Kildare v Mayo AI Qualifier Round 3

[Dinny Breen]

Tommy Callaghan reporting that KCB have officially informed Croke Park that they will not fulfill the fixture.

Nuclear button pressed.

A press conference scheduled by Kildare GAA manager, Cian O'Neill, for this evening at the Manguard Centre of Excellence in Hawkfield, has been cancelled, with the manager citing 'work commitments.'

However the Leinster Leader understands that Kildare Co. Board has officially informed Croke Park that they will not fulfil the Round 3 Qualifier in Croke Park against Mayo on Saturday.

According to GAA Rules a team not fulfilling a fixture must inform Croke Park 48 hours prior to the fixture and while the Co. Board has already informed the authorities they will not be travelling on Saturday, they must do so again 48 hours out from the time of the game.

Assuming that the Croke Park authorities then award the game to Mayo the appeal process will then kick in.

Kildare's next option will be to appeal to the Central Hearings Committee.

If that fails, the next step is to appeal to the Croke Park Appeals Committee.

If that committee rejects the appeal then it would no doubt head to the DRA (Disputes Resolution Authority). This is a committee made up of legal experts, independent of the GAA and is usually the final appeal process but going to the High Court can never be ruled out either.

We await developments, but one thing is for sure if Croke Park did not think Kildare were serious in this entire mess they are certainly fully aware at this stage they are.

Ball in Croke Park's court. They are getting slaughtered PR wise.

[Donnellys Hollow]

Tommy Callaghan reporting that KCB have officially informed Croke Park that they will not fulfill the fixture.

Nuclear button pressed.

A press conference scheduled by Kildare GAA manager, Cian O'Neill, for this evening at the Manguard Centre of Excellence in Hawkfield, has been cancelled, with the manager citing 'work commitments.'

However the Leinster Leader understands that Kildare Co. Board has officially informed Croke Park that they will not fulfil the Round 3 Qualifier in Croke Park against Mayo on Saturday.

According to GAA Rules a team not fulfilling a fixture must inform Croke Park 48 hours prior to the fixture and while the Co. Board has already informed the authorities they will not be travelling on Saturday, they must do so again 48 hours out from the time of the game.

Assuming that the Croke Park authorities then award the game to Mayo the appeal process will then kick in.

Kildare's next option will be to appeal to the Central Hearings Committee.

If that fails, the next step is to appeal to the Croke Park Appeals Committee.

If that committee rejects the appeal then it would no doubt head to the DRA (Disputes Resolution Authority). This is a committee made up of legal experts, independent of the GAA and is usually the final appeal process but going to the High Court can never be ruled out either.

We await developments, but one thing is for sure if Croke Park did not think Kildare were serious in this entire mess they are certainly fully aware at this stage they are.

Ball in Croke Park's court. They are getting slaughtered PR wise.

Best now for KCB, CO'N and the players to shut up shop and keep their counsel. Let Croke Park continue to bungle and lose credibility with each talking head they put in front of the media. Turn up in Newbridge on Saturday. If there is a match v Mayo then great. If not, play Moorefield in a challenge. Everyone in attendance can make a donation to pay off whatever fine they impose on us. I've never seen the county as energised on an issue.

[Bord na Mona man]

Kildare have really hoisted the white flag on this one. What a message to give your players - we know you have no chance of beating Mayo in Croke Park, your only hope would be to play them in Newbridge. With that sort of leadership this Kildare team will never win anything.

Missing person alert.

There is a village somewhere missing its' idiot.

In fairness, Kildare wouldn't be doing this if they had a winnable fixture and realistic ambitions of a prolonged championship campaign.
So they've not much to lose by pulling the tent down.

[joemamas]

Can anybody name the members that make up the CCCC committee.
All joking aside, this is snowballing into a complete shit-show.
Needs to be resolved one way or the other.
The H&C need to explain their rational, by dropping the attendance levels so low.
It is not like every person attending is 6.6 and 200 lbs.

[befair]

If Kildare were half as aggressive on the field as over the media they'd be racking up Sam Maguires by the dozens

[galwayman]

Tommy Callaghan reporting that KCB have officially informed Croke Park that they will not fulfill the fixture.

Nuclear button pressed.

A press conference scheduled by Kildare GAA manager, Cian O'Neill, for this evening at the Manguard Centre of Excellence in Hawkfield, has been cancelled, with the manager citing 'work commitments.'

However the Leinster Leader understands that Kildare Co. Board has officially informed Croke Park that they will not fulfil the Round 3 Qualifier in Croke Park against Mayo on Saturday.

According to GAA Rules a team not fulfilling a fixture must inform Croke Park 48 hours prior to the fixture and while the Co. Board has already informed the authorities they will not be travelling on Saturday, they must do so again 48 hours out from the time of the game.

Assuming that the Croke Park authorities then award the game to Mayo the appeal process will then kick in.

Kildare's next option will be to appeal to the Central Hearings Committee.

If that fails, the next step is to appeal to the Croke Park Appeals Committee.

If that committee rejects the appeal then it would no doubt head to the DRA (Disputes Resolution Authority). This is a committee made up of legal experts, independent of the GAA and is usually the final appeal process but going to the High Court can never be ruled out either.

We await developments, but one thing is for sure if Croke Park did not think Kildare were serious in this entire mess they are certainly fully aware at this stage they are.

Ball in Croke Park's court. They are getting slaughtered PR wise.

Best now for KCB, CO'N and the players to shut up shop and keep their counsel. Let Croke Park continue to bungle and lose credibility with each talking head they put in front of the media. Turn up in Newbridge on Saturday. If there is a match v Mayo then great. If not, play Moorefield in a challenge. Everyone in attendance can make a donation to pay off whatever fine they impose on us. I've never seen the county as energised on an issue.

Dinny and Donnellys Hollow - do ye think it's likely Kildare will go down the legal route if the game is awarded to Mayo?
I saw somewhere online earlier on that if they go as far as the DRA - on purely legal terms - they would have a very good case.
Now this of course would impact on the super 8 as I assume it's unlikely any such action would be resolved this week?

[Crete Boom]

Can anybody name the members that make up the CCCC committee.
All joking aside, this is snowballing into a complete shit-show.
Needs to be resolved one way or the other.
The H&C need to explain their rational, by dropping the attendance levels so low.
It is not like every person attending is 6.6 and 200 lbs.

John Prenty is one of them anyway

[JoG2]

Tommy Callaghan reporting that KCB have officially informed Croke Park that they will not fulfill the fixture.

Nuclear button pressed.

A press conference scheduled by Kildare GAA manager, Cian O'Neill, for this evening at the Manguard Centre of Excellence in Hawkfield, has been cancelled, with the manager citing 'work commitments.'

However the Leinster Leader understands that Kildare Co. Board has officially informed Croke Park that they will not fulfil the Round 3 Qualifier in Croke Park against Mayo on Saturday.

According to GAA Rules a team not fulfilling a fixture must inform Croke Park 48 hours prior to the fixture and while the Co. Board has already informed the authorities they will not be travelling on Saturday, they must do so again 48 hours out from the time of the game.

Assuming that the Croke Park authorities then award the game to Mayo the appeal process will then kick in.

Kildare's next option will be to appeal to the Central Hearings Committee.

If that fails, the next step is to appeal to the Croke Park Appeals Committee.

If that committee rejects the appeal then it would no doubt head to the DRA (Disputes Resolution Authority). This is a committee made up of legal experts, independent of the GAA and is usually the final appeal process but going to the High Court can never be ruled out either.

We await developments, but one thing is for sure if Croke Park did not think Kildare were serious in this entire mess they are certainly fully aware at this stage they are.

Ball in Croke Park's court. They are getting slaughtered PR wise.

Best now for KCB, CO'N and the players to shut up shop and keep their counsel. Let Croke Park continue to bungle and lose credibility with each talking head they put in front of the media. Turn up in Newbridge on Saturday. If there is a match v Mayo then great. If not, play Moorefield in a challenge. Everyone in attendance can make a donation to pay off whatever fine they impose on us. I've never seen the county as energised on an issue.

Dinny and Donnellys Hollow - do ye think it's likely Kildare will go down the legal route if the game is awarded to Mayo?
I saw somewhere online earlier on that if they go as far as the DRA - on purely legal terms - they would have a very good case.
Now this of course would impact on the super 8 as I assume it's unlikely any such action would be resolved this week?

surely the furthest this goes is the DRA and those legal eagles will find on behalf of Kildare??

[An Fhairche Abu]

Tommy Callaghan reporting that KCB have officially informed Croke Park that they will not fulfill the fixture.

Nuclear button pressed.

A press conference scheduled by Kildare GAA manager, Cian O’Neill, for this evening at the Manguard Centre of Excellence in Hawkfield, has been cancelled, with the manager citing ‘work commitments.’

However the Leinster Leader understands that Kildare Co. Board has officially informed Croke Park that they will not fulfil the Round 3 Qualifier in Croke Park against Mayo on Saturday.

According to GAA Rules a team not fulfilling a fixture must inform Croke Park 48 hours prior to the fixture and while the Co. Board has already informed the authorities they will not be travelling on Saturday, they must do so again 48 hours out from the time of the game.

Assuming that the Croke Park authorities then award the game to Mayo the appeal process will then kick in.

Kildare’s next option will be to appeal to the Central Hearings Committee.

If that fails, the next step is to appeal to the Croke Park Appeals Committee.

If that committee rejects the appeal then it would no doubt head to the DRA (Disputes Resolution Authority). This is a committee made up of legal experts, independent of the GAA and is usually the final appeal process but going to the High Court can never be ruled out either.

We await developments, but one thing is for sure if Croke Park did not think Kildare were serious in this entire mess they are certainly fully aware at this stage they are.

Ball in Croke Park's court. They are getting slaughtered PR wise.

Croke Park have made an absolute hames of this situation which has become a lightening rod for other issues and complaints that people outside of Kildare have with the direction the association is taking, Kildare have put themselves into the firing line and held firm, I don't know anyone who is taking HQ's side on this issue.
The high handed approach which they assumed would result in the match going ahead as planned hasn't worked and they have only made the GAA look bad.

While it remains to all fully play out - and without jumping the gun - this is potentially a watershed moment outside of the immediate issue to hand.

[The Hill is Blue]

Kildare have really hoisted the white flag on this one. What a message to give your players - we know you have no chance of beating Mayo in Croke Park, your only hope would be to play them in Newbridge. With that sort of leadership this Kildare team will never win anything.

I don't see how you've drawn that conclusion - if anything I'd say they'll be far more together.

Kildare need to be very careful what they wish for. If the game were to be switched to Newbridge now the Kildare football team would face enormous pressure from their supporters to deliver on their perceived home advantage. I believe it would be far better for them to go to Croker with a sense of grievance and do their talking on the field of play. I honestly feel that the Kildare county board have done their team no favours.

I remember the Dublin v Cork semi-final of 1983 when Dublin scraped a draw with the last kick of the game and Cork were awarded the replay in Pairc Ui Chaoimh. There was jubilation in Cork because after their display in the drawn game they thought that home advantage was all they needed to clinch the replay. Of course we know what happened - they were hammered.

[Dinny Breen]

Tommy Callaghan reporting that KCB have officially informed Croke Park that they will not fulfill the fixture.

Nuclear button pressed.

A press conference scheduled by Kildare GAA manager, Cian O'Neill, for this evening at the Manguard Centre of Excellence in Hawkfield, has been cancelled, with the manager citing 'work commitments.'

However the Leinster Leader understands that Kildare Co. Board has officially informed Croke Park that they will not fulfil the Round 3 Qualifier in Croke Park against Mayo on Saturday.

According to GAA Rules a team not fulfilling a fixture must inform Croke Park 48 hours prior to the fixture and while the Co. Board has already informed the authorities they will not be travelling on Saturday, they must do so again 48 hours out from the time of the game.

Assuming that the Croke Park authorities then award the game to Mayo the appeal process will then kick in.

Kildare's next option will be to appeal to the Central Hearings Committee.

If that fails, the next step is to appeal to the Croke Park Appeals Committee.

If that committee rejects the appeal then it would no doubt head to the DRA (Disputes Resolution Authority). This is a committee made up of legal experts, independent of the GAA and is usually the final appeal process but going to the High Court can never be ruled out either.

We await developments, but one thing is for sure if Croke Park did not think Kildare were serious in this entire mess they are certainly fully aware at this stage they are.

Ball in Croke Park's court. They are getting slaughtered PR wise.

Best now for KCB, CO'N and the players to shut up shop and keep their counsel. Let Croke Park continue to bungle and lose credibility with each talking head they put in front of the media. Turn up in Newbridge on Saturday. If there is a match v Mayo then great. If not, play Moorefield in a challenge. Everyone in attendance can make a donation to pay off whatever fine they impose on us. I've never seen the county as energised on an issue.

Dinny and Donnellys Hollow - do ye think it's likely Kildare will go down the legal route if the game is awarded to Mayo?
I saw somewhere online earlier on that if they go as far as the DRA - on purely legal terms - they would have a very good case.
Now this of course would impact on the super 8 as I assume it's unlikely any such action would be resolved this week?

Will come down to cost, Kildare wouldn't have the resources to go High Court, unless someone will do the work pro-Bono (feasible). As DH says the county is galvanised which us unusual for Kildare, our nature is quite passive, the last couple of days though we're more like our ignorant neighbours in 98, they will definitely bring it to the DRA, feel sorry for the players but they know their is a bigger issue here at play.

[johnnycool]

Ned Quinn is going to show up in a Mayo jersey looking for trouble.
#falseflag

Ned Quinn's legacy

Poor Ned should have stayed in KK and looked after the hurlers there.

There's no manners or law abiders in these footballing places, looking for loopholes every cut and turn.

[Solo_run]

Kildare have really hoisted the white flag on this one. What a message to give your players - we know you have no chance of beating Mayo in Croke Park, your only hope would be to play them in Newbridge. With that sort of leadership this Kildare team will never win anything.

I don't see how you've drawn that conclusion - if anything I'd say they'll be far more together.

Kildare need to be very careful what they wish for. If the game were to be switched to Newbridge now the Kildare football team would face enormous pressure from their supporters to deliver on their perceived home advantage. I believe it would be far better for them to go to Croker with a sense of grievance and do their talking on the field of play. I honestly feel that the Kildare county board have done their team no favours.

I remember the Dublin v Cork semi-final of 1983 when Dublin scraped a draw with the last kick of the game and Cork were awarded the replay in Pairc Ui Chaoimh. There was jubilation in Cork because after their display in the drawn game they thought that home advantage was all they needed to clinch the replay. Of course we know what happened - they were hammered.

It will become precedent if they don't stand up to it now.

[Donnellys Hollow]

I honestly feel that the Kildare county board have done their team no favours.

It's the management and players who are taking this stance. That much is clear from Cian O'Neill's interview on KFM this morning.

[Jinxy]

Tommy Callaghan reporting that KCB have officially informed Croke Park that they will not fulfill the fixture.

Nuclear button pressed.

A press conference scheduled by Kildare GAA manager, Cian O'Neill, for this evening at the Manguard Centre of Excellence in Hawkfield, has been cancelled, with the manager citing 'work commitments.'

However the Leinster Leader understands that Kildare Co. Board has officially informed Croke Park that they will not fulfil the Round 3 Qualifier in Croke Park against Mayo on Saturday.

According to GAA Rules a team not fulfilling a fixture must inform Croke Park 48 hours prior to the fixture and while the Co. Board has already informed the authorities they will not be travelling on Saturday, they must do so again 48 hours out from the time of the game.

Assuming that the Croke Park authorities then award the game to Mayo the appeal process will then kick in.

Kildare's next option will be to appeal to the Central Hearings Committee.

If that fails, the next step is to appeal to the Croke Park Appeals Committee.

If that committee rejects the appeal then it would no doubt head to the DRA (Disputes Resolution Authority). This is a committee made up of legal experts, independent of the GAA and is usually the final appeal process but going to the High Court can never be ruled out either.

We await developments, but one thing is for sure if Croke Park did not think Kildare were serious in this entire mess they are certainly fully aware at this stage they are.

Ball in Croke Park's court. They are getting slaughtered PR wise.

Best now for KCB, CO'N and the players to shut up shop and keep their counsel. Let Croke Park continue to bungle and lose credibility with each talking head they put in front of the media. Turn up in Newbridge on Saturday. If there is a match v Mayo then great. If not, play Moorefield in a challenge. Everyone in attendance can make a donation to pay off whatever fine they impose on us. I've never seen the county as energised on an issue.