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GAA football ,skillful or not?

  • 21-04-2013 12:18am
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 133 ✭✭


    Is football a skillful game ,or as it seems to me just the ability to kick the ball long and have the ability to catch it instead of your opponent?


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,970 ✭✭✭Lenin Skynard


    Surely by this logic, golf isn't skillful either because you're just hitting a ball really hard with a stick.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,818 ✭✭✭donvito99


    Ew.

    Sports? In AH?


  • Moderators, Education Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 10,972 Mod ✭✭✭✭artanevilla


    Is football a skillful game ,or as it seems to me just the ability to kick the ball long and have the ability to catch it instead of your opponent?

    And are these not skills?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,249 ✭✭✭MaroonAndGreen


    Its very skillful at the high levels of the game, very skillful


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,459 ✭✭✭Chucken


    Surely by this logic, golf isn't skillful either because you're just hitting a ball really hard with a stick.


    You're only being silly now.
    What you described is called Hurling ;)


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 35,514 ✭✭✭✭efb


    Something for the savages to do on a sunday after their ritual chanting I suppose


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 698 ✭✭✭belcampprisoner


    its very skillfull,more skillfull than soccer,i watched a player run past 10 players 7 times in 20 minutes,if the players were full time pros
    it would be better,most work then practice after work,


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,493 ✭✭✭✭McDermotX


    It takes skill at the top level like most sports.

    Still sh!te though.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 133 ✭✭lost in cork


    Surely by this logic, golf isn't skillful either because you're just hitting a ball really hard with a stick.
    But a small ball with a small clubface into a small hole ,not a big round ball easy to kick between two wide posts


  • Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 26,403 Mod ✭✭✭✭Peregrine


    Is football a skillful game ,or as it seems to me just the ability to kick the ball long and have the ability to catch it instead of your opponent?

    Then bowling is the ability to throw a ball.

    But how come everyone isn't amazing at bowling? Surely everyone can throw a ball.

    Every sport requires a certain set of skills, you'll understand when you play it.

    I don't play gaelic btw


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  • Moderators, Education Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 10,972 Mod ✭✭✭✭artanevilla


    its very skillfull,more skillfull than soccer

    Bit of a sweeping statement to make. Both sports have unique skills, neither is more skillful than the other.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,970 ✭✭✭Lenin Skynard


    But a small ball with a small clubface into a small hole ,not a big round ball easy to kick between two wide posts

    Yes but in golf you don't have 15 lads trying to take your head off while you do it. Sounds kind of interesting though. I hope they invent Gaelic golf soon.


  • Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 12,033 Mod ✭✭✭✭Say Your Number




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,020 ✭✭✭uch


    As Alan Shearer said, 'A mixture of Hockey and Second Degree Murder'

    21/25



  • Moderators, Education Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 10,972 Mod ✭✭✭✭artanevilla


    But a small ball with a small clubface into a small hole ,not a big round ball easy to kick between two wide posts

    You've not got someone trying to tackle you in golf. Though that might be an idea...


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 713 ✭✭✭WayneMolloy


    efb wrote: »
    Something for the savages to do on a sunday after their ritual chanting I suppose

    Most popular sports team in the country is the Dublin football team. Are all the fans savages?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 35,514 ✭✭✭✭efb


    Most popular sports team in the country is the Dublin football team. Are all the fans savages?

    yeah


  • Moderators, Education Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 10,972 Mod ✭✭✭✭artanevilla


    efb wrote: »
    yeah

    Ah now, not all are. Just a massive percentage.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 644 ✭✭✭yohan the great


    uch wrote: »
    As Alan Shearer said, 'A mixture of Hockey and Second Degree Murder'
    He said that about hurling and we aren't talking about hurling


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,217 ✭✭✭✭B.A._Baracus


    "Just because something might look easy, doesnt mean it is" - wise words. :)

    Top levels of sport are highly competitive as there is generally big money involved. So alotta skill is required.

    I think if the topic was shifted over to entertainment ... thats when "skills" take a back seat. Many a singer nowadays can't sing for shit live. Even within acting you've got "movies" and then "films" (to quote eddie murphy in Blowfinger :P)


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,734 ✭✭✭Duckworth_Luas


    Ah now, not all are. Just a massive percentage.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 125 ✭✭duinegorm


    Most popular sports team in the country is the Dublin football team. Are all the fans savages?

    Just the ones on the hill chewing the face off themselves and burning flags.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,681 ✭✭✭ColeTrain


    But a small ball with a small clubface into a small hole ,not a big round ball easy to kick between two wide posts

    Try to solo to ball up the pitch with a bit of speed, far from an easy thing to do, never mind evading your marker and kicking the ball from distance over the bar. The further you are out the smaller the posts are.

    Plenty of skill to Gaelic football.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 35,514 ✭✭✭✭efb


    Ah now, not all are. Just a massive percentage.

    99.9?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,020 ✭✭✭uch


    He said that about hurling and we aren't talking about hurling

    Fair enough, but you could apply it to modern Football too, spitting and Biting isn't part of football

    21/25



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,681 ✭✭✭ColeTrain


    efb wrote: »
    99.9?

    Your loss. Brilliant game.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,459 ✭✭✭Chucken


    Is football a skillful game ,or as it seems to me just the ability to kick the ball long and have the ability to catch it instead of your opponent?

    After reading this a 2nd time....Depends I suppose?


  • Moderators, Regional North West Moderators Posts: 19,157 Mod ✭✭✭✭byte
    byte


    uch wrote: »
    As Alan Shearer said, 'A mixture of Hockey and Second Degree Murder'
    Jason Statham surely?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,020 ✭✭✭uch


    byte wrote: »
    Jason Statham surely?


    I Kid you Not !

    21/25



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,734 ✭✭✭Duckworth_Luas




  • Moderators, Regional North West Moderators Posts: 19,157 Mod ✭✭✭✭byte
    byte


    Oh right. Jason said something similar, after a bit of Googling... film "Blitz"

    “This lads, is a hurl, used in the Irish game of hurling, a cross between hockey and murder.”


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,500 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    To excel at it you have to be talented. There's no point commenting unless you yourself have played the game. It's rough for sure, you take that, it's a man's game, but you'll get nowhere without also having the knack for it (skill)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 644 ✭✭✭yohan the great


    uch wrote: »
    Fair enough, but you could apply it to modern Football too, spitting and Biting isn't part of football

    Spitting and biting also happens in soccer and the so called gentlemans game rugby


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,056 ✭✭✭darced


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,681 ✭✭✭ColeTrain


    darced wrote: »
    This post has been deleted.

    Fitness is a big part of the game alright but will only take you so far. If you don't have a bit of skill at the top level then you'll be found out pretty quick.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 133 ✭✭lost in cork


    To excel at it you have to be talented. There's no point commenting unless you yourself have played the game. It's rough for sure, you take that, it's a man's game, but you'll get nowhere without also having the knack for it (skill)
    Ive played it but it is kick and rush ,ive played soccer too far harder skill wise


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,731 ✭✭✭✭osarusan


    Like every sport, it takes a lot of skill to compete at the higher levels. That's why not everybody can do it. I'm not a GAA fan at all, but even I can recognise that players like Maurice O Sullivan and Dara O Cinneide were immensely gifted at the sport, in comparison to even the other players on the field.

    I always think it's sill to compare sports. One poster said that golf is the most skillful sport of all, but how do you compare it with a sport like boxing or skiing?

    Even with sports with similarities like gaelic football and soccer, the differences in some of the skills needed are still huge, and make comparison impossible.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 713 ✭✭✭WayneMolloy


    duinegorm wrote: »
    Just the ones on the hill chewing the face off themselves and burning flags.

    Burning flags? If someone is evidently rubber drunk, they refuse them entry. A yoked up scummer would not gain entry.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,056 ✭✭✭darced


    This post has been deleted.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,020 ✭✭✭uch


    Spitting and biting also happens in soccer and the so called gentlemans game rugby

    We're not talking about soccer or rugby

    21/25



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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,681 ✭✭✭ColeTrain


    Ive played it but it is kick and rush ,ive played soccer too far harder skill wise

    I play(ed) both and found soccer easier. I'm a defender/back and would be more relaxed player soccer because it's a slower pace and if you're smart with your positioning it helps a lot. With Gaelic it's much more frantic and you've got balls being played over your head all the time putting you under big pressure. Everyone is different though.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 713 ✭✭✭WayneMolloy


    efb wrote: »
    yeah

    Ah, well. I am not going to change your mind. You will never experience the buzz Gaa fans feel when they get to see their county play a big game in front of a capacity Croke Park. That is indeed a pity.

    Not many things can beat being in Croker on a summers day - when the anthem is belted out, the neck goes a tingling. Magic.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,734 ✭✭✭Duckworth_Luas


    uch wrote: »
    We're not talking about soccer or rugby
    Isn't modern soccer 99% racism and 1% spitting?


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 713 ✭✭✭WayneMolloy


    darced wrote: »
    This post has been deleted.

    Same could be said of soccer. Well, maybe not so much now as the game has evolved so much its made the 'hard man' in midfield role pretty redundant.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,681 ✭✭✭ColeTrain


    darced wrote: »
    This post has been deleted.

    Maybe for a few of the weaker counties but there's no chance you'd make a good counties team because of your strength/fitness. You'd have to be good on the ball.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,489 ✭✭✭Yamanoto


    I've no doubt inter-county players are highly skilled individuals, it's just that the game even at that level looks like a bit of a scruffy shove-fest (to an admittedly casual observer).


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,311 ✭✭✭✭K-9


    Yamanoto wrote: »
    I've no doubt inter-county players are highly skilled individuals, it's just that the game even at that level looks like a bit of a scruffy shove-fest (to an admittedly casual observer).

    Lacey, long ball to Murphy, bang, back of the net. Seriously, AH doesn't cater for this, try Soccer, GAA or Sports.

    Mad Men's Don Draper : What you call love was invented by guys like me, to sell nylons.



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