Diarmuid Connolly Scumbag

ixus

Check out what he does in the 55th minute of the match on TG4 player.

He drives his knees into the back of Kidlare No.3's head while Fitzpatrick is on the ground.
There was clear intent in is actions and he could quite easily have broken the Kildare players neck.

It's possibly the most dangerous thing I've seen in football.

hisholinessnb

This thread should be locked immediately.

ixus

Excuse me, but why? Should he not be held accountable for his actions? Should they not be highlighted?
Or, do you just think that the title is inappropriate?


There you go:

pokerface_me

Looks to me as if he slipped. You don't watch too much GAA if thats the worse thing you've ever seen.

hisholinessnb

Whether you think it was intentional or not (and your opinion just that, opinion), you can't go around calling players scumbags.

qwerty93

absolute thuggery, could have easily injured him irrepairibly, Lost all respect I had for a great footballer yesterday

Tombo2000

pokerface_me wrote: »

Looks to me as if he slipped. You don't watch too much GAA if thats the worse thing you've ever seen.

Plus one to both your points. Have seen far far worse than that, and its not clearly deliberate to me by any stretch.

Hard to believe this thread was started by a Moderator.

Hammer Archer

While I do agree what Connolly did was disgraceful, you can't go around calling people scumbags.

ixus

pokerface_me wrote: »

Looks to me as if he slipped. You don't watch too much GAA if thats the worse thing you've ever seen.

Absurd. There was no slip there. If you watched the game, you will see from another angle he had gotten to his feet ran about 2 metres and did that action trying to make it look like he was falling and not driving his knees into the players head.

I played football, hurling and rugby at an adult level for over ten years. Not to mind underage. I've seen plenty and received plenty.

Edit to say; I said this is possibly the most dangerous thing I've seen i.e. it could have broken his neck or killed the player. How could there be worse?

hisholinessnb

Jesus H, it was a mod who started this thread????

I suppose I'll be banned for saying this, but that's disgraceful

copacetic

hisholinessnb wrote: »

Jesus H, it was a mod who started this thread????

I suppose I'll be banned for saying this, but that's disgraceful

Not a mod of this forum, once a forum mod is online they will deal with it.

bruschi

Hammer Archer wrote: »

While I do agree what Connolly did was disgraceful, you can't go around calling people scumbags.

yeah agree with this.

thread will probably be locked for the title, but it was a thuggish thing to do. he didnt slip, and it wasnt accidental. he led with his knees to hit the player in the head. the incident shouldnt be glossed over, which some are trying to do saying he got a yellow card, move on.

hisholinessnb

I'd have though a mod of any boards.ie forum would read the basic rules of the forum he is posting in, after all, we are expected to!!

keane2097

A link to the other angle would be helpful, but it's very hard to make an argument that his motion through the air could be down to a slip considering where he initially gets off the ground from.

An innocent until proven guilty line is fair enough, but I don't expect to see any non-Dublin supporter saying that this looks more like accident than design.

older i get better i was

up the champions!!

keane2097

@OP - change the thread title to avoid giving the mods no choice but to lock the thread.

The incident is worthy of discussion.

Tombo2000

ixus wrote: »

Absurd. There was no slip there. If you watched the game, you will see from another angle he had gotten to his feet ran about 2 metres and did that action trying to make it look like he was falling and not driving his knees into the players head.

I played football, hurling and rugby at an adult level for over ten years. Not to mind underage. I've seen plenty and received plenty.

Edit to say; I said this is possibly the most dangerous thing I've seen i.e. it could have broken his neck or killed the player. How could there be worse?

Well you'll have to post that other angle because to me its not clearly deliberate based on the clip you've included.

copacetic

keane2097 wrote: »

A link to the other angle would be helpful, but it's very hard to make an argument that his motion through the air could be down to a slip considering where he initially gets off the ground from.

An innocent until proven guilty line is fair enough, but I don't expect to see any non-Dublin supporter saying that this looks more like accident than design.

It looks deliberate to me, but it's pretty mild, he slides down his back glancing off his head. Nothing like the 'driving of knee' into the back of the head nearly breakin his neck that the OP makes out. I've seen worse in pretty much every game I've ever seen.

keane2097

copacetic wrote: »

It looks deliberate to me, but it's pretty mild, he slides down his back glancing off his head. Nothing like the 'driving of knee' into the back of the head nearly breakin his neck that the OP makes out. I've seen worse in pretty much every game I've ever seen.

I don't think a knee to the back of the head can ever be considered as minor tbh.

Even if it could I couldn't agree with the assessment of this incident, it's really bad IMO.

Pride Fighter

OP infracted

Thread locked.

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ixus wrote: »

Check out what he does in the 55th minute of the match on TG4 player.

He drives his knees into the back of Kidlare No.3's head while Fitzpatrick is on the ground.
There was clear intent in is actions and he could quite easily have broken the Kildare players neck.

It's possibly the most dangerous thing I've seen in football.

Banned for a month.Calling a player a "scumbag" is against the charter which you clearly didn't read. It also goes against the general cop on that mods on this site have.

Clearly you are an exception whether Connolly was guilty of the offense ofr not.