Unlike Test cricket, ‘what we want from the GAA as supporters is not to sit on the sport’s riverside and watch it inch past’
I had the impression that perhaps we were at crossed wires, but the message came from one of the Fíor Gaels on my contacts list.
Instead of ruminating at length once again about the current ills of Gaelic football, it might be instructive to instead talk briefly about what has been happening in English cricket in recent months. Actually, let’s go back a little farther than that. But there is still a residual grá for five-day Test matches — it is still seen by many as the ultimate test of a player. And under their new coach Brendon McCullum, and new captain Ben Stokes, England wanted to revitalise that form of the game around the world. They wanted to play for wins, to eradicate draws, to swing for the fences.
“England are winning the Vibes Ashes” sniffed the Guardian last weekend, bemoaning England’s commitment to entertaining the people, while losing the game. Entertainment? Just win, baby. The conditions are constantly changing. The ball is ageing, the weather is shifting, and so too are the parameters of your decision-making. Trying to take the game away from your opponent can happen as surely on the morning of day two of a Test match as it does on day five, when you’re chasing a total. When you get an inkling your opponent is vulnerable, you attack mercilessly.
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