Glenswilly 0-3 St Eunan's 0-2 : The lowest scoring GAA match ever?

[dublin7]

At what point do you realise your only a point down and go for it.

At what point do you go time is running out and we are still only 1 point up.  Imagine Dublin did that against Laois and Laois stuck a couple of midfielders in at full forward in the last 5 minutes and bombed the ball in.  They'd be well screwed if the ball bounced around and came of someones knee and ended in the back of the net.  If they were 4 points up and they just kicked the ball around as the other team wouldn't come out fair enough but 1 point up and not really looking to find a gap in the Abbey defense was asking for trouble.  If Maghera are clearly the better team (and the scores in there previous games indicate they are) then making the match effectively 10 minutes long gave the weaker team a much better chance of a smash and grab type win.

In fairness to Maghera none of their players would have any experience playing against that and they couldn't have expected Abbey to use such negative tactics. It took the dubs a few years to fine tune their system to make the blanket useless against them. They also they wouldn't have had the kicking strength to kick long range points like senior players do to beat the blanket defence. The Abbey coach should be replaced. If that's all he can bring to the game then the school is better off without him 

[manfromdelmonte]

Dublin had 15 players behind the ball at points in the game yesterday

no wonder teams are copying them

[dublin7]

Dublin had 15 players behind the ball at points in the game yesterday

no wonder teams are copying them

That's right the dubs are a defensive team.    Fermanagh have clearly based their game on doing what the dubs do

[imtommygunn]

The dubs are a very defensive team too. It's a myth they're not. They are so fit they can break at pace so play good attacking football too but they put significant numbers back when they don't have the ball and you will rarely see a defender of theirs isolated.

[rosnarun]

I would bvery against trying to micro manage the situation . because like fixture list and competition structure every wants change but no 2 people agree on what that change should be.
and anyway the Ego ftiven coaches  who implement this kindsa of Shiite would st sit down and try and find await around any reforms . and when most games are ending up  nil all thrillers like shiteball. you will still have people on here commending their actions 15 year old walk away thing what a terrible game football is .

Public Ridicule and condemnation is actually the best way to get around this let coaches know this is not acceptable and what pricks they are for ruining Football and young people fun and games

[Itchy]

Always makes me laugh the outrage this type of game of game creates.

Hundreds of games played a week and people pick apart the worst one to get all frantic about.  Its a typical Irish attitude tbf.  Lets all get hysterical about this one game, lets face it, that scoreline is a rarity. People need to calm down.

Nothing to laugh about. You are like one of these climate change denier. Football is being destroyed and its in happening right in front of your eyes.

[Hound]

The dubs are a very defensive team too. It's a myth they're not. They are so fit they can break at pace so play good attacking football too but they put significant numbers back when they don't have the ball and you will rarely see a defender of theirs isolated.

It's mind boggling that people actually believe this!!
They see a freeze frame of 14 or 15 Dubs behind the ball and say, that's proves it, Dublin are very defensive!!

It's utter nonsense.

Yes, we put a lot of work into defence, and yes, our forwards will chase back their man if he moves forward. And if the opposition are arsing about, our lads will all work to get the ball. But we NEVER take a forward or midfielder out of their position and plop them into the back line as a 7th defender.

We would NEVER play a sweeper if the opposition played 6 forwards.

[general_lee]

Always makes me laugh the outrage this type of game of game creates.

Hundreds of games played a week and people pick apart the worst one to get all frantic about.  Its a typical Irish attitude tbf.  Lets all get hysterical about this one game, lets face it, that scoreline is a rarity. People need to calm down.

Couldn't agree more. One shite match and it's a whole song and dance about how doomed Gaelic football is. There have always been low scoring matches. This isn't something new. You just see much more of it nowadays thanks to social media. Then we have the purists having a panic attack and proposing stupid rules every year because they want the game to back to how it was in 1950 with some fat mess in nets, a couple of ogres in midfield and some beast in full forward; and to just kick it up high in the air for them all to field high balls becuase apparently that's the most important skill in Gaelic football.

News flash - not every team can or will play off the cuff all out attacking football in every single match. You're gonna see a few shite matches. Especially in winter. Get over it

[Hound]

Yesterday's games from Dublin division 1, on a wet and miserable Sunday morning:

Ballyboden St Endas 1-10   1-10  Kilmacud Crokes
Cuala  4-9   0-14  St Vincents
Fingallians  2-8  2-9  St Maurs
Skerries Harps 1-10  1-11  Ballinteer St Johns
St Brigids  2-12   2-12   Na Fianna
St Oliver Plunketts ER  1-8    3-11  Lucan Sarsfields
Thomas Davis  0-14   0-15    Ballymun Kickhams
St Judes  2-11     0-6    Templeogue Synge Street

Bar the last one which was pretty one sided from the start, the above were all very entertaining games despite the very wet conditions (I was at one of them, and it was a cracker and I got super value for my soaking!).

It's not football that's the problem, it's not the rules that are the problem, it's certain teams (more specifically their managers) that are the problem (and I'm glad that Castleknock were relegated out of this division as they were a tough watch). But played properly, it's still a great game as most people at the above games will testify.

[Itchy]

Always makes me laugh the outrage this type of game of game creates.

Hundreds of games played a week and people pick apart the worst one to get all frantic about.  Its a typical Irish attitude tbf.  Lets all get hysterical about this one game, lets face it, that scoreline is a rarity. People need to calm down.

Couldn't agree more. One shite match and it's a whole song and dance about how doomed Gaelic football is. There have always been low scoring matches. This isn't something new. You just see much more of it nowadays thanks to social media. Then we have the purists having a panic attack and proposing stupid rules every year because they want the game to back to how it was in 1950 with some fat mess in nets, a couple of ogres in midfield and some beast in full forward; and to just kick it up high in the air for them all to field high balls becuase apparently that's the most important skill in Gaelic football.

News flash - not every team can or will play off the cuff all out attacking football in every single match. You're gonna see a few shite matches. Especially in winter. Get over it

U15s!!!!!

[Targetman]

The Abbey could find themselves a few students down if this meeting they are having today doesnt go the way some parents want it to go

Keep us informed on the outcome of this meeting, should be interesting

[dublin7]

Always makes me laugh the outrage this type of game of game creates.

Hundreds of games played a week and people pick apart the worst one to get all frantic about.  Its a typical Irish attitude tbf.  Lets all get hysterical about this one game, lets face it, that scoreline is a rarity. People need to calm down.

Couldn't agree more. One shite match and it's a whole song and dance about how doomed Gaelic football is. There have always been low scoring matches. This isn't something new. You just see much more of it nowadays thanks to social media. Then we have the purists having a panic attack and proposing stupid rules every year because they want the game to back to how it was in 1950 with some fat mess in nets, a couple of ogres in midfield and some beast in full forward; and to just kick it up high in the air for them all to field high balls becuase apparently that's the most important skill in Gaelic football.

News flash - not every team can or will play off the cuff all out attacking football in every single match. You're gonna see a few shite matches. Especially in winter. Get over it

To be fair the U15 match wasn't a farce because it was pouring rain/gale force winds/the pitch was awful etc. One manager decided before throw in they didn't want to play football. Surely you can see that at U15 level that's just wrong on so many levels

[Fuzzman]

https://www.rte.ie/sport/gaa/2019/0304/1034105-game-as-we-now-know-it-rewards-the-brave-adaptable/

[trailer]

The Abbey could find themselves a few students down if this meeting they are having today doesnt go the way some parents want it to go

Imagine taking your children out of a school because of tactics a football team implement. f**k me.

I heard that Methody are in danger of losing a few students because they are forcing a running game on the first 15 this year. Parents on the Malone road are outraged.

[dec]

Imagine taking your children out of a school because of tactics a football team implement. f**k me.

I assume that the parents problem was with the bad publicity online rather than disagreeing with tactics.