excitement in a game as you said.