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Its funny old game as they say.

Roll reversals for Utd and Liverpool this season and last

Slot will have some playing issues to contend with, will he be bringing his own staff or will there be some continuity with current coaching staff?

Was it a second yellow or straight red I couldn't pick it up.

Second yellow, can have no complaints (unless you are Buff Egan)

Seen Buff's post? Mans not wise

Watching Invasion on Apple at the minute, not bad so far, could be better (as my old teacher used to say, a lot)

Hopefully we can go to Dublin and perfrom something close to the weekend. Massive shift all over the field! Paul Boyle back in club action i see. Hoefully could add something off the bench as we probably are slighly light.

Paul had a great first half yesterday, and steady in the second, so would be great to spring from the bench.

Shouldn't have bothered turning up

Even when they win the smell of begrudging isn't too far away..

Irish love that, one of the smallest nations in the world and belittle anyone that does well lol

All Irish? can you be more specific? 

Touché

Big result for the lads, but probably not a shock even with the performance the week before in Nolan Park.

Strange that our best players on the day all have played very little in the lead up to the game.

Maybe something to be said about freshness.

The draw between Wexford and Dublin could prove crucial.

I don't know if its strange or that they needed a game of intensity to realise that the standard required at Intercounty is something different.

They don't become bad players overnight, Kilkenny didn't relent the whole game and we coughed up chance after chance, so as we have done many times in Championship, we ship a big defeat and move on.

Wexford would be seen as lower end tier one and to get the win at home instead of a glorious defeat is refreshing, Dublin have had our number for a while now, so won't be coming (especially after that result) with thoughts of a handy win, Carlow was still the game at the start and still is, Galway will want to rack up a score too when the come to Corrigan.

So managing the games will need to be priority, getting something out of the Dublin game and beating Carlow would give Antrim a chance at finishing 3rd, allowing you a qualifier spot to reach the quarterfinals?

Thinking way too far ahead lol   

[begrudgery comment up your hole]

"A fairly weak field"

"the six lads in contention with them had an average world ranking of 277."

I know these are facts but we are good at negative spinning

They're statements, not spin. I, for one, was delighted for the two lads. Lowry, in particular, has been struggling with his putting this year and it's a couple of years since his last win. McIlroy has been going on recently but has to deal with the fact he's being overshadowed by Scheffler.

My comment was a follow on from stating that I didn't believe there was a hope in hell of Trainer making that putt, as it was by far and away the most important and pressurised putt of his career, as evidenced by his lowly ranking. He missed it badly too. So shove your begrudgery comment up your hole.

 

Truly shoved

"A fairly weak field"

"the six lads in contention with them had an average world ranking of 277."

I know these are facts but we are good at negative spinning

Arsenal making easy work of their so called hardest match on their run-in.  Ange Postecoglou side aren't hard to score against and he shouldn't be in the conversation for any team that has plans to challenge for major honours.

Arsenals to lose?

Shouldn't have bothered turning up

Even when they win the smell of begrudging isn't too far away..

Irish love that, one of the smallest nations in the world and belittle anyone that does well lol

Can an umpire give a square ball? I thought he couldn't. Donal Og slabbering today about the umpires not giving one in Carlow V Dublin game

They can't, the ref can ask a question of whether a player was in the square before the ball entered. But it's ultimately the ref's call

Taylor from Manchester cheated by stopping open play when there was no obvious injury.

Audio from ref would be interesting but it won't be released.

Taylor from Manchester also missed a clear yellow for a stamp by Paqueta on MacAllister. VAR either didn't want to make his mate look silly or didn't think it merited a review by the ref.

There was a buckling of a the angle which was the reason Jones got sent off against spurs earlier in the year.

f**k! The moaning is too much

That last free, he didn't blow for the 'first' foul, blew for the obvious round the neck free, spoke to linesman, free then given for first free (which you can't do) and thankfully he missed

What is it there that the ref can't do?

Would blowing for the second foul not constitute a break in play during which the linesman could alert the ref to the first foul?

Once the referee has given a decision and has sounded his whistle to restart play, he shall not alter that decision.

Once he's blown and made a decision (rightly or wrongly) he can't change it

Different if he blows for a free and waves his hand in one direction when it should have been the other, that's common enough in games but everyone knows.

This was different. He didn't blow for the Johnston trip, play went on and the Down player grab the Armagh lad around the neck then he blew.

I thought the first was a free in fairness so the right thing happened in the end.

He'll be pulled on a few things, but the helter skelter of these games will provide mistakes all round

Not trying to be argumentative, BUT. Being pedantic really.

Is the "not blowing" of the whistle not a decision in itself, which he should not change?

While I did find the refereeing exasperating
The game it self was even more so and I suspect it would have been a nightmare to officiate.

In this instance he blew only for the second foul, after sounding his whistle and giving his decision, he then was confronted by the linesman and changed it.

There is nothing in the rules to say he can do that

Would he only be allowed to overturn a foul for foul play?

Can only overturn the foul for retaliation after a foul and give a hop ball.. nothing else

That last free, he didn't blow for the 'first' foul, blew for the obvious round the neck free, spoke to linesman, free then given for first free (which you can't do) and thankfully he missed

What is it there that the ref can't do?

Would blowing for the second foul not constitute a break in play during which the linesman could alert the ref to the first foul?

Once the referee has given a decision and has sounded his whistle to restart play, he shall not alter that decision.

Once he's blown and made a decision (rightly or wrongly) he can't change it

Different if he blows for a free and waves his hand in one direction when it should have been the other, that's common enough in games but everyone knows.

This was different. He didn't blow for the Johnston trip, play went on and the Down player grab the Armagh lad around the neck then he blew.

I thought the first was a free in fairness so the right thing happened in the end.

He'll be pulled on a few things, but the helter skelter of these games will provide mistakes all round

Not trying to be argumentative, BUT. Being pedantic really.

Is the "not blowing" of the whistle not a decision in itself, which he should not change?

While I did find the refereeing exasperating
The game it self was even more so and I suspect it would have been a nightmare to officiate.

In this instance he blew only for the second foul, after sounding his whistle and giving his decision, he then was confronted by the linesman and changed it.

There is nothing in the rules to say he can do that

That last free, he didn't blow for the 'first' foul, blew for the obvious round the neck free, spoke to linesman, free then given for first free (which you can't do) and thankfully he missed

What is it there that the ref can't do?

Would blowing for the second foul not constitute a break in play during which the linesman could alert the ref to the first foul?

Once the referee has given a decision and has sounded his whistle to restart play, he shall not alter that decision.

Once he's blown and made a decision (rightly or wrongly) he can't change it

Different if he blows for a free and waves his hand in one direction when it should have been the other, that's common enough in games but everyone knows.

This was different. He didn't blow for the Johnston trip, play went on and the Down player grab the Armagh lad around the neck then he blew.

I thought the first was a free in fairness so the right thing happened in the end.

He'll be pulled on a few things, but the helter skelter of these games will provide mistakes all round