Anthony McNamee

Managing Partner at minus40 and an advocate of digital technology... like Twitter, which allows me to blather endlessly about sports I couldn't play very well.

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@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?

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@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.

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

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@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.

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@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!

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@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.

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@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.

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@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?

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@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.

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@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.

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@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.

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@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.

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@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

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@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.

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@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.

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@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.

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