Utter rubbish, he went in to do as much damage as he could and take him out, he knew exactly what he was doing.
It’ll be interesting to see what these spoofers on the Sunday game have to say about Dublins thuggery and Lanes incompetence.
The only job I can see him doing is marking Tommy Walsh.
Good to see you back. You disappeared yesterday. Slagging Mayo for being weak and spinless all week must have tired you out.
McStay now saying it was a red.
In fairness the whole country was saying “we” yesterday apart from Dublin
No i did not
You want to go back and check again sweetie
McStay certainly wasn't.
McStay “it’s very hard to control it”, how is that fool still on RTE? bad enough that he was doing co commentary yesterday but to wheel him out again with his scutter tonight is laughable.
Des Cahill “Conor Lane would have needed eyes in the back of his head”, eh no he’d just need to act on what happened a few yards in front of him.
Pathetic stuff from RTE as usual.
hes a bitter little man who never got the mayo job nor never will
Are other sports really facing up to it or just making token gestures.
Most have just brought in harsher punishments for head tackling which is exactly what the GAA have done
Gooch may be the worst analyst going , adds nothing.
MC stays head is still spinning from that hiding mayo have the rossies in 2017.
I can just about take Mc conville,
There is zero tolerance in rugby and the game is better for it. No excuses, if you get it wrong you are gone.
I've seen some reason?
I explained the issue in a reasoned manner all along, I wasn't the one looking to see legal action against the referee on an issue i admit to knowing nothing about, as you were earlier.
There are risks involved in any contact sport I'm afraid.
Is there a particular reason why the ref should be the one taken to court? He didn't touch anyone.
Thats the rule in the GAA too
Clearly, there isn't 'zero tolerance'. The game wasn't even stopped in the incident and several other hits to the head where ignored.
That young Offaly side play nice football, hope it translates to senior level.
Was a great game to watch.
Paddy small must have set the record yesterday for the number of red cards got away with in one match!
I was posing a question at the start. That's all. Valid enough.
I was complementing you after that, once you sounded more reasonable.
Yes there are risks in all contact sports. THAT IS WHY I AM POSED THE QUESTION ABOUT LIABILITY/DUTY OF CARE etc....
But there are numerous informed opinions above which seem to have answered it and I'm happy with that.
Seeing Andy Moran jumping up and down watching on from the stands during that montage put one huge spontaneous smile on my face
They need to bring in a review committee that these things can be cited and reviewed after the match is over, for things the ref missed. They do it in Rugby and aussie rules I think - there's no way small would have been throwing in those snaky off the ball digs if he thought it could cost him an all ireland final
The fact they the likes of Small and Costello were preferred and they a player like Paul Mannion was dropped from. The squad says a lot about the Farrell regime, and the drop in standards in the Dublin set up over the last year or so.
Neither of them fit to lace Mannion's boots, either in terms of big game temperament or overall discipline.
Mayo would have annoyed me over the years but that was great to see. Football needs days like yesterday.
With the regular melees that happen, a committee could hand out half a dozen red cards in many games. That would cancel out the red cards which are often rescinded by the existing committees.
Mannion a huge loss
He was imperious in 17, 18 and 19, very underrated, lightining quick and a great work rate to add.
One thing that is wrong with the gaa refs is the age they are at before they get to the top games and seems to be given these games for the time served and not on ability or fitness. Surely the gaa should be bringing in younger refs and ex players encouraged to give back something to the game and more training given to even the standards of the rules. Has to be time for var or rugby videos refs to look at foul play. we have Hawkeye in a couple of years with no interference with play. Time to move forward with the times.
It may have been mentioned the thread already, but there is a touch of deja vu. John Finn suffered a broken jaw in the Dublin Mayo semi final in 1985.
Lane didn't realise a lot of things for most of the match.
Funnily enough most fans and not alone Mayo people reckon most of them were things that affected Mayo negatively.
It took him, what 60 minutes, to figure out the black card rule.
His linesman was only 10-15 yards away and should have the cop on to immediately draw attention to it.
What if Dublin had scored a goal in that continuation of play?
That would have caused uproar.
I never said the hits in GAA were comparable to the hits in NFL or anywhere else.
But from experience I can tell you a single hit to the head can be very dangerous and have lasting consequences.
Rugby has had to do something about head challenges because a) they are indeed scared sh*tless that there is NFL style lawsuits coming down the road and b) they have copped on players are now bigger, moving faster and hitting way harder.
It is about time the GAA copped on that top GAA players are now also on average a lot bigger, a lot faster and hit a hell of a lot harder than they did a decade or two ago.
BTW this leads me onto another point. Top players are now faster, fitter, stronger than ever. Coaching has become almost professional, strength and conditioning, diets, etc have all reached as good as that offered to professional sports people.
What has been done to make the officials fit for this new almost professional era?
One thing that has forgot to be mentioned. Keegan got untold abuse from Dublin fans (no limits on what he was called then) for throwing the GPS when Rock was hitting the free in 2017, but he still scored it. The way they go on, you'd swear it was the most despicable thing to ever happen on a GAA field. Like Dublin have had more red cards in All Ireland finals than any other county, and between Philly's eye-gouging a few years ago, Small's cowardly hit the other day, and Ger Brennan and Denis Bastick's late hits on Colm Morris in 2012, where he ended up bandaged, it seems they have form.
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