I'd suggest you comment on the inequities of the Connacht championship before you decide to comment satirically on those of other championships subtly or not so subtly! It's the typical hypocritical bolloxollogy that this this site is infested with.
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Show posts MenuQuote from: MayoBuck on June 27, 2021, 03:33:39 PM
Gaelic football is a great game when there are evenly matched teams playing!
Quote from: Kuwabatake Sanjuro on March 26, 2017, 10:00:52 PMQuote from: Hill16 Blues on March 26, 2017, 09:42:43 PM
Sure on the basis our 5500 season ticket holders can be accomodated. Will beat the living daylights out of you regardless of where it's played. No doubt you'll find something else to whinge & complain about then.
You get promoted and that's the first thing you think of. You never stop do you! Youre a sad fn excuse for an inter county team. Great to have you back in Div 1. That's 2 points guaranteed and a damn good hiding to go with it
I'm just 1 contrary fan, I'm sure the team itself will be focusing on the next game and trying to improve. The only thing I would like to see is that teams are treated fairly in terms of getting to play home games, it was a disgrace in 2013 to only have 2 league games played in Newbridge (our county board were culpable too).
We love that ye still have a bitter hatred against us even though we are absolutely no threat whatsoever to Dublin's dominance.
Quote from: The Hill is Blue on March 05, 2017, 08:09:07 PM
Did O'Connor get a card for this?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WJJD9Cqkv9k
Quote from: criostlinn on October 03, 2016, 08:05:34 PM
I wonder how Stephen Coen will deal with the intense media pressure that he will come under after him taking Diarmuid Connolly out of Lee Keegans pocket with the black card and placing him firmly into his own. Cant be at that Stephen. This lad has to be able express himself. So was it pulling and dragging or can Connolly actually be marked
Quote from: Zulu on September 25, 2016, 07:18:37 PMQuote from: sid waddell on September 25, 2016, 07:13:02 PMQuote from: Zulu on September 25, 2016, 07:05:37 PMOn page 2 here you were saying that the standard was poor, now you're saying otherwise.
Utter nonsense. The standard was excellent at times with some great scores across the three games. The tackling and physicality in the senior game was brilliant. It's comparing apples and oranges to compare men's and women's sports but taken as a stand alone sport ladies football is a tremendous sport and to say the skills are awful is pure rubbish or that -
Anybody who watched the game will know that the standard was poor. Terrible shooting, poor passing, poor handling skills, lack of composure of players in possession.Quote from: Zulu on September 25, 2016, 07:05:37 PMDublin tanked early in the second half as they did last year when leading by a large margin.
- is complete nonsense. Many ladies IC footballers have played international soccer, basketball or rugby so clearly their fitness and ball skills are at an elite level. I shouldn't even be engaging with lads like ye on this as it's like arguing with a men claiming the earth is flat.
Cork were poor and basically stuck in the game due to Dublin's poor shooting. They have the cuteness and know how to win games but they are a shadow of even previous Cork teams.
I don't believe the standard now has advanced much, if at all since Waterford and Monaghan were contesting these games in the mid to late 90s.
The quality of the senior game in tough conditions wasn't brilliant like the men's game last weekend but both were compelling contests with huge physicality. If you read the post you quoted you'd see I said it was excellent at times across the three games.
The standard has improved dramatically since then that's not even up for debate I'd have thought.
Quote from: Zulu on September 25, 2016, 06:28:51 PMQuote from: sid waddell on September 25, 2016, 06:13:03 PM
Women's GAA is crap.
The pace of the games is incredibly slow, the fitness isn't very good, the skills are awful - the players find it difficult to solo the ball, they can't shoot, they keep dropping the ball. Players more often than not panic when in possession. They don't appear to have much tactical nous or spatial awareness you regularly see passes aimed at where the target recipient is rather than the position they should be expected to run into. Women's GAA players do not train just as hard as men, and it shows, so let's stop hearing that they do.
The coverage of the games is also incredibly patronising - it's similar to what you get for the Paralympics - pretty much no criticism is ever allowed of either camogie or women's Gaelic football and "the standard" is always praised, even if it's really, really bad, as it was today, and constant references are made to how much the games are "growing".
The camogie and women's football associations themselves are painted as forward thinking even though ridiculous situations often crop up on their watch, like in the camogie last year when they changed the rules to have a play-off and then made Dublin play the next day (possibly two days, can't remember for sure) after winning the play-off.
The countdown clock is a really poor system, is far too open to time wasting and rewards cynical fouls towards the end of the game.
That point that was given as a wide today was farcical. Why was HawkEye not used?
Until the coverage stops being patronising and brushing the poor standard under the carpet women's GAA cannot expect to be taken in any way seriously as proper sport.
Women's tennis, gymnastics, athletics and probably a few other individual sports can be taken seriously. Team sports like hockey and basketball have women's games that can be taken seriously. Even a physical sport like rugby (certainly the 7s at the Olympics and the last 15 a side World Cup) contains players who look like genuine athletes with genuine skill. These sports have women that can reasonably be called elite. Women's GAA contains neither proper athletes nor proper skill. It's miles away from being able to call itself "elite".
Obviously there's always going to be a massive gap between it and men's hurling and football but what's on show year after year is undoubtedly a poor product compared to what it could be.
Well that's the greatest load of bollocks written on here for quite some time, you should be proud of yourself. There's so much rubbish in your post that I haven't the time to respond to it bit by bit but suffice to say that there was some great football played at CP today and whatever about the quality of the last game there was huge physicality and athleticism shown by both teams.
Quote from: Dinny Breen on May 22, 2016, 09:53:54 AMQuote from: Farrandeelin on May 22, 2016, 08:35:56 AMQuote from: Dinny Breen on May 21, 2016, 11:57:52 PM
13k in.Croke Park this evening. Wake the f**k up Leinster Council/Corporate GAA.
What about all the Dublin fans? Can't believe their hurlers don't bring some more.
Let's be frank the Dublin hurlers are a manufactured team, it demonstrates exactly what financial investment can do. Dublin hurling is an alien concept to the vast majority of Dublin supporters. They have a hard core dedicated bunch of supporters who are entitled to enjoy these good times as they were there in the bad times however I was in Tullamore last year for their game against Galway and they had less support than Kildare in CP yesterday. It will take more than money to change the culture of hurling and support in Dublin.
Quote from: seafoid on May 14, 2016, 09:54:06 AMQuote from: Hill16 Blues on May 14, 2016, 09:07:52 AMthe psych thing is what prevented Mayo from winning 2 of the last 5 all IrelandsQuote from: seafoid on May 14, 2016, 06:03:56 AM
The Dubs would look a lot less impressive if Mayo were winning their share of Sams.
Winning is in large part psychological and the Dubs have the edge over Kerry as well. But the notion of a thousand year Reich is nuts .
Dublin win because at the minute they have the best team, better footballers and a desire & hunger to keep winning as all great teams do.
Share of SAMs?? Mayo have not won because of physchological shortcomings. More so because they are not as good as Dublin and the year recently Dublin didn't make it to the final they got done by inept& incompetent ref in semi replay v Kerry. No guarantee they would have beaten Donegal in final but you would have fancied them to.
the Dubs had it 91 to 94 as well of course...
But they made it over the line in 95
If Mayo can win one Sam they will kick on and develop even further
dubs have been going since 09 maybe so have a lot of mileage on the clock