Tiernan Kelly Incident

John Doe1

Armagh have shown their true colours once more, they have been at this shite for years.

Hopefully the Armagh board wont be appealing the upcoming penalties against this incident like they did against Donegal.

squigglestrebor

Mod Edit

Warning issued.

bucketybuck

And you'll get all the little bitches crying about the big bad nordies. Small men living in fear.

squigglestrebor

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119253499#Comment_119253499

Hahahahaha even calling them small men. Ya can tell your a big tough nordy bastard all right.

John Doe1

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119253499#Comment_119253499

As an ulsterman, I can assure you most non-Armagh fans are not a fan of common assault.

JPCN1

Gouging is scrote behaviour.

John Doe1

Its going to be hard for Armagh to blame Tyrone or Donegal for this one.

jacool

Only an idiot could defend eye-gouging.

If you are in the house lads, try form a queue.

Ash.J.Williams

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119253519#Comment_119253519

especially when the victim was unable to defend himself as his hands were full

Huh it was one player gouging as far as I can see. That's not the whole team

Thats the fact. **** Tiernan Kelly anyway, throw the book at him.

Donald Trump

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119253499#Comment_119253499

If they want to fight, then let them join boxing or MMA and fight. Not being bitches and trying to assault lads that want to play football.

The sporting equivalent of "hard lads" who go around in groups looking for "fights" after the pubs close against lone lads walking home minding their own business.

squigglestrebor

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119253580#Comment_119253580

Ya didnt see any other thuggish behaviour from the team no? Their 3rd brawl this year , pathetic losers really.

bucketybuck

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119253540#Comment_119253540

Nobody will defend eye gouging, its a heinous offence.

But this isn't really about eye gouging, the thread was started because certain middle aged men have a deep rooted fear of the nordies and grasp any chance to talk big about them online.

fire_man

Disgusting act by this guy. Not surprising though.

squigglestrebor

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119253594#Comment_119253594

Pure delusion.

John Doe1

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119253594#Comment_119253594

Well im a young ulsterman and think Armagh are the basically a bunch of 'hard men' pretending at being sportsmen.

Was great to see them knocked out.

Donald Trump

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119253594#Comment_119253594

"Talking big about them online" ..... Says the fella who came in in the third post implying other posters were "little bitches".

The eye gougers are bitches - not the two people who posted ahead of you

JeffKenna

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119253580#Comment_119253580

I'd disagree with that fact. Armagh lads were holding his hands so he couldn't defend himself while Tiernan Kelly came in to eye gouge him. The fellas holding are as bad.

Gusser09

I said it on another thread Armagh have a very sinister element about them on the field and in support too. McGeeney was at this crap in Kildare too. Poisoning these lads with MMA shite.

bucketybuck

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119253635#Comment_119253635

The discussion started in the main championship thread.

If this is about the eye gouging scumbag, why does the OP start with "Armagh have shown their true colours".

Rent free in their little heads, god help them when Derry play Galway.

John Doe1

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119253657#Comment_119253657

OP here, they have shown their true colours as they have been at this for years including against my own county Donegal.

They are the shame of Ulster

Gusser09

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119253644#Comment_119253644

The Armagh players actively protected Kelly after the incident.

Donald Trump

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119253688#Comment_119253688

"Pretend hard man hides behind his friends when caught" type of scenario

Grats

Well I certainly hope the gouger doesn't get away like the Galway hurler Cianan Fahy did for another heinous act.

corny

RTE really lose their **** when these scuffles break out and it seems to work in riling the masses. Apparently it's 'shocking' and 'appalling'. Meh.

I'd take a dim view of the gouging alright and would support a nice ban for the culprit but the other stuff is just lads getting a little excited. The game is played on the edge. You can't ask young men to be that pumped up, play a physical game and not expect it to boil over on occasion.

Former Former Former

I'd love to see either McGeeney or the Armagh County Board come out proactively and condemn this.

I won't hold my breath, expect the usual claims not to have seen the incident and the guff about needing to respect the disciplinary process.

Higgins5473

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119253644#Comment_119253644

Jeff Kenna, one of our most underrated players, quality defender.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119253499#Comment_119253499

Every county in Ireland has their share of scumbags, to be fair. It's a noticeable fact that the Nordy counties have far more than their fair share of them. Maybe it's for historical reasons, not growing up as sheltered as us in the south. Sometimes you read a headline in the news and you just know that the incident occurred in a northern county.

Nothing prejudiced about it. It's just the way it is.

Fiyatoe

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119254137#Comment_119254137

Not defeinding Belfast, (Antrim/down) or Armagh or any of them places as I’ve no allegiance to them or love for them.

but Dublin, cork and limerick to name a few have some horrible, horrible individuals.

gangland Dublin.

the post office incident with the scum bags last year with their dead uncle

the stabbings and rows over farms in cork

you could go on

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119254223#Comment_119254223

Fair point. But an entire generation growing up steeped in normalised paramilitary violence has a long lasting effect.

downthemiddle

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119254074#Comment_119254074

Yes you can. Rugby is more physical but they have zero tolerance to the type of behaviour witnessed today, and on previous occasions this season by Armagh players.

downthemiddle

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119254268#Comment_119254268

Utter drivel.

Danzy

At the least it should be a lifetime ban.

Gouging FFS.

Amprodude

If Armagh concentrated on how to take penalties and hit the target properly instead of McGeeneys MMA shite they kept doing today, they might be in a Semi Final now. McGeeney isn't going to win an All Ireland no matter what team he's with.

Straight Talker

For a county with just the one all Ireland to it's name, i always thought there was/is an arrogance to Armagh tbh. Considering the crap they were at today, there will be very few tears shed outside Armagh tonight. Thank god this crowd of thugs have been knocked out.

gameoverdude

If its confirmed eye gouging then out.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119255050#Comment_119255050

jaysus i dunno what could confirm it more than what we have all seen

gameoverdude

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119255071#Comment_119255071

I agree. Disgusting. Commity decisions so who knows (I'm a bigger fan of rugby and you'd be out for a looooongggg time for that)

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119254988#Comment_119254988

But historically accurate. You can dribble all you want, it won't change the facts.

corny

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119254985#Comment_119254985

Yeah they have zero tolerance and rugby players are professionals but yet it still happens. There a thousand youtube clips I could play for you of lads losing it on a rugby pitch.

The gouging apart, I wouldn't condemn any of them.

Strumms

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119254074#Comment_119254074

You can ask them and demand they do.

see what sort of stones the GAA have to deal with this… my guess is they won’t do enough.

the perpetrator probably getting an apology hastily ready and a receipt from a psychologist and it will be ‘out of character’

eye gouging ughhhh, absolutely filthy behaviour…

Poor_old_gill

Third brawl this year for Armagh- against Tyrone, Donegal and now today.

Tried to start one in the league game against Kerry but Jack o Connor kept Kerry out on the field and defused it.

A number of strikes off the ball today, the red card, the gouging.

Fairly consistent pattern here really

pjohnson

Anyone with a shred of decency will call this behaviour out plain and simple, not ramble about "Nordies"

Robson99

The amount of hits off the ball the ref and linesmen refused to act on led to a lot of it. Armagh could have been down to 12 players at one stage if the ref done his job.

The gouging incident should be a 2 year ban at minimum. Cowardly act

Field east

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119255424#Comment_119255424

It’s absolutly amazing how many fouls are “missed’ in GAA hurling and football matches when there are 14 official watching it from all angles and all - linesmen and umpires - are wired up to bring any foul to the notice of the ref in championship matches.

there is an assumption that if the ref blows up for EVERY foul he would destroy the flow of the match. The problem with this policy of not blowing for everything that when the players find out what fouls that they can get away with they will commit these fouls through the match. A good example of this is throwing the ball in hurling instead of passing it.

Poor_old_gill

The no.6 punched Conroy off the ball and, although I didn’t see it, a mate of mine in the lower hogan said Walsh got a strike to the head off the ball.

Thats why he was down for a period of time near the end of the game.

But aye this whole debate is just anti northern bias, sure it’s just an extension of the treaty discussions of a century ago

jacool

The GAA will fix this when they learn how to spell schemozzle.

One paper reported that he was going to get banned for the rest of the inter-county season!!

Please let them not be that ridiculous.

Grats

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119255460#Comment_119255460

Absolutely correct. Look at the praise heaped on John Keenan for letting the Limerick v Clare match flow!!! Everybody could see that he ignored many fouls which suited those players who play over the edge. Then we had the ridiculous carry on where Galway County Board found a loophole to get their banned player off. And Clare followed suit.

rogerywalters

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119254074#Comment_119254074

Hahaha id take a dim view on the gouging as well.

rogerywalters

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119254137#Comment_119254137

Yep just the way it is , most dangerous place in europe for women , well tied with Romania according to the Belfast telegraph.

jesus the move to make this about nordies is fairly embarrassing

its about one scrote and its about the general culture of tolerating over physical shite in GAA