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Over reaction? I think so

Over the past weekend 16 Senior Gaelic Inter County   Football matches were played,
About 6% of these matches have received over 90% of the comment in GAA sport pages this week, over reaction?

I suspect very few of those forecasting the death of Gaelic football paid in to see the matches (press passes etc),
Lest we forget: This isn't the  1st time the Dublin supporters have been booing. I have been to several matches in Croke Park and witnessed whistling and booing over many years,  as  per example .
Mickey Whelan quit just minutes after a section of Dublin fans  booed and shouted: "Out! Out! Out!" after his side were beaten by three points.
The perceived problems with Gaelic Football could be solved quite easily with a few simple tweaks to the rules, but that is for another day.

P.S. Joe Brolly comments to Mickey Harte are despicable.

Attendances increase in Ulster and decline in other provinces.This is a very clear endorsement of the quality of Ulster football. Pat Spillane and his ilk  are yesterdays pundits.

Oh how times have changed :
Armagh /Meath , Monaghan/Kildare  may thwart the game  every one wants to see ( Dublin v Donegal).
Remember this was the game  nobody wanted to watch in 2011. Amazing to see the press speculation this week.

So the players are the scapegoats once again! Didn't we all see the "Spectator" who punched a Cavan Player in the parade bust up pre match. Just wondering what suspension he got?

lets see the  pundits get their tinted glasses on and analyse Dublins tackling technique. e.g Sunday's Final , not one legal tackle from Dublin in the match-lot of pulling , dragging , head high , leading with forearm , no shoulder to shoulder. Yes Jim has his team playing on the edge and beyond and that is why they are one step ahead.

Mc loughlin admits attempting to "obstruct"  Cluxton's quick kick out. This was  in effect blocking the man from making a play. I think Mc Loughlin should have received a Black card.

Knockmore clubman McLoughlin said to the Examiner: "I just felt a bit of a kick. It kind of hurt.

"I ran in his way to stop him kicking the ball out quickly and I think he just retaliated.

( Horan thought the ref had a bad game )

To quote Colm O Rourke Sunday Independent, August 4th 2013: "Gallogly had no elbow, knee or fist up and was quite entitled to go for the ball and the man."
Colm you are wrong. To go for the man is not within the rules of the GAA, only when, with two feet on the ground and shoulder to shoulder.
The pundits have focused so much on cynical fouling and defensive football that "the cute hoors" of Kerry, Dublin, Monaghan and Mayo" have got away with the most cynical foul of all "if you don't get the ball, get the man" and examples are "Tadgh Kennelly foul 2009 All Ireland final v Cork, 2011 semi final Barry Cahill v Karl Lacey, 2013 Ulster final Stephen Gallogly v Mark Mc Hugh, 2013 semi final  Mayo v Tyrone Peter Harte. (No yellow or red cards issued for any of these fouls), which resulted in serious injuries.
All key players instrumental in each team's game plan. All the above fouls committed by the type of football advocated in the above quote and the most "vociferous pundits" have missed all of these.

So far I have only seen a print media version of the new rules  for 2014. If you really wish to change mindset forever lets see a  Digital  media demo  of the new tackle defination , black card tackles, yellow card offences etc. Show us what's  legal and whats not. There are surely plenty  of examples from this years championship.
Already there is much confusion out here.

I think  Ryan should apologise to these young men who head to America for the Summer.  There is no shortage of Sugar Daddy's looking after   Managers in the GAA.  I can't say I know any in Longford, but sure isn't there always one!

I have to say  well done to the FRC for the thorough research , but I have to suggest that the Yellow card  proposal has undermined their work .I appeal to Eugene and his committe to think again on this one.

1. Reduce ticket prices dramatically across the board to all games including provincial club championship games. Club championship games are family games and must be priced accordingly.
2. GAA must accept and acknowledge that supporters only attend games to support their own team and are unwilling to pay double header prices. Why pay full price for half a loaf? (Provincial finals and All Ireland finals only attract supporters from all over).
3. At current admission prices, Only charge  1/2 price to double header games as supporters either leave after their own team has played or only arrive before their team plays. e.g . . . . Look at National League finals attendance trends. Fact:  Many people, who would like to attend, don't because they are paying the full price for half a loaf!
4. Abandon Double header games in winter time e.g. Mc Kenna cup semi finals this year played as a double header. Who wishes to sit in the cold for 3/4 hours?
5. Reduce 1/2 time interval break to 10 mins for all except intercounty championship games.

As a GAA supporter that's my view.

What a pity Benny Tierney has only 13 words in his vocabulary:
Peter- the- great, Canavan, Armagh,Tyrone, I, me, Crossmaglen,Kiernan,Geezer,her-indoors.
If he had a few more he could be a great ass -------------- et  to the Irish News.
Apology its just recently up to 14 as he has  added Fermanagh to his vocab.

I back Seanie 100% on this. An outside manager (maybe paid)  has come into Cavan and excluded a proven young  Cavan county player from representing his county. This is wrong and GAA rules should allow this young man to ply his trade where he is working or  living , even with out changing clubs.
If it is challenged in the DRA, he might just win it.
I can think of a few other examples where this has happened--Roscommon--Frankie Dolan, Cavan --Dermot Mc Cabe are just a few.

Fermanagh have undertaken and extensive review (go through the motions)  of  the manager's postion. The "independent" review committee find no fault with the appointment structure and urges the walk out players to  return . A vote is taken and the County Board delegates back the  proposal that John O Neill and his management team continue for two more years , subject to review at the end of  the year.
You now have the result of next Monday night's Co Board meeting.
My own conclusion : "the GAA has done their bit and to hell with Fermanagh football".  Fermangh football has always been losers and will always be losers, so gets what it deserves --a loser as manager.

Wednesday September 07 2011 --Irish Independent-- Martin Breheny

IN the 11 years I have been writing this column, I never got as much reaction as to last week's piece defending Donegal against attacks for the style of play they used this year and the assertion that the handpass was destroying Gaelic football.
Most of the comments supported the view that it was unfair to blame Jim McGuinness for adopting a game plan which, while not being easy on the eye, was within the rules and therefore perfectly legitimate. Mind you, one reader made a particularly interesting observation in defence of Donegal and the handpass, noting that if a soccer team completed as many passes it would be regarded as a delightful manifestation of the sport at its best.
He queried why a Gaelic football team were savaged for using a system where retaining possession was the primary aim. It's a fair point.

- Martin Breheny

Jim devised a defensive game plan with BRAIN not brawn, within the rules, unlike most of the great , cute ,defensive game plans over the years , a few of which I will remind you off– Kingdom's Tadgh Kennelly  2009 All –Ireland final, ( some of the same pundits who shamefully gave this man an All star are now the same people not too happy with Gentle Jim) 1996 All Ireland Semi final - Meath  Martin O Connell & Peter Canavan's ankle collide , ( remember the final and Mc Hale incident) do I recall Francie and Mickey Linden in  a big  match , Dublin & the Kingdoms Mickey Ned O Sullivan  in that great era of football -1976? dare I mention the Meath Lyons defensive system v Donegal 1990 was it, oh and I nearly forget Derry defensive tactics, the great Offally teams were never found wanting or Cork, didn't Tony Davis or should it be Nial Cahalane have a defensive plan, Dublin's Barry Cahill and his tackle on Karl Lacey, which was the most successful defensive tactic last Sunday. Yes all those great plans involved breaking the rules. Jim done it legit and like all tactics, its great when you win, but when you lose.
If you think of a county who won the All Ireland with out these defensive plans before Armageddon let me know. Galway, Down and Donegal are the only counties which come to mind.

We  knew  well in advance what to expect , yet 83,000 of us paid in to support our teams, 700,000 watched the Sunday game live , all enjoying a fascinating tactical contest. There are  10 or 15 unahppy pundits and sports reporters.
It seems to me the only people unhappy  with the Donegal Dublin match were those who got in free. In my opinion you never really appreciate anything you get for free. So lads give up your free press passes and start to enjoy the games.

I intend to travel abroad and play  some football. Can any one tell me if the GAA Insurance will cover me if I was unfortuante enough to receive an injury. Is there any other insurance I can take out to cover possible  hospital fees .

Only the GAA could concoct  this draw system. Already I have a text message indicating possibility of a legal challenge to draw for round 4.Round 3 matches should have been classified as A,B,C,D and put back into the drum and then draw round 4. It might have been the same result but this is the way it should be done.

http://eircomsports.eircom.net/GAA-Football/news/gaa/TheChampionshipPowerRankings30May.aspx

How the mighty have fallen

I saw Pauric Duffy and his wife at the match today, but he did not have to pay €54.00.  I was at match with my wife and 3 grown up children, 2 of whom are unemployed.I paid €135.00. We have always been a GAA family.
Why is preliminary round so expensive?
Why is a first round game so expensive?
It is time club delegates made their views known,