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He wanted to get the call right. So he took his time, composed himself and consulted with his officials. Jaysus if he had of done a Martin Sludden on it he would be destoryed here. No win situation really
daytona11 (Kildare) - Posts: 4012 - 29/07/2019 10:04:46 2218002 Link 0 |
Ah stop. Some decisions went for wexford and other went for tipp. Thats the way it is. If wexfords decision making had of been to the required standard when they had two on ones and three on twos they would have had the game put to bed with 10 to go. daytona11 (Kildare) - Posts: 4012 - 29/07/2019 10:07:19 2218004 Link 0 |
I'm not sure what answer you are after. If you go to, watch or pay attention to games you'd know that It takes hawkeye about 15-20 seconds to check the score. It's even slower in Thurles. That was about the same length of time it took the ball to get to the other end of the field. The ref was hardly going to stop open play to see if it was a point, the umpires didn't suggest it was a score. The ball went down the field and I would imagine the communication was happening at Tipp struck for the goal. As bad as the ref was, the speed of the technology is hardly his fault. It would have been different had the ball gone dead and they restarted from the puckout. There rightly would of been uproar then. Don't understand why they don't have a watch like the soccer that tells if the ball crosses the line straight away instead of the current system which is far too slow. Forget about the screen graphic which takes another 5 seconds and let the ref point to his watch and get on with it. Faithfull (Offaly) - Posts: 573 - 29/07/2019 10:52:55 2218033 Link 0 |
Couldn't see it working. Imagine having a Brian Gavin at one end and lads killing each other and then a McGrath at the other end blowing everything. There would be uproar. Hard enough get consistency out of one ref never mind two. The only way I could see it working is to let one ref control the entire game and have a consultant ref in each half who can draw the main refs attention to off the ball stuff but from general play they have no input unless the main ref consults them over the mike. Faithfull (Offaly) - Posts: 573 - 29/07/2019 11:00:42 2218042 Link 0 |
Yes, I'll give you that. He bottled that one.
ballydalane (Kilkenny) - Posts: 1246 - 29/07/2019 11:11:38 2218052 Link 0 |
Yes true, but McDonald was denied a blatant penalty, just after John Mc was sent off. BTW John would want to cop on- this is the second time he was put off this year. Like Ryan Dwyer with Dublin, on another day he could have destroyed Tipps chances. He is not a dirty player, but he does foolish things.
Oldtourman (Limerick) - Posts: 4285 - 29/07/2019 11:22:37 2218060 Link 0 |
Yeah, he's a bad club ref. He did what every bad club ref does, rides one team raw for 3/4 of a match until they can take no more, then decides "oops, I need to start evening things up a bit here", hence no red card for Heffernan, hence no penalty for Wexford. "Whistle had been blown as no advantage accrued" - can you not see how bad a decision that was? He never even allowed a millisecond of play to continue to see if any advantage would accrue. Jake Morris was scoring the goal around 3 or 4 seconds after the foul. ballydalane (Kilkenny) - Posts: 1246 - 29/07/2019 11:23:35 2218061 Link 0 |
Genuinely don't think he saw the punch from watching the behind the goal angle on the Sunday game. It was inexcusable and a straight red. Player will no doubt receive a retrospective ban and rightly so. It doesn't help Wexford as Tipp should have been down to 13. Faithfull (Offaly) - Posts: 573 - 29/07/2019 11:41:12 2218081 Link 0 |
Blaming the referee is a cop-out. Simple as. StoreysTash (Wexford) - Posts: 1726 - 29/07/2019 13:16:13 2218160 Link 0 |
Why are people stating that McGrath's second yellow have been red instead, because they said so on the Sunday game?
Heftydickonem (Kilkenny) - Posts: 175 - 29/07/2019 13:20:53 2218161 Link 1 |
Because he struck the player with his hurl. To strike or attempt to strike a player is an auto red.
Buachaillbui (Clare) - Posts: 117 - 29/07/2019 13:57:13 2218197 Link 0 |
Ask Conor Gleeson who missed the chance to play in an All Ireland for retaliation to getting a hurley buried in his stomach.
Canuck (Waterford) - Posts: 2642 - 29/07/2019 14:06:07 2218206 Link 0 |
Also not 100% on this but since it's 2 yellows i think he can play in final. Straight red he would've missed final. Buachaillbui (Clare) - Posts: 117 - 29/07/2019 14:13:36 2218213 Link 0 |
He didn't strike the player at all with his hurl, but it was a silly stroke when lying on the ground
Heftydickonem (Kilkenny) - Posts: 175 - 29/07/2019 14:26:40 2218224 Link 1 |
Would have had plenty of concerns at start of the year but he had had a good year...up to yesterday. I did expect Paul Maher would get the number 1 Jersey at start of the year but overall I think we have bigger concerns. He's a young player and will learn from yesterday. I have regularly said here that eoin murphy is the best keeper I've seen but I don't think he's had a brilliant year himself. I think he'd be thinking he should have done better too. tiobraid (Tipperary) - Posts: 4119 - 29/07/2019 14:47:09 2218238 Link 0 |
Conor gleeson pulled back on the man if memory serves me correctly. I'd have no real complaints if it was a straight red but it was a very different incident. It was a one handed slap that was never going to cause an injury. I've done it myself in the tackle in nearly every game I played....maybe not as obvious as that but you do flick in across players. No kk man here is complaing either and the decision will effect them more than anyone else
tiobraid (Tipperary) - Posts: 4119 - 29/07/2019 15:00:44 2218245 Link 0 |
the replay was brutal because he had already struck reck at that stage.it was a straight red all day long
perfect10 (Wexford) - Posts: 3929 - 29/07/2019 15:09:30 2218252 Link 0 |
The replay was fine, multiple angles shown, most gave the impression that McGrath struck Reck but the final angle from side on shows that there was no contact with Recks, just the hurl knocked from his hand and Reck going down holding his elbow.
Heftydickonem (Kilkenny) - Posts: 175 - 29/07/2019 15:32:33 2218262 Link 0 |
He 100% struck him, no way.
StoreysTash (Wexford) - Posts: 1726 - 29/07/2019 16:12:01 2218291 Link 0 |
He struck him from behind with the hurl sitting on the ground. Theres no way he could claim he was trying to play the ball.....
Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 11477 - 29/07/2019 16:27:41 2218309 Link 0 |