Jim and Harte will be remembered in 10/15 years time as the men who nearly destroyed football with their defensive crap. It’s taken a great, skilful, resilient Dublin side to restore our faith in the beautiful game. Hopefully Kerry will return to their more attacking flair game and will provide with another great rivalry. I do think Tyrone will be a lot more attacking without Harte and they have some very good forwards also.
Yes, the game is so much more exciting now. Never been in a more healthy state.
Lenny is from Derry, they produce big agricultural footballers there so I'm not sure on why Lenny thinks he should be a spokesperson for what good attacking football should be. Derry have produced two good forwards in the past 30+ years and one of them was a Tyrone man.
Is that 35 years or less than that?
I'm just using 30+ years as a general term. Their AI winning team did not have any top class forwards. Some outstanding defenders and the best midfielder in the game at the time but a really ordinary forward line. Paddy Bradley and Muldoon were the only top level forwards Derry have produced in that time so I don't think Lenny is a person who knows what he is talking about when he mentions attacking football.
Derry have always been a team with a focus on size and defence unlike their neighbours Tyrone who have always produced players with attacking flair and inventive play.
You now have replaced 'good forwards' with 'top class forwards' - which is it?
Well?
You're the one making the distinction.
No - you wrote it, you replaced it and therefore made the distinction.
I will repeat again that I have made no distinction between good and top class. You seem to be the only one doing that.
I suspect that you realised your first comment was ridiculous and back-peddled. Thought you were made of stronger stuff than that?
I'll once again state that I make no distinction between those two terms, you seem to be trying to do it on my behalf but you don't speak for me.
Speak for you?! Jaysus, no, never! Where did that come from? Anyhow you have clarified that, for you, there is no distinction. A good player = a top class player, in your world. Thanks for that.