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It was a free any day of the week, any referee in any game would have given it ... with the exception of Joe McQuillan on Sunday.  It will cost Joe any chance that he may have had to referee the All Ireland Final, and rightly so.  Yes, its a difficult game to referee, yes, refs are amateurs etc. etc.  all of that doesn't matter a damn, Joe wasn't up to some of the big calls on Sunday and that's that.  More so, time keeping needs to be removed from the ref asap, they've enough to be doing never mind timekeeping ... and they should have no right to dictate additional time at their discretion beyond normal and injury time.  This allowing one more play to try to balance out earlier mistakes is making a mockery of the game, and Sunday wasn't the only example of it this year.

Whatever happened to plans for the training centre in Portadown, still on track or stalled?

[If that was the other way around and Derry keeper did that on Clifford what do yous think would have happened?]

No it is not. Turning so that your side takes the impact is completely natural.

I thought you couldn't break a tackle with both feet of the air, you can't in hurling anyway. Very cynical challenge and could have hurt the lad.

It was one of the more dangerous challenges of the entire match. He eyed up McGuigan beforehand and made sure he left something on him. When you consider some of the innocuous decisions that pass as fouls or even yellow cards in the modern game, the punishment (none) did not fit the crime. Would it have taken a concussion or a head injury for some people to claim that it was an actual foul, the player was not protected by the referee in that instance.   

I actually watched this one and it could have been a free when I watched it multiple times, watching it live I didn't give it a second thought.

I was watching live and couldn't believe how it wasn't a free and yellow at least. It sets a president that it's ok to ride the tackle off the ground.

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I think the keeper should have got red for that challenge. If that was the other way around and Derry keeper did that on Clifford what do yous think would have happened?

Are you suggesting an anti-northern bias in Joe McQuillan's refereeing of games? 

Derry gave their best performance of the year yesterday, they were superb for most of the game ... until they got mugged on the home straight.  As a neutral, I feel that the ref. unduly swayed the game in Kerry's favour ... some very soft frees one direction, yet blatant transgression by the Kerry goalkeeper went unnoticed ... McQuillan might as well have stuck the ball over the bar himself during that play.

Kerry are Kerry, unreal athletes and play the game in a way that is great to watch.  Clifford once again off the scale.

Back to the ref, time keeping needs to be really looked at .... too many examples of referees making up time for 'one last play' in an effort to bring a team back into it, maybe in an effort to make up for incorrect decisions earlier in the game ... it shouldn't be in the refs remit to decide the time, let's follow the ladies and take it out of the refs. hands.

Have two tickets (one adult and one juvenile) for Saturday, Lower Cusack, section 305, row BB, going for face value ... anyone in need, please PM, thanks.

Monaghan deserve to be at this stage and will give Armagh a serious test.

Wouldn't expect anything less in an All Ireland Q/Final.  So long as Conor Lane lets a physical contact sport proceed as planned amongst two Ulster teams going at it, then we should have a good game. 

No matter about the live shows surely there is no excuse for not having a highlights show this Saturday night? Doesn't look to be one in their schedule. Two of the biggest games of the year surely deserve some sort of coverage that day/evening?

Nah, they'll cram each Q/Final into 5 minute highlight packages on the Sunday Game, job done.

45 euro for adult + juvenile, section 305 lower cusack 

All Ireland winners ain't playing in Salthill today, poor all round.

Monaghan
Roscommon
Tyrone
Galway

[you'd think it would have some sort of tracker on it]

Crazy, you'd  think it would have some sort of tracker on it, on the news they had no signal for over 7 hours!

That'll put paid to that 'sightseeing' tour. People have too much money to be doing stuff like that

Indeed, sounds like a catastrophic failure given how it just disappeared.  If it's still intact, they've 96hrs oxygen supply, doesn't bare thinking about the conditions, sitting on the ocean floor waiting for it to run out. 

Shocking stuff, never read the piece on Sunday other than the headline.  I assume it didn't give any idea as to where Noah was going at 3am on a Sunday morning?  To say this is weird in the extreme is an understatement.

Kildare v Monaghan
Cork v Roscommon
Donegal vs Tyrone
Galway v Mayo

Kildare
Roscommon
Tyrone
Who knows!

Hopefully that hits home for Rian, getting involved too often caught up with him.  Not only did the sending off forfeit the Tyrone game, it could go a long way to greatly shortening Armagh's season.  Yes, Rian get's extra attention each game, he needs to rise above that.

Christy Dignam RIP.  I'd the pleasure of working with Christy over the last few years.  What you saw is what he was, just a gentle, no BS, down to earth fella.  He was as honest and straight a character as you'd ever meet, and just a lovely, lovely fella.  Last time I was with him I asked, well Christy how's the form ... his answer 'this cancer has me f***ed', really sad to see him go.