All-Ireland Senior Football final - Kerry v Dublin 18/09/2011

[johnpower]

Not surprised usuallly when it gets to this time of the season a different view is taken . I wonder for the record what the technicality was ?

[Jinxy]

Feck it - hand of Frank Murphy.

Time for the Kingdom to circle the wagons. And when I think that Galvin got two months for brushing a wasp off the refs notebook, while Tommy Walsh tore the ref a new nostril

There was a wasp on his nose.

[Fear ón Srath Bán]

Not surprised usuallly when it gets to this time of the season a different view is taken . I wonder for the record what the technicality was ?

Showed the red card before taking his name John - should have been the other way around going by the book.

[Croí na hÉireann]

Not surprised usuallly when it gets to this time of the season a different view is taken . I wonder for the record what the technicality was ?

Showed the red card before taking his name John - should have been the other way around going by the book.

Bit of a f**k up from Deegan but that's what happened. Delighted he got off, any way to get Manus Boyle on a technicality now? Couldn't see Dublin beating Kerry without Connolly, big performance needed from him now, game on.

[johnpower]

Not surprised usuallly when it gets to this time of the season a different view is taken . I wonder for the record what the technicality was ?

Showed the red card before taking his name John - should have been the other way around going by the book.

Thought it was a harsh call by the ref on the day , puts more pressure on refs . I dont have any issue with him been available he will no doubt be a help to the Dublin cause . Jack and Co were probalby expecting O Gara to be at 14 .

[johnpower]

I'm glad he got off, but Paul Galvin and Tomás O'Sé must be having a wry smile for themselves.

I bet they have . What about Tommy Walsh if he had made contact with a Tipp Player would he have been sent off ? It might have made a difference to the outcome

[screenexile]

Can't see Connolly causing Kerry too many problems. He won't get the same room he did against Tyrone.

[Blowitupref]

Can't see Connolly causing Kerry too many problems. He won't get the same room he did against Tyrone.

Don't know Tyrone had a weakness in the FB back line & so has Kerry.

[TacadoirArdMhacha]

Not surprised usuallly when it gets to this time of the season a different view is taken . I wonder for the record what the technicality was ?

Showed the red card before taking his name John - should have been the other way around going by the book.

The rule quoted in that article doesn't specify an order. It would appear that the committee decided that natural justice dictated that Connolly should play in the final but since the relevant rules dictated that it was a sending off offence, they've grasped at the technicality.

Perhaps the bext manner of dealing with this issue would be to amend the rules so that All Ireland finals are exempt for inclusion in suspension which are no longer than the minimum length? Any suspension for only 4 weeks received in a semi-final could be served the following season.

[johnpower]

Can't see Connolly causing Kerry too many problems. He won't get the same room he did against Tyrone.

Don't know Tyrone had a weakness in the FB back line & so has Kerry.

I dont thinkl Kerry will give much space and will keep players back simillar to 2009

[Hound]

Delighted for Connolly. The reports going around this morning are that he got off on the merits rather than a technicality. That Boyle was the aggressor and Connolly was pushing him back to keep him away, rather than striking. But perhaps that's a reporter just making stuff up as, as far as I can seen, the only official word is that it was as a result of "additional video evidence".

Glad its over and time to concentrate on the match now. Perhaps puts a bit more pressure on Connolly to perform, but its an All Ireland Final, so there's pressure on everyone to perform.

[heffo]

Not surprised usuallly when it gets to this time of the season a different view is taken . I wonder for the record what the technicality was ?

Showed the red card before taking his name John - should have been the other way around going by the book.

Incorrect.

[sheamy]

Am glad for the fella. Yer man Boyle should have got a month for dishonest and cowardly play. Compare his actions to about 2 dozen similar confrontations in the hurling final. There is too much dishonesty in football and it's an embarrassment to the sport.

The problem is consistency. Common sense was applied here. It isn't always. More high profile cases tend to be resolved on the common sense rule whereas many other counties get punished unnecessarily at the beginning of the season.

[isourboydownyet]

Am glad for the fella. Yer man Boyle should have got a month for dishonest and cowardly play. Compare his actions to about 2 dozen similar confrontations in the hurling final. There is too much dishonesty in football and it's an embarrassment to the sport.

The problem is consistency. Common sense was applied here. It isn't always. More high profile cases tend to be resolved on the common sense rule whereas many other counties get punished unnecessarily at the beginning of the season.

after watching henry shefflin win a throw in and proceed to stick it over the bar while a tip player breaks his hurl across his shin and he didnt even flinch got me thinking about how boyle would have reacted

[Canalman]

Delighted for Diarmuid(not Dermot by the way)............... he is a lucky boy. Will stick a few bob on him for motm in the AIF. Think the" Aidan O'Mahony defense" might have swung it his way.  Matter now over .

Kerry cybercackles surely on the way, although they no doubt will be slow to refer to the 1979 AIF suspension which so benefitted them.