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

So tell me then, oh great thinker, if there were no players what exactly would the spectators have to watch?

More and more commentators commenting on the poor product current Gaelic football is.

Peter Canavan today commenting on the lack of inter county players able to take a 30 m shot at goal in case they missed.

Blamed the clipboard merchants and the stats gimps who would criticise the player later.

Seems like there are these designated 'shooters' now and everyone is afraid to have a shot hence the endless hand and foot passing to try to set up a 13 m shot from the middle of the goalposts.

Sooner the better Jim and the lads come up with a scheme to clear these lads off the backroom teams

We have lot competition but this QF must be worst game I have ever seen at Croker. Shocking

First half between Roscommon and Armagh was dire yes but the second half was much better to be fair. Twice as good going by scoring anyway!

Dublin Galway was a cracker. I missed the hurling which was a great game seemingly but I'd probably have watched the football anyway even if I had access to both given Dublin were on the ropes.

In all honesty there is 1 football quarter final that can be a bit of a slog every year.

But save for Austria Holland I'd take the football over the Euros this past week.

Seems weird for him to complain about it because he is all about having analysts for teams he’s involved with

That match was diabolical. The game needs a 'take down' tackle like the Compromise rules had. The tactics are so poor ..it looks what it is ..an amateur game. Hurling looks like it could be a pro game . Listen I'm biased but I think the crowds are starting to vote with their feet this season. Terrible crowd today.

Absolutely….I have faith that Jim Gavin will rescue our game from the clipboard merchants.

Might take a while but when the commentator can speak in his normal voice the whole game kind of tells you everything.

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.

Galway Dublin was a decent game throughout.

And there was some fine passages of play in the 2nd half of Roscommon-Armagh and the entire game of Donegal-Louth

That would be taking the thread off on another tangent not in keeping with the thread title.

Roscommon Armagh was one of the worst ever until Kerry Derry 24hrs later. That's the worst game I've seen in my life. Kerry probably more responsible than Derry because Derry don't have the calibre of forwards that Kerry have, so keeping it tight suits them but Kerry should be ashamed of being involved in the worst game in history.

Bit of an aside.. But I think Croker is becoming a real problem now as well. It's just too big. It gets filled for one day in the year (2 if dubs play kerry in a semi). We've seen in the round robin, that games are a much better spectacle in packed out regional grounds.

Nothing drains the soul like watching a game in a half empty Croker.