Post by Ballyfireside on Mar 13, 2015 21:41:30 GMT
McGuigan like his dad was a fine footballer and everyone who makes a prediction will be wrong so it is foolish to do so and in such a blatant manner, but you have to understand that he is young and the media will exploit any such opportunity, even provoke it. Just look at how they brought Paidí down! What I was disappointed with at the time was that McGuigan was stirring things but I'd say he was not thinking straight at that moment and from what I know he is a decent enough GAA fella.
Styles of play are evolving like never before and it is hard to get away from the correlation between pretty football and losing, i.e. ugly styles win! Sounds terrible I know, ah maybe it will sort itself out although the day after 'the puke gate' John O'Keeffe advocated the short kick pass as a means of eliminating 'the system' but has it been used? We excelled last year with it, getting the ball to hop in a kick pass to reduce the momentum and so increase the chances of successful transfer. The underlying factor is that the ball travels faster than man so the opponents blanket fragments as they haven't enough 'packs' to hunt with.
There is a good one of old told where the ball was thrown in and everyone was rooting like hell for about 20 mins after the ball had actually ricocheted into the crowd, the spectators that is! Catch and kick was also hallmark and wasn't there a two solo one hop limit in under age, or was that our teacher trying to get us to move the ball around? While there was more positional play historically, wasn't there also an era when everyone bar the goalie was chasing the ball and which the aforementioned day the ball was in the stands belonged to? Veteran would be the man here and it would be a nice one for him to reflect on and update us. I remember a showing of was it the Polo Grounds All Ireland Final of '47 in Lisselton about 40 years ago, and it would have been special anyway as we had a big representation in that era. As TVs weren't around it was the first time that many saw the game.
And here's another one for you; my late father's watch always stopped when a match started, and I recall it stopping that night. As a garsoon I used to check him out when he came home from matches and it was a right bit of crack; my mother would also want to know how many pints he'd have had and the time the match started gave the game away, so to speak. The same happened watching rugby and boxing. I asked a jeweller once and he doubted that it could happen. I wonder if others on here have similar folklore; ah nostalgia, God bless them all and the harder times they had, maybe they were happier. Ah another one was that they had one pair of boots between three brothers; if you only say the stitching, repaired as they had been so many times; what is interesting is that their parents were reasonably well off so that will tell you what times were like if they could only afford the one pair.
And in my own days we had a Ballydonoghue Parish Leagiue game of an evening between Lisselton and Coolard with I think the latter a point or two to the good as the clock wound down. Lisselton then hit the cross bar, i.e. a bit of twine, so as it would have been a point or a goal, the only solution was to call it a draw! Deadly stuff! Come on, let's hear more of this stuff, maybe have an eternal thread of Goalden Oldies like the amazing photos thread!
Styles of play are evolving like never before and it is hard to get away from the correlation between pretty football and losing, i.e. ugly styles win! Sounds terrible I know, ah maybe it will sort itself out although the day after 'the puke gate' John O'Keeffe advocated the short kick pass as a means of eliminating 'the system' but has it been used? We excelled last year with it, getting the ball to hop in a kick pass to reduce the momentum and so increase the chances of successful transfer. The underlying factor is that the ball travels faster than man so the opponents blanket fragments as they haven't enough 'packs' to hunt with.
There is a good one of old told where the ball was thrown in and everyone was rooting like hell for about 20 mins after the ball had actually ricocheted into the crowd, the spectators that is! Catch and kick was also hallmark and wasn't there a two solo one hop limit in under age, or was that our teacher trying to get us to move the ball around? While there was more positional play historically, wasn't there also an era when everyone bar the goalie was chasing the ball and which the aforementioned day the ball was in the stands belonged to? Veteran would be the man here and it would be a nice one for him to reflect on and update us. I remember a showing of was it the Polo Grounds All Ireland Final of '47 in Lisselton about 40 years ago, and it would have been special anyway as we had a big representation in that era. As TVs weren't around it was the first time that many saw the game.
And here's another one for you; my late father's watch always stopped when a match started, and I recall it stopping that night. As a garsoon I used to check him out when he came home from matches and it was a right bit of crack; my mother would also want to know how many pints he'd have had and the time the match started gave the game away, so to speak. The same happened watching rugby and boxing. I asked a jeweller once and he doubted that it could happen. I wonder if others on here have similar folklore; ah nostalgia, God bless them all and the harder times they had, maybe they were happier. Ah another one was that they had one pair of boots between three brothers; if you only say the stitching, repaired as they had been so many times; what is interesting is that their parents were reasonably well off so that will tell you what times were like if they could only afford the one pair.
And in my own days we had a Ballydonoghue Parish Leagiue game of an evening between Lisselton and Coolard with I think the latter a point or two to the good as the clock wound down. Lisselton then hit the cross bar, i.e. a bit of twine, so as it would have been a point or a goal, the only solution was to call it a draw! Deadly stuff! Come on, let's hear more of this stuff, maybe have an eternal thread of Goalden Oldies like the amazing photos thread!