95 MEAN ANYTHING................


I remember that...canavan handled the ball on the ground and it was a free out.

superdub (Dublin) - Posts: 392 - 11/07/2010 20:58:10    704281

I always put Meath people down as great and fair sports people.They will do the right thing.

ruthless (Monaghan) - Posts: 594 - 11/07/2010 21:05:28    704296

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This shows exactly what is wrong with the GAA.Louth were robbed by a completly wrong decision by the Referee.Louth were by the far the better team no doubt there. Ref played 2 mins over,how could umpires miss that is beyond a joke. Louth deserve at least a replay.... Offaly got this in 1998 Louth deserve it today...

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my god. the only reason the ref played 2 extra minutes is because during extra time he spent 2 minutes booking louth players for disgraceful fouls. also im sickened to see jp rooney booting the ball away twice in extra time. players like that dont deserve leinster medals

BettystownRoyal (Meath) - Posts: 3353 - 11/07/2010 21:08:16    704302

i know what louth deserve.
they deserve a five year ban , of all competitions .
their fans were a absolute disgrace .. we need to stamp this out of the g.a.a

ta32 (Tyrone) - Posts: 4907 - 11/07/2010 21:09:23    704305

WE BLEW IT TODAY. SIMPLE AS THAT. SHOULD HAVE BEEN 6 POINTS CLEAR AT LEAST AND THEN THERE WOULD HAVE BEEN NO CONTROVERSY.

Headtheball1 (Louth) - Posts: 67 - 11/07/2010 21:10:11    704307

down with this sort of thing!!!...a replay will NOT happen unless meath offer louth a replay..if they had anything in them they would offer louth a replay, but knowing meath, thats unlikely to happen...so it's a bit rich to hear meath supporters claiming they are not cheats...if they are not cheats, they will offer louth a replay...a lot of nonsense being talked about the umpires..the umpires cannot make any decisions other than to call a square ball or decide on a score...they cannot call fouls or technical fouls just like linesmen...the referee had to make the call, and he was unsighted...finally to our dub friends on here complaining about meath cheating....did the dubs offer a replay in 95, no they didn't so stop being hypocritical

mayotyroneman (Tyrone) - Posts: 1821 - 11/07/2010 21:37:12    704373

No replay. catch yourselves on lads and ladies. bad calls are part and parcel of the game, just like misplaced passes, missed frees and wides from 21 yards. definatley a hard way to lose the game, but in my opinion your county lost all sympathy with your supporters behaviour after the game. hard luck today, and i hope you enjoy your next day out in the Championship.

tyronetalk (Tyrone) - Posts: 36 - 11/07/2010 21:40:34    704383

Superdub if you open your eyes canavan never touched the ball on the ground.

Dellboypolecat (Tyrone) - Posts: 15069 - 11/07/2010 21:58:48    704420

well he must have touched it on the ground...surely the ref couldn't have got it wrong? :)

Dubsfan08 (Dublin) - Posts: 619 - 11/07/2010 22:00:17    704430

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704430 well he must have touched it on the ground...surely the ref couldn't have got it wrong? :)


I was there. He did touch it on the ground. Dublin played most of that game with 14 men. A replay would only have inflicted more hurt on the Tyrone followers. From memory I don't think, other than Canavan, any other Tyrone forward scored. Hardly the mark of champions.

The Louth incident is only good news for the GAA. If it's a reply there will be close on sixty thousand at it. If not, there will be increased attendences (and security!) whenever the two counties take the field, and what a boost it would be to the gaa coffers if they were to come head to head later on in the championship. It's just the shot in the arm the championship needed. Remember the words of the great Brendan Behan "the only bad publicity is an obituary column."

thistle_harps (UK) - Posts: 879 - 12/07/2010 08:12:08    704438

Never mind Louth........
Do Meath deserve a replay?

BIG SACKS (Tyrone) - Posts: 1681 - 12/07/2010 08:35:45    704449

It is very unfair on the Louth players but how many times have games been decided by poor judgement on part of umpires and referees. They wont get a replay unless Meath offer one

Benbulben (Sligo) - Posts: 298 - 12/07/2010 08:58:21    704463

Just to clarify something regarding the umpire standing on the post on the Cusack stand side. This person in fairness to him did signal to the referee in a very clear manner that would suggest NO GOAL however referee Sludden choose to ignore this......... WHY ??

BallsMcQ (USA) - Posts: 941 - 12/07/2010 09:08:50    704474

I am absolutley disgusted to see some of your comments on this. some of you going as far to call us cheats? meath did not allow that goal the ref did! decisions go against every team but because this is Louth we will never live it down, because trust me they will never let you forget it! for god sake they are still going on about geraghtys goal in navan a few years back! that just shows what kind of fans they are! to be honest Louth were the better team yesterday but meath were very very poor and if a replay was to be had which i think it will (how could meath live with themselves after such an injustice? i will never know how horrific?? poor little louth) meath will not play so bad again. some comments on here are very very bitter and I wonder would you all be saying the same things if the shoe was on the other foot or even worse it was your own county that was allowed that goal. as for what the louth fans did, i think its an outrage and it is such a disgusting sight to watch back. and the comments coming from mayo fans in particular? get a grip of yourselves and stop being so bitter, feel sorry for you sad individuals. meath are not delighted with the win because of the circumstances it was won but for god sake the ref was terrible to meath for 60 minutes of the game and the whole country is on here complaining? sad day in the GAA is right.

Beautiful.Meath (Meath) - Posts: 537 - 12/07/2010 10:05:22    704543

It would appear that the umpires were caught on the hop but this may not necessarily be the case.
If there is indecision there is inevitably controversy.

Some questions.....
Did the umpires consult each other before Sludden went to one of them but not the other?
If it was square ball couldn't they have come out and indicated that?
Did the fact that they did nothing indicate they didn't think it was a goal?
If it wasn't a square ball, a score or a wide what were they supposed to do apart from stand there?
Have umpires the authority to signal anything else eg a foul, penalty or free out ?

Sludden was too far away from the action and instead of running in to the umpire he would have been better to walk in slowly, shoo all players away and consult both umpires behind the goals before deciding what to do. It would have given him time to think. Instead he panicked, sprinted in and took a hurried decision which probably means the end of his refereeing career, at this level anyway.

BIG SACKS (Tyrone) - Posts: 1681 - 12/07/2010 10:09:03    704554

i believe that players from all around the country in every club should sign a petition for a replay. as a leitrim man i know only too well what it is like to be on the wrong end of controversial results but not as big as this one. if this kind if thing can happen at the top level in croke park then it can happen to anyone. as a mark of support to our fellow gaa men in louth i think it is necessary we support them and sign a petition and boycott games if necessary. remember we are the one's bursting ourselves on the training fields in january and we deserve fair play. we hold the power.

1nightstand (Leitrim) - Posts: 77 - 12/07/2010 10:10:55    704559

BIG SACKS Says:

Sludden was too far away from the action and instead of running in to the umpire he would have been better to walk in slowly, shoo all players away and consult both umpires behind the goals before deciding what to do. It would have given him time to think. Instead he panicked, sprinted in and took a hurried decision


BS's you're absolutley spot on... he panicked and through his own actions created the chaos that resulted.

jimbodub (Dublin) - Posts: 20600 - 12/07/2010 10:15:12    704568

A lot of people have said that Louth DO NOT deserve a replay because of the criminal behaviour of some of their fans. I don't agree and believe that if there were scope within the rules to afford Louth a replay then the team should NOT be denied it because of their fans. However the following MUST now happen:

(1) The Louth fans who assaulted officials and players (specifically Meath players) and who threw bottles onto the pitch should be prosecuted in a court of law and leveled with a lifetime ban from GAA stadia.

(2) There is growing evidence of an anecdotal nature that some of the Louth squad (and possibly a player that had been sent off during the game) assaulted some of the Meath squad immediately after the final whistle. It is incumbent on the CCCC in reviewing this game to regard as its FIRST duty the identification and punishment of any such players or affiliates of the Louth squad, and for that punishment to be exemplary.

Finally, whatever about the errors made by officials, the bogus excuses about penalties or non-penalities, and the questions as to the integrity or honesty of certain Meath players, my own view is that that it ill serves Meath - who were in no way to blame for any aspect of yesterday's appalling conclusion to the game - to be vilified as they have been, and that they would do well to rise above the petty griping and in the interest of sportsmanship volunteer to replay the game. Only then will we hear a swift and definite to this dismal episode - which has been perhaps the darkest in my thirty years of following Gaelic Games.

Meath1986 (Dublin) - Posts: 247 - 12/07/2010 10:16:44    704572

What your doing here is taking one decision out of a whole match
that was littered with bad decisions. By the way judge the louth corner
forward should now get a years suspension

atta (Meath) - Posts: 698 - 12/07/2010 10:21:11    704578

It's great for the game to see the Leinster final go somewhere else other than Dublin for a change, but it's such a shame that is has been tainted like this. Anyone with a sense of fair play would feel very very sorry for Louth here, who did not deserve what they got. However, I don't the think the GAA should organise a replay over it, if they did, it would create a precedent for every team to call for replays to every match with a bad call - that's chaos that should not be created here.

The fairest & most honourable thing to do is for Meath to offer a replay and for the GAA to sanction it or not. Sanction it for fair play or refuse to sanction it in light of the Louth supporters behaviour at the final whistle.

I can understand their upset & anger & that it was only a minority of Louth supporters but invading a pitch to hit a referee and a player is beyond any possible reprieve, perhaps a replay should be ruled out as a punishment. I'm sure everyone on this board will agree that we never want to see scenes like that ever again

gigoer (Wexford) - Posts: 1998 - 12/07/2010 10:26:54    704590