Gaelic football is crap- and needs to change ASAP

[RedHand88]

Would mean less W/O reserve league games anyway.

[Armagh18]

As Peter Canavan opined a good while ago, maybe it's time to reduce to 13-a-side: with greater fitness levels, more strategic management, etc., there's only one way that can go whilst the pitch dimensions remain the same -- ball retention, at whatever cost to the sporting spectacle.

With 13-a-side, the dynamic is changed completely: does a team prioritise defence over offence, or vice versa; blanket defences will have porous holes; hand-passing ball retention is much more risky; it reduces, inescapably, to the better ball players in the on-pitch cohort, I'd reckon.

Perhaps at a higher level 13 aside would work as teams already have the conditioning. I would have concerns at lower levels where the skilled player would be squeezed out as fitter players are prioritised. Junior teams could no longer afford to carry the lazy sod with great feet or hands as their over wintering habits leave them exposed in the bigger spaces afforded by the reduction in players.

Sure thing, it wouldn't be universally beneficial perhaps, but surely it needs serious consideration and exploration, if only at the Senior County level, on a trial basis?

Yeah definitely worth looking at in higher level games though

[ONeill]

Which 2 positions would you lose?

[Fear ón Srath Bán]

It's not necessarily about losing positions, it's more about doing more with fewer, if you're good enough.

[ONeill]

Personally, I'd ditch the corner forwards with their fancy boots and bleached hair.

[ONeill]

Ok, a wing-forward and a wing-back. 10 and 7. Retire the jerseys. Jordan and Dooher.

[imtommygunn]

6 and 11.

[Fear ón Srath Bán]

That's the whole point though, as I see it: we don't lose any of the 15 positions, we need to be smarter about how we cover them, rather, with fewer on field resources.

[ONeill]

Like bilocation?

[befair]

13-a-side would also make it easier for small counties/clubs to compete

[ONeill]

The classic Tohill and McGilligan. Wouldn't fancy telling Brian he's out.

[From the Bunker]

13-a-side would also make it easier for small counties/clubs to compete

That's the big one and one of the reasons that the Big hitters would canvas for things to remain the same.

[screenexile]

Close it down lads!

[armaghniac]

Close it down lads!

Absolutely; high scoring, exciting game in Omagh, with a lot of skill with a few errors to keep it interesting.

[thejuice]

As a way of curbing the influence of athletes on the game rather than drinking bans we make drinking obligatory for county players. A feed of Supermacs after training to keep things balanced.