Butcherboy36 says:

wee are true leinster champions

Yep... that's how most of the country see's it too... Congrats on a great win yesterday.

jimbodub (Dublin) - Posts: 20600 - 12/07/2010 14:01:32    705169

The Leinster Final of 2010 will always be remembered as the one where Joe Sheridan threw the ball into the net to steal teh game from Louth.

I doubt that in 20/30 years time any of the Meath players will be able to hold up their medals with pride.
Forever, they will know themselves this is wrong.

Meath have to do the honourable thing and replay the match. Its sports after all and we all want to see fairness.

Now a number of things from the game.
-I'd hold no grudge against Joe Sheridan. Its win at all costs mentality and any player would have done the same themselves.
-Video technology has to be looked at seriously by the GAA.
-Some people have branded the Louth supporters "thugs" "soccer hooligans" etc. This is utter rubbish and I wouldn't change anything about the ending of the match.

Yours In Sport,
Joseff

joseff (Louth) - Posts: 964 - 12/07/2010 14:03:26    705175

Breffni39

Cheers for clearly that up Breffni, its disgraceful that anyone would get a box in the stands much less a man who is a legend in our county and has nothing to do with the meath team anymore.

Sorry Louth but the game is over, is an injustice but the balance of decisions went both ways and we got the big one, if theres a replay i won't be complaining but id say its 50/50 at the moment for that.

At the moment im enjoying being a leinster champion.

Htaem (Meath) - Posts: 8657 - 12/07/2010 14:04:55    705182

As a meath supporter I can say that yesterday's victory was hardly worth celebrating however this talk of a replay is just childish. Not to be patronising but - these things happen, sometimes a bad decision goes for you and sometimes against. Replaying all the matches with dodgey ref decisions would take forever. We wouldn't be even having this debate of a replay if it was Dublin and Meath and either side had been wronged. Its just because Louth were the underdogs and they played a great game. Its immature to think that a replay should be offered, just the same way its immature to boo at a freetaker squaring up to take a free and the same way its immature to kick the ball over the sideline twice in the dying minutes of the game. Real louth fans (who didnt just jump on the bandwagon and buy their jerseys last saturday) will acknowledge the unfairness of it but move on..Louth have a good side but they'll have to work on keeping the head when they are ahead. Also to the Mayo supporter who mentioned the 'goal' last year against Mayo- yes you are right a replay wasnt offered but in that case Meath still won by 4 points.

bee23 (Meath) - Posts: 3 - 12/07/2010 14:05:33    705184

Louth only had 6 or 7 players around their goals at the end...they should have had 11 or 12 and then Seamus Kenny or Joe Sheridan wouldn't have got through but that's not taking away from the fact that the goal shouldn't have been allowed

mayoboy1 (Mayo) - Posts: 1654 - 12/07/2010 14:05:35    705185

I want Louth to get a replay but i doubt they will get it!!!

jambread (Cork) - Posts: 307 - 12/07/2010 14:06:54    705192

jimbodub
County: Dublin
Posts: 5940

705169
Butcherboy36 says:

wee are true leinster champions

Yep... that's how most of the country see's it too... Congrats on a great win yesterday.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

I want to reinforce this comment. I hope all Louth fans know that the rest of the Country considers ye as Leinster Champions. Louth are 2010 Leinster Champions and ye fully deserve it.

TheGreenAndRed (Mayo) - Posts: 141 - 12/07/2010 14:07:29    705195

Louth could and should have won that game yesterday, they failed to take their chances, if they had been four or five points ahead then there wouldn't be a word about the goal at the end, I feel sorry for the louth supporters and its hard to come away from croke park having lost a big game, the whole of kildare were heartbroken after the all Ireland in 98 but thats sport and I am sure this louth team will have learned from it and give a hard game to whichever county they play next. A replay is out of the question as every second game has contraversial refereeing decisions and we would end up with calls for replaying half the games in the championship.

bryanadams (Kildare) - Posts: 733 - 12/07/2010 14:10:24    705204

OMG There is plenty of ABM supporters out there. If the boot was on the other foot this was not be getting as many posts. Down through the years many a good team lost games on bad decisions. I think Louth should just get over it.

TRUE_GREEN (Meath) - Posts: 7 - 12/07/2010 14:11:12    705208

Htaem
County: Meath
Posts: 1707

Deluded my man.. what age are you...!! Were you around in the 90's by any chance?

Any Meath man that is proud of that result needs to read T Giles comments... Meath were shown up for what they are... AVERAGE

He isnt too proud... On paper you might be Leinster Champions... but in your heart... that's where it counts in my book.

Louth for me are Leinster Champions and were completely robbed of an amazing achievement, basically by the last "Throw" of the ball...

Meath had many opportunites to get themselves back into the game but they couldnt... Louth didnt have 2 seconds... You cant compare the two.

At the end of the day, Sheridan cheated Louth out of a Leinster crown, say what you like.. "Any player would have done it" it's still cheating... and to come out and say that it was a peno anyway... speaks volumes.

jimbodub (Dublin) - Posts: 20600 - 12/07/2010 14:16:24    705226

TheGreenAndRed

Think we're the champions Green, heres a link to prove it:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leinster_Senior_Football_Championship


Ah no im not trying to get smart with anyone, i knew long before this game that there'd be 31 counties supporting Louth and i don't have a problem with that but its not nice to see people from other counties, Mayo in particular getting bitter about a result which has nothing to do with them. It seems to be only the nordies and fairplay to them who have heads on their shoulders and are telling people to just get over it.

Htaem (Meath) - Posts: 8657 - 12/07/2010 14:17:42    705232

I think the hooligan wannabe's from Louth will have done their county no favours. If they all just stayed in their seat I think people would be looking more favourable on giving a replay. In a way, not giving a replay would be a fitting punishment aswell as banning the knuckle draggers from ever attending a game again (if that's even possible).
As a Dublin supporter I was up for Louth all the way until the final whistle, but what happened after left me not really caring what happens to Louth now.

bangbang (Dublin) - Posts: 113 - 12/07/2010 14:20:43    705243

Joe Sheridan didn't exactly crown himself in glory yesterday either after the goal when indicating to the umpire to put the flag up when the referee went to speak to the umpire. The actions of the Louth supporters was disgraceful and should lead to them being thrown out of the championship altogether. We don't need this type of thuggery in 2010. As for the talk about Louth deserving a replay. SUCH NONSENSE! THere are wrong decisions in every game and more than a fair few that went against Meath yesterday. If it hadnt been the last action of the game there would hardly be a word about it this morning. Do the decent thing Louth - get over it and move on...

Lifford Gael (Donegal) - Posts: 1925 - 12/07/2010 14:23:33    705258

With regard to the booing yesterday it was rotten to hear and in fairness, however when I think back on yesterday it was actually the Meath crowd on the hill that started it first not realising that they were seriously out numbered supporter wise so when large sections of the Louth fans returned the favour it was more obvious.

Anyone who was present for the minor game between Longford and Offaly would also have heard constant booing of the free takers and also goalkeepers for kick outs so it wasn't just something associated with Louth supporters as some would like us believe.

It something that needs to be addressed nationally imo

BallsMcQ (USA) - Posts: 941 - 12/07/2010 14:26:44    705265

No reply. Those tugs should be persecuted and band form GAA for life.

Dee (Laois) - Posts: 312 - 12/07/2010 14:32:42    705282

Htaem
County: Meath
Posts: 1708


I wouldnt start believing everything you read on wikipedia to be honest...

It's full of incorrect rubbish...

jimbodub (Dublin) - Posts: 20600 - 12/07/2010 14:33:24    705284

jimbodub

Come on jimbo your acting like chief mourner here and last time i checked you were a dub or am i wrong, get over it lad, its game over ball burst forget it. Ive conceeded that we were very lucky but you being older than me (and thats a fair assumption) surely you've seen these thing happen before and while they're wrong they still stand and ive also said that i wouldn't complain if there was a replay but until then MEATH LEINSTER CHAMPIONS 2010, nothing you i or any amount of John Delaneys can do about it.

Htaem (Meath) - Posts: 8657 - 12/07/2010 14:34:38    705288

This is lunacy, meath are the leinster champions, the ref gave two none frees to louth
which they scored two points from so with the crazy reasoning of most people the final
score should be meath 12 louth1 08. If you want to be calling for the cccc then i want them to examine
these incidents too

atta (Meath) - Posts: 698 - 12/07/2010 14:37:18    705301

Any Meath man that is proud of that result needs to read T Giles comments... Meath were shown up for what they are... AVERAGE

jimbodub (Dublin) - Posts: 20600 - 12/07/2010 14:45:04    705323

Not the first time Meath have come out on the right side of a controversy. Noticed before the Dubs match that a number of Meath posters were complaining about the choice of ref for that match... most other counties posters would wait until he had messed up on the day, but a bit like Meath's players on the pitch their supporters believe in getting in first. I must admit, it seems to work for them... Meath have benefitted from some outrageous calls over the last 20 years. A bit of pressure before a match is worth far more than any amount of jostling after it. I feel sorry for Louth, and the ref (though he really should have consulted his umpires) and for the Meath players who didn't set out to cheat Louth, they just got a very lucky break. I hope Louth can bounce back, though I'd be surprised if it's in replay... most Meath suporters I know wouldn't be in favour of it, so I doubt their country board offlcials will be any more facilitating.

Pericles (Mayo) - Posts: 2521 - 12/07/2010 14:49:50    705332