Kerry v Galway, All-Ireland Senior Football Final. 24 July, 2022

[Blowitupref]

Referee announced. Interesting choice as he's from Tallys club.

Sean Hurson his first ever senior football All-Ireland final to ref.

His umpires on the day will be Mark Coney (Ardboe O 'Donovan Rossa), Mel Taggart (Clonoe O'Rahilly's), Cathal Forbes (Ardboe O 'Donovan Rossa) and Martin Conway (Moortown St Malachy's).

Roscommon's Paddy Neilan will be the standby referee. The other linesman is Barry Cassidy (Derry) and the Sideline Official will be Sean Laverty (Antrim).

[Armamike]

Don't see why Galway can't give the final a real go if they believe and do their homework. That being the case it's 50 50.

[yellowcard]

Referee announced. Interesting choice as he's from Tallys club.

You cannot be serious.

[galwayman]

Referee announced. Interesting choice as he's from Tallys club.

You cannot be serious.

Is that true? Ah here that is a conflict of interest right there!

[mrdeeds]

Referee announced. Interesting choice as he's from Tallys club.

You cannot be serious.

Is that true? Ah here that is a conflict of interest right there!

Yeah from Galbally, Tally's club.

[skeog]

Sean is a man of integrity who will show no bias so less of the citicism.

[imtommygunn]

He shouldn't be in the position. If he makes any controversial calls in one direction this will be brought up. Not his doing.

[galwayman]

Sean is a man of integrity who will show no bias so less of the citicism.

Not questioning his integrity - I don't know the man from Adam.
But it isn't right. What if the Gaa appointed a clubmate of Cian O'Neills to ref the game? Kerry wouldn't be happy with it and rightly so.

[blanketattack]

Sean is a man of integrity who will show no bias so less of the citicism.

Not questioning his integrity - I don't know the man from Adam.
But it isn't right. What if the Gaa appointed a clubmate of Cian O'Neills to ref the game? Kerry wouldn't be happy with it and rightly so.

They appointed Kevin Mcmanamon's clubmate numerous times when he was playing.

[Gael85]

Sean is a man of integrity who will show no bias so less of the citicism.

Not questioning his integrity - I don't know the man from Adam.
But it isn't right. What if the Gaa appointed a clubmate of Cian O'Neills to ref the game? Kerry wouldn't be happy with it and rightly so.

They appointed Kevin Mcmanamon's clubmate numerous times when he was playing.

When did Kevin play with Slane?

[Dabh]

Sean is a man of integrity who will show no bias so less of the citicism.

Not questioning his integrity - I don't know the man from Adam.
But it isn't right. What if the Gaa appointed a clubmate of Cian O'Neills to ref the game? Kerry wouldn't be happy with it and rightly so.

Brendan Crowley and Cian O'Neill are both from Newbridge...  thankfully there was no controversial calls on saturday for anyone to be unhappy about 

[Maroon Manc]

Sean is a man of integrity who will show no bias so less of the citicism.

Not questioning his integrity - I don't know the man from Adam.
But it isn't right. What if the Gaa appointed a clubmate of Cian O'Neills to ref the game? Kerry wouldn't be happy with it and rightly so.

Brendan Crowley and Cian O'Neill are both from Newbridge...  thankfully there was no controversial calls on saturday for anyone to be unhappy about 

Their not from the same club, very different.

[trueblue1234]

If anything I'd say this would help Galway. Especially if this is played up in the media between now and then!

[square_ball]

There's not many ex Galway players in the media compared to Kerry so there'll not be much fuss kicked up. This was from when Gough was appointed in 2019 and he's not even a member of the St Jude's club: https://www.balls.ie/amp/gaa/defence-david-gough-415665 so you can only imagine if it was the opposite way about.

[blanketattack]

There's not many ex Galway players in the media compared to Kerry so there'll not be much fuss kicked up. This was from when Gough was appointed in 2019 and he's not even a member of the St Jude's club: https://www.balls.ie/amp/gaa/defence-david-gough-415665 so you can only imagine if it was the opposite way about.

That was more to do with Gough's brutal refereeing decisions in the Dublin-Kerry 2016 semi-final, including a stone wall red card that wasn't even given as a free, rather than specifically being St. Jude's related.

Hurson comes in with a clean slate and so deserves the benefit of the doubt.