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Originally Posted by Stick
Yeah it's an amateur sport but at inter county level it's virtually professional training. I think it would take too much from the game to make it professional. It makes it more personal too when you can represent your own county and parish in Croke Park.
On the rules side I think there have been some great games but in recent times the Ozzy boys have been taking the piss. I mean the Agemanis tackle where he actually performed a flying clothesline on one of our boys was nothing short of assault. You can see it here at the start
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kA4U8zEMmLM
I think the series is a good idea but fewer and fewer of the better Gaelic footballers want to risk serious injury in games that they feel are meaningless. I think if both sides come to play tough clean football then you get a game that everyone wants to see. |
I was there at that game back in '06 and it looked terrible from the stands. The tackler was Chris Johnson BTW not Akermanis.
Yeah I can understand the apprehension, it occured to me (and everyone else it seems) that we first started putting our stamp on the game when your sides superior skills where really showing. And from there I figure they just decided to not even let you guys get into the game in the first place by hitting some bodies early on.