All-Ireland Senior Football final - Kerry v Dublin 18/09/2011

[Jinxy]

Some great clips on YouTube of Cluxton's free.

Liked this one for the angle - shows how nonchalant it was - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrErPSCqINA&feature=related

I love that one.
A beautiful strike of the ball.

[shawshank]

Some great clips on YouTube of Cluxton's free.

Liked this one for the angle - shows how nonchalant it was - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrErPSCqINA&feature=related

I love that one.
A beautiful strike of the ball.

a fantastic angle, and its a brilliant piece, you can feel the passion

[spuds]

Some great clips on YouTube of Cluxton's free.

Liked this one for the angle - shows how nonchalant it was - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrErPSCqINA&feature=related

I love that one.
A beautiful strike of the ball.

On that angle at 5 seconds it looks like the jumping Donaghy nearly gets his hands on the ball. Would put it up if knew how to copy the still page.

[AZOffaly]

Which is illegal I think. Imagine if he blocked it, and the ball was moved forward 13 metres! There'd have been war.

[spuds]

Which is illegal I think. Imagine if he blocked it, and the ball was moved forward 13 metres! There'd have been war.

Definitely illegal, you cannot jump and not sure but not allowed wave hands either.

[nrico2006]

If O'Sullivan is so much more than a one trick pony then his scoring returns definitely do not back that up.  In 2004 he was well contained but the main man back then for Kerry was Paul O'Connor.

[AZOffaly]

Which is illegal I think. Imagine if he blocked it, and the ball was moved forward 13 metres! There'd have been war.

Definitely illegal, you cannot jump and not sure but not allowed wave hands either.

As far as I can remember you can stand with your hands extended, but cannot jump or wave them around. Maybe because you look stupid.

[lynchbhoy]

Dinny
Agreed (Sullivan going to ground) but I always view this differently than purposly trying to get someone sent off with the "shoot by the sniper dive" a la Donaghy.

The dark arts of forward play (under pressure and a defender throws in a lazy hand, down you go), must be considered with the dark arts of defending (half fouling everytime to slow down the forward). Both cancel each other out.

So I agree that both things are unslightly, but one is part of the game (winning fouls) the other belongs to another sport.

Christ, the ref in the hurling game took a bigger slap than Donaghy and stayed on his feet

I'd agree with Dinny here - O'Sullivan and any player that dives or dives with minimal contact in order to win a free - I despise.
Same for lads that get a tap and feign being poleaxed.
I am not having a go at Kerry football as in general most of them stay on their feet. However there were a few too many such incidents on Sunday and its always mentioned on here that this kind of carp is creeping into Gaelic football (even hurling now - with that tipp half back maher swan diving in the AI semi and AI final).

[Jinxy]

It's a strange rule that. If you are the sufficient distance away, you should be allowed to do the buckin' riverdance if you want. I mean, if you are 30 yards away you are allowed to jump and block the ball.

Is there anything in the rules to stop a lad standing on your shoulders I wonder?

[brokencrossbar1]

Which is illegal I think. Imagine if he blocked it, and the ball was moved forward 13 metres! There'd have been war.

Definitely illegal, you cannot jump and not sure but not allowed wave hands either.

As far as I can remember you can stand with your hands extended, but cannot jump or wave them around. Maybe because you look stupid.

But you are allowed to stand 5 yards behind him and scream at the top of your voice "watch it off the post lads, he's gonna miss, he's gonna f**king miss"  just as he is making his run up;D

[liihb]

There were 4 Kerry lads slowly descending on him there - did well to ignore them, I'm sure they had a few words to say!

[muppet]

It's a strange rule that. If you are the sufficient distance away, you should be allowed to do the buckin' riverdance if you want. I mean, if you are 30 yards away you are allowed to jump and block the ball.

Is there anything in the rules to stop a lad standing on your shoulders I wonder?

You could build a human pyramid on the goal line for a 14 yard free.

[RMDrive]

It's a strange rule that. If you are the sufficient distance away, you should be allowed to do the buckin' riverdance if you want. I mean, if you are 30 yards away you are allowed to jump and block the ball.

Is there anything in the rules to stop a lad standing on your shoulders I wonder?

You could build a human pyramid on the goal line for a 14 yard free.

I remember reading (glancing maybe cause I recall very little of it) in a match programme one time about a game back in the day where a few lads climbed up on the cross bar to stop a free. Later in the game the opposition tried the same thing and the ref wouldn't let them. There after there was a rule introduced to stop this from happening.

[mannix]

Another strange rule was the outlawing of the foot pass, thankfully everyone but donegal turns a blind eye to that one.

[Orangemac]

It's a strange rule that. If you are the sufficient distance away, you should be allowed to do the buckin' riverdance if you want. I mean, if you are 30 yards away you are allowed to jump and block the ball.

Is there anything in the rules to stop a lad standing on your shoulders I wonder?

You could build a human pyramid on the goal line for a 14 yard free.

Don't be giving Jim McGuinness ideas