New Version of Hurling

Kerrydude1981

Just seen this on Balls.ie,its called Super 11 Hurling

A new short form of the game the GPA and the GAA have come up with,but using soccer goal posts instead of the normal ones.


http://balls.ie/gaa/super-11-hurling/

KevIRL

Dont really get the point of this if its for adults? Can understand it as a kids development game or even as an indoor winter game. But the outdoor adult version aint broke so why try to fix it?

Kerrydude1981

As it said in the video there carrying the concept to America,don't think we will see much of this form of the game been played here

KevIRL

Kerrydude1981 wrote: »

As it said in the video there carrying the concept to America,don't think we will see much of this form of the game been played here

Ah fair enough, couldnt watch the vid.

keeponhurling

"The GAA has organised live music and a game of 'Super 11' as part of tomorrow's warm-up (from 3.40) in the hope that it will get supporters into the stadium in time for the unusual 5.0 throw-in.
The 'Super 11' game, in which only goals are allowed, will feature a host of top hurlers, including Tommy Walsh, Liam Rushe, James Skehill, Eoin Kelly and Gavin O'Mahony.

conor.hogan.2

America surely has more american football pitches than soccer pitches?

Surely adapting them (two makeshift posts to get the lower goal end) and adapting the rules so goals are say only 2 points because the goal is bigger would make as much if not more sense?

Rockfish

conor.hogan.2 wrote: »

America surely has more american football pitches than soccer pitches?

Surely adapting them (two makeshift posts to get the lower goal end) and adapting the rules so goals are say only 2 points because the goal is bigger would make as much if not more sense?

LOL. soccer at grassroots level in the US is massive, wya higher pariticipation levels than Am football

willabur

soccer pitches are almost identical to US football pitches.
Alot of them are duel purpose with soccer goals having the uprights attached ontop of the crossbar

willabur

that coupled with the fact that most north american hurling tournaments are held on soccer pitches

Kerrydude1981

Seen this on Joe.ie it was on Nationwide last night,must have been a cool trip for the players involved

Grats

This is being heralded in some quarters as revolutionary when in truth it has been cloned from the kids hurling game known as Go games. Also, in many towns and villages throughout the country, 11 aside is very common at underage. No harm in trying something to spread the gospel but calling it revolutionary is far fetched.

Kerrydude1981

Grats wrote: »

This is being heralded in some quarters as revolutionary when in truth it has been cloned from the kids hurling game known as Go games. Also, in many towns and villages throughout the country, 11 aside is very common at underage. No harm in trying something to spread the gospel but calling it revolutionary is far fetched.

Have to jazz it up for the yanks

Grats

Kerrydude1981 wrote: »

Have to jazz it up for the yanks

Very true.

Littlehorny

Looks just like soccer to me to be honest. With modern balls and hurls the ball can travel too far to suit a smaller pitch although with only goals the ball will have to be worked in or dropped into the full forward line.

SeaFields

All was going well in the clip until they interviewed the two idiots with the sunglasses.

RebelAbu32

liam o neill was on newstalk few weeks ago he was saying they could use this game to try out new rules with a view of using them in proper hurling

Realt Dearg Sec

Littlehorny wrote: »

Looks just like soccer to me to be honest. With modern balls and hurls the ball can travel too far to suit a smaller pitch although with only goals the ball will have to be worked in or dropped into the full forward line.

Another change in this game was the ball had no ridges. And it was yellow and blueto make it easier to see.

quintain

SeaFields wrote: »

All was going well in the clip until they interviewed the two idiots with the sunglasses.

Agreed. WHY did RTE show those 2 pi$$takers on the piece? or did whoever was in charge actually think they were being serious

Realt Dearg Sec

quintain wrote: »

Agreed. WHY did RTE show those 2 pi$$takers on the piece? or did whoever was in charge actually think they were being serious

Yeah it was odd, it was like the people making the show didn't recognise they were the butt of the joke. Clearly they weren't sport types. It wouldn't matter except the two lads weren't funny, at all, so there just wasn't any sense in it. Blatantly two hipster tools who think they're hilarious and think sport is for idiots. Odd to just make that the centerpiece of the show. I think the hipsters won, because irony.

Kerrydude1981

Bump

Anyone watching the game between Galway and Dublin on TG4 its on over in Boston,lively game and a bit of a brawl thrown in as well,

zetecescort

bit of niggly stuff alright, no doubt there's plenty "chat" about recent developments in Galway

PTH2009

weekend away for the lads with a match thrown in lol.

amazed yesterday by the skill of the shinty players.

Is shinty profesinonal

Kerrydude1981

PTH2009 wrote: »

weekend away for the lads with a match thrown in lol.

amazed yesterday by the skill of the shinty players.

Is shinty profesinonal

Dont think so

LeinsterDub

Kerrydude1981 wrote: »

Bump

Anyone watching the game between Galway and Dublin on TG4 its on over in Boston,lively game and a bit of a brawl thrown in as well,

A televised training drill. Entirely pointless.

jk86

Grats wrote: »

Very true.

Was this televised in America? And having on a Sunday afternoon during NFL season has to seriously diminish the amount of people paying attention

ollaetta

Watched a fair bit of it but didn't like it much. All I could think of was those games you have to end a training session on astro. I know they had no option but I think it also looked daft on the American Football lined pitch.

LeinsterDub

ollaetta wrote: »

Watched a fair bit of it but didn't like it much. All I could think of was those games you have to end a training session on astro. I know they had no option but I think it also looked daft on the American Football lined pitch.

I don't buy that they had no option. They just wanted to push this bastardised code

Fatswaldo

Watched two quarters with two hurling mad young lads. Having watched the real hurling earlier, neither the boys or myself thought much of it. Whoever mentioned a televised drill was spot on! Probably a bit like playing 5 a side soccer, grand for a run around on a wednesday night but nothing like the real thing.

Davys Fits

Judging from Twitter the yanks loved it and the brawl. One can easily see why they would like it but I would much prefer the original. Some notes.....I acknowledge that some of the greatest hurling scores ever were long range points and not goals but watching the 11's I would prefer to see more emphasis on goal scoring. It made for some great goals and great saves and probably more play time.
Kicking the sliotar is also creeping into the modern game, in the old days you wouldn't dream of kicking a sliothar if you wanted to walk off the field. Is it time to ban kicking the ball?

LeinsterDub

Davys Fits wrote: »

Kicking the sliotar is also creeping into the modern game, in the old days you wouldn't dream of kicking a sliothar if you wanted to walk off the field. Is it time to ban kicking the ball?

Kicking has been in the game forever or at least longer than I can remember and that's including all the reeling in the years so at least since the 60s I've no issue with it.

ProudDUB

Why GAA time money and effort is going into prompting a game - its not even hurling FFS - that isn't even played in Ireland is beyond me. Is this another one of Donal Og's makey up, ego trip tournaments? Seems like a terrible waste of money to me, when we don't have enough money to fund, promote & equip the GAA sports that we do play. :rolleyes: