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Some critical assessments by Handup and everyone is entitled to their own opinion but to call the subs "absolutely atrocious " IMO is harsh to say the least.  This is a squad of players who are giving "COMMITMENT to Antrim Hurling something that the past "stars" lacked.  Shouldn't criticise players for not doing well against the AI Champions "trying" and emptying the tank is what seemed to be the case and you can't ask for anything more. IMO

GS man find that hard to believe That's never nor ever will be the Roosa way! Never relied on others to win a match by default or otherwise. But to be honest IMO. The ref was a 16th man for aghallion  sad but that's the reality

  Two penalties that should never have been IMO stopping the game for someone off the pitch behind the net- disgraceful. Needs to be looked at or not as is usually the case with refs but unfortunately a bad ref frustrates the life out of any team. As for the sanction players one had played before but  Both deserved their places.  Fair play to them all and hard lines.  Refs can make or break a game and for Rossa he broke it but that's just my opinion. These kids deserved their place in final it was just hard lines

not long back from the LD -v- Rossa senior football match.  Horrendous conditions to play in for the teams and LD won in the end but what was as horrendous as the weather was the referee and his lines men. Some very bad decisions for both teams and as much as I hate to be negative when there are so few on the scene. There has to be better than what I seen tonight.  To top off a very bad night for both Moyes and the man in the middle was when our "County" star Conor Murray head butted a Rossa player, even though LD were winning with time up, in full view of both sidelines and the crowd.  And both the aforementioned officials bottled it. Is this what We want our juveniles to Aspire to be.   Definitely not.  LD won the match. Fair play but there is NO place for that in Gaelic games.  Sad to see

Not at all !!but has prob been the most talked about aspect of the game.  The ref didn't have a good game either IMO but sure that wouldnt have made any difference either

miltown.  One thinks you protest an awful lot

The well known lines man on this board over ruled the official umpires Deciding that a point was wide.  So his decision was final. That is ok but unfortunately the same lines man last week indicated that a point for Lamh Dearg was wide but a point had been given.  He indicated to the Rossa lads last week that he knew it was wide but he couldn't do anything about it???  Maybe the lines mans duties have changed within the last 7 days??  Consistency is what is expected but sadly lacking. Nothing knew. Cushendall deserved their win.  No complaints and the highlight for Rossa was the young fella Blondie coming on after his bad injury a while back.  Great to see.

Disgraceful incident on Sunday night with serious injury to Rossa player and for the journo to write what he did and then  say he didn't actually see what happened is embarrassing

I see it is not only on this topic that MIBAG is airing his non truths and volunteering other peoples' names i.e. Owen Elliott and Collie and Shannon from Rossa, whilst he remains under his pseudo name.  Not very mature or professional.  One would think that the MIBAG may well be a Referee who HASS a gripe.  ONE DOES PROTEST A LITTLE TOO MUCH  obviously this is all IN MY OPINION which is what this forum is all about  (isn't it) ?

In relation to the above incident
There are some truths in what is being said. The whole ethos and ethics of the GAA talks about the "Respect for and from all participants ON AND AROUND the field " and the GAA's commitment to the "PROTECTION AND WELFARE OF PLAYERS".  All of this was sadly missing from Sundays match which only lasted 17 mins and the events of what happened after were nothing short of callous and inhuman.  As a GAA man for many years this left a bad taste in my mouth to see that the Officials both on the pitch and those concerned with the location it was being played in had only interest in whether or not the game was going to continue and no concern given as to the well being of the young lad that lay for almost 40 mins at the side of pitch after collapsing and had to be hospitalized with a very serious injury. The indifference to the suffering of the young lad, his family and his team members who were also distraught was nothing short of embarrassing on the part of all these people concerned. not once did any of these officials enquire as to the lads condition.  Also the absence of St John's ambulance or the equivalent at a tournament like that is just unbelievable. If this is what has become of our GAA family god help the young ones coming through

It is with a heavy heart that I have taken to writing into this forum and express my horror on what I witnessed on Sunday at an Ulster minor hurling tournament.   The whole ETHOS and ETHICS of the GAA talks about the "Respect for and from all participants ON AND AROUND the field " and the GAA's commitment to the "PROTECTION AND WELFARE OF PLAYERS".  All of this was sadly missing from yesterday's match which only lasted 17 mins and the events of what happened after were nothing short of callous and inhuman.  As a GAA man for many years this left a bad taste in my mouth to see that the Officials both on the pitch and those concerned with the location it was being played in had only interest in whether or not the game was going to continue and no concern given as to the well being of the young lad that lay for over 40 mins at the side of pitch after collapsing and had to be hospitalized.  The indifference to the suffering of the young lad, his family and his team members who were also distraught was nothing short of embarrassing on the part of all these people concerned.  If this is what has become of our GAA family then the GAA has been brought to an all time low.  There were many things wrong with what went on but basic understanding of the need for a presence of at least St John's ambulance was a basic error. Sad times