Quote from: Truthsayer on April 28, 2024, 04:17:19 PMDid I hear Michael Murphy say Donegal scored two 'creamers"? Not sure what a creamer is in Donegal but around these parts..
Never want to hear those words out of Michael Murphy's mouth again...
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Show posts MenuQuote from: Truthsayer on April 28, 2024, 04:17:19 PMDid I hear Michael Murphy say Donegal scored two 'creamers"? Not sure what a creamer is in Donegal but around these parts..
Quote from: thebigfullforward on April 23, 2024, 05:08:36 PMQuote from: Dreadnought on April 21, 2024, 06:47:14 PMWhat "foul" are you talking about here? Was it the one where McShane pressured him into overcarrying? If that was an outfield player vs outfield player it would be called for overcarrying as well. Do you want the keeper to have more protection?Quote from: tyrone08 on April 21, 2024, 06:26:18 PMBlack card all day long for pulling down a player. And nothing to say about your final score? The keeper was fouled. That was a free out, not in. And wasn't Cavans last free not a black card and penalty for preventing a goal scoring chance under the new rules? You're being absolutely blind to how he won that for youQuote from: Dreadnought on April 21, 2024, 06:22:11 PMQuote from: tyrone08 on April 21, 2024, 06:21:07 PMHow the hell is it a free out when 3 players are kneeing on you. Goldrick is a complete balloonI'd go get your eyesight checked if I were you. The ref won it for you
Are you serious? 5 cavan high challenges unpunished by ref, phantom black card. 40 seconds extra played at end for cavan and the ref won it lol
Quote from: NAG1 on April 23, 2024, 01:47:19 PMQuote from: HokeyPokey on April 22, 2024, 07:21:14 PMQuote from: Milltown Row2 on April 22, 2024, 12:07:59 AMQuote from: Gael85 on April 21, 2024, 11:33:41 PMhttps://www.irishexaminer.com/sport/gaa/arid-41379304.html
Ah the aul hindsight and replays, multiple angles and so on, people hate VAR in the PL but call for it here!
Galvin needs to throw stuff out there otherwise he'll be not getting a wee earner
The PL have made a hames of VAR though. The standard of reffing in the PL is just generally abysmal considering the standard of the players. The same refs are in charge of VAR so it's a reflection of that. They could easily automate things like the ball going out of play and semi automated offsides. They have made some absolutely terrible mistakes. There's continually changes to the way they ref, some of which is announced, sometimes it's not. So something can be deemed a penalty, one week and then not be a penalty the following week.
It generally works grand for rugby and also for international soccer tournaments as far as I can see.
That's because they have tried to implement a system which is looking at something which is ultimately opinion and interpretation based. It is not black and white and 3 different people in the VAR room watching the same footage could make three different calls on it, so it was never going to be the silver bullet for refs.
If anything I think it is had made their life more difficult instead of less.
Quote from: From the Bunker on April 20, 2024, 11:57:21 AMQuote from: Milltown Row2 on April 20, 2024, 11:37:32 AMMust be a parade or two for those glorious points tally's?
That's the tough sh1t of sport. You can be the best team in a below average league and you can be a really top team in a in a competitive league.
City are going for their 6th league title in 7 years. They'd be going for 7 in a row if Liverpool did not break their run. They are going for an unprecedented 4 in a row this year. People can say money is the factor, but money will only buy you a very strong squad. You still need hunger and organisation. I hear all this talk of the 115 charges against City, if they held any substance then City would be deducted points like Forest and Everton. There is no way the League would treat one club different to the rest. Klopps record of being competitive in the League here and there and being competitive in the Champions League is over blown. Any other club other than City could do what Klopp has done at liverpool the last 5 to 6 years. It's mad that he lasted so long at the club.
Quote from: Nanderson on April 22, 2024, 08:38:02 PMQuote from: Milltown Row2 on April 22, 2024, 08:06:33 PMYou've just put in a rule now where there is no accurate defintion. What counts as near the goal and loads of space? Just asking for trouble with adding in subjective rulesQuote from: HokeyPokey on April 22, 2024, 07:13:44 PMBy the letter of the law it was a pull down. The law was to stop cynical fouls when a player is in loads of space. The play was well away from it. There was two at that and the evidence suggests Hampsey didn't start it. It should have been two yellows.
On the one at the end of extra time, it looked like McKernan(?) wanted to put himself in the way, but that the Cavan player also looked to get the contact too. Does every time a player gives a wee push to another one off the ball, regardless of where the ball is, does that count as a black by the letter of the law because it's impeding. McCurry was pulling up with cramp and a Cavan player bundled him over, is that a black for impeding him? There were a lot of high tackles by Cavan players which went unpunished too which Cavan fans conveniently ignore too.
All this inconsistent application and never ending debates about technical interpreation is tiresome and takes away from the joy of football.
The GAA need to simplify the rules. I think give a black if a player tries to stop a free being taken (as this is a regular tactic to foul and slow the free taken so as to get men back). If a player tries to cynically stop a goal scoring opportunity, be it near the goal or where the team has loads of space in front of them, give a penalty. If a team keeps committing fouls, like rugby, give a black card once a threshold has been passed. Get rid of the forward mark.
You're asking to simplify the rules but then add in rules which will be interpreted differently by every ref lol.
Players play within the rules and we are good to go?
Quote from: Milltown Row2 on April 22, 2024, 12:07:59 AMQuote from: Gael85 on April 21, 2024, 11:33:41 PMhttps://www.irishexaminer.com/sport/gaa/arid-41379304.html
Ah the aul hindsight and replays, multiple angles and so on, people hate VAR in the PL but call for it here!
Galvin needs to throw stuff out there otherwise he'll be not getting a wee earner
Quote from: An Watcher on April 21, 2024, 07:10:37 PMI expect a division one team who are leading by 7 or 8 points to close the game out.
They coukd be forgiven if it was a one off as some of the great teams of the past struggled against the likes of cavan, westmeath etc. It happens. This team have been given plenty of passes at this stage though
Quote from: Tony Baloney on April 18, 2024, 09:28:27 AMQuote from: HokeyPokey on April 18, 2024, 01:26:48 AMYet you put a long post in place prior to that.Quote from: Main Street on April 17, 2024, 10:13:14 PMQuote from: HokeyPokey on April 17, 2024, 05:38:42 PMYou're not posing a proper counter to my statement. Read what both have stated re trans rights then come back here.Quote from: gallsman on April 17, 2024, 10:44:08 AMtrans women should not compete in women's sports is not a denial of their rights. The argument against it is backed by numerous credible sports scientists, e.g. Ross Tucker. Introducing "trans women are big and yes that might hurt someone playing rugby, but the numbers are so small it's irrelevant therefore it doesn't matter" into the discussion is a red herring. The issue is the principle and integrity of women's sport as a protected category.
Again, I'm not denying these aren't issues, but they should be worked through, the anti trans obsessives like to find these issues and make them out to something much bigger, and plenty of incidents where whole narratives and stories have been completely invented. I've seen them targeting casual park runs over trans women being recorded as women and another headline about a trans woman who finished thousands of places behind others in a marathon. I can't say I see any discussion of women's sports on here in general. Again, it's quite noteworthy how people take an issue with this issue in women's sports, but never seem to comment or show an interest in it otherwise.
The IRFU taking a very public decision to ban two trans players from playing amateur rugby is not productive imo. It wouldn't be difficult to have a set of clear guidelines. What they did sent a terrible message.Quote from: Main Street on April 16, 2024, 11:49:21 PMQuote from: HokeyPokey on April 16, 2024, 11:42:26 PMI do find it odd that those who are so against trans rights have no personal experiences or skin in the game so as to speak.Not even Graham Lenihan or J.K. Rowling are against 'trans rights' per se.
Both of them are obessives. They have no personal connection to the issue, nor are they experts in the field. Lenihan, especially, he has ruined his career and marriage over this issue. Look at the types of people who are involved in the anti-trans movement Ireland and worldwide, which include literal nazis.
It strikes me as quite similar to the right wingers who are pro-life, who don't care about the social conditions a child is born into, or the anti-Immigration crowd who are supposedly concerned about safety and housing, but will riot and light accommodation on fire and some with convictions for violence against women. People are concerned about people 'becoming' trans, but as soon as they do, they'll completely dehumanise them.
Equating both with those types who riot and plunder supposedly in the name of white Irish nativism is thoroughly disingenuous.
I've long since tried to avoid them. They both clearly have issues and have gone very much down the deep end. A quick cursory glance at Linehan's wikipedia tells me that he has variously harrassed trans people, set up fake profiles to pose as trans people, described people who support trans rights as 'groomers', tried to smear several people with false associations. These are not the actions of someone who is acting reasonably, and especially so given how his life has imploded.
And it's not disingenuous to make those comparisons. Like those other people it's disingenuous on their part to claim they are concerned about trans people. There's also strong cross over in Ireland between all these groups.
If you take a very generous interpretation of their belief that trans people just have mental issues etc., how does constantly using such strong and loaded rhetoric help. How does dehumanising, insulting and invalidating trans people help trans people?
I haven't seen any stats which show a rising trend of violence by trans people. But I do know that trans people are much more likely to suffer violence and violence against trans people has been increasing.
It's mind boggling that there's so many very real and pressing issues facing Ireland and the world and so many have been deliberately distracted by the right wing with such a micro issue that affects almost no-one...