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Who will win Sam now?
Not too often I would agree with Spillane but I do in relation to the Cork comment. Spot on!!
WestRules
, 02/09/2010 at 21:59
Refereeing decisions deciding games
Are some of the Tyronies on here going soft in the head? If McEneaney had cost us the equivalent of 1-1 in an AI semi we'd be fairly exercised on here. After all t took us from 1995 to 2005 to forgive Paddy Russell :-)
On_the_ditch
, 02/09/2010 at 21:53
GAA football team of the year!?
Nothing against Cluxton or Dublin, Bernard Brogan is a strong contender for POTY (If Martin Clarke has a good final I think he will pip Brogan) and they have a couple of other good shouts but Cluxton let 5 goals in against Meath and I don't buy the "he wasn't at fault for them" nonsense. He's a keeper and that's what they are there to do, keep them out. McVeigh of Down is a better call.
Ulsterman
, 02/09/2010 at 21:50
GAA football team of the year!?
1. P McConnel
2. M O'Se
3. J McMahon
4. M Shields
5. D Harte
6. G Canty
7. A Kernan
8. Sean Kavanagh
9. M McCauley
10. B Dooher
11. J Doyle
12. J McMahon
13. S Johnson
14. B Coulter
15. M Clarke
sky_high
, 02/09/2010 at 21:49
GAA football team of the year!?
McVeigh
McCarten,O'Carroll,McGrillen
Kissane,McKernan,Bolton
McAuley,Keenan
Hughes,Doyle,Kerrigan
Coulter,Brogan,Clarke
lukeFitz
, 02/09/2010 at 21:45
Painful Defeats
thanks jinxie
I will fall prey to one of your questions to make it up to you!
ochonlir
, 02/09/2010 at 21:43
GAA football team of the year!?
Ulsterman spot on some things will never change in the gaa.
Dellboypolecat
, 02/09/2010 at 21:39
GAA football team of the year!?
Cluxton NO WAY! The awards will be a joke if a keeper who let in 5 goals in ONE game gets it but I fear the Dublinites in the GAA and media have already decided that he will get it.
Ulsterman
, 02/09/2010 at 21:33
GAA football team of the year!?
Cluxton mcauley , o carroll not a hope mc connell in goals , justin mc mahon no3 and no 8 any of the cotk boys.
Dellboypolecat
, 02/09/2010 at 21:33
GAA football team of the year!?
b.mullins - cluxton as keeper of the year????? were you not at he meath game? imo Geoffrey Claffey is my tip for this years all star.
late_and_high
, 02/09/2010 at 21:30
GAA football team of the year!?
B.Mullins
Dermot Early? Surely that's a sentimental vote?
Hasn't played a whole pile of football this year.
Surely John Galvin or Paddy Keenan would be ahead of him.
Jinxie
, 02/09/2010 at 21:25
GAA football team of the year!?
1- cluxton dublin
2- mccartan down
3- o'carroll dublin
4- miskella cork
5- o'leary cork
6- canty cork
7- garvey down
8- mcauley dublin
9- earley kildare
10- kavanagh kildare
11- o'neill cork
12- kerrigan cork
13- doyle kildare
14- b.brogan dublin
15- clarke down
b.mullins
, 02/09/2010 at 21:19
Painful Defeats
My horror was as a neutral watching an All-Ireland colleges final in 1990. My team, St.Mels, were beaten in the semi by Pat's Mahera. The final was in Brefni Park against Jarleths. In injury time Jarleths were awarded a 45 and Roscommon's Derek Duggan was the free taker. The ref had a word with him before he took it and assumptions were that the word meant last kick of the game. The kick had to go clean over the bar for a draw. Duggan kicked the ball, it hit the full back's shoulder and ended in the back of the net. Ref bew full time and Jarleths supporters invaded the pitch. Duggan was in tears while his team mates celebrated. The ref had to go to the PA opperator to have announced that Mahera were in fact champions because the last kick was interfered with. It was truly a shocking result. Duggan went on to score possibly the greatest goal ever scored in croke park as a senior player - small justice for a man with no medal.
bottoms
, 02/09/2010 at 20:56
Rivalary between border counties
live a mile from the galway/tipp border, 15 miles from the galway/offaly border and 12 miles from the clare/galway border and they have all won all irelands since our last one.
fatchops
, 02/09/2010 at 20:52
Refereeing decisions deciding games
GerryMc
County: Mayo
Posts: 197
762019 bad year for refs
No it has been a good year for refs apart from few isolated incidents.
Dellboypolecat
, 02/09/2010 at 20:48
Best seats in Croke Park
no bad seat imo a brilliantly designed stadium no blind spots
b.mullins
, 02/09/2010 at 20:47
GPA urge fans to stay off the pitch
On balance i have to agree with the directive to stay off the pitch, i know its very exciting for supporters in seeing their team win the all ireland and its quiet natural for one to want to be part off the celebrations and to cheer on and clap their heroes on the back, but having witnessed this first hand and with the numbers of children attending it is down right dangerous, just imagine one person falling or tripping with the excitement in the rush, there would be a multiple pile up, no one would stop and it could be an all- ireland to remember for all the wrong reasons.
Just imagine the pain and grief that would visit a family, a county and indeed the whole sporting community if some one or more recieved fatal injuries following such a stampede, You can take it as read that the GAA would then come in for hugh critism and that the all ireland final would be meanlingless from a sportingpoint of view.
I know some people will say its going on for years and no one was ever hurt, and to be truthfull about it, i done it my self, but as i grow older i can see dangers that i never saw before and i see plenty of them in the present arrangements, we all have a duty of care and by observing the request or directive call it what you like we can all play our part in making such games more enjoyablel and safe for every one, i want the radio and tv pundits to be disscussing the hurling on monday morning and not disscussing funerals or burials
shrewdjudge
, 02/09/2010 at 20:42
Refereeing decisions deciding games
There are two aspects here:
1. Technology
Some issues to raise, technology works well in games that are stop start like it does in Rugby, but in Gaelic Football and especially hurling the movement is more continous and hence the chance and time to review is not there.
Second what to review? The action leading up to a contenous score or just the score itself? How far back in the play should action be reviewed etc. Not an easy questions. What else, a dodgy line ball, a personnal foul?? So was aspect of game to review is not so easy to define.
Third, who should call the review? The referree only, the two teams??? If its the ref only and he is already convinced of his decision it beats the purpose of the technology review. If its the two teams, how often? for what? will they use it as a tactic to delay or slow down a game?
So I do not believe its as simple as people here or journalists believe, its a populist issue that non one has thought through.
2. Consistency of Refs.
When this is been discussed it usually refers to specific incidents that people claim had an impact on the game rather than the general overall performance. And my point is, that due to the courses and trainings etc. and selection processes that refs go through that the level of referring is overall better than it was before. And sometimes you have to standback and review from a far and not the heat of the moment, and remember journalists and the boys on RTE are there selling a product for sales or ratings and a bit of controversy helps.
No two refs will ever be the same, for sure, as no two players are, and its the overall application of the rules that measures consistency rather than specific incidents.
Now as to the Down goal winning the game, my point is that if it was disallowed why do people presume they would have lost. There tactics became to defend the lead after the goal but if it was disallowed who's to say they would not have driven on anyway to build a lead.
Then the Kildare goal he over-carried? Or did the referree allow advantage becuase he felt he was be fouled? And here the answer to this question is not in technology, you can argue either point of view equally validly.
witnof
, 02/09/2010 at 20:39
Painful Defeats
The agony of defeat: we all know it well: Losing the 1968 final to Down ,was the most painful one for me!
It was very hard to even watch that game!!
Bigapple
, 02/09/2010 at 20:35
Painful Defeats
95 and 96 put 95 first because on the way we lost it.
Dellboypolecat
, 02/09/2010 at 20:33