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Dublin' Costello throwing away the kicking tees

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Replying To Joxer:  "Not sure about that head. Clarke should have been booked for having his tee laid down on the field of play. All Costello did was pick it up and throw it off the field of play to get it out of Rock's field of vision, who had enough to contend with having GPS systems thrown at him and Mayo players not retreating or in Keegan's case running beside him. Straight out of the Mick Lyons' school of place kicking distraction techniques I would say."
Ha! Ha! Ha! Joxer, now you're hitting form

neverright (Roscommon) - Posts: 1648 - 21/09/2017 14:27:22    2049019

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Replying To Soma:  "
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Eye gouging 'action'. There was no eye gouging there, he held Colm's head down, his hand below his nose. Believe me Colm Boyle would not have reacted so placidly if O'Gara had gouged his eye."
Well done GnR for correctly standing up for O'Gara on this. It has been repeated so many times that it's almost accepted as fact that eye gouging took place which is complete nonsense."
Had to laugh at that 1 myself..silly by o gara but wasn't an eye gouge

alano12 (Dublin) - Posts: 2208 - 21/09/2017 18:06:41    2049100

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Replying To GreenandRed:  "
Replying To Soma:  "[quote=GreenandRed:  "link

Eye gouging 'action'. There was no eye gouging there, he held Colm's head down, his hand below his nose. Believe me Colm Boyle would not have reacted so placidly if O'Gara had gouged his eye."
Well done GnR for correctly standing up for O'Gara on this. It has been repeated so many times that it's almost accepted as fact that eye gouging took place which is complete nonsense."
O'Gara's definitely big enough to speak up for himself Soma!

It's like kids in a playground with some posters here. If we did something wrong we have to find a Dublin wrong to justify our wrong , or in many cases non-Dublin or non-Mayo posters will do so on our behalf, whether we want them to or not. The game is over, we lost, time to learn harsh lessons and move on.Lee threw the GPS at Dean Rock. Of course he broke the rules but it was desperation time. He hates losing. If he was at the banquet on Sunday night and said he thought about pegging the GPS at Rock and didn't do so his teammates would surely have asked him why not. For years we were said to be too nice to be serious contenders. I prefer us now trying some dark arts, but I'm biased. I think Joxer compared Lee to Mick Lyons? A serious compliment to pay any player who wants to dabble in the dark arts. Still hasn't won us the Sam Maguire though."]The lengths people go to on here to defend their own team or players is quite sad...i don't know if it makes them feel more a part of it or something...bit of objectivity always a help

alano12 (Dublin) - Posts: 2208 - 21/09/2017 18:08:49    2049102

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Eye gouging 'action'. There was no eye gouging there, he held Colm's head down, his hand below his nose. Believe me Colm Boyle would not have reacted so placidly if O'Gara had gouged his eye."
As usual Greenandred you bring an element of reason to the party. Commendable under the circumstances and some on here would do well to take a lead from you."
Fat chance of that..cheerleading is preferred

alano12 (Dublin) - Posts: 2208 - 21/09/2017 18:10:39    2049104

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Replying To alano12:  "
Replying To Dubh_linn:  "[quote=GreenandRed:  "link

Eye gouging 'action'. There was no eye gouging there, he held Colm's head down, his hand below his nose. Believe me Colm Boyle would not have reacted so placidly if O'Gara had gouged his eye."
As usual Greenandred you bring an element of reason to the party. Commendable under the circumstances and some on here would do well to take a lead from you."
Fat chance of that..cheerleading is preferred"]Agreed. But whatever the hell O Gara was at looked pretty bad and a lot worse than other things being mentioned.

TheFlaker (Mayo) - Posts: 7891 - 21/09/2017 19:55:39    2049142

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Replying To alano12:  "[quote=Dubh_linn:  "[quote=GreenandRed:  "link

Eye gouging 'action'. There was no eye gouging there, he held Colm's head down, his hand below his nose. Believe me Colm Boyle would not have reacted so placidly if O'Gara had gouged his eye."
As usual Greenandred you bring an element of reason to the party. Commendable under the circumstances and some on here would do well to take a lead from you."
Fat chance of that..cheerleading is preferred"]Agreed. But whatever the hell O Gara was at looked pretty bad and a lot worse than other things being mentioned."]The bottom line is it wasn't eye gouging.
That's what was being put out there to have maximum impact.
Whatever he was at it was far less than eye gouging.

Dubh_linn (Dublin) - Posts: 2312 - 21/09/2017 20:55:08    2049162

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Replying To TheFlaker:  "[quote=alano12:  "[quote=Dubh_linn:  "[quote=GreenandRed:  "link

Eye gouging 'action'. There was no eye gouging there, he held Colm's head down, his hand below his nose. Believe me Colm Boyle would not have reacted so placidly if O'Gara had gouged his eye."
As usual Greenandred you bring an element of reason to the party. Commendable under the circumstances and some on here would do well to take a lead from you."
Fat chance of that..cheerleading is preferred"]Agreed. But whatever the hell O Gara was at looked pretty bad and a lot worse than other things being mentioned."]The bottom line is it wasn't eye gouging.
That's what was being put out there to have maximum impact.
Whatever he was at it was far less than eye gouging."]A bit like the people saying Keegan threw the GPS at Rock? He actually didn't, but it sounds better to say he flung it at Rock!

TheFlaker (Mayo) - Posts: 7891 - 21/09/2017 21:12:17    2049168

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Replying To TheFlaker:  "
Replying To Dubh_linn:  "[quote=TheFlaker:  "[quote=alano12:  "[quote=Dubh_linn:  "[quote=GreenandRed:  "link

Eye gouging 'action'. There was no eye gouging there, he held Colm's head down, his hand below his nose. Believe me Colm Boyle would not have reacted so placidly if O'Gara had gouged his eye."
As usual Greenandred you bring an element of reason to the party. Commendable under the circumstances and some on here would do well to take a lead from you."
Fat chance of that..cheerleading is preferred"]Agreed. But whatever the hell O Gara was at looked pretty bad and a lot worse than other things being mentioned."]The bottom line is it wasn't eye gouging.
That's what was being put out there to have maximum impact.
Whatever he was at it was far less than eye gouging."]A bit like the people saying Keegan threw the GPS at Rock? He actually didn't, but it sounds better to say he flung it at Rock!"]Keegans action of throwing the GPS unit across Rock's line was a desperate attempt to distract him at a vital point and because he scored the free it became less of an incident.
For what it's worth, it don't think O Gara's action was comparable and wasn't a potential outcome altering incident.

Dubh_linn (Dublin) - Posts: 2312 - 21/09/2017 21:29:48    2049181

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Replying To hill16no1man:  "Oh seriously this is just embarrassing from the media yet again.
you cannot place tees on the pitch unless it's a kickout so how can removing it from the field be bad sportsmanship surely then leaving it out there is bad sportsmanship in the first place by the keeper a load of rubbish this is just brought up because it was a dublin player involved only reason to try find something to deflect from Keegan , kevin mcgloughlin constantly in games runs in after a score to stop quick kickouts by blocking the keepers or else kicking the ball off the tee and i never hear all year about this in media looking for bans,just another example of what I said earlier in the week the difference in the media toward a Dublin and mayo player where Mr Keegan gets praised for showing iniative Mr Costello must be banned haha"
Agreed, there was fan footage of the incident from the canal end. As Rock was preparing his free kick Clarke was trying to put the tee out. Costelloe threw it off the pitch and correctly so. The only time the tee should be on the pitch is for a kick out, end of. If the ball came off the post and someone tripped over the tee going for the ball and got injured Clarke would be at fault.

Chops (Westmeath) - Posts: 775 - 23/09/2017 18:51:18    2049669

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Replying To Chops:  "Agreed, there was fan footage of the incident from the canal end. As Rock was preparing his free kick Clarke was trying to put the tee out. Costelloe threw it off the pitch and correctly so. The only time the tee should be on the pitch is for a kick out, end of. If the ball came off the post and someone tripped over the tee going for the ball and got injured Clarke would be at fault."
I see the point you are making - the tee placed on the pitch could be seen as a health hazzard or even a defensive barricade in front of the Mayo goal. Two Dub posters mentioned that it was in Rock's line of vision. I'm surprised that there wasn't a complaint from Dublin airport Authority that it was causing flight path problems.
However, what did the two tees hiding behind the goalposts do to deserve a kicking? I can't fathom that out.

neverright (Roscommon) - Posts: 1648 - 23/09/2017 20:06:22    2049705

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Costelloe threw it off the pitch and correctly so. The only time the tee should be on the pitch is for a kick out, end of. If the ball came off the post and someone tripped over the tee going for the ball and got injured Clarke would be at fault.

Chops (Westmeath) - Posts:653 - 23/09/2017 18:51:18 2049669


So Costello was doing it for Clarke's benefit?

Cockney_Cat (UK) - Posts: 2461 - 25/09/2017 17:35:49    2050424

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Replying To Chops:  "Agreed, there was fan footage of the incident from the canal end. As Rock was preparing his free kick Clarke was trying to put the tee out. Costelloe threw it off the pitch and correctly so. The only time the tee should be on the pitch is for a kick out, end of. If the ball came off the post and someone tripped over the tee going for the ball and got injured Clarke would be at fault."
You seen the footage. Why did Costello interfere with the kicking tees that WERE NOT on the pitch?

Weary (None) - Posts: 249 - 25/09/2017 18:28:55    2050442

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What a brilliant article by Alan Brogan in yesterday's Indo.
Some people here would do well to have a read, if only to get a leading players perspective on what will be done to gain any advantage.

yelowbelly (Wexford) - Posts: 409 - 25/09/2017 19:05:22    2050448

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Replying To yelowbelly:  "What a brilliant article by Alan Brogan in yesterday's Indo.
Some people here would do well to have a read, if only to get a leading players perspective on what will be done to gain any advantage."
Brilliant is stretching it in my opinion. Fairly obvious synopsis from a player who retired 2 years ago.

All these little things are becoming accepted now as winning mentality. I suppose there's nothing that new in them. Babs Keating offered a bet to Richie Bennis on him scoring the winning 65 in the 1973 Munster Final as he was about to rise the ball.

Laois76 (Laois) - Posts: 1270 - 25/09/2017 21:36:46    2050491

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Replying To Weary:  "You seen the footage. Why did Costello interfere with the kicking tees that WERE NOT on the pitch?"
my god all the problems in sport comes down to someone fiddling with tee's OFF the pitch - hang him.

arock (Dublin) - Posts: 4896 - 25/09/2017 21:37:18    2050492

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Replying To Laois76:  "Brilliant is stretching it in my opinion. Fairly obvious synopsis from a player who retired 2 years ago.

All these little things are becoming accepted now as winning mentality. I suppose there's nothing that new in them. Babs Keating offered a bet to Richie Bennis on him scoring the winning 65 in the 1973 Munster Final as he was about to rise the ball."
I thought it was a fair commentary, instead of some of the ridiculous finger-pointing and blame thats being posted here.

yelowbelly (Wexford) - Posts: 409 - 25/09/2017 22:13:05    2050501

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Replying To yelowbelly:  "I thought it was a fair commentary, instead of some of the ridiculous finger-pointing and blame thats being posted here."
Fair commentary i'd agree, but not brilliant. He wouldn't be in the same league of sports journalist as Eamonn Sweeney and Neil Francis in my opinion.

Laois76 (Laois) - Posts: 1270 - 25/09/2017 23:12:10    2050520

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Replying To arock:  "my god all the problems in sport comes down to someone fiddling with tee's OFF the pitch - hang him."
I'll admit that I was silly to respond to the drivel in the previous post. Sometimes we all make mistakes. But your post just doesn't make any sense as a reply to what I posted.

Weary (None) - Posts: 249 - 26/09/2017 09:02:41    2050544

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No way he should have interfered with the tee the 2nd time. Bad form, no doubt. Unsporting.

But 100% the tee shouldn't have been on the pitch in the first place, Clarke shouldn't have had it already placed. He was in fact cheating and perhaps if he hadn't of cheated than Costello wouldn't have acted out in a similar fashion?

Two wrongs don't make a right and all that.

But at least Mayo fans have had a taste now of what their own players have got up to over the years when interfering with Cluxtons kick outs and I don't remember seeing their outrage at the time.

jimbodub (Dublin) - Posts: 20600 - 26/09/2017 12:04:13    2050604

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Didn't Barry John Keane do something similar at the end of the 2014 final?

FootblockREF (Monaghan) - Posts: 563 - 26/09/2017 12:26:44    2050623

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