Gaelic Football RIP

Started by High Fielder, July 21, 2018, 06:37:09 PM

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longballin

Quote from: Fear ón Srath Bán on July 22, 2018, 03:32:49 PM
Probably a premature obituary - keep her in the can lad. ;)

not dead on a life support machine    : ) 2 swallows don't make a summer neither do two good games

omaghjoe

Quote from: longballin on July 22, 2018, 03:54:33 PM
Quote from: Fear ón Srath Bán on July 22, 2018, 03:32:49 PM
Probably a premature obituary - keep her in the can lad. ;)

not dead on a life support machine    : ) 2 swallows don't make a summer neither do two good games

It used to and thanks to TG4 we know that those "good" ones werent even that good

longballin

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Quote from: omaghjoe on July 22, 2018, 07:24:29 PM
Quote from: longballin on July 22, 2018, 03:54:33 PM
Quote from: Fear ón Srath Bán on July 22, 2018, 03:32:49 PM
Probably a premature obituary - keep her in the can lad. ;)

not dead on a life support machine    : ) 2 swallows don't make a summer neither do two good games

It used to and thanks to TG4 we know that those "good" ones werent even that good

no-one mentioned those old games shown on TG4 but there were loads of great games during the noughties involving Tyrone, Armagh, Dublin, Kerry, Mayo, Donegal even Sligo....so good  Ulster finals had to move to Croke Park

sid waddell

Quote from: longballin on July 22, 2018, 07:57:37 PM
Quote from: omaghjoe on July 22, 2018, 07:24:29 PM
Quote from: longballin on July 22, 2018, 03:54:33 PM
Quote from: Fear ón Srath Bán on July 22, 2018, 03:32:49 PM
Probably a premature obituary - keep her in the can lad. ;)

not dead on a life support machine    : ) 2 swallows don't make a summer neither do two good games

It used to and thanks to TG4 we know that those "good" ones werent even that good

no-one mentioned those old games shown on TG4 but there were loads of great games during the noughties involving Tyrone, Armagh, Dublin, Kerry, Mayo, Donegal even Sligo....so good  Ulster finals had to move to Croke Park
And loads of crap games between them.

Armagh v Tyrone 2000
Tyrone v Kerry 2003
Tyrone v Armagh 2003
Tyrone v Dublin 2008
Kerry v Dublin 2009
Kerry v Dublin 2004
Kerry v Mayo 2004
Kerry v Mayo 2006
Armagh v Donegal 2002
Armagh v Donegal 2004
Armagh v Donegal 2006
Armagh v Donegal 2007
Dublin v Donegal 2002
Tyrone v Donegal 2007
Tyrone v Mayo 2008

Throw in Cork, too.

All the following games were crap.

Kerry v Cork 2002 x 3
Kerry v Cork 2004
Kerry v Cork 2005
Kerry v Cork 2006 x 2
Kerry v Cork 2007
Cork v Meath 2007
Kerry v Cork 2009 final
Cork v Donegal 2009


longballin

Quote from: sid waddell on July 22, 2018, 08:47:08 PM
Quote from: longballin on July 22, 2018, 07:57:37 PM
Quote from: omaghjoe on July 22, 2018, 07:24:29 PM
Quote from: longballin on July 22, 2018, 03:54:33 PM
Quote from: Fear ón Srath Bán on July 22, 2018, 03:32:49 PM
Probably a premature obituary - keep her in the can lad. ;)

not dead on a life support machine    : ) 2 swallows don't make a summer neither do two good games

It used to and thanks to TG4 we know that those "good" ones werent even that good

no-one mentioned those old games shown on TG4 but there were loads of great games during the noughties involving Tyrone, Armagh, Dublin, Kerry, Mayo, Donegal even Sligo....so good  Ulster finals had to move to Croke Park
And loads of crap games between them.

Armagh v Tyrone 2000
Tyrone v Kerry 2003
Tyrone v Armagh 2003
Tyrone v Dublin 2008
Kerry v Dublin 2009
Kerry v Dublin 2004
Kerry v Mayo 2004
Kerry v Mayo 2006
Armagh v Donegal 2002
Armagh v Donegal 2004
Armagh v Donegal 2006
Armagh v Donegal 20 :D07
Dublin v Donegal 2002
Tyrone v Donegal 2007
Tyrone v Mayo 2008

Throw in Cork, too.

All the following games were crap.

Kerry v Cork 2002 x 3
Kerry v Cork 2004
Kerry v Cork 2005
Kerry v Cork 2006 x 2
Kerry v Cork 2007
Cork v Meath 2007
Kerry v Cork 2009 final
Cork v Donegal 2009

you've too much time on your hands since your heros England went out of the World Cup    :D

From the Bunker

Quote from: longballin on July 22, 2018, 08:52:03 PM
Quote from: sid waddell on July 22, 2018, 08:47:08 PM
Quote from: longballin on July 22, 2018, 07:57:37 PM
Quote from: omaghjoe on July 22, 2018, 07:24:29 PM
Quote from: longballin on July 22, 2018, 03:54:33 PM
Quote from: Fear ón Srath Bán on July 22, 2018, 03:32:49 PM
Probably a premature obituary - keep her in the can lad. ;)

not dead on a life support machine    : ) 2 swallows don't make a summer neither do two good games

It used to and thanks to TG4 we know that those "good" ones werent even that good

no-one mentioned those old games shown on TG4 but there were loads of great games during the noughties involving Tyrone, Armagh, Dublin, Kerry, Mayo, Donegal even Sligo....so good  Ulster finals had to move to Croke Park
And loads of crap games between them.

Armagh v Tyrone 2000
Tyrone v Kerry 2003
Tyrone v Armagh 2003
Tyrone v Dublin 2008
Kerry v Dublin 2009
Kerry v Dublin 2004
Kerry v Mayo 2004
Kerry v Mayo 2006
Armagh v Donegal 2002
Armagh v Donegal 2004
Armagh v Donegal 2006
Armagh v Donegal 20 :D07
Dublin v Donegal 2002
Tyrone v Donegal 2007
Tyrone v Mayo 2008

Throw in Cork, too.

All the following games were crap.

Kerry v Cork 2002 x 3
Kerry v Cork 2004
Kerry v Cork 2005
Kerry v Cork 2006 x 2
Kerry v Cork 2007
Cork v Meath 2007
Kerry v Cork 2009 final
Cork v Donegal 2009

you've too much time on your hands since your heros England went out of the World Cup    :D

With the time to come up with a list like that, you deserve to be subjected to the rubbish that is the super 8.

sid waddell

Quote from: longballin on July 22, 2018, 08:52:03 PM
Quote from: sid waddell on July 22, 2018, 08:47:08 PM
Quote from: longballin on July 22, 2018, 07:57:37 PM
Quote from: omaghjoe on July 22, 2018, 07:24:29 PM
Quote from: longballin on July 22, 2018, 03:54:33 PM
Quote from: Fear ón Srath Bán on July 22, 2018, 03:32:49 PM
Probably a premature obituary - keep her in the can lad. ;)

not dead on a life support machine    : ) 2 swallows don't make a summer neither do two good games

It used to and thanks to TG4 we know that those "good" ones werent even that good

no-one mentioned those old games shown on TG4 but there were loads of great games during the noughties involving Tyrone, Armagh, Dublin, Kerry, Mayo, Donegal even Sligo....so good  Ulster finals had to move to Croke Park
And loads of crap games between them.

Armagh v Tyrone 2000
Tyrone v Kerry 2003
Tyrone v Armagh 2003
Tyrone v Dublin 2008
Kerry v Dublin 2009
Kerry v Dublin 2004
Kerry v Mayo 2004
Kerry v Mayo 2006
Armagh v Donegal 2002
Armagh v Donegal 2004
Armagh v Donegal 2006
Armagh v Donegal 2007
Dublin v Donegal 2002
Tyrone v Donegal 2007
Tyrone v Mayo 2008

Throw in Cork, too.

All the following games were crap.

Kerry v Cork 2002 x 3
Kerry v Cork 2004
Kerry v Cork 2005
Kerry v Cork 2006 x 2
Kerry v Cork 2007
Cork v Meath 2007
Kerry v Cork 2009 final
Cork v Donegal 2009

you've too much time on your hands since your heros England went out of the World Cup    :D

It didn't take too long to remember all those games, believe me, though I'd probabaly prefer to forget them. I was at many of them.

But sure carry on believing what you want to believe through your rose-tinted nostalgia goggles, by all means.


inthrough

Quote from: longballin on July 22, 2018, 03:54:33 PM
Quote from: Fear ón Srath Bán on July 22, 2018, 03:32:49 PM
Probably a premature obituary - keep her in the can lad. ;)

not dead on a life support machine    : ) 2 swallows don't make a summer neither do two good games
I would love to know when the golden age of football was that leaves present day football so bad. I watched a few of the reruns of AI finals & the standard is woeful, so woeful in fact it is funny.

Just when was it that football was uniformly fantastic?

Champion The Wonder Horse

I'd take a lot of this weekend's entertainment ahead of most of the 70s, 80s, latter 90s, 00s and 10s.

Current Dublin team light years ahead of any other outfit.

Apart from Wexford 1915 - 18.

sid waddell

Quote from: inthrough on July 22, 2018, 09:02:28 PM
Quote from: longballin on July 22, 2018, 03:54:33 PM
Quote from: Fear ón Srath Bán on July 22, 2018, 03:32:49 PM
Probably a premature obituary - keep her in the can lad. ;)

not dead on a life support machine    : ) 2 swallows don't make a summer neither do two good games
I would love to know when the golden age of football was that leaves present day football so bad. I watched a few of the reruns of AI finals & the standard is woeful, so woeful in fact it is funny.

Just when was it that football was uniformly fantastic?

I think it was when the aging, middle aged, pot bellied, balding moaners on this thread were young, and everything was better, even if it was shit.

They say once you pass 35 everything new becomes threatening.

That seems to hold true here, anyway.

Apologies to any aging, middle aged, pot bellied, balding contributors who are not moaners.

clarshack

Quote from: Champion The Wonder Horse on July 22, 2018, 09:03:21 PM
I'd take a lot of this weekend's entertainment ahead of most of the 70s, 80s, latter 90s, 00s and 10s.

Current Dublin team light years ahead of any other outfit.

Apart from Wexford 1915 - 18.

Dublin are at same level of Tyrone, Armagh & Kerry in the noughties.

Champion The Wonder Horse

Quote from: clarshack on July 22, 2018, 09:11:20 PM
Quote from: Champion The Wonder Horse on July 22, 2018, 09:03:21 PM
I'd take a lot of this weekend's entertainment ahead of most of the 70s, 80s, latter 90s, 00s and 10s.

Current Dublin team light years ahead of any other outfit.

Apart from Wexford 1915 - 18.

Dublin are at same level of Tyrone, Armagh & Kerry in the noughties.

No they aren't. Clear blue water between them and the three you mentioned. Imagine wining three in a row without resorting to the back door.

Have you been drinking?

From the Bunker

Quote from: clarshack on July 22, 2018, 09:11:20 PM
Quote from: Champion The Wonder Horse on July 22, 2018, 09:03:21 PM
I'd take a lot of this weekend's entertainment ahead of most of the 70s, 80s, latter 90s, 00s and 10s.

Current Dublin team light years ahead of any other outfit.

Apart from Wexford 1915 - 18.

Dublin are at same level of Tyrone, Armagh & Kerry in the noughties.

;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

sid waddell

Tyrone, Armagh and Kerry of the 00s were no more at the same level as Dublin of the 10s than Down, Dublin or Derry of the 90s were at the same level as Tyrone, Armagh and Kerry of the 00s.

The game is constantly moving on.

Tyrone were knocked out of the championship by Sligo, Mayo, Laois and Meath. Armagh were knocked out by Fermanagh and should have been knocked out by Sligo.

The current Dublin team would pummel all of those teams and they'd comfortably beat the top teams of the time.

seafoid

Quote from: thejuice on July 22, 2018, 12:16:14 AM
Not only is it becoming something no one wants to watch it's becoming a game no one wants to play. The amount of lads walking off panels or turning down a place on the squad is ever growing.

Supposedly Kevin Walsh has had 52 players either leave or refuse to join the squad in the last two years. I can't say if that's true but if it is it's staggering that they're even competing. Meath, Derry, Offaly and Cork have all experienced similar the last few years.

It's not just that players don't think they can compete or meet the demands of training it's also they simply don't like playing in these "systems". It's not enjoyable.
It takes 3-4 years of S&C to get a good u21 up to speed for senior intercounty in hurling. Football must be the same.
That is a huge commitment
And you can't just lob it into the square now.. You have to have runners off the shoulder. It's more systemic than intuitive. 
"f**k it, just score"- Donaghy   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbxG2WwVRjU