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Replying To Fionn:  "Fully agree.

Score a 45 and get 1 point
Score a free at the 40m arc and get 2 points.
Make it make sense…. ;o("

Replying To Fionn:  "Fully agree.

Score a 45 and get 1 point
Score a free at the 40m arc and get 2 points.
Make it make sense…. ;o("

Replying To keeper7:  "Any result yet?"

Replying To ElGranSenor:  "Caught the Enniscorthy CBS-Peter's game there on Clubber, had it on mute so couldn't catch any of the names, CBS has Matt Butler in goal, Alfie Sludds-Murphy at centre-back, Brian Ivers, Jamie Downey (Centre-forward in the first half, looked like midfield in the second), and Rhys Wickham (Full-forward in the first half, centre-forward in the second from what I saw), Peter's has Oisín Caulfield at wing-forward, didn't really recognise any of the other names from a county set-up perspective

Ended in a draw and conditions looked to be circuit enough, thought there was a good intensity to the game in the first quarter, died off a little then until the very end where it picked up again, thought some of the general play working the ball up the pitch was decent enough but some of the shooting from both sides in the first half was very poor

Both teams looked to run the ball a good bit, CBS in particular were very good when ever they tried to run it, Peter's seemed bigger and stronger though and they seemed to win nearly every breaking ball, their forwards were a lot better than the CBS forwards at winning their own ball IMO

Wickham was quiet enough IMO, Downey was probably their best hurler at breaking through tackles and winning dirty ball, he's smaller than I thought height-wise although he's very powerful

Peter's had a lot of height and their S&C looked good, think they had a lad called Alfie Whelan in at full-forward wearing a white Cooper, don't think he scored that much but he was a general nuisance, big guy and was a handful for CBS

Don't know his name but Peter's #7 in a black Cooper looked good to me, tall enough and very athletic looking, looks like he has a lot of S&C work done

Draw probably fair enough on balance, two sides get out of the group and go to the QFs, one of those will almost certainly be Mullingar CBS who are after giving the hiding of all hidings to Coláiste Eoin (5-33 to 0-05), others might have been impacted by lads playing in Dublin county finals but that's very, very poor considering they're the only Dublin school in Senior A, Dublin South gave our combined colleges a walkover too

Mullingar CBS could be genuine contenders, Mullingar isn't a hurling town but a lot of the WM hurling clubs are very close to Mullingar, WM minors were very strong this year"

Replying To tomsmith:  "Tomsmith here

I have seen some wonderful Goals scored in Gaa football , but my favourate or top 3 goals have to be
No 1 Owen Mullians Goal was it against Dublin
No 2 Mat Connor Offaly goal was it against Kerry ?
No3 Michaels Murphy goal against Mayo"

Replying To Seanfan:  "Only tweaks needed are extending the 40m arc and 6 subs."

Replying To Gaillimh_Abu:  "So a whopping 76% of inter-county players are opposed to ANY further rule changes and only 0.5% feel that significant changes are needed. The rest would support some minor adjustments: https://hoganstand.com/Article/Index/342199

Hopefully the GAA will actually listen and just leave the rules as they are, especially given that they were such a resounding success this year."

Replying To Fionn:  "I would bring the arc out to 45m"

Replying To brianb:  "I'd make 2 small changes to address what I feel are unfair aspects of the game with the introduction of the new rules:

I don't like it when overcarrying or a pick-up results in a 2 point free and a score so I'd make is to make technical frees indirect.

I would also not allow a 3-up free to be brought outside the arc for a 2-point attempt; a tap over free is more than enough punishment."

Replying To yew_tree:  "Not sure I buy this "floodgates are open" theory and that just because Mayo finally won the all Ireland now everybody can. Mayo been challenging all my life. It was only a matter of when and not if we eventually got over the line (Only Kerry have been in more finals than Mayo in the last 35 years). For us it will now be about improving that final strike rate which I think we can do. Nothing guaranteed obviously looking towards the future.

I've seen counties been mentioned as possible winners now who I've never even seen win a quarter final. One commentator on a midlands radio station wrote in August, "the era of Kerry and Dublin dominating is over." I'm not buying this."

Replying To Rockshorecider:  "Such as?"