The 2023 All Ireland Senior Football Championship (Sam Maguire Cup)

Kicking it into the net from a few metres out isn't much of a skill either.

A tap in is a tap in.

Palmed goals are dreadful. Just a volleyball spike. Tiny amount of skill required to finish it. Any skill is in the build up to it.

Lot more skill and nerve required to finish with a kicked goal. Big difference for Mannions goal yesterday if he has to catch that and bring it down to his foot and finish, before the goalie gets across. He almost certainly still scores it, but the goalie and defender have a much bigger chance of getting a block in. He probably doesn't go as near to the goal to take the pass also to give himself a bit more time before the goalie gets to him.

Fisted points need to go too.

I'd love to see keepers banned from leaving their goal. It looks so stupid and is slowing the game down even more that it already has been slowed down.

At present, you can redirect the flight of the ball if you are not in possession of it. Having any scenario where you can have possession and run in and score is quite different.

The difference is not of a technical nature, they are simply two completely different things. The only throw you will see under the rules, is when the ref throws in the ball. That is a different action, than a player connecting with his hand with a ball in flight.

So suddenly it turns into a Dublin is the problem somehow? Madness. Some logic you have there, the issue is a far wider one

Dublin have won in Portaloise. kilkenny, Longford in recent times, in football and Dublin won thad no problem. As I said before CP actually becomes a disadvantage to Dublin - in hurling. And will do again in football against the top sides.

Your logic reminds me of the narrative Meath fans used to have saying Dublin was the problem. When the likes of Westmeath, Carlow, Longford etc would either beat or put it up to them.

Look at the teams that shocked Kildare/Meath 2010 -2020 in the championship

Your logic is the equivalent of the chunky girl enviously looking at the girl who regularly goes to gym and eats right. Yet the chunky girl has not the wherewithal to follow through on the diets and long term planning and wonders where it has all gone wrong.

You need to get your head out of your arse and stop blaming Dublin and look at your own county. The real elephants in the room is how a massive county like Cork could have let themselves fall so far so fast in football. Do they care?

Why would they care when HQ had to bail them out of the cost for PUC otherwise the CCB would have gone bust -

What about that elephant?

Why has football counties like Meath/Kildare let themselves fall so far? Do they care? Where is the planning and foresight? Kildare and Meath are big dormitory towns beside Dublin. Many footballers have the facilities near them universities etc. Are you telling me that those who run football in counties like Cork/Klldare/Meath just happen to be be clueless? There is another elephant there for ya

Many counties have centres of excellence - Dublin have none

What about those elephants?

In 99% of goals scored with the hand the keeper is already beaten so banning it would just lead to a foot tap in with no keeper to beat anyway

That advanced mark has to go as well. Brutal. Teams just use it tactically to kill the momentum of game or take a handy score.

Its not even that, I saw it a few times yesterday, a player who is only around midfield thinks he has no options and kicks it back to the keeper, then the keeper fumbles it because he is wearing big gloves and is supposed to be a goal keeper. most players seem to be afraid to tackle the keepers as well, id love to see a few of them dispossessed and open goals scored like the Derry keeper last year, that might stop them coming out.

Teams should leave one player up on his own at the goal, once you get the ball off the keeper belt it down to the lone man and its an open goal.

Why not just solve it by going back to the proper GAA way of not giving the keeper a special jersey.

None of these new fangledy soccer goalies jerseys.

But it is there, any time the keeper is soloing up the field, any opposition player can approach him and tackle him, so many times I see the keeper run at a defense and no one tackles him.

"That would probably lead to more handpassing"

Response:

"That's a defeatist attitude.The GAA should be implementing rules that improve the quality of the games"

Followed by

"Too much handpassing nowadays. It's all horseshoe running in front of the goal handpassing it"

No point in rules for the sake of it. You have to look at their consequences.

The forward mark was brought in because places like this were bawling crying about football not being like back in their glory days of bombing in the ball. The GAA just can't win.

Agreed never liked them, I would like them got rid of as well. Doesn't look right optically and makes players take the easy option.

What I would like though is teams to go for goals more - make it 5 points for a goal and see what happens then!

Watch Paddy Smalls goal at the end yesterday. Surely more a throw downwards than anything else. Almost like a slam dunk. Should be a foul but it can only be spotted on video analysis.