GAA Referees

[Wildweasel74]

May be a topic already about this, and we all go on about how poor the football referees are but the call from the referee in the Kilkenny v Limerick game there in the hurling is absolutely shocking, Man hacked down way worst than what Sean Cavanagh done last year, seemingly inside the area with a deliberate trip with the hurl. ref awards 21m free and does not award a yellow for the tackle. The commentor actually said it should been a red. So what qualities does it take to be a ref, missing the f**king obvious and been blind seems to be a must.  We see on TV the night if they go to town on the delibrate hack down the way they did with Cavanagh last year

[CD]

That sort of thing doesn't go on in hurling so the referee couldn't possibly have seen it.

[manfromdelmonte]

Kilkenny have perfected the blanket defence.

[Wildweasel74]

Oh this was a limerick man with this foul

[Saffrongael]

It was outside the 14

[straightred]

It was outside the 14

Yeah - think it was but there is no excuse for letting o'Grady off. He even seemed to speak to him so its not as if he didn't know who did it. O'Grady's yellow from earlier could have been a red as well so it was no surprise to see him taken off immediately afterwards

[From the Bunker]

It's the beautiful game. You must have been seeing things. Now away with ya back to that unskillful girly game of football!

[armaghniac]

The hurling incident was (just) outside the penalty zone, but should have attracted some sort of card, should it not?

[Hardy]

Not even a comment from the studio analysts afterwards. Compare and contrast with Brolly on Cavanagh and the general concentration by the football pundits on avery negative incident in every game.

[Syferus]

Not even a comment from the studio analysts afterwards. Compare and contrast with Brolly on Cavanagh and the general concentration by the football pundits on avery negative incident in every game.

To be fair to ignore it was as bad as many of the things Spillane or Broly have done. Being positive is one thing, ignoring obvious topics is something else. Pundits shouldn't simply be cheerleaders for the sport either.

[Bord na Mona man]

Would Eddie Keher have changed his anti-black card, or anti card of any shade view had Kilkenny lost?  The player wasn't injured by the foul after all.

[Syferus]

Not even a comment from the studio analysts afterwards. Compare and contrast with Brolly on Cavanagh and the general concentration by the football pundits on avery negative incident in every game.

To be fair to ignore it was as bad as many of the things Spillane or Broly have done. Being positive is one thing, ignoring obvious topics is something else. Pundits shouldn't simply be cheerleaders for the sport either.

A man was lucky to avoid a yellow card. Big wow.

A red.

[Syferus]

Meh, not for me. It was a trip more than a strike.
It was a yellow. Indeed, up until this year it was a yellow in football too.

I mean he was already on a yellow. So the rules properly enforced would have meant Limerick were down to 14 men. I can only imagine the black and amber rage had Limerick won it after that.

[Milltown Row2]

The only reason I can think of is that the referee was not sure who done it, the place was in near darkness the rain was hammering down players were converging, that could be the only reason why he didn't give the yellow, he probably went to him to say he wasn't completely convinced it was him but he's a lucky lad to stay on the pitch, it happens to all referees you can't always be sure, and if he wasn't sure he couldn't 'card' him, was never a red card either and was outside the box.

Now move on, nothing of any note and not surprised a bog ball man would start a thread up on it

[BluestackBoy]

Couldn't have been a Limerick hurler, it was surely a Donegal footballer, they are the source of all evil in the GAA, don't you know