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Not the first Limerick player to get in a scuffle. One of them was in a row after the Munster final last year.

And was dropped off the panel right away.

There may be legal proceedings afoot with this other one allegedly.

Alister and Shane Elliott aren't brothers, they're cousins so Alister isn't Ryan's uncle AFAIK.

That aside, it's a big ask for Dunloy against probably one of the best club teams ever, their record in Kilkenny, Leinster and in the AI series will probably never be bettered.

TJ may be in the twilight of his career and is still a handful, then you add Eoin Cody who's only getting going as well as Mullen then who knows if they can keep this run going.

The applegreens frys are poor

Fixed that for you.

Awful grub in those places..

No government funding secured for the Ballykinkar centre of excellence

Where to now for Down GAA

Were they hoping for some of that levelling up fund which went to rugby clubs to build female changing rooms?

Climate puppet Thunberg's staged  arrest at a German coal mine

she's only 20 should she not be in school ?  the climate change course must only takes two years

The f**king triggered state of you 

she should head over to china to protest they consume over 50% of total worldwide im sure they would roll out the red carpet for her .

Always love this argument about China being the big, bad wolf in Climate change, when ultimately their undoubted emissions are heavily driven by Western consumerism.

Fix that and you'll fix China.

You'd hope he wasn't on the team holiday through his own choice. Be bad form if he didn't travel due to been dropped from the squad for the incoming year.

I think there's an ongoing matter to be resolved before it will be decided if he's able to rejoin the panel.

Let them leave, but require them to pay back the cost of their training.

How are you going to get that off them. Sounds like you're making the job look less attractive!

Paying students at least minimum wage for working while on placement would be a start. Nurses doing full time hours and not getting a bob. Then expected to work a part time job to fund their lives, plus study and try to have some kind of social life as well? Madness.

A certain Crumlin (Antrim) based Tory party sponsor makes staff pay back "training" if they leave within a certain period of time post training....

Nurses, Junior doctors, GP's, Consultants won't leave if they're not run into the ground and a decent work/life balance can be struck, but currently they're in a death spiral where it's getting worse because they just can't cope, resign, retire or whatever and the problem is exacerbated.

The Bengoa report highlighting the structural reform needed locally also needed a huge cash injection of capital funding to be put into place along with some delicate political decisions to close some regional hospitals which the NI Assembly in it's current form is incapable to making.

Imagine the Shinners having to close Omagh or the DUP Lagan Valley...

In accordance with the rules the correct decision was (likely) made.

But then again you have to ask yourself why the offside laws have evolved to cater for interference, intent, etc.

And Rashford, knowingly or not, was a significant presence in the goals being scored. So it should have been disallowed imho.

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Isn't sport just brilliant though? It just keeps throwing up things you'd never think of.

MOTD2 showed the goal from the perspective of Allison Ederson who'd set himself up for a Rashford shot only for Fernandez to steal in from a different angle.

If that's not interfering with play, then what is!

Two neutral commentators in Danny and Alan gave their 'view' on it they said by the letter of the law its a goal but said common sense wasn't used ... The keeper keeps his eye on the ball, you've said that yourself in a post on goal keeping in hurling, I can find it for you if ya want

I've said in the past in relation to hurling a keeper will look at the body position of the attacking player to try and work out where they're going to hit it. You can only keep an eye on the ball once it's hit and what you are alluding to is that if a ball is dropping in a hurling goalkeeper needs to follow the flight of the ball and ignore lads swinging on it.

If it's still to be hit by a player then you need to track their movements as they're baring down on goal.

He did neither by the looks of it, needs more training

He set his angles based on Rashfords run rather than Fernandez's so yes, evidently a lot of premier league players need more training and education on how this change to the rules is being implemented.

I think the problem is that the offside rule seems to be very reactionary. In 2012/2013 season Johnny Evans scored an own goal against Newcastle whilst being challenged by an offside Demba Ba. The linesman flagged for offside and Mike Dean awarded the goal. The FA then came out and said Ba couldn't be interfering because he didn't touch the ball. Then a load of goals started being allowed when players were blocking goal keepers views.  The IFAB didn't like that so introduced criteria for what constitutes interference when the ball is not touched. Now those criteria have become too prescriptive and will no doubt looked at again. I think the city defender is at fault if he goes towards the ball Rashford will either touch it or stop him from touching it and we aren't having this debate. The fact he doesn't do that needs questioned.

The City defender probably didn't do any of those things as he knew Rashford was a mile offside and was sprinting onto the through ball and in his mind interfering with play.

A lot of defenders are going to need to be re-educated on these new guidelines.

Good lord, there's some amount of whinging about reserve teams beating other clubs senior teams, playing on Sunday afternoons etc etc all which happens week in, week out in your same county with hurling and no one bats an eyelid.

Nothing better than an U15 game on the Sunday morning with the Seniors having a game that afternoon, (with a few pints after) and the whole parish up at the pitch.

whats christy ring rule? Hurling was first last year so should it not be second on this year?

He informed a young Justin McCarthy who'd sat down to watch the earlier football game before a Cork hurling game not to, as it would "slow his senses down"...

In accordance with the rules the correct decision was (likely) made.

But then again you have to ask yourself why the offside laws have evolved to cater for interference, intent, etc.

And Rashford, knowingly or not, was a significant presence in the goals being scored. So it should have been disallowed imho.

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Isn't sport just brilliant though? It just keeps throwing up things you'd never think of.

MOTD2 showed the goal from the perspective of Allison Ederson who'd set himself up for a Rashford shot only for Fernandez to steal in from a different angle.

If that's not interfering with play, then what is!

Two neutral commentators in Danny and Alan gave their 'view' on it they said by the letter of the law its a goal but said common sense wasn't used ... The keeper keeps his eye on the ball, you've said that yourself in a post on goal keeping in hurling, I can find it for you if ya want

I've said in the past in relation to hurling a keeper will look at the body position of the attacking player to try and work out where they're going to hit it. You can only keep an eye on the ball once it's hit and what you are alluding to is that if a ball is dropping in a hurling goalkeeper needs to follow the flight of the ball and ignore lads swinging on it.

If it's still to be hit by a player then you need to track their movements as they're baring down on goal.

He did neither by the looks of it, needs more training

He set his angles based on Rashfords run rather than Fernandez's so yes, evidently a lot of premier league players need more training and education on how this change to the rules is being implemented.

In accordance with the rules the correct decision was (likely) made.

But then again you have to ask yourself why the offside laws have evolved to cater for interference, intent, etc.

And Rashford, knowingly or not, was a significant presence in the goals being scored. So it should have been disallowed imho.

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Isn't sport just brilliant though? It just keeps throwing up things you'd never think of.

MOTD2 showed the goal from the perspective of Allison Ederson who'd set himself up for a Rashford shot only for Fernandez to steal in from a different angle.

If that's not interfering with play, then what is!

Two neutral commentators in Danny and Alan gave their 'view' on it they said by the letter of the law its a goal but said common sense wasn't used ... The keeper keeps his eye on the ball, you've said that yourself in a post on goal keeping in hurling, I can find it for you if ya want

I've said in the past in relation to hurling a keeper will look at the body position of the attacking player to try and work out where they're going to hit it. You can only keep an eye on the ball once it's hit and what you are alluding to is that if a ball is dropping in a hurling goalkeeper needs to follow the flight of the ball and ignore lads swinging on it.

If it's still to be hit by a player then you need to track their movements as they're baring down on goal.

Getting relegated for Everton may be the best thing to happen to them, for their long term development.  It seems the constant dicing with relegation and staying up by the skin of their teeth, isn't enough to bring about change.  Maybe they need to hit rock bottom.

I'd say there's a concern that they do a Sunderland, and drop down a few leagues and struggle to get back up.

In accordance with the rules the correct decision was (likely) made.

But then again you have to ask yourself why the offside laws have evolved to cater for interference, intent, etc.

And Rashford, knowingly or not, was a significant presence in the goals being scored. So it should have been disallowed imho.

—-

Isn't sport just brilliant though? It just keeps throwing up things you'd never think of.

MOTD2 showed the goal from the perspective of Allison who'd set himself up for a Rashford shot only for Fernandez to steal in from a different angle.

If that's not interfering with play, then what is!

No wonder Liverpool conceded 3 if Allison was up in Manchester playing for City

ha ha, very good.

Ederson still has a clean sheet then..

In accordance with the rules the correct decision was (likely) made.

But then again you have to ask yourself why the offside laws have evolved to cater for interference, intent, etc.

And Rashford, knowingly or not, was a significant presence in the goals being scored. So it should have been disallowed imho.

—-

Isn't sport just brilliant though? It just keeps throwing up things you'd never think of.

MOTD2 showed the goal from the perspective of Allison who'd set himself up for a Rashford shot only for Fernandez to steal in from a different angle.

If that's not interfering with play, then what is!