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Replying To ORIELMAN85:  "The answer to which is more enjoyable is the numbers of young people playing each sport. QED."
Doesn't that statistic just represent the lack of opportunity to play hurling depending where you are from? Every child in every so called hurling county has the opportunity to play football. The same can't be said the other way around.

Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 15230 - 31/03/2025 08:08:28    2599603

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Replying To Tirchonaill1:  "What Jim done first time round was build a defence and train the complacency out of our boys in 2011, we were hardly playing bad football in 2012 or 2014, he has us playing great football again now.
The 2011 thing was taken completely out of context mostly by people jealous of what he achieved, he took a team ranked 19th in Ireland and won 2 Ulsters and an All Ireland in his first 2 seasons,
lesser managers copied and mostly failed with his approach with club and county, that's what really dragged football down.
anyway Tyrone and others were playing blanket defence long before we did.
I have tried to enjoy hurling but it just isn't enjoyable for me to watch,
different strokes for different folks I suppose."
The first time football fans saw the blanket defence was the Dublin v Donegal semi- final in 2011 when Mc Guinness deployed 14 players behind the ball and as a result destroyed football for a good 10-15 years. I accept that Tyrone and most other teams copied the template but Tyrone were not playing blanket defence before 2011.

tireoghainabu (Tyrone) - Posts: 385 - 31/03/2025 09:04:47    2599609

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