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Roscommon 0-25 Kilkenny 0-01
Roscommon 0-25 Kilkenny 0-01
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Show posts MenuQuote from: Aaron Boone on April 03, 2011, 03:19:30 PMQuote from: Azzurri on April 03, 2011, 03:14:52 PM
Roscommon 0-19 Kilkenny 0-00.
from bad to worse for kilkenny. Their wing back was sent off.
One solace is that they didn't concede a walkover beforehand - Fingal hurlers & Longford ladies did this w/end.
Quote from: Donnellys Hollow on July 26, 2010, 06:25:22 PM
Cake Curran got 1-1 for the Rossies a few years ago.
QuoteMemories came flooding back for the man at the centre of one of the last great GAA controversies that resulted, eventually, in a replay.
Shane Curran was only 18-years-old when he drove a penalty to the Galway net to give Roscommon a two-point win in the dying embers of the 1989 Connacht minor final.
The problem with goalkeeper Curran's kick was that he wasn't the player who had placed the ball and that was deemed illegal.
As the referee had indicated it was the last kick of the game, Roscommon celebrated as Galway players and management surrounded the official behind the goals at McHale Park in Castlebar.
"He had told us it was the last kick," recalled Curran. "Peadar Glennon was our free-taker, but because I had missed an earlier penalty he was delegated to take the kick. He placed it but I ran in and kicked it."
At 6.0 that evening, Connacht Council officials, who had earlier presented Roscommon's captain Sean Staunton with the cup, reclaimed it on the basis that the referee was not allowing the goal and hadn't the time or the space in the ensuing madness to pronounce that. His report would reflect that.
Galway were given the trophy and for days the controversy rumbled until, finally, a meeting of the Galway Football Board concluded with the offer of a replay.
The following Sunday, Curran converted an early penalty on Roscommon's way to an extra-time win that required a dramatic injury-time goal. "The memories did come back when I saw the Leinster final on Sunday," he recalled.
"The referee hadn't a chance to make his point but the Connacht officials went ahead and awarded the cup to our captain, Sean Staunton. They took it back off us later that evening," said Curran. "In the end, common sense prevailed."
Curran now believes Meath should, as Galway did, offer a replay because it would be the "fairest thing" to do.
"The best thing would be to nail it and allow for a replay," he said.
Quote from: Cosmo Kramer on April 03, 2010, 10:51:51 PMQuote from: shapes on April 03, 2010, 08:39:19 PM
Frustrated and sick.
This was another great chance, it was there for the taking.
We lost it on the line.
A brutal game of football to watch.
Also annoying the way the roscommon manager and selectors ran out on the pitch telling their players to lie down after the goal.
Disgraceful if true. Can anyone else confirm?