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The Paidi O Se cup. Will ya cop on. Roscommon should be in it according to Brolly. By his thinking the All Ireland should be 6 team competition.

Game has couped though.

Yeah red hasn't helped.

Good game end to end action but one question why are Galway playing without a defensive system today?

They are, I just think Kildare matching their style and breaking quick. Also Kildare have an outball in ff line.

Maybe Dublin have being the problem all along. This game is brilliant.

Grand game in fairness. Way too innocent to be of any consequence though.

Yeah not like Galway bet Kerry last week.

And yet, I'm genuinely enjoying this game in Newbridge.

Excellent game. Enjoyed last nights Dublin and Tyrone game and also a pleasure to watch Murphy's performance.

That was brilliant. Some catch.

Well Spieth is growing on me after the haircut tweet.

Seems down to earth unlike Woods.

Interesting to note Aussie Rules is in a similar state of chassis re rule changes at the moment.

Yeah but apparently the reaction from fans has being negative and want it left alone.

[If Ulster Rugby had declined to facilitate a similar fund raiser coordinated aroun a GAA star what would the reaction have been?]

This debacle does not deflect well on our organisation..

The game should go ahead in PuC.

To those who say it can't go ahead because of the rules: can we count at your enthusiastic support to change the rules at next Congress. If not, why not?

To those who say it shouldn't go ahead: why not? If Ulster Rugby had declined to facilitate a similar fund raiser coordinated aroun a GAA star what would the reaction have been?

Its very unlikely for Ulster Rugby to be asked to host a major fundraiser for a GAA  star as multiple GAA facilities in Ulster could be used . The people here who should be coming under criticism are the FAI. When have they ever put a decent stadium in place? No it is always a case of someone else can bale us out.

Did the IRFU  not host a game in Ravenhill because Belfast has no GAA stadium?

So your point is very silly. And wrong.

Yeah for Anto Finnegan.

Gaelic football has several converging crises :

-The tackle
-The rules post switch to possession game
-Attendances
-Linked to the spectacle and over exposure
-Too many half full matches in Croke Park which is not being used coherently
-Physical demands on players esp those who get through 4 qf rounds and not last 8
-Huge competitive gaps and not enough decent matches

I think an external review is necessary
None of the teachers there at the moment have the vision thing

I agree but it needs recently retired players and maybe even current players to look at it. I don't want to see older players who want the game to be played like when they played.

Free kicks and sideline kicks cannot go backwards.

No issue with that. Just don't think it would have much of an impact on the game.

Yeah, a small start.  Makes everyone look forward at least.

So put on the blanket if a free or sideline because you won't have a need to push up on other players.

What would the sanction be?
Free?
From where?

Then who polices it? The ref while watching other half.

Umpires and linesmen at club games never neutral so can't be them. Goal scored. Sorry ref they had too few in half. We have to keep for up so have 15 v 11 in other half.

13 a side?

And if they don't adhere to this rule where would the free be from?

Does the ref in club football keep counting to make sure there is 4 in the half and ref the other half of the pitch as well?