Hefty Bans....

[5 Sams]

sorry lads if this is being discussed somewhere else or maybe we're not allowed to discuss it but this must have been some batterin match...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/northern_ireland/gaelic_games/7660982.stm

[SidelineKick]

It actually wasnt.  Go to the Derry thread for some good reading!

[screenexile]

If anyone wants to spend 3 days reading the discussion on the Derry thread go ahead and you will get the background to the entire situation.

Here is the basis of what it's about (From a Slaughtneil poster), and it's generally agreed that the individual suspensions are warranted but the ban on the panel for 6 months and the shutting of the pitch is OTT!

Twins suspensions you can maybe see where they are coming from if they were helping their father but you cant do these things

theres not a son in derry who wouldn't have done the same thing.

Martin McEldowney - 1 year (Squirted water on County Chairman)
Mickey Rogers - 1 year (Hit mccloy (County chairman) with ball)
Francis McEldowney - 1 year (Left field)
Fergal McEldowney - 1 year (Left field)
Danny McMullan - 2 years (pushed photographer, didn't strike or kick)
Raymond McCloskey - 2 years (pushed photographer, didn't strike or kick)

Club closed - 1 year
40 players on team sheet - 6 months (Who knows)

Believe it or not there wasn't a melee or anything untoward really on the pitch. The incidents centre on 2 players leaving the field to get involved in a confrontation of sorts between supporters, the subs refusing to leave the field at HT when asked by the County Chairman, and players interfering with photographers taking pictures of disappointed S'neil players on the pitch.

It must also be stated that a member of the Ballinderry backroom team was banned for 2 years after an alleged spitting incident and that apparently there are more bans to follow for Ballinderry in the coming days.

[full back]

What sort of bans can the B'derry boys expect?
Who is likely to get them?

When do the bans come into effect? Will they miss they Ulster

Wild boys in Derry. No wonder ye cant win the AI

[ardmhachaabu]

Contrast that with the preferential treatment Galvin got...

[Down Gael]

Seems very heavy handed, then again it is the Derry county board. They make our MLAs seem competent.

[5 Sams]

Fcukin hell...I've seen a few things happening this year in Down that would lead to people getting jail if the Derry Co Board were giving out the punishments!!!!

[magpie seanie]

Those bans seem absolutely ridiculous. What the hell is going on there?

[The GAA]

County chairman got water squirted at him and is frothing at the mouth for retribution.

If McCloy had a reputation this would have damaged it becase it's all down to his personal vendetta.

[screenexile]

McCloy doesn't sit on the Committee.

As for the Ballinderry bans I don't think any of the players did anything untoward so can't see it having much of an impact on their Ulster campaign.

[Maximus Marillius]

County chairman got water squirted at him and is frothing at the mouth for retribution.

If McCloy had a reputation this would have damaged it becase it's all down to his personal vendetta.

Not entirely aacurate. Derrys first winning Ulster c'ship side were to be honoured at HT. When the whistle went there was the 58 team all ready to be paraded unto the pitch. S'neil like B'derry were told that subs would not be allowed unto the field. S'neil had 35 players togged out. So at half time out ran  approx 20 s'neil subs and started kicking about. The Derry County chairman along with some stewarts tried to get them to move, which they did, but two s'neil players tried to hit the chairman by kicking the ball at him, they missed, whilst another sub with a water bottle jetted him in the face. Before the end of the game a couple of s'neil players jumped the wire and had a fight with a Ballinderry supporter. No doubt the pitch closure and senior panel off players getting suspended is OTT, but the individual suspensions are well merited.

[The GAA]

Exile - are you telling me McCloy has no influence on the suspensions?

Max - fair enough on the individual suspensions and those who squirted the water should have gotten individual suspensions, but closing the pitch for a year and suspending 40 odd lads for 6 months is not over the top - its a scandalous failure to fulfill their dutes on the part of the disciplinary board

[naka]

have a funny feeling this matter might end up at the DRA

[magpie seanie]

Before the end of the game a couple of s'neil players jumped the wire and had a fight with a Ballinderry supporter.

What did the supporter do to provoke this reaction from the 2 players. Somebody said somethnig about their father?

[under the bar]

Francis McEldowney - 1 year (Left field)
Fergal McEldowney - 1 year (Left field)

Should these read "Left Field..to fight with spectators"?