Pettiness regarding a yellow card.

smashey

Right, rant time. :mad:

Donegal won the McKenna Cup on Saturday night and as is normal with these things, the team captain goes up to collect the trophy. Except in this case, he didn't. Rory Kavanagh is Donegal's captain for this year and during the game he got a yellow card. As he was about to go up to collect the trophy, some jobsworth pedantic snivelling little runt from the Ulster Council informed him he wasn't allowed to so so as he had received a yellow card. :mad:

What a load of shite.:mad:
Barry Monaghan collected the trophy and looked suitably embarassed in doing so.

keane2097

That's absolutely insane.

Pride Fighter

I feel your pain smashey, it is not as if he was red carded. That is nothing short of disgraceful, the team should have refused to accept their medals until he was allowed pick up the trophy.

Mr. Incognito

And he took that?

I would have told said official to go fcuk off for yourself.

Okey Doke

Completely ridiculous. In general terms I can't see these new rules lasting long anyway.

Mr. Incognito

That has nothing to do with the new rules. You could be sent off on an all ireland final you still get your medal and the captain is entitled to lift the cup. smacks of sour grapes to me - was the official from the losing team?

I'd report him tbh.

blackbelt

Yeah that wreaks of pettyness alright.I think these rules are ruining the association at an exciting time for the organisation,125th anniversary etc.

To be honest,there will be no physicality in the game if these experimental rules continue.I am expecting uproar when the league starts and the county boards shouting about it when its way too late.

My fear is that they'll keep the rules when everybody thinks they won't but the encouraging thing about it is that at club level this can't be implemented as clubs do struggle for numbers and if it can't stick at club level I'd expect it not to stick at intercounty either.You have to have a level playing field for all grades and levels.


Back to Rory Kavanagh.I did not know the experimental rules prevented a cup winning yellow card player to receive the trophy.In fairness,the Nicky Brennan era has hardly been a successful one.He may not have implemented these rules but he could have a lot to do with speaking against or for them and so far he has spoken for them which confirms to me that he is a yes man.

I feel sorry for Kavanagh (and Donegal).These cups might not mean a lot in the shake up of things but if Donegal were to look back over 2009 without winning anything else,they'd look back on this occasion as a memorable success for the year and realise it was ruined by these stupid rules and that petty official.

RMDrive

Disgraceful all right. At the end of the day IC teams have only 3 trophys to fight for each year. Now I know that this was only the McKenna cup, but I'm sure in years to come that Rory would have looked back on accepting it fondly. Many, many Donegal captains (and indeed captains from many counties) have never experienced the feeling of receiving any trophy on behalf of their county. It was a shame that Rory was robbed of this opportunity.