Hurling 2025

[Milltown Row2]

The serious blunder was by Kilkenny, letting in four goals and finding themselves 4...3 points behind. 

I wasn't making excuses for Kilkenny.  The red card was the turning point in the game but not what was expected.  Tipp turned up their intensity, while KK seemed almost passive down the stretch.  As if the red card guaranteed them the win and they could simply coast home.

Back to the scoreboard: shouldn't it be standard procedure for each team to keep a representative at the scoring table to immediately catch any mistakes?  I could imagine something like this happening at the 1925 semi final, however in the modern era...yikes!

There are stat men at every club game, there will be a stat man for a county team also

[SaffronSports]

Someone on the Kilkenny line should have been able to get a message to the players. That obviously didn't happen though as they definitely went for goal on two occasions with Cody and Donnelly. They knock those over for a score and it's level.

The real drama would have been if that shot from Donnelly hits the net. Scoreboard says a draw and the ref says Kilkenny won. That would have been a proper shit show.

[Baile Brigín 2]

HQ has confirmed the final scoreline was 4-20 to 0-30.  Kilkenny thinking they were 3 behind was going for a goal late on.

This has potential to get messy. KK had enough point chances to pull back a 2 point deficit that I think they would have taken if the realised they were 2 down rather than 3

It *shouldn't* get messy. The referees report is all that matters. It's embarrassing, but nothing to do with the rules of the game.

Similar happened in a Sigerson game I was involved in. A player asked the referee the score, his score was different to the scoreboard, so he told the chap to change it at half time. Admittedly it was football, but we all knew the actual score ourselves.

[AustinPowers]

Any chance there will  be a rematch?

[Truthsayer]

Any chance there will  be a rematch?

Absolutely zero chance.  I'd be surprised if Kilkenny even ask for it

[Gael-in-exile]

Initially for context:
As a scoreboard operator for club championship games and county games I always confirmed at HT the scoreboard was correct.
I always waited on the flag/ref signal to put the score up.

As a coach I always had a mgt member record the score and would always check in on it. I would have also always confirmed with the ref the score at HT and again possibly with a few mins to go if it was tight and I was anything less than 100%.

In this case the game was correct. The venue made a mistake and I think the media copied that.
I would doubt if Kilkenny were all under the impression there was 3 in it. Id guess E Murphy knew. I'd guess some of the mgt knew. It may be that some outfield players didn't but I'd also guess some did - some players are well in tune with all aspects of the game, with some even savvy enough to ask the ref.

[Saffrongael]

Initially for context:
As a scoreboard operator for club championship games and county games I always confirmed at HT the scoreboard was correct.
I always waited on the flag/ref signal to put the score up.

As a coach I always had a mgt member record the score and would always check in on it. I would have also always confirmed with the ref the score at HT and again possibly with a few mins to go if it was tight and I was anything less than 100%.

In this case the game was correct. The venue made a mistake and I think the media copied that.
I would doubt if Kilkenny were all under the impression there was 3 in it. Id guess E Murphy knew. I'd guess some of the mgt knew. It may be that some outfield players didn't but I'd also guess some did - some players are well in tune with all aspects of the game, with some even savvy enough to ask the ref.

But the ref had the score wrong too so a player asking wouldn't have got the right answer

[Milltown Row2]

Initially for context:
As a scoreboard operator for club championship games and county games I always confirmed at HT the scoreboard was correct.
I always waited on the flag/ref signal to put the score up.

As a coach I always had a mgt member record the score and would always check in on it. I would have also always confirmed with the ref the score at HT and again possibly with a few mins to go if it was tight and I was anything less than 100%.

In this case the game was correct. The venue made a mistake and I think the media copied that.
I would doubt if Kilkenny were all under the impression there was 3 in it. Id guess E Murphy knew. I'd guess some of the mgt knew. It may be that some outfield players didn't but I'd also guess some did - some players are well in tune with all aspects of the game, with some even savvy enough to ask the ref.

But the ref had the score wrong too so a player asking wouldn't have got the right answer

But did he? I wouldn't take too much out of what Galvin says.

Has the ref said he'd the score incorrect?

[Saffrongael]

Initially for context:
As a scoreboard operator for club championship games and county games I always confirmed at HT the scoreboard was correct.
I always waited on the flag/ref signal to put the score up.

As a coach I always had a mgt member record the score and would always check in on it. I would have also always confirmed with the ref the score at HT and again possibly with a few mins to go if it was tight and I was anything less than 100%.

In this case the game was correct. The venue made a mistake and I think the media copied that.
I would doubt if Kilkenny were all under the impression there was 3 in it. Id guess E Murphy knew. I'd guess some of the mgt knew. It may be that some outfield players didn't but I'd also guess some did - some players are well in tune with all aspects of the game, with some even savvy enough to ask the ref.

But the ref had the score wrong too so a player asking wouldn't have got the right answer

But did he? I wouldn't take too much out of what Galvin says.

Has the ref said he'd the score incorrect?

Well he submitted the incorrect score, it would be a strange thing for Gavin to put to ink if it wasn't true and I would say would be fairly easy to refute.

[Gael-in-exile]

Initially for context:
As a scoreboard operator for club championship games and county games I always confirmed at HT the scoreboard was correct.
I always waited on the flag/ref signal to put the score up.

As a coach I always had a mgt member record the score and would always check in on it. I would have also always confirmed with the ref the score at HT and again possibly with a few mins to go if it was tight and I was anything less than 100%.

In this case the game was correct. The venue made a mistake and I think the media copied that.
I would doubt if Kilkenny were all under the impression there was 3 in it. Id guess E Murphy knew. I'd guess some of the mgt knew. It may be that some outfield players didn't but I'd also guess some did - some players are well in tune with all aspects of the game, with some even savvy enough to ask the ref.

But the ref had the score wrong too so a player asking wouldn't have got the right answer

But did he? I wouldn't take too much out of what Galvin says.

Has the ref said he'd the score incorrect?

I have seen nowhere suggesting the ref had the score incorrect.

[Gael-in-exile]

Who is Galvin?

[Milltown Row2]

Who is Galvin?

The ref  Gavin that is retired who writes for the paper, I've probably spelt that wrong

[Gael-in-exile]

Ahh didn't know he'd written about it. Brian Gavin I take it. The boy who let Tommy Walsh off with striking an official with a Hurley. 😂😂

[Baile Brigín 2]

Initially for context:
As a scoreboard operator for club championship games and county games I always confirmed at HT the scoreboard was correct.
I always waited on the flag/ref signal to put the score up.

As a coach I always had a mgt member record the score and would always check in on it. I would have also always confirmed with the ref the score at HT and again possibly with a few mins to go if it was tight and I was anything less than 100%.

In this case the game was correct. The venue made a mistake and I think the media copied that.
I would doubt if Kilkenny were all under the impression there was 3 in it. Id guess E Murphy knew. I'd guess some of the mgt knew. It may be that some outfield players didn't but I'd also guess some did - some players are well in tune with all aspects of the game, with some even savvy enough to ask the ref.

But the ref had the score wrong too so a player asking wouldn't have got the right answer

Citation needed