Noel Early

@somearagaa The keeper coming up it a huge problem.

extra.ie/2024/10/23/spo… Two points for a 41 metre "over" and three for a goal. Say those words out loud to and just reflect for a few seconds You don't need a data analyst to tell you how bizarre that is The two pointer will destroy Gaelic football as we know it But if you're introducing it, the goal needs to be six or it devalues Unintended consequences I'd replied to @edmcgreal about two days ago are worse now👇👇👇 The two point arc is going to become the biggest show in town. It's too valuable/high percentage to do much else. Consider that an uncontested 41 metre shot in county football runs at between 55 and 60% chance of success. Scoring one pointers is in and around bad value (depending on skillsets of teams). The queueing up outside the "40" to shoot makes a new sport all on its own. That alone is a disaster. Consider further...goals have decreased, as they're now 150%, the value of 41 metre shots. When teams work this out or copy the teams who've worked it out and are winning, the whole game will centre on 41 metre shots. Kicking anything in high to full forwards will cease to make any sense/exist with smart teams, despite new rules to incentivise it. Add in your keeper attacking and with 12 v 11 you can hold the ball indefinitely until you get your unpressured 41 metre shot. Or worse, to kill the clock endlessly when you've a lead. This will be worse than the slowest fare we've seen with reduced numbers in your defence/capacity for pressing. This merely drags slow possession play from one half into the other half going forward. That is, of course, until the defending keeper has to come out to full back and push the full back out to their keeper, to stop the opposition attack holding the ball all day. So, now we have "Gaelic football" with empty goals and keepers playing full back. The old school keeper is extinct overnight. He has to leg it up the field to attack when his team has the ball and play full back when they don't. It sounds like a bad dream but it's coming. So, teams are attacking man-on-man 12v12 with no net minder to beat. But then the data analysts have already worked out that one pointers are of little value at best and definitely bad value outside maybe 27 or 28 metres, and defenders apply an approach of "any risk of a goal and all six of us within 30 metres of the goal get into the penalty box and protect the goal". Now you have attacking teams facing a clogged goal who know that one pointers are poor value. I won't say it's certain but it appears rational and quite feasible that this could quickly evolve to the attacking team on the 20 metre line actually turning around and trying to "break line" to get back outside the "40" while the defending team try to hem them inside the "40". It sounds like a unplausible bad dream. But this and/or variations are coming!

@ALANMYERSMEDIA Been dealt two awful gigs. Writing was on the wall at FGR when the chairman made him eat a vegan burger and now ICT.... Deserves a proper crack at a job.

Duncan Ferguson has been relieved of his duties as Inverness Caledonian Thistle manager by administrators of the club Fergusson donated his wages to a fund last month to try and save the club but a buyer could not be found

@Chicago_NFL Only consider trading own 2nd rounder and it would need to be a difference maker. Crosby price will be too much and Garrett is costly and injury risk.....

Reasons the Chicago #Bears will likely be aggressive at the trade deadline: 1. They were in heavy pursuit of Matthew Judon 2. Back-to-back years have traded 2nd round picks 3. They own multiple 2s this year 4. Chicago has its QB on a rookie contract 5. Arms race in the NFC North

@SixPointSports 2-1. Hard to win back to back on road

What will the Bears do in their next three games? 10/27 - @ Washington 11/3 - @ Arizona 11/10 - vs. New England

@janopetsa @BRICSinfo 🔔🔚

@BRICSinfo F*ck Ireland and a fairly large majority of the Irish.

🇮🇪🇮🇱 Ireland's Prime Minister Simon Harris plans to suspend trade with Israel. "Ireland will not wait for everybody in Europe to move on this issue."

This from the party who tell us how valued the Unionist community would be in their fantasy United Ireland. We are not fools……

@StCatherineslgf @eastcorklgf Great stuff girls and Mentors

East Cork u14 Div 2 league final St Catherine's 3.10 Carrigtwohill 2.03 Well done girls, great result In difficult condition. 🏆

@NewstalkFM Ah Ciara Kelly..... A proper ghoul....

"I could be broke for the rest of my life if we unite Ireland.” Ciara Kelly says United Ireland will be ‘a financial millstone around our neck.’ newstalk.com/news/ciara-kel…

@stusfootyflash @Sharpeyofficial Proper comms team

It’s the 30th anniversary of Lee Sharpe’s glorious backheel equaliser against Barcelona. One of the great Champions League goals of the 90s. Pure class. @Sharpeyofficial

@Mike_Quirke Keepers not past the 45 is an easy enough fix..... Personally think if a keeper concedes a goal when up the field it should be a 10 point goal.... Carnage

Hard to judge too much after only 2 games, but the 3-man up structure looks like it could really enhance the game - affords huge kicking opportunities to move the ball forward. The 40m kickout arc definitely creates more contests. The solo and go works. Pace of play is much higher. Not sure about the change to the scoring system in general & the goalkeeper creating an extra man into the attacking half is going to cause big problems.

As live performances go, this is the culchie equivalent of Queen at Live Aid 👌🏻

@AJDT1989 You're a bad man 😂

When you see it…

@CahairOKane1 Certain rules will be really tough to enforce at club level. Getting the kickout beyond the 40 in Donegal on a windy day will be some challenge for keepers 😂

Tonight is about potential, not perfection. Look at the space. Look how much more up-and-down than side-to-side it is. Players playing with their head up, moving forward, looking forward. Stand-offish defending being punished. Goal chances. One-to-one contests.

@MolloyJoe Do away with the 4 points goal. Keep the tap and Go and gk should not be allowed outside own 45

Didn’t see first game. But the “exhibition feel” to this Munster v Ulster game is so strong, it’s hard to know what to make of the rules. Reality is 2025 Championship is the only real test & Congress will have to take a leap of faith without any certainty

@JimAllister Big crowd Jimbob

Getting MPs to face up to the fact that part of the UK is ruled in 300 areas of law by people no one in the UK voted for during a debate on House of Lords reform

For the love of God please don't make us sit through the embarrassment of watching Tony O Donughue giving Kelliher a MOTM award @RTEsport @RTEsoccer

A women running 2.09.57 for a marathon.... Sweet Jesus #Ruth #BankofAmerica #ChiMarathon

@HGrahamNFL Everybody knees it's swift for the first two plays and a sack on 3rd down. Utterly shit play calling

Bears feel flat.

@EricLloyd @robertmays Yeah that's much worse

@robertmays As a Lions fan, I'd like to expand the misery.

I think about this at least once every 6 months.

@JoeBrolly1993 Like most of the rules in theory but can you imagine the job the poor refs now have... It needs two for intercounty...... Or the 4th official needs more authority along with umpires. Going to be alot of controversial decisions made I feel

Like all of this. The problem might be that the sweeper/zonal defence is intact. Which was what started all the trouble in the first place