Every championship year there is always something for the nation of GAA to jump on the outrage bus over from full time whistles blown up early leading to 'sit-ins', to dubious 'goals' to win provincial championships, to disputes over a blood subs length of time on the pitch, or which end of Croker a team warms up on, etc, etc!......There's just 'ALWAYS SOMETHING'!!!

My bet is that this years outrage will be over something got to do with 'HAWKEYE'!!.......I contend it is only going to be a matter of time that no matter how much they have said "it has stood up to every conceivable scenario we have tested it against" (prelude to disaster - Titanic esque) that at some stage some it will fail to register a blatantly obvious score and hence the reliability of the whole thing will be called into disrepute and it will soon find itself abandoned in an electronic pile of junk in a skip at the back of the handball alley!.....(remember the electronic e-voting machines?)!

Anyway, what do you think will be the GAA Controversy of Championchips 2013!!.....cos there's always something y'know!!

Regards,

Snufalufagus....Laochra Gael

Snufalufagus (Dublin) - Posts: 8100 - 24/05/2013 18:38:51    1390812

why the ref dissallowed a perfectly good goal which cost tipperary the game against Kerry this coming Sunday.

s goldrick (Cavan) - Posts: 5524 - 24/05/2013 19:56:34    1390853

Will Mayos cute cynical fouling finally be pulled up by the powers that be?

brendtheredhand (Tyrone) - Posts: 10897 - 24/05/2013 20:13:35    1390857

Dublin will lose the AI senior football final
because of a shocking refereeing decision!
More Karma than controversy. ;)

TheGateKeeper (Tyrone) - Posts: 2843 - 24/05/2013 21:07:01    1390884

Dublin will lose the AI senior football final
because of a poor refereeing decision!

TheGateKeeper (Tyrone) - Posts: 2843 - 24/05/2013 21:15:06    1390889

The dubs will be given a huge amount of laughable refereeing decisions in their favour. Oh no wait, that happens already.......

whiterbannnas (Mayo) - Posts: 2441 - 25/05/2013 08:39:55    1390924

Id say it will be everyone in country viewing Dublin kildare match as leinster final and thinking the winners of that only have to turn up in the actual final. And meath stuff them.
hon the royal

royaldunne (Meath) - Posts: 19449 - 25/05/2013 09:16:37    1390931

Colm O'Rourke decking Joe Brolly live on T.V.

MuckrossHead (Donegal) - Posts: 5030 - 25/05/2013 09:31:10    1390935

The dubs will be given a huge amount of laughable refereeing decisions in their favour. Oh no wait, that happens already.......

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Not as good at fishing as you used to be WB

waynoI (Dublin) - Posts: 13659 - 25/05/2013 11:17:46    1390967

Dublin and Kildare level at 71 minute in leinster semi ;) then Johnny Doyle is handed the ball for a ''FREE'' even though he wasnt fouled the free win's the game.
Sure that would never happen!!

lilywhitemagic (Kildare) - Posts: 1693 - 25/05/2013 13:32:15    1391011

Mayo to win the all ireland.

Dubsfan28 (Dublin) - Posts: 2509 - 25/05/2013 13:41:59    1391016

Royaldunne

The question asked was what will this year's controversy be.

Your scenario wouldn't be controversial.

It'd be miraculous.

MesAmis (Dublin) - Posts: 13846 - 25/05/2013 13:51:36    1391023

1/ Someone getting a nasty pull one week and getting injured with nothing happening to the perpetrator, the media creates a furore, and the next week someone getting a red for pretty much nothing, creating a bigger media furore.

2/ Someone in the media realizing that hurling and football are completely different sports and that what happens in hurling doesn't have to have a correlation in football. The controversy comes when someone in the GAA says he agrees, and that the games should be treated differently and individually instead of as being treated as the same sport.

3/ A refereeing decision, likely perceived to be one that costs a minnow a big scalp (such a sending off when both sides are level with 10 minutes to go).

dblackandamber (Kilkenny) - Posts: 92 - 25/05/2013 13:59:29    1391026

Dub fans on hill to behave

beal (Mayo) - Posts: 1388 - 25/05/2013 15:35:18    1391059

Meath to score another try

beal (Mayo) - Posts: 1388 - 25/05/2013 15:39:47    1391060

Donegal Dublin All Ireland Final. Donegal insist on and get a 50/50 allocation of tickets for the Hill. Clondalkin spontaneously combusts .

MuckrossHead (Donegal) - Posts: 5030 - 25/05/2013 15:40:48    1391061

Tyrone to abandon puke football

beal (Mayo) - Posts: 1388 - 25/05/2013 15:44:19    1391064

Marty morrisey reveals hes really Betty Boo.
Des cahill reveals hes really Rory out of Rory and the Racing Car and both get sacked for impersonating someone else.

AthCliath (Dublin) - Posts: 4347 - 25/05/2013 15:56:53    1391069

it'll be a refering call, has to be.

crossfieldball (Galway) - Posts: 650 - 25/05/2013 16:20:14    1391071

Tyrone to beat Donegal tomorrow. Then for Mayo to beat Donegal in the quarters, Tyrone in the semi and Dublin in the final; at which point people will say Mayo had a soft All Ireland. :-P
On a more serious note I still think the talking point at the end of the summer will still be the inconsistency in refereeing as witnessed already in last weekend games. The refereeing decisions in the Mayo Galway game weren't on a par to the Cavan Armagh game. This needs to be addressed ASAP.
I can also see a scenario presenting itself where Joe Brolly over steps the mark causing Pat and Colm to flip and kick the living bejasus out of him.

campbelltommy (Mayo) - Posts: 103 - 25/05/2013 16:21:18    1391073