hill16no1man
Agreed that it may be set up wrong at the moment. But that should be a very simple thing to change. Certainly not grounds for throwing out the whole system as some posters here seem to be advocating.

anfearbeag (Meath) - Posts: 1134 - 22/08/2013 14:05:04    1465757

Having watched the video again I believe the sliothar was wide....multiple hawkeye errors.....should not be used in hurling final

maroondiesel (Mayo) - Posts: 1251 - 22/08/2013 14:34:33    1465787

Maroondiesel - funny guy.

Anfearbeag - your first post on page 6 is the best one on the thread, and probably the best on the forum for a while.

Now, there's two conflicting opinions on this thread about what happens if a ball is over the post. One is that the rules say the ball must go through the posts (and therefore is wide if over the post), and other is that the rules say that over the post is a point. Which one is right and which is wrong?

Tacaí Liatroma (Leitrim) - Posts: 1245 - 23/08/2013 20:29:39    1466781

To those who say the last free for Limerick was soft, look at it again. Galway no 5 held the hurl (and pulled it off) Limerick no 10. Definite free. If anything, the softest free was for Galway's second last score (which I guess the Ref thought would result in a drawn match).

Setanta11 (Louth) - Posts: 45 - 23/08/2013 21:09:16    1466800

Lads, don't mind hill16no1man. If the ball goes over the post in either hurling or football, it is a wide. Certainly not a point.

bob_dolphin (Limerick) - Posts: 694 - 23/08/2013 21:54:51    1466827

why are so many people in the gaa always trying to put technology down, when umpires and refs/officals mak a lot mor misstakes, after all it was a person who set it up wrong

kerryluck (Kerry) - Posts: 2517 - 25/08/2013 13:53:40    1467515

A couple of curiousities on the explanation as to why Hawkeye failed last Sunday. Just watching the minor football match today where in the one Hawkeye replay in the first half the ball is clearly in the image of a football as you would expect when the system is configured for football. In last weeks game where we were told the system was configured for football, the replay image is clearly that of a sliothar.
Second point is that in real time and in hawkeye replay the ball is clearly well inside the post. Even if the ball had the dimensions of a football as the Hawkeye system may have expected, worst case the ball would have come in off the inside post.

I dont buy the configuration error explanation. Looks like a plain old software bug and trust me I have seen thousands of them in a long career in IT.

facethepuckout (Roscommon) - Posts: 229 - 25/08/2013 14:17:33    1467529

I dont buy the configuration error explanation. Looks like a plain old software bug and trust me I have seen thousands of them in a long career in IT.

I agree. The explanation given seems a little fishy to me, and it seems more like a glitch in the software. But as I said earlier, that is no reason to throw the baby out with the bathwater. It is, as you know, relatively easy to fix software issues. Fixing the ability of humans to judge the trajectory of high speed objects 30 ft uo in the air is not so easy.

anfearbeag (Meath) - Posts: 1134 - 25/08/2013 14:32:51    1467544