Tiernan Kelly Incident

Gouging should be dealt with harshly.

the gouger Kelly entered the field of play, gouged someone, yet, nothing done by the Gardai ?

if he came on the field with an ice pick, stuck someone with it, would we see similar non action ?

Anyway, delighted they were sent packing by Galway.

On the incident he should be punished and a good punishment at that. However look back at the footage it was all started by Galway. Comer to be precise if my eyes are right he shouldered an Armagh man going into the tunnell. I don't like northern teams or mayo sorry if I offend anyone but that's just my opinion. But Galway started all that **** the last day.

Waiting for the abuse now....

I have to laugh at Colm o Rourke saying the common denomator in this is Armagh? O Rourke was involved on one of the most thuggish Meath teams of the 1980s to play the game and were of the same calibre with dirty play and thuggery. He is no one to talk about dirty play he was involved with a team that always dished it out as good as Armagh.

I don't remember O'Rourke ever being accused of being involved in any sort of direct scandal or being accused of misbehaviour. Especially given he'd have been a player who was targeted by opposing teams too. Were there really similar scandals with the likes of eye-gouging in the 80's?

Armagh were way ahead of the posse on that one.

They had already established that they could start a melee and get away with it with their successful appeal to the suspensions from the Donegal league game. They won their appeals on the basis that there was not sufficient clarification from the GAA, even after referees asking for them, as to what constituted contribution to a melee.

No idea what may be in Coldrick`s report, but other than Sean Kelly and Aidan Nugent being red carded for being captains of both teams i can not see what those red cards were for. If that is the case then Coldrick needs to go back and read the rule book.

As far as I`m concerned Armagh were well aware of what they were at and could not be punished on the basis of contributing to a melee as the rule currently stands after their successful appeal earlier. On that basis the only two who will be punished are Tiernan Kelly for gouging and unfortunately the Galway sub who hit him with a haymaker he more than deserved.

I would be happy with a lifetime ban for the eye gouging. Extremely dangerous.

Armagh sub with a Bib 16 on him also threw a punch at Comer while he was being held

Other that these 3 it will be impossible to sanction any of the others as there was at least 40 bodies in the thick of things all practically doing the same thing

I think the duty of care on the tackler to execute it correctly if not straight red like we saw on Sunday would sort it pretty quickly. Rugby has done a lot to try and clarify someone not going lower in the tackle and binding should not take much for the GAA to clarify it through duty of care.

There seems to be a lot of discretion on the interpretation of a mistimed hit v malicious intent. The tacklers are generally playing percentages in their favour specially when someone is hit blind sided. It doesn’t add anything to the game to see a player leaving with a concussion or facial injury.

Half the problem here is that polite company say they don't want to see the melees but many many GAA people clearly don't mind it, or enjoy them even. Once that attitude persists and prevails then there won't be a change.

The whole GAA discipline process is a complete joke anyway. A week or two ago some players got their suspensions quashed because the meeting was held on zoom. If this kind of technicality allows someone to get off well the whole process has zero credibility.

Precisely.

Id agree to an extent. But id give kelly more than 2 games personally, as this kind of thing needs to be deterred.

Personally, I think the first 3 lads who started it should get into trouble also. That is comer and 2 other armagh lads. Comer is getting off lightly because someone gouged his eye but he was a huge factor in the entire thing - probably the definitive factor of it truth be told. He got removed from the melee early on and then got right back into the very centre of it again. Similarly, the guy who punched the kelly lad after the gouging incident should be banned for the semi final.

You sound like you got a few slaps from them 😁😁

That Armagh Corner Back number 2 was involved in about 4 or 5 wreckless incidents both on and off the ball during the game as well whilst the CCC are it...he looked like a cage fighter and behaved like one