So why isn't Dara O Sé eligible...................

[Hardy]

There is such a rule, Paddy. I quoted it earlier (in this thread I think) - haven't time to look for it now - off to watch the minors. Feigning injury or foul is a yellow card.

[magpie seanie]

Yes, there is a provision in the rules for the offences as mentioned by Hardy and Pady and they'd want to start using it asap.

His suspensions should be multiples of the minimum.

Incorrect Muppet. His Munster final sending off was for 2 yellows and last weeks one was for a different category offence so no doubling up. I also think you are pretty harsh on a guy who has a fairly decent disciplinary record for suh a long career where all his football was at the coalface.

[muppet]

Yes, there is a provision in the rules for the offences as mentioned by Hardy and Pady and they'd want to start using it asap.

His suspensions should be multiples of the minimum.

Incorrect Muppet. His Munster final sending off was for 2 yellows and last weeks one was for a different category offence so no doubling up. I also think you are pretty harsh on a guy who has a fairly decent disciplinary record for suh a long career where all his football was at the coalface.

My use of the word 'should' wasn't referring to any rule, it was more a suggestion that guys who get sent off twice in the same season should receive more than the minimum suspension after the first one.

[DUBSFORSAM1]

I have to admit I am seriously surprised at the fact that they quickly overturn a smack in the face (no matter how light it was) and say it wasn't a suspensionable offence but for example keep Moran hanging on for weeks over a shoulder tackle...

Are we now in the realms of how hard someones swings or whether they cause injury or not??

[pintsofguinness]

Are we now in the realms of how hard someones swings or whether they cause injury or not??

Nah, they hand out suspensions on the basis of what the media and the pundits on the sunday game think.

You say you're surprised? Haven't you been following the GAA long?

[paddypastit]

I presume that there is a simple 'technical' explanation to this (something to do with the category of offence being as it was an assault of an official and all that) but how come Galvin is not allowed even train with the Kerry team up until the end of his suspension whereas the suspended D O'Se was clearly with the team today, sitting in the dugout, in the dressing room at HT etc?

[David McKeown]

Not trying to stir here but for anyone who didn't believe that to be a strike can you define exactly how hard you have to hit somebody to get banned. To continue the clichés two wrongs don't make a right and simply because there was an overreaction should not negate the month ban

Any form of contact can be interpreted as a "strike" if you claim that O'Connor struck O'Mahony - handshakes, jostles, pushes are all forms of off the ball strikes and I presume should be red carded?

Fair enough point, in that case does the rule book need to be rewritten to properly define a strike?  On a related note in todays game which i only caught the highlights off so I may be wrong on this the Cork full back seemed to be sent off for attempting to kick the Gooch?  As Cooper was able to continue on and therefore not hurt in the incident should the cork player not be suspended as there was no real harm done to Cooper and Kerry were not penalised as the scored from the passage of play?  Suggestion have been made here that as O Connor didnt strike overally forcefully or gain any benefit from the strike then he shouldnt have been sent off.  Agin im curious to know if we are moving towards a more international rules approach to striking?

[orangeman]

What did you make of Dara sitting beside the subs yesterday - some Cork callers to the radio programme are saying he shouldn't have been allowed to sit there ? 

[Stalin]

Lads tell me this, is Dara O'Se back in time then for the AI Final?

[AZOffaly]

Yep. His ban finishes at Midnight on the Saturday night.