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

Football would benefit from a smaller sized pitch in my opinion. With less time on the ball, decisions will need to be made quicker and it will speed up the game.

I agree with this

Hurling and Football are literally 2 completely different sports and for some reason the pitches are still the exact same size

The logistics behind any major change like that would be a nightmare but it makes complete sense

Beg to differ, I’m afraid… it’s common sense that will matter.

It’s the paying customer, the management of the GAA , that will matter.

As soon as attendances start dropping and the players find themselves playing before sparse crowds

the revenue drop will force proper action.

While certainly the players opinions are important, the clipboard merchants hiding in the background

are the ones that need to be tackled before they run the game into the ground.

It’s going there slowly but surely, in my opinion.

The game in Derry was also a good one- why??

In my opinion it was because Armagh threw off the shackles and played attractive open football.

Derry could not respond, still stuck in the auld trundling up and down the field mode, could not

raise the tempo and adapt to the open football brand Armagh were playing.

They needed the clipboards to keep track of the 35 scores. As well as counting the hand passes.

from the Longford leader

“Less than 100 spectators (the official attendance figure was 75) watched a Waterford outfit, officially ranked as the worst football team in the country coming into the Tier 2 Senior Championship, play really well to score a deserved win in what was a sad day for Longford GAA.”

This weekend with 16 games was a good measure of the standard of play. In the AI groups 8 games produced 235 scores, average per game just over 29. And that included 22 goals. The Tailteann was slightly higher with 242 scores from 8 games, just over 30 on average. And coincidentally also 22 goals.

The hurlers are also posting some mighty scores, which is what makes for great entertainment like in the football. I don't follow it so much, but I see they are gradually adopting the possession game. Including short puck outs from the keeper on some occasions.

The old guard are reacting badly to the adoption of the possession game in hurling, but they are ignoring logic. Keep the ball and the other team cannot score.

https://www.nenaghguardian.ie/2024/03/16/in-all-fairness-hurling-trending-in-the-wrong-path/

"Hurling is now being poisoned by the possession disease that has made Gaelic Football a hard watch in recent years, bar when the few elite teams face off against each other. The thinkers have gotten their hands on the game and in an effort to find a new element to the game of hurling, they have made it harder to watch."

There were three games in Croke Park….all finals if I recollect correctly.

The attendance looked around 5 or 6 hundred most probably families of the players I would suggest.

Coming up with rubbish about scores being the barometer of good entertainment for me says it all.

Let’s hope Jim and his committee members see the light that is so obvious and act sensibly to save our game from bland demise at the hands of the stats gurus.

I think the lack of a mechanism to restart the shot clock is a massive roadblock to implementation in gaelic football. Time is added back to the shot clock when it hits the ring in basketball - how would you account for this in gaelic football?

If you allow, say, 60 seconds for a score once the ball passes halfway, is the idea that if 60 seconds passes and the ball isn't kick over the bar or into the goal that it's a free out? I would imagine you would end up with a game almost 100% defined by the shot clock: 20+ frees awarded each game for teams failing to score quickly enough upon passing the halfway line, teams intentionally holding the ball up just behind half way to avoid triggering the shot clock, teams kicking garryowens into the corners with 1 second left on the clock to not give away dangerous counterattacks etc.