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100%, I remember hearing of a Wexford hurler going for a run with Kevin Doyle when he was with Reading. The player was starting to tire fairly seriously when Doyle said "do you mind if we pick it up a bit for a few minutes, its a bit slow". StoreysTash (Wexford) - Posts: 1736 - 13/08/2021 16:44:31 2370491 Link 0 |
Well did have eighty minute finals for a number back around the late seventies- I think- with only a half time break.
Oldtourman (Limerick) - Posts: 4338 - 13/08/2021 17:19:30 2370500 Link 0 |
No. If I can turn the question around, why would you want a game in four quarters ? lionofludesch (Down) - Posts: 475 - 13/08/2021 17:52:11 2370511 Link 0 |
The water break is a great idea, and by all means "look at me " when the team goes out and creates a 5-15 point swing in the next quarter. If truth were told every county would love the formula. Come On Ye boys In Green PatOLogical (Limerick) - Posts: 1360 - 13/08/2021 18:04:00 2370514 Link 1 |
Bernard Brogan and Pat Spillane won Irish superstars in 1979 and 1980. BarneyGrant (Dublin) - Posts: 2582 - 13/08/2021 18:32:37 2370520 Link 0 |
I remember it well Barnser! Spillane won the sunstroke event hands down!
Onion_Sack (Dublin) - Posts: 203 - 13/08/2021 19:40:48 2370535 Link 0 |
GAA is more physically demanding than soccer,current intercounty players have an unbelievable level of fitness and nutrition.
ONdeDITCH (Limerick) - Posts: 873 - 13/08/2021 19:58:22 2370540 Link 0 |
So right...sleep is medicine for our bodies.
ONdeDITCH (Limerick) - Posts: 873 - 13/08/2021 20:00:17 2370541 Link 0 |
Intensity of soccer is no way near hurling. Yes matches are longer and they cover a lot of ground but how much time is it done at full tilt. hurling is end to end and the tackling is very physically sapping and pitch is nearly double the size. Most hurlers are working during the week and not recovering properly.
ecad123 (Galway) - Posts: 272 - 13/08/2021 21:01:20 2370555 Link 0 |
Ive never understood why GAA people get so hung up on the fitness debate, I couldn't give a toss whose players are fitter, if you want fit watch athletics,, intercounty GAA players almost to a man would go through a brick wall for their county,, and freely provide us with great entertainment, two things premier league players more often than not fail to do,, means alot more to me than whether or not a wexford hurler could match a full time professional athlete in a bleep test.
Galway9801 (Galway) - Posts: 1720 - 14/08/2021 00:11:27 2370607 Link 2 |
My suggestion is go back to 60 minute game with a time clock counting time with the ball in play. There is now too much farting around with fake injuries, substitutions, goaltender hesitating hitting out and players building tufts of grass to take a line ball. Canuck (Waterford) - Posts: 2665 - 14/08/2021 01:58:16 2370613 Link 0 |
If there was a stop clock, it wouldn't be a sixty minute game. Maybe 50 minutes of actual playing time. Maybe less. lionofludesch (Down) - Posts: 475 - 14/08/2021 10:44:59 2370635 Link 0 |
There is very little standing around in modern soccer as teams press and attack as units and the ball can move just as quick from one end to the other so yes it is "full tilt" for the game at the top level. And a GAA pitch is roughly 25m longer so I dont know where you get "nearly twice the size" Breezy (Limerick) - Posts: 1236 - 14/08/2021 11:18:04 2370642 Link 0 |
You're not considering the width though so he is correct, a GAA pitch would be about 75% bigger than a soccer pitch. Off setting that is 4 less players and the game is 20 minutes longer in soccer. AfricanGael (UK) - Posts: 1947 - 14/08/2021 12:08:21 2370653 Link 0 |
GreenandRed (Mayo) - Posts: 7360 - 14/08/2021 12:24:40 2370658 Link 4 |
The pitch is amongst the busiest in the world with nearly 90 fixtures per year. The venue also hosts a series of concerts with bands like U2, Take That and Ed Sheeran among the most recent performers. The pitch is nearly twice the size of a conventional soccer field at 15,000 m2. The Croke Park pitch covers an area 145m long by 88m wide with full grass cover and stability all year round. 145m X 88m = 12,760 m2 and not 15,000 m2. So they are wrong. The Croke Park pitch would be about 75% bigger than Wembley for example. AfricanGael (UK) - Posts: 1947 - 14/08/2021 12:42:49 2370669 Link 0 |
I said 60 minutes of time play like now you call it a 70 minute game even though injury time and lost time is played.
Canuck (Waterford) - Posts: 2665 - 14/08/2021 14:18:24 2370730 Link 0 |
Nobody said they weren't doing any of that. The point the original poster was making, was that the idea that the GAA player is so much fitter than a professional, is a myth by the GAA bravado brigade. StoreysTash (Wexford) - Posts: 1736 - 17/08/2021 11:50:22 2372311 Link 1 |
I think the second water break was a great time for Mayo to take stock, and then drive for home against Dublin. I'd say Horan is a big fan of the quarter system, too. Sure what manager worth his salt wouldn't be in favor of the water-breaks and the white-boards? foreveryoung (USA) - Posts: 1926 - 19/08/2021 01:02:36 2372924 Link 0 |
Water breaks my arse, supposedly brought in because of COVID, 29th minute of hurling final, Limerick man takes drink of water from bottle on sideline, gives bottle to manager who gives it to another player for drink. Get rid of them. Saynothing (Tyrone) - Posts: 2017 - 22/08/2021 16:07:23 2373853 Link 5 |