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Hurling has moved on a lot from 1998
It appears Offaly have not, nor their star manager.

the few times they handpassed the ball short and ran from midfield Kilkenny looked less comfortable.
Raining the ball aimlessly down on that Kilkenny backline only leads to one outcome.

As I said, Offaly should have been in the round robin.

I've heard of the farcial situation where a county board and the GAA is trying to stop clubs in a county from running their own summer camps.

So the county board and certain clubs can make money from the official cul camps.

I prefer this game

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_Wq2fnCGUE
Best final 10 minutes I've ever seen to a game.

Martin Carney gets the players mixed up in commentary, yet again

The worst thing is that a club cannot even bring a motion through to congress to oppose the likes of this (as it will be declared out of order) due to the deal being done by the commercial arm of the GAA, or Peter McKenna as he is known.

http://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/sport/gaa-grants-exclusive-global-digital-highlights-rights-to-the-sun-newspaper-632666.html

How could the GAA grant digital rights to such a shower??
This is the same newspaper that came up with this



and this



Has the GAA lost its moral compass? I mean, who makes these decisions?

Would Offaly have got out of the round robin series? I doubt it

Following on from some recent reading I have been doing...

On Belgium's rise as a soccer powerhouse...
Unveiled in 2004, was Belgium's master plan, called G-A-G — Global-Analytique-Global in French, or Globaal-Analytisch-Globaal in Dutch. The idea was to fuse the best of French soccer — its emphasis on physical power and tactical efficiency, hence "Analytique" — with the dreamy technique of the Dutch ("Global"), and invent a new kind of exciting, attacking soccer ("Global" again). "Our ultimate goal is deliberately utopian," Sablon's successor, Bob Browaeys, said recently. (Sablon retired from the FA in 2012.) "One hundred percent possession of the ball."

In practice, G-A-G means standardization. All over Belgium these days, boys and girls grow up playing soccer the same way. Every school, youth academy, and village team plays the same formation — 4-3-3, with classic, dribbling wingers — and follows the same progression up to the 11-on-a-side game. Kids under the age of 7 play 2-on-2; under-9s play 5-on-5; under-11s play 8-on-8. They never use more than half the field. It is only when they're 12 years old that boys and girls are finally introduced to a full-size pitch and the idea of a long pass.

More intricacy. More feints. More urban. More freestyle. Michel Sablon recognized this when he overhauled the country's approach to the game a decade ago. The phrase le football de rue (street soccer) is everywhere in Belgian FA documents. Browaeys, Sablon's successor, speaks of the "childlike pleasure" of the game played this way.


just a few points coaches might be interested in. Especially about the under 7s playing 2 on 2, under 9s 5 on 5... Sound familiar?
taken from...
http://grantland.com/features/world-cup-2014-belgian-national-team-vincent-kompany-eden-hazard-marouane-fellaini/

11 out of 12.

Bottom line is that Armagh Minors scored 19 points against one of the favourites to win the AI and they are out of the competition. That can't be right.

Cavan were one of the fav to win minor AI? Really?!

You quoted a post from two years ago when Armagh scored 19 points against Tyrone.

GAA should scrap u.21 and increase minor to U.19. There would be no exam conflicting and it means the less grades means that young top players wouldn't suffer burnout and over training

It would make more since to scrap pre-season competitions McKenna,O.Byrne cup and play college,club competitions before the end of year instead of February,March.

lol ah god didn't realise the old date.

Yeah fair shout on scraping those competitions, but the issue is players from 18-21 playing for too many teams. So better to scrap grades rather than competitions.

SOME players playing too much.
most players this age don't get enough games at club level, or their games are sidelined to accommodate players on county teams.

Can dr Hyde park accommodate for 5k Mayo season ticket holders in the way they are supposed to?

Behind the graveyard end goal

I genuinely want to see what the last free was given for?

Wasn't on the Sunday game last night, nor during the game yesterday.

How Sean Cavanagh got the last free still hasn't been shown on RTE
Amazing, considering Tyrone players were falling to the ground all game 'engineering' frees

Yeah, there is plenty of space in the RTE schedules for a highlights program midweek or Monday night - even the rugby gets their own discussion show! At least they could give more time to the hurling games as well.
If not, let TG4 have a show. Their Seo Spoirt is already the best sport show on Irish tv.