What has been better this year so far - football or hurling?

[Sky Blue]

Has to be the hurling for me. No football game has come close to the hurling championship for pure entertainment and drama.

[Bacon]

No doubt it's been the hurling. With more to come.

[Star Spangler]

Hurling today is a bit of a throw back to the old days of football when there was little or no tactics and it was a case of punting the ball up and hope someone gets there hands on it and scores.  I'm not knocking hurling as a spectacle though and it is great to watch but it hasn't had the same impetus to develop as a game because it's dominated by just 3 or 4 sides.

[phpearse]

Went to the hurling yesterday in Croke Park to see my first ever top class inter county hurling fixture. Picked a good un to go to. Got tickets for the Canal End but to be fair i think you may need a seat on one of the main side stands to get the best view. It is seriously fast and wonderfully skillful. Great finish to the game. Was sitting beside 2 German tourists and they thought it was just unbelieveable. Hard t beat a good game of hurling and this year has seen hurling be top dog. However expect some decent football from the 1/4 finals onward.

[johnneycool]

Hurling today is a bit of a throw back to the old days of football when there was little or no tactics and it was a case of punting the ball up and hope someone gets there hands on it and scores.

Kieran Donaghy anyone!!
Thank f**k the 'swarm defence' doesn't work in hurling as it's ruined football as a spectacle, allowing just good atheletes to mascarade as footballers.

Every manager cut's their cloth to suit, Waterford and Cork are no different

Cork are probably the most tactically astute team going, and are inclined to use the speed of their midfielders and wing forwards to get the scores and their only real aerial ballwinner is Pat Cronin so they don't play an awful lot of 'punting the ball up', Waterford on the other hand have a big set of forwards so they're more inclined to play it long and direct.

[DJGaliv]

Hurling today is a bit of a throw back to the old days of football when there was little or no tactics and it was a case of punting the ball up and hope someone gets there hands on it and scores.  I'm not knocking hurling as a spectacle though and it is great to watch but it hasn't had the same impetus to develop as a game because it's dominated by just 3 or 4 sides.

I'd be inclined to agree with that. A defender would win the ball in the half back line, and just welt the ball up the field. The number of times possession changes hands is scary. I don't see the point in hitting 50-50 balls 80 yards down the field when it just comes straight back down 2 out of 3 times. It might look good, but in reality it isn't very effective. Watching hurling is hugely enjoyable though you'd have to question the amount of tactics and intelligence in the play in comparison to football.

It appears that in hurling, masterpieces like Cork-Waterford are allowed to gloss over drab affairs like Kilkenny-Wexford and Clare-Galway, leaving everyone to believe that hurling is a far superior sport to football as a spectacle. Whereas in gaelic, we are constantly reminded of some needly pulling and dragging blanket defence game in the Ulster first round between someone like Fermanagh and Armagh. While Dublin-Meath, Galway- Sligo and Monaghan-Tyrone are forgotten about.

I don't know if hurling has had the better year to be honest. Has there been any shocks like Sligo winning the Connacht title? No. It's Kilkenny versus the winners of Cork and Waterford in the All-Ireland final.

[ziggysego]

As a football, I'd have to say hurling

[Star Spangler]

You're a football?   

[The Real Laoislad]

Hurling without a shadow of a doubt

[ziggysego]

You're a football?   

Fan!!! Fan!!! As a football Fan!!!

That said, the beer gut could lead me being easily confused as one

[DJGaliv]

As a football, I'd have to say hurling

That's the kind of controversial measured response that gets you mentioned in the big time.

"Irrepressible"? More like irremissible.
Post Count + 1, therefore my opinions will carry more gravitas.

[ziggysego]

As a football, I'd have to say hurling

That's the kind of controversial measured response that gets you mentioned in the big time.

"Irrepressible"? More like irremissible.
Post Count + 1, therefore my opinions will carry more gravitas.

Jesus, you're a bit touchy this morning. Bad day in the office?

[DJGaliv]

As a football, I'd have to say hurling

That's the kind of controversial measured response that gets you mentioned in the big time.

"Irrepressible"? More like irremissible.
Post Count + 1, therefore my opinions will carry more gravitas.

Jesus, you're a bit touchy this morning. Bad day in the office?

Ah no, I'm only taking the piss.
After my county being knocked out of three different championships in the space of a week, and now everyone coming to my town for the week to clog up the roads and the pubs, and jack up the prices, it's not easy being from Galway.

[ziggysego]

Can't be easy. Still it's Sligo and not Mayo

[Colonel Cool]

Dublin Meath the first day is the only good football match I've seen this year. Cork/Waterford (twice), Limerick/Tipp (trice), Limerick/Waterford, Cork/Tipp have all been good hurling matches.