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mallon, donaghy, morgan
ak, cmck another
vernon, hanratty
brian  mallon    stephen kernan, anto duffy
rafferty, mal mackin jamie calrke


mal and mallon to inter change
forker to come on as well as stevenson, cunningham and gavin mc parland
i worry that we don`t have a strong final contender for wing half back
can see mc kenna and duffy fighting out for last position but overall the future is bright
tyrone to beat us but armagh to make the quarters and clarke to be back on panel hopefully come july( great to see him back)

on a side note great to see ronan clarke back playing for ogs
hopefully he will get a years football under his belt and who knows where he might be next year

Just back home from a fantastic match, carragher must be the unluckiest man on earth, 2 broken legs in 3 seasons and was going well too, scored a fantastic point.
But what really made my night, I had the pleasure of sitting beside Peter the great!!

who was he supporting ?
i am sure he loved mc keever`s performance tonite

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They should have accepted their bans and moved on, it did nothing to help the GAA.
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why should they
grimley has already said he will contest his  12 week suspension and in my view he is right, mc keever has kept his counsel in this matter to his credit

as i said i will leave it as this and we can agree to disagree

Two players were mouthing away to eachother during the game and one player struck the other at half time and was sent off for it.
No member of the Laois official party engaged in sectarian abuse.

Did they engage in abuse that is not now deemed sectarian or racist?

No, members of the Laois official party were not engaged in any abuse.

lets agree to disagree
"inappropraite verbal exchanges" is a lawyers phrase for abuse

this case is about the ref choosing to ignore these " inappropraite verbal exchanges" when he heard them and choosing to send off mc keever for the trip and accuse grimley of intimidating behaviour

Two players were mouthing away to eachother during the game and one player struck the other at half time and was sent off for it.
No member of the Laois official party engaged in sectarian abuse.

one player tripped up another player who was giving him abuse( "struck" is the wrong word here)
did croke park not take both sides aside and tell them to sort it out before it gets too heavy,
there are a lot of grants etc in the north for the gaa and it doesnt want to be perceived as " partitionist"
thats what i think has happened

Still wonder will grimley get off with 4 weeks

what is the odds on laois against armagh in the back door

final score
1-11 to 1-5 for cavan

1-10 to 1-4  to cavan 7 minutes left

goal armagh

 cavan 1-9 arnagh 0-4
forker sent off straight red

The county board jumped in for a simple reason and it had little to do with the card for McKeever.  Everyone knew that once Grimley would be reported for his words with the referee he was sure thing for a lengthy ban.

I know from bitter experience that once a referee writes a report (even when blatantly untrue as in my case) you have no chance.  The rules state that the referee will always be believed regardless of what he writes and no one can counter his statement.  Justice is not a factor.  So the county board have made the greatest fuss possible by wrongly claiming racism when it has nothing to do with racism, it is xenophobia if not just a simple waving of a red flag to get a required reaction.  It is wrong but not racism or sectarian simply Irish man abuse Irish man.

It would be interesting to see if the same reaction would have been drawn from management or county board if it was another player rather than McKeever but someone who contributes just as much to the team.

this is all about the 3 months for grimley
referee has claimed abusive language  by grimley and reccommended suspension yet disregards the laois player`s comments which he heard he chose to ignore
this is why the county board are crying foul, they are undermining the ref because he allowed it to happen ,
this is to get the recommendation thrown out

Any word of the Armagh v cavan game?

half time 6-4 to cavan it was 6-1 at one stage

There is a big point which is being overlooked here to a certain degree, 2 officials were aware of the verbal abuse during the match and decided to ignore/overlook it instead of dealing with it at the time. All we are looking is a fair crack of the whip, which by the way Armagh were not afforded on Sunday

Armagh gave the world Padraig Hughes. It's called Karma.

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