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County Board will have a different outlook next Year if no R/E players turns up to Play with Laois and if one of the Top Ref's in the county quits.. Ridiculous decision. Stapleton should know better to though.. Not the first time he has argued with Refs following an R/E loss. Its not his place

His behaviour was unacceptable and couldn't be let go.

Which is fair enough, but laughable when you look at the other ban

There is more to the story doing the rounds that Stapleton was arguing with the ref at half time, rumour has it he assaulted a county board official who is now taking legal action against him, he will be lucky if a 4 week ban is all he gets.

The appeal on Dooley was probably lifted as the county board had no grounds to suspend him as the referee had dealt with the situation by giving the yellow card. Again very unfortunate what happened King but he ran 40 yards after the whistle had be blown to get involved and watching the clip in REAL time it looks like an unfortunate accident that was caused by himself running at speed and Dooley turning to protect himself.

Culchy is back !!  Would you ever f***  off with the shite you are coming out with

Looking at the video in REAL time is actually worse

County Board will have a different outlook next Year if no R/E players turns up to Play with Laois and if one of the Top Ref's in the county quits.. Ridiculous decision. Stapleton should know better to though.. Not the first time he has argued with Refs following an R/E loss. Its not his place

His behaviour was unacceptable and couldn't be let go.

Which is fair enough, but laughable when you look at the other ban

[On what basis did they impose the two game ban? That's the crux of the matte]

The CB imposed the ban did they not? They must have had conclusive video evidence to do so if the referee didn't see it on the day. And if they had such evidence, and the referee didn't see it, then any ban imposed would have stood. Obviously there is no video evidence, and as such, any decision made by the referee is all that counts.

The CB are making too many mistakes in my opinion. Their handling of transfers seems to be very different depending on the clubs involved. They tried to block Daly but granted the Kingstons a transfer no bother. Same circumstances but different approaches.

Then you had the bans lifted four years in a row but not Bruno's. I have to say there's more than a bit of a whiff off some of their decision making.

On what basis did they impose the two game ban? That's the crux of the matter

It doesn't make sense. If county board used video evidence well then they saw something that supported ban so why did the appeal committee not see it.

Stapleton gets 4 weeks for verbal and ban lifted for physical for Camross. Something very wrong with this

Don't go blaming the county board etc for the player getting the suspension lifted. It's the GAA as a whole. There are obviously different loopholes within the rules and this is how he got off. It wasn't as if laois county board said we'll suspend him for a couple of games and then a few weeks later they said, do you know what, we'll just let him off, no suspension. The justice system and appeals system is a complete joke within the GAA.

The county board have to take some of the blame for letting O'Brien near the final. They have seen O'Brien in action and yet continued to give him games.

Im sure any player watching all this unfold is wondering if it is worth it to tog out for club or county when player welfare obviously isn't a top priority with our County Board.

How any club is let away with what went on in both games and on the side line is unbelievable

A lot of things can and have been debated on here to death. Who is at fault, what should have happened, was it on purpose etc.
However, wether on purpose or not what happened to Ross King in the melee was a red card offence and the fact that Camross as a club appealed or sought a hearing for this is nothing short of a disgrace.

My thoughts exactly.

Ban lifted just as disgraceful . Quiet enough for the last few weeks but see them posting on Facebook basically laughing at it all

Wonder will they be as brave outside the county

I can't think of a more effective way to turn parents off GAA in Laois. What kind of sponsor would support this sham?

I'd imagine it will turn more than parents off

I thought it couldn't get any worse but was I wrong!

Absolute joke from the arrogance of Camrose to appeal to suspension for Stapleton. 
I'd say we're the laughing stock of the country

Yes seen that, and the ref standing in the middle of it! and if you watch closely you'll see a familiar looking no.7 working the butt of the hurl towards someones face 

And not 1 red card in either match.  O'brien has a lot to answer for.
Hurling is a tough game but this is just madness. Shame on camross

2 match ban for Dooley i hear, dont think anything else came of the meeting last night. Ban starts next years championship. You'd love to have seen more bans handed out but in reality thats all our county board was ever going to do, and thats only because of the media scrutiny.

Had to be seen to do something. Not much good to RE now. Should have been dealt with on the day.

I see a video of the semi final doing rounds now. Not pleasant viewing either

That's a lot of big matches won over the years where these "tactics" were used!
It didn't start last Sunday!

I think it was the combination of cynical tactics, officials with no backbone and social media mockery that has everyone up in arms.

Now culchy we have reached page 27 so there's a little motivation for next year !

Do you not think a lot of it had been cleaned up in the last few years?   I actually think things had improved a bit.  We had started to see some good clean hurling and now I feel we are slipping

It's only a couple of years back when we had a great match between r/e and b/know that gave great hope but alas nothing has progressed much

A lot of proud Camross men and women are disgusted by what happened.

It's wrong to paint them all with the same brush and only serves to allow those responsible to hide amongst all the furore.

I would feel for the genuine supporters but I'd imagine the majority don't care what anyone thinks today.

Hurling in laois reached a low on Sunday. I thought the semi final was bad but when a mentor can do what was done at the b/k match I can only see it getting worse

Don i said i wouldn't want any of them representing laois.  Not talking about past .
If as a team and club they cannot conduct themselves they wouldn't be much of an addition.

Every year we hear calls for them to go with laois and yet they don't turn up

I wouldn't want any of them representing my county

Ah let him have his fun. He might just give a little count on how many pages are filled with disgust at his club