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

You think that armchair "fans" like yourself are more important than the players. Ha ha. Please, please drop the mask now, and admit that you are just trolling. Cause if you aren't, you need to have a serious chat with yourself.

You said in a previous post that you will have to agree to disagree with another poster. I would be amazed if anyone agrees with your ridiculous statement. I have gone to a fair few intercounty matches since the beginning of the year. Maybe 15? But that is nothing in comparison to what all of the players have contributed in the past 5 months or so. All the time training. All the sacrifices. I'm paying a few bob to go to the matches. But I am the one getting great entertainment for my money. Just out of curiousity, in terms of the entertainment industry - who do you think is more important - the artists making music, or the fans getting the enjoyment; or actors/directors making movies, or the audience sitting on their ar$es watching the movies?

You really have no idea.

It will have to "improve" a lot to satisfy someone who think it is muck.

Total bulldust….. without spectators it’s pointless.

It’s good to see the GAA management are progressive and prepared to tackle the issues with Gaelic Football, which obviously needs attention.

This weekends four games will tell us a lot about the state of Gaelic football and how its played.

I had the All Ireland Minor Final and the Dublin Galway game both on simultaneously on my PC.

I switched over and back a bit during a break in play. Lads, the difference between the two sports right now could not have been starker. Croke Park, and the game seemed absolutely dead in comparison to the speed and excitement in the hurling match. It felt like every time I switched over to the football the ball was within 10 yards of the 45 with players running screen moves around it. And the crowd sounded like they had just been told over tannoy that Micheal O'Mhuircheartaigh had died.

I'm not here to sh*t on football directly, I've been living outside of Ireland the last few years and didn't watch much GAA over that time and as I watch more of it again, I've actually enjoyed the fact that there's less scores from frees than what I used to remember. Ok, I don't like the handpass count as many others don't, but still, I thought the Ulster final was very entertaining for example. But when a do or die game involving the All Ireland Champions (who lost) is incomparable to the entertainment of a game of hurling played by 17 year olds, its hard to feel positive about it.

If anyone is still in doubt that the way Gaelic Football is currently being played needs ‘attention’ I think this weekends borefest proves it.

Possible exception is the final quarter of Galway - Dublin.

At least the commentators had the stones to call this rubbish out in the Derry Kerry ‘game.

Jim has a big job b to clear the stats merchants out of the game and let the players play.

I reckon the hurling quarter finals were worse no competitivenes what so ever a damp squib, complain about football all you want but hurling has far more problems to be worrying itself about.

It has gotten to the stage I’d rather watch James Cordon interview Joe Brolly for 5 hours over watching a football match. It’s in serious trouble. It’s just dour, stats driven shïte for the most part.

3 matches that were dreadful and a Galway v Dublin game that really only got going in last quarter.

How anyone with straight face can say football is fine is beyond me unless you find it hard sleep cause those games would make you snooze.

Have to agree with Brendan in this case. The Kerry Derry match was the worst, most boring, soul breaking seventy minutes of football I’ve ever watched and I’ve been watching / playing football ( badly) for the past fifty years. Watched it in the local GAA club with no connection to the counties playing and the general feeling was one of total boredom. At one point someone called out to change the channel to “ love island “ as it might be more exciting .
What have the ruling authorities within the GAA allowed our once great game to become. Nobody wants to go back to the “ catch and kick “ agricultural version of football that once existed but somehow there must exist an entertaining competitive alternative.

this is the first year in about 20 years I havent gone to watch game live, I cant be arsed anymore.

The cost and the spectacle, or lack thereof, as a combination is just enough to nudge me over the edge of not bothering.

As long as blame is put on both who play a bad game. Often the Ulster teams are blamed for boring games, but Kerry need criticism today too.

I'm not a GAA fan , more soccer. But gaelic fans used to slag soccer for being boring and tactic driven. Gaelic football has surpassed it now with tactics, defensive formations and stats.