Why wont die hard GAA fans admit football these days is muck?

3 enjoyable games yesterday.

Watchable game in roscommon

Epic game in ulster today.

Not bad going.

Imagine a ball going in to a forward where he is only marked by 3 defenders

Supposed to be four steps before kicking or bouncing the ball… seven or eight when he caught the ball and five or six subsequently

Zero interest just this year. On a thread you started over 12 months ago.

And zero interest but you were watching Mayo Roscommon yesterday😁

Hopefully Ja and the lads will take the game out of the hands of the clipboard crowd and rescue it.

Time is running out I fear, it’s staring people in the face but they won’t admit it.

Correct and right, excellent post with a very good synopsis of what's not entertaining about a lot of football .

I would have faith in Jim Gavin and the new President to have the vision to see that Gaelic football is in need

of a boost and take the steps to remedy a game, which, left to fester and languish in the swamps of

turgidity will surely descend into non events in the future.

The signs are all there…… they need to wrest the control of the game from the clipboard merchants and make it

a spectacle worth watching and attending.

They need to bring in a shot clock or a rule like Ice Hockey once the ball crosses the 65 and or 45 it can't be brought back out over it by the attacking team.

Teams have to be forced to actually shoot.

Gonna be lost in the GaaGo controversy and the Limerick Cork excitement but one of the first few years in a while that the 4 Provincial football finals were entertaining in their own right.

Been a good championship so far.

Football is a simple game. First pass in a move can be with the hand. Every subsequent pass with the foot. No going backwards into your own half. Forwards have to stay in their own half of the field. Force long kicking with lots of 1 on 1 competition all over the field. Risk of losing possession is too great. Its horrible to see teams like Donegal retreating on mass. Jim McGuinness is the ultimate pragmatist. Low risk football with very good players.

A clueless, cliched narrative.

Jim Gavin and a group are having a look at football with a view to improving it as a game.

I'm hoping they come up with some innovations which liven up the game.

Th most obvious start they can make to improving football is to get rid of the 3 from 4 out of the group stage and the league SF's.

There's virtually no jeopardy in the group phase until the last game, and even at that most of them games need only a draw for the 3 from 4 to progress. Limit it to two from each group, and the suddenly the tension and desire to go out and win goes up massive from the off as one bad result and you're staring down the barrel. A very obvious move.

Remove the league SF's. We don't need them.

That's two rounds of games removed throughout the year, so two weeks freed up in the calendar as well.

I would also have the 1st round of the provincials played after round 5 of the league, the provincial QF's after round 6, have round 7 of the league and then the League Finals, then the Provincial SF's and finals the two weeks after the league finals so some teams aren't waiting as long as others for their opening game in the Championship/Tailteann Cup.

And FFS, rename the Tailteann Cup the All-Ireland Intermediate Football Championship (because that's what it is) and give the winners guaranteed entry into the following seasons senior championship. A small difference, but ending the season as All-Ireland Intermediate Champions is an easier sell then Tailteann Cup winners, if it's good enough for the clubs, then it's good enough for the counties..

Relax! No need to get edgy about the football, it's only brought on because there is a buzz after the provincial round Robins in the hurling. That sideshow is over and the hurling fizzles out now as the All Ireland series isn't exciting. The football starts to slowly stretch its legs with the All Ireland series leading into knockout games that get the pulse racing as the big boys come face to face in cracking matches. It's the same every year, no need for all the drama over the state of the game

Sorry, got completely confused with previous years. You are of course correct, thanks for the correction.