Kicking The Sliotar

[thejuice]

After watching the highlights of Limerick vs Dublin something that has been bothering me for the last while and I have seen enough of it to make me take drastic action and start a thread on GAAboard. As you can guess by the title, kicking the sliotar just annoys me. Especially kicking goals. It doesn't look right and seems like an easy way out for forwards, much like Limericks goal yesterday. The defender was in a good position to hook any shot, I think in that situation it would be better if the forward had to shoot with his hurl rather than being allowed kick it.

Anyone else agree?

[Zapatista]

I thought the kicked scores were good. It annoys me when 4-6 men are bunched swinging at a silotar or trying to pick it up, going nowhere. They'd be better just drawing the boot into it.

[thejuice]

Well in that situation its not so bad and it would be next to impossible to referee if you were to be penalised for hitting the ball with your foot but its just the scores that bother me.

[orangeman]

When Canning lost his hurl yesterday, he had no other choice but to kick it over the bar. He was faced by 4/5 Waterford defenders. A great score.


Nicky English's soccer style goal might have been his best ever.

[the colonel]

To be honest I think that it should maybe be done more. You can kick the ball upto 30 yards in the back line to clear your lines, and its a good way of getting scores. Backs have plenty of underhand ways of fouling forwards and its a pretty fair advantage for the forwards to score with the boot

[longball]

Who kicked the point yday? Well outside 35. Seen it on the SG last nite but cant even mind.

[EddieMerx]

Kicking the ball is a skill and should be allowed. Imagine if a defender was not allowed to kick the ball clear then the game would be stopped constantly because of over carrying.

[nrico2006]

Should not be allowed to do it.  If they want to kick a ball they should have played football as opposed to hurling.  It looks while stupid i think in the middle of match.

Sure outlaw handpassing too, if they wanted to hit the ball with their hand they should have played handball instead of hurling.

[johnneycool]

Don't have a problem with the kicking of a hurling ball and it can be your only option if the hurl is knocked out of your hand. If you were to get a pull on the foot whilst trying to kick the ball then you mightn'd be wanting or able to kick it again.

Anyone else think the fisted point in football should be banned as it's just too eay?

Joe Canning was the lad who kicked the point yesterday.

[longrunsthefox]

Should not be allowed to do it.  If they want to kick a ball they should have played football as opposed to hurling.  It looks while stupid i think in the middle of match.

So when English and Canning had the hurls pulled off them what should they do with a score on?

[Farrandeelin]

Don't have a problem with the kicking of a hurling ball and it can be your only option if the hurl is knocked out of your hand. If you were to get a pull on the foot whilst trying to kick the ball then you mightn'd be wanting or able to kick it again.

Anyone else think the fisted point in football should be banned as it's just too eay?

Joe Canning was the lad who kicked the point yesterday.

Ban all handpasses in football!

[blewuporstuffed]

Don't have a problem with the kicking of a hurling ball and it can be your only option if the hurl is knocked out of your hand. If you were to get a pull on the foot whilst trying to kick the ball then you mightn'd be wanting or able to kick it again.

Anyone else think the fisted point in football should be banned as it's just too eay?

Joe Canning was the lad who kicked the point yesterday.

Ban all handpasses in football!

dont see the problem with either kicking the ball in hurling or fisting a score in football, both are skills of the game.
Actually quite like the fisted score in football,usually comes at the end of a forwrd taking on his man and going for goal

[johnneycool]

Don't have a problem with the kicking of a hurling ball and it can be your only option if the hurl is knocked out of your hand. If you were to get a pull on the foot whilst trying to kick the ball then you mightn'd be wanting or able to kick it again.

Anyone else think the fisted point in football should be banned as it's just too eay?

Joe Canning was the lad who kicked the point yesterday.

Ban all handpasses in football!

dont see the problem with either kicking the ball in hurling or fisting a score in football, both are skills of the game.
Actually quite like the fisted score in football,usually comes at the end of a forwrd taking on his man and going for goal

Eh, if he's going for goal he'd have to kick surely as fisted goals aren't allowed AFAIK but I'm no expert on the football.

I just think there isn't much skill in fisting a ball over the bar, but you could argue that bouncing the ball is a skill. All subjective

[guevara]

Its a skill of the game. If a defender wants to grab your Hurl then booting the ball to the back of the net will surely be the forwards advantage.
If it were banned defenders would just have to have a sly tug of the hurl & the Sunday Game would be inundated with fans going mental about useless referees.
Very Few players could do what Nicky English done all those years ago & Canning' was a delightful effort!

[Premier Emperor]

The only thing that should touch the sliothar should be a hurl.
Ban handpassing and kicking before the game turns into football.