Every single PL match on TV. Most of them should only have three minutes highlights at midnight on a Saturday night. 

Players playing every three days and barely had a break in the summer for pre season. Bound to take its toll 

Its a crazy tactic.  It costs teams more goals than it creates I'd be fairly sure.

MOTD was on there.  Never even bothered looking up from the computer even for the goals.

MOTD most shocking transfers is a much better watch than the football itself

Too many teams playing out from the back passing 5 yard passes sideways and backwards and thinking its getting them places

Every single PL match on TV. Most of them should only have three minutes highlights at midnight on a Saturday night. 

Players playing every three days and barely had a break in the summer for pre season. Bound to take its toll 

All if the above and VAR. VAR so annoying every goal is scrutinised . Offside and goaline technology only please 

Apart from Ireland games I basically have the laptop on and have the football on as white noise looking up time to time.  Case in point being this league cup final.

I look up if the crowd noise or commentator get excited.  Most games of football are bloody boring.  Was watching a couple of Liverpool v Man Utd games from the late 80s.  Way more entertaining.  More direct, physical and chances galore.

Has it ever been much different 

During the early days of lockdownthey showed reruns of the Italia 90 games, jaysus they were bad

And that was the most glorious period of Irish sporting history 

Go out, enjoy the sun, come back to the matches in a week or two,  be grand.

Baldrick wrote: I was at the game in 89 against Spain and it was far from a great game.   A terrible match but a great occasion and a great atmosphere.  The Spanish folded that day.

It as a great game.  It was not sophisticated and it was on a sh*te pitch but it was good direct football and there were chances created that had the crowd excited.  Certainly wasn't a boring game.  The old back pass rule I think gets unfairly ridiculed.  It was more entertaining when the keeper picked it up and kicjed it from his hands up the pitch and the ball was bouncing around and could go anywhere creating chances.  Ok wasn't great as far as timewasting was concerened but I liked it the way it was tbh.

The grass is always greener, but that is some revisionism of sh*te football. I also watched extended highlights of Liverpool v Man United in the 80s by chance about 6 months ago. The pitch was a mud bath but I was shocked at how terrible the football was, and the players of Dalglish, Robson, McGrath and Lawrenson were playing. 

 

It was more direct but not hoofball.  Good physical entertaining football.  If God had wanted us to keep the ball on the ground he would have made the ball out of iron young man.

Who do you think you are

We did that for years and most people wanted the current manager out for playing like that as we apparently had the players to play a better style

I tune on just for the craic and analysis as opposed to the game itself these days. 

Football is far too polished a game nowadays.  Too professional, too manicured, too perfect.  Its very uniform and generic across the board and everyone tries to play Barcelona 2011 football.  The game needs a breath of fresh air.  Something different.  A long ball team that kicks the opposition off the pitch.  Just anything bar boring tippy tappy going nowhere football.  Even if such a ugly long ball team was ridiculed by myself I just want something to watch or hate or make it interesting.

How many goals are given away by giving the ball away on purpose time and time again by kicking it up the pitch.  How many teams have won trophies by playing direct Long ball football.  Most trophies are won by those who can keep ball.  This is even more important as the game as become less physical due to rule changes.  If you are turning your possession into 50/50s the chances will tire more quickly and give away more frees.  

The hypocrisy surrounding the Charlton years is breathtaking. With Giles and Dunphy the standard bearers, the media battered the early period with hoofball comments not dissimilar to what now dogs the McCarthy, Trap and, to a lesser extent, MON/Keane eras. There was flak about granny-rulers and Maurice Setters and Jack's treatment of Brady/Whelan/O'Leary. 

The current glorification of Wes Hourihane is ironic - he would have been lucky to be on the Charlton-era bench. Many national media columnists and fans had little time for Charlton's tactics and personality - and disappointing results were lambasted. The FAI, until his results brought 1988 Euros qualification, were nervous and testy. Not so long before, these faceless officials had picked the team but now, for the first time, they faced a manager who showed little respect for them.   It's rare to hear a disparaging word about Jack now, but he had lots of critics throughout his reign. Football is the definitive results-based industry irrespective of style of play. Jack was the right man with the right tactics and the right personality at the right time. 

All of which, Cabra Hoop, is a longwinded indulgence to agreeing with your premise - we need a return to being the team others hate facing, a team that will break oppontents' spirit. The fact we're now so bereft of quality makes it even more vital - we cannot hope to compete with better teams unless we drag them down to our level. This is not being defeatist - it's being realistic. Play our way and qualify or play their way and lose. 

Burnley have a a style of playing as they have poor players and maybe wrong tactics for a Premiership side , If Dyche started to play modern football with the players he has do you think his side would be in the top 7 club ?

Play to your strenghts which is something that you can't grasp ?