NFL Division 1

[drici]

Truth is, all the top teams are cynical in their own way & if Roscommon want to dine at the grown ups table then they will be too.

It's simply a fact of life in the GAA nowadays.

"When you went to tackle an Antrim player he automatically passed it out to a waiting college and moved on for the return pass. The only counter to this was to take the man getting the return pass and put your arms around him and hold him as the ball came to him. If a man was caught in possession five times in a row you would expect that he would change his tactics. Antrim never did and when forced to kick the ball in from far out field our full back line usually won the duals in the air. We out smarted them that day".

So Paddy Kennedy admitted that Kerry did foul their opponent in a concerted plan to stop them and indeed even in today's game we see the tactics of swarming, dragging and holding and preventing a player form finding a team mate. Some things never change. Antrim failed that day because when Kerry thwarted their running short style of play they failed to adapt and the men on the line did not have an answer to Kerry's tactics,

http://www.terracetalk.com/articles/Memories/70/The-1946-All-Ireland-Final-and-the-Antrim-Objection

[Zulu]

Truth is, all the top teams are cynical in their own way & if Roscommon want to dine at the grown ups table then they will be too.

It's simply a fact of life in the GAA nowadays.

I've noticed this type of view becoming more prevalent and even lads bemoaning the fact their team aren't more cynical or lauding them for becoming so. The attitude of fans is as big a problem as the attitude of players, we are starting to enable this ridiculous behaviour. What McGee did yesterday was disgraceful and he didn't get hit half hard enough by Fitzgerald and in fairness to Donegal posters they are saying as much themselves. However, it's very worrying that people feel you HAVE to be, not cynical as that isn't just what it is, but dirty, sneaking, cowardly and embarrassing to the game. The odd game always turned into a bit of slugfest and there was always a bit of dirt but there was also a manliness about a lot of it in the past. Now we have sledging, diving, lads rutting each other with their chests, grabbing jerseys and getting everybody behind the ball turning the game into a session of keep ball interspersed by fouls and wrestling matches. It's only a matter of time before the crowd start seeing players hysterically shouting 'hold me back' and 'Sean, don't he's not worth it'.

It's long since time we started to wise up and condemn this rubbish for what it is. The game is becoming increasingly difficult to watch even though it's clear we have some of the best footballers ever to play the game out there.

[Wildweasel74]

The current teams of today would get ate alive by the Meath team of the late 80`s in the physical dept, Always maintained they werent dirty, just hard as f**k, u going to punch a Meath man make it count cause there no 2nd chances. Never has 1 team produced so many hard nuts!!

[Newbridge Exile]

The current teams of today would get ate alive by the Meath team of the late 80`s in the physical dept, Always maintained they werent dirty, just hard as f**k, u going to punch a Meath man make it count cause there no 2nd chances. Never has 1 team produced so many hard nuts!!

Liam Harnon and Mick Lyons in the centre of defence,  -enough said!

[Rossfan]

Aren't Kerry, Donegal, Monaghan, Mayowestros, Cork, Dublin lucky that RugbyTelefìsÉireann recognise ye exist. 
RugbyTÉ doesn't know about us at all.

Well, if your county ground wasn't such an unmitigated shit hole, with no floodlights, then perhaps it would be a different story. If it was in decent nick and could host games under the lights, you would have been on the telly long before now.

Setanta are only interested in Dublin games plus Div 2 games from the North.
At least TG4 showed a few minutes tonight of the Ros/Down game.

[Beffs]

Get yourselves some floodlights and you'll soon have Setanta knocking on your door. It's not their fault you don't have any.

[imtommygunn]

Roscommon on tv tonight. Very theatrical performance for their penalty...

[Syferus]

Roscommon on tv tonight. Very theatrical performance for their penalty...

Taken down in the square. As clear cut as you'll see. If you wanted theatrics you should have been watching Donegal-Kerry. It was like a He-Man convention it was that overblown.

[imtommygunn]

Was he taken down by a bullet from somewhere - looked like it (your comments show your blinkers as it did look very suspicious and was definitely very theatrical. It isn't often you see gaa players go down like that)

[Captain Obvious]

Roscommon on tv tonight. Very theatrical performance for their penalty...

In fairness it looked like poor goal keeping. Tripped the Roscommon player when the goal chance was gone.

[Cunny Funt]

Get yourselves some floodlights and you'll soon have Setanta knocking on your door. It's not their fault you don't have any.

Kiltoom that hosted the Monaghan game has floodlights. And it will host the Connacht U21 quarter final under lights on Friday night.

[oakleafgael]

Get yourselves some floodlights and you'll soon have Setanta knocking on your door. It's not their fault you don't have any.

Kiltoom that hosted the Monaghan game has floodlights. And it will host the Connacht U21 quarter final under lights on Friday night.

There is a difference between the quality of floodlights needed to play a match and those needed for tv broadcast.

[Main Street]

Get yourselves some floodlights and you'll soon have Setanta knocking on your door. It's not their fault you don't have any.

Kiltoom that hosted the Monaghan game has floodlights. And it will host the Connacht U21 quarter final under lights on Friday night.

There is a difference between the quality of floodlights needed to play a match and those needed for tv broadcast.

The lux factor is not an issue at Kiltoom

[upmonaghansayswe]

I assume Donegal and Kerry will get at least a €5,000 fine for those scenes. And should either appeal and fail, a lose of one home game added in for good measures!

Just like ourselves in 2012 after a brawl   

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tcodTHu4Vi8

[JoG2]

the monetary fines are a complete balls, they're punishing the wrong people. They're punishing the fundraisers, the people keeping the whole thing afloat. Retrospective suspensions for anyone involved on the field if anyone needs punished