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Congratulations to Clare on their victory last Saturday. Concerned_Supp (Westmeath) - Posts: 71 - 03/07/2019 17:04:57 2205020 Link 0 |
I'm not a fan of the black card for fouls that have nothing to do with stopping score chances. By the letter of the law it was a black card for a deliberate block but it had no impact on the run of play so I don't understand how the sort of foul deserves a black card. There has been a good few of these types of black cards since the rule was introduced. I don't blame the refs as they can only go on what they see or are told by the linemen etc. I think a black card should only be used for deliberate fouls that prevent scoring chances. One of the things that really annoy me when at games nowadays is when a player gives away a foul that is borderline a yellow card offense and supporters from the opposition start putting pressure on the officials to give a black card. Mobot (Donegal) - Posts: 459 - 03/07/2019 17:15:46 2205024 Link 0 |
hipster (Dublin) - Posts: 2509 - 03/07/2019 17:26:24 2205031 Link 1 |
Technically a black card. We lost Ger Egan to injury but Ronan O Toole wasn't injured he also got a black card. Apparently you weren't at the game but let us be clear teams that moan about referees costing us a game learn nothing. We should be assesing our own mistakes and making sure that when we meet them in the league there won't be any worries about the refs performance.
jobber (Westmeath) - Posts: 1415 - 04/07/2019 14:59:08 2205478 Link 2 |
To be fair, we'll never know whether we'd have won the game if we still had Heslin and O'Toole on the pitch. Certainly, it would have helped to have Heslin on the frees at the very minimum once Egan went off injured, and O'Toole had been playing well up to that point too. iarmhi_an_mhaith (Westmeath) - Posts: 268 - 04/07/2019 15:35:31 2205488 Link 0 |
I thought a yellow would be fair. Huge decision that could have cost Westmeath the chance of a derby with meath to reach the super 8's. Jack_Goff (Meath) - Posts: 2920 - 04/07/2019 15:53:05 2205496 Link 6 |
What about players like Gary Brennan who train all their lives for the chance to win kickouts at the end of a game for their county, but have to put up with getting a deliberate shoulder into the chest from opponents after playing the ball? Heslin has nobody to blame but himself - stupid cheap shots like that used to happen in every game but now are rarely seen at all thankfully.
Soma (UK) - Posts: 2630 - 04/07/2019 21:06:53 2205630 Link 0 |
Agree 100% for all it's faults the black card has reduced the amount of body checks and blocking of runs hugely. I'd be in favour of a red card for anyone preventing a clear goalscoring opportunity by whatever means
lillyboy (Kildare) - Posts: 429 - 04/07/2019 21:28:11 2205643 Link 0 |