These theatrics are creeping in everywhere, not just Mayo.

I s'pose the GAA will have to introduce a punishment for it but that's another refereeing change and they've always been balls-ups in recent times

Well done rebel og an honest post

some eposides yesterday were not nice.... interesting if the CCC will do anything or just turn a blind eye

It was embarrassing, there's no other word for it. I agree it is prevalent in a lot of counties but Mayo certainly seem to the worst for it

Maybe it cost Mayo more in the end as the ref may have decided the RHB had dived when pushed in the back going through on goal and gave nothing. 20 seconds later the ball is in the Mayo net, at least a 4 point turnaround. O'Leary is quite a dangerous man no doubt but the best laugh was when the Mayo sub tried to take Cadogan late near the end and collapsed as if he had hit a brick wall. Cadogan's look of contempt was hysterical

Hopefully the newer generation is moving away from this as evidenced in the reaction of Cork's 19-year-old Conor Lehane to a shoulder in the chest from Michael Fennelly in the first minute of their league game. He simply got up again, passed the ball to Pat Horgan for the free and trotted back to his position.

Midleton thats nothing to do with the younger generation - thats the difference between Hurling and Football at the moment.
Refs are way more lenient in hurling , trusting in the adage of ' let them sort eachother out '. If you dived in hurling like Vaughan did yesterday , your own teammates would be trailing you up.
Refs in football are far too whistle happy so its easier or more tempting for teams to take advantage of the slightest of misdemeanours .

vice99
County: Donegal
Posts: 856

1162869 Yeah it reminded me of how Karl Lacey was assaulted a few times in the AI last year.....
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Yeah me too... :)

Lads Vaughan did the exact same thing against Dublin, he nailed Connolly with a shoulder from behind then Connolly ran after him and just when he was about to meet him Vaughan dived to the ground holding his face after not being touched. Embarrassing.

Lads it happens everywhere its all in the matter if the ref and officials see it or not. To be punished for it I dont think its necessary unless there is 0 contact made to the player because if a referee got a bad angle and reckoned he saw a dive and booked the diver when there was contact they would be criticisms made on HOGANSTAND and elswhere about referees, players , etc.

Every fan should look at their own team all do it from every county not just mayo cork you get nothing for being nice in gaa stupid thread stupid wum s on ere trying to rise mayo and cork people mayo have enough fans to talkin about their own county s ye should look after your own county s and dont be worrying about mayo or cork what ye should be worry about is why your team were not their yesterday and not diving . Well done to cork yes day better team on day ref left few things go yesterday but on both sides day didnt help either side and its easy for egits who watch it on tv to say this and that was done and he and him should have been etc cork are top class team and wil be hard bet this year didnt relise colm o neil was as good very strong good player congrats cork hope we get another crack at ye later on in the year give people more stuff to talk about tiocfaidh as lä

Lads Vaughan did the exact same thing against Dublin, he nailed Connolly with a shoulder from behind then Connolly ran after him and just when he was about to meet him Vaughan dived to the ground holding his face after not being touched. Embarrassing.

From what I remember Connolly punched him in the lower back as he was running away and he was holding his back not his face.

Diving is a blight all right, this is the worst one I have ever seen.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwmErywscOc

paddyogall

Haha

I know you're only trying to get a rise out of our Northern cousins Paddy, but for once I almost agree with you.

paddyogall
County: Mayo
Posts: 4762

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Diving is a blight all right, this is the worst one I have ever seen.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwmErywscOc


OMG!!!!

Shocking by Canavan all right and not befitting his status as one of the greatest of all time. In Tyrone though we'll condemn our sportsmen who cheat instead of making excuses for them

pplocal
County: Tyrone
Posts: 5017

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Shocking by Canavan all right and not befitting his status as one of the greatest of all time. In Tyrone though we'll condemn our sportsmen who cheat instead of making excuses for them

Fair play to you pplocal.

So now we have some circumstantial evidence of Mayos tactical diving, can we use that against them for the next 10 years or so? Maybe give it a label of some description, chunder football? Perhaps it can be used to undermine any success they may have in the future, not for begrudging reasons of course, but for the sake of genuine analysis. We could even say they invented it and it was the begininng the end of Gaelic Football. We could even tag it on to their province as well. Seems a bit far-fetched but...

Breffni39
County: Cavan
Posts: 7369

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So now we have some circumstantial evidence of Mayos tactical diving, can we use that against them for the next 10 years or so? Maybe give it a label of some description, chunder football? Perhaps it can be used to undermine any success they may have in the future, not for begrudging reasons of course, but for the sake of genuine analysis. We could even say they invented it and it was the begininng the end of Gaelic Football. We could even tag it on to their province as well. Seems a bit far-fetched but...

Did you not see my youtube clip? or is it blocked in the PS?

paddyogall
County: Mayo
Posts: 4765

Did you not see my youtube clip? or is it blocked in the PS?

Yeah afraid so, youtube and such is a private and evidently semi-state sector luxury.

Its easy knowing I have Paddy rattled as he always brings up my job haha.