Anthony McNamee

@anspailpin Lol you’re just throwing out absolute nonsense and pretending it’s fact. What’s the next move you’re stealing from the Trump playbook?

That would be fine if club competitions were played in August. But they're not, are they? They're not played in August because the inter-county boys are away in America. And if that's what they want to do, let them but spare us this old shite about burnout and all the rest of it.

@PeteFarrell14 @Gaelic_referee Have a think about how rancid juvenile Gaelic Football would become if the taller, quicker lads could toss the ball over the smaller lads’ heads and collect on the other side.

Punished for innovation @Gaelic_referee

@TomasORuanaidh @MickFoley76 Triple header? Who of sound mind would spend 6 hours sitting outside on a plastic seat in January?

I like this idea from @MickFoley76 of having a festival of club hurling finals on one Sunday in January with a triple header - and then the same for football with the junior, intermediate and senior club finals the weekend after 🙌 #GAA thetimes.com/sport/irish/ar…

@SmallerFishGAA Somewhere over the past fortnight, the Glenullin manager decided to make the game about displaying his tactical nous, which would seem did not incorporate any form of plan B. This kind of behaviour needs to be pilloried to help prevent it spreading.

Glenullin manager Michael Kane “I’m sure most of the people in this room [media] would have thought if we kept them to 12 points we’d win. It was our attacking side that didn’t function.” This is the kind of bullshit these lads live for. An Gaeltacht scored 12 points because that's all they needed to score And allowing them 76% possession in the first half had a direct impact on your attack. For fuck sake like 😭

@kevinmarkham @OpenGolfIreland I hated those blue signs telling us that this hole is ranked “top 50”, “top 100”, etc for they each revealed themselves as cruel and spiteful holes, and the people involved in those rankings truly must hate playing golf!

Sooooo.... The European Club is set to close in December, with the aim of a major redesign. Tell me, what did you love about the course? Or, what frustrated you? It always had that Marmite flavour. (Thanks to @OpenGolfIreland for the heads-up)

@movementcoachkm Imagine a scenario in track and field, where 800m runners were granted a shortcut to use, which knocks a few hundred metres off the distance. But then their coaches wouldn’t let them use it. Then same coaches complaining about the rigours of 800m. That’s where football is at.

Kerry’s is the most obvious but every single team at club and county that we have (or I) information on have far higher injuries this year. And it’s notable a lot of them are some of the fast twitch, explosive game breakers. Listening to Horan, Fitzmaurice and others express their ignorance to everything sports science and to be honest a lot of analytical and tactical evolutions for the past 9-12 months it’s really coming out in the wash now the lack of expertise that was in the room of the FRC. Ironically it’s Kerry and Dublin worst hit, who these rules were created for irishexaminer.com/sport/gaa/arid…

@LouStagner When a golf architect plants trees when plotting a new course, there has to be a middling to strong chance it’s because he feels the design would improve when the trees grow up.

I've received a lot of messages about how removing all the trees at Oakmont was great because it got the course back to its original design. The screenshot below has an article from the June 1912 issue of The American Golfer. In spring of 1912 they added a bunch of bunkers and hazards to make the course a lot tougher. Prior to that, it was considered too easy. For those that advocate going back to the original design, should all the bunkers and hazards that were added in 1912 also be removed?

@SmallerFishGAA Frees from the hand came along in 1990. It took 21 years for a manager to cotton on that possession would trump territory, then 3-4 seasons for everyone to realise he was right. Perhaps give it a little longer than 4 months to see if things might balance out under the new rules?

One of the great ironies of Gaelic football Teams are terrified of defending kickpasses because they are so dangerous but..... The don't want to do it themselves because it's too risky 😀

@SmallerFishGAA Agreed. We’d a very enjoyable senior club game last night but this particular rule is a skill-less abomination of who can cheat the best.

Murnin catches Mark, runs straight into Antrim player. Another 2 point free. This is NOT Gaelic football. It has actually ruined the flow and momentum of a great game

@movementcoachkm It was a tactical masterstroke. But as a tactic, it was enabled by virtue of being able to start with a weaker team than they finished with - every week - because shadow boxing for 40-50 mins had become so normalised / beneficial, aided by a rule book in need of updating.

@a_mcnamee It was a factor But they are by far the best tactical team of the past 25 years Using your bench is tactical

Gaelic Football is turning even more into a low block, non contact (except at KO’s) game. What I’m being asked for advice on, what coaches are asking in the coaching cohort group, what I’m seeing particularly at club level more and more (especially if burned from being open), what was largely obvious from weekend’s league finals is the space has scared teams like we always expected it would. The giddy time is over and reality bites. Naive teams are being hit for 3/4/5 goals and are shutting up shop. From what I can make out, and I don’t have data on all 4 games, but watching as well, there was only 1 “high” turnover in the 4 league finals at the weekend. 80-90% of games now are slow attacks as opposed to slow build ups. I’m not sure this was the point. There is definite more action, but the injury lists are lengthening. Dual players are starting to drop like flies , anecdotally. Club teams missing 7/8 and even 12 players last weekend. Football only seem to be doing a little bit better. There is definitely more scores but the fear has set in now. You can’t restrict a game to the extent they have and expect it to not respond in a restrictive way. They haven’t incentivised anything, just restricted. By end of season we will have a lot of “meh 🤷🏽‍♂️, it’s alright like” We’ll largely just get on with it and designing and taking part in the training is enjoyable at the moment, but we’ll be having the same conversations in 3-5 years. Maybe even in 8/9 months. But with less players and a less trusting public

@movementcoachkm We see different things. I’d put most of Armagh’s advancement last year down to bringing on hard running, talented footballers against tired legs. Armagh were well honed on the shadow boxing style of football for years. How they used their bench was their edge imho.

I disagree I know what you are saying but you did have a choice And it was largely down to coaching, or lack of it and coaching and spending time on the wrong things Again Armagh, and last year Donegal were at stage 1, were starting to change that Look at Armaghs kicking last year. They kicked over the press, kicked into big men Was always the answer

@movementcoachkm But we will also now have games - this is obvious already - that when one team really wants to move it quickly and turn it into a scoring contest, that their opponents will have no choice but to follow suit. This has to be better.

@movementcoachkm But the biggest issue I had with 2012-24 football is that unless your opponent was willing to play open football, you had no choice but to follow suit. We will still have games from now where both teams are more interested in keeping the score down. And they’ll be hard to watch

@movementcoachkm But they don’t chase lost causes, and they don’t burst in packs: it’s usually 2-3 who go and they don’t run straight lines. It’s an absolute lesson in how to move. But it’s coordinated effort rather than ridiculous athleticism imho.

@movementcoachkm (I hope I’m right here but Kilcoo mostly prove me wrong and I expect to be again). They’re athletic but it’s nowhere near ridiculous. Nothing close. Their “secret sauce” is how they use an above par athleticism. They protect. They control. When they go, they go hard.

Rich get richer Poor get poorer All the signs are there already. It’s very obvious in club game This was always about Kerry and Dublin. Always. Whether sub conscious or not, it was. The rhetoric down here from the Kerry folk has always been “we’ll knock a few AI’s out of Clifford with these rules” The new KO rule is a massive negative. If I’m coaching a team against a massive opponent good in the air we’ll just leave him have it. Hardly the contests they wanted This Armagh Kerry game is actually shit enough, and a glimpse (accept Armagh clearly don’t care) of some of the future. In the additional tweet below I give a small bit of research I did on last 10 years of AFL changes. Slow, deliberate and isolated.

@movementcoachkm @JamesKilkenny9 Fair enough . Context is everything. There’s no politics or oneupmanship when I use the word. It’s just someone who properly gives a fuck about the association.

@a_mcnamee @JamesKilkenny9 That’s not how we see it down here

@movementcoachkm @JamesKilkenny9 In the context above, someone who has contributed to and associates themselves with Gaelic Games.

@a_mcnamee @JamesKilkenny9 What does it mean?