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

Totally agree with this.

The rule is 4 steps OR held in the hand(s) for no longer than the time needed to take four steps

If a player throws himself to the ground and still has the ball after 2 seconds then it should be a free to the opposition.

This needs to be more strictly enforced and would lead to quicker sharper passing and more turnovers together with less diving and less "easy" frees. AND all without a rule change.

To me it looks like Meath fans are boycotting all Meath matches.

I believe there is a word for that 🤔

The game doesn't favor unskillful forwards more like. Skilful forwards are still thriving, it's the mediocre ones that are suffering with the packed defence, the good players are still succeeding, regardless of the number on their backs. The points about the tackle and steps etc are very valid - lots of chatter about rule changes and all sorts, but enforcing the rules that exist first would be better. Make the ball become available to tackle more often and if that doesn't work, then change the rules.

Yeah and rightly so. When we were winning and Dublin were losing the association wanted and caused fortunes to reverse. Meath received anemic investment from the gaa and Dublin got the sun moon and stars.

No right minded Meath supporter should invest in this system financially. I'm proud to see practically zero Meath fans at Dublin v Meath matches in croker these day's and proud of the huge number of Dublin fans who boycott the Leinster championship these day's aswell.

The few remaining weirdos who attend the annual turkey shoots are nothing more then a bunch of cultists. Although I will say I understand why a huge Louth crowd would attend this year but they'll have more sense the next time they get there if it's anytime soon.

Yes, this taking the ball into contact is the cause of a lot of pulling and dragging and then frees, in the game.

As was said in other posts the onus really should be on the ball carrier to release or play the ball properly

to avoid the tackle.

This business of charging in ,ball in both arms, and then falling, has to be properly refereed.

Otherwise it will just be a scragging,and dragging fest as it seems to be now given the tactics used.

A taught that one lad suggested was to increase the value of scores. A point from.outside the D make it worth 2 points and outside the 45 make it worth 3 points.

This would for e blanket defences out further but also reward the risk of taking a score from further out

The GAA will never go to 13 a side. Any solutions will be within the present structure. At this stage it will take faiey radical reconfiguration either in limiting numbers on each half of the pitch or increasing scoring values

Jayus, I didn't realise it was 2-14 from play? I have not heard a total like that against top sides since the Tyrone AI SF in 2017 - which was a very similar scoreline. One I would put down at the most complete Dublin performance i have seen. That last match v Mayo seemed to go on a different pattern though.

The more I think of it Mayo did not help themselves at all. A Mayo poster has suggested it was lack of experience of the Mayo panel. Maybe that was the reason for the complete lack of composure in those 10 minutes of the second half? I don't know.

But something went went wrong. I have never seen such a contrast between the same sides performance for a long time that Mayo did. And you can't say it was the Dublin bench which was kept back because most of the subs had not come on for that 10 minute spell.

I expect Monaghan at the very least to put in a much more consistent performance v Dublin during the 70 minutes. Monaghan have a system that works really well. So Dublin will have to really work to earn the win recent matches in the league have been tight affairs. I am sure all the Monaghan fans are extremely excited as it is new territory for them. So the atmosphere should be good.

Monaghan have a system that have troubled Dublin in the League more than once. If we get a warm dry day in Croke Park, will it be enough? If we get the sort of weather we've seen this week, they might be able to pull it off.

You are probably right weather conditions would really be a game changer.

I am happy that Kerry are playing Derry by the way. One because it is a harder draw for Kerry. Two that Dublin don't have to play them. As losing to Derry back in 1993 AISF still sickens me another Dublin collapse. And this time around Derry are arguably slightly better than Monaghan.

I was in the canal end back in that 1993 Dublin v Derry match jostling to lean on the barrier divider with a Derry fan during the game - on and off. At the final whistle says he 'Ye can lean on it now as much as ye like!'

Tbf, that's why I proposed "changing the ball size/weight" rather than simply making it lighter - some testing would need to be done so that any change wouldn't have unintended consequences e.g. A ball too light to kick into a breeze

What is wrong with keepers playing outfield? There is nothing more annoying in sport than the nostalgic GAA fan. Like how could you possibly deny that Ethan Rafferty is exciting to watch? Or say that the game would be less boring if he'd just stay in goals? GAA fans moan so much that at this stage they'll just give out about anything that is different.

The game of football can improve but it's still very high scoring, the players are more skillful than ever, and there are many entertaining games. I actually thought the Dublin v Ross game was very entertaining, especially considering how competitive it was. One thing that would make a big positive change is having less teams in the top competition. Hurling has 10 teams (5 in Munster and 5 in Leinster) in its top tier and you get so many competitive matches as a result. Football is moving towards 16 teams, but I think 10 is also the ideal number.

why do you think they would never introduce 13 a side? its not that radical, I think we played 13 a side at under 16.

Colour of the jersey is designated differently to allow goalkeeper to do some things normal players can't, eg. to pick the ball from the ground in the small square without penalty.

The idea that the goalkeeper should stay in goal 'is like saying the full forward should stay at the edge of the square, or the midfielder stay between the 45s. It's an opinion, incorrect in my view, and that's all - no more kor indeed less) valid than saying they should counter attack. Goalies have a lot to offer coming out the field of done correctly - it's not them who are slowing the game really

They do actually need to look at the keepers jersey. The black of Derry (i think) really clashes with the Refs.