Kilkenny GAA Thread

This will be interesting!

Can he play in the half back line

Not 100% but a few commentators have said Owens never took his book out of his pocket to mark score for Noel Mcs wide as umpire waved wide. Its thought by some reports Owens took scoreboard at end of the game and inputted it to official database. Changed it later when he added up his actual scores in his book and realized scoreboard was incorrect.

Yeah its ridiculous at this level for it to happen. Need more then 1 scoreboard operator by looks of this. Should have been a way of somebody to communicate with operator to change it back.

I’m starting to fancy Tipp for the final btw… sometimes your name is on the cup as they say.

It's his job to double check though, if that means stopping the game for a minute he has to make sure the score is correct. Imagine the murders if Tipp had won in extra time only to find out they had lost the actual game.

Exactly,we been told many times since the incident that Kilkenny should have never have trusted the scoreboard but it seems the match referee did too

We clearly dont have the same players we had 10 to 20 years ago but i do believe we have players capable of winning an AI. I think we are capable of beating any team and there are teams capable of beating us. Where I believe we lack is the sideline. I think Cody management style is still influential on us. To get over the line i believe we need a forward thinking manager. We need to be better coached but I believe more so we need to do tactics far better.

I think someone on the Kilkenny sideline should’ve been keeping track of the scores too. Would it not be part of the games to be jotting down stats etc Majority of the blame lies with the scoreboard attendant but I think some has to be apportioned to the backroom team.

As usual the gaa s answer to a big mistake or issue is to stay silent

It would have been quite simple to apologise it was human error and shouldn’t have happened etc and mention after discussing it with the referees and sideline officials and score board operator we ll put these checks and balances in place for the final so this issue won’t ever arise again

Going forward at the next congress we will have to put a motion forward to adjust the rules etc etc

We have also had discussions with James Owen’s etc etc

It’s that simple but the gaa haven’t done it

Imagine if cork were playing tipp last weekend and the same thing happened to them the uproar there would be

Because it’s Kilkenny it will be swept under the carpet

We already have bloody hawk eye surely with the technology in the sliothar we have now like the soccer the ref should get alerted whether a ball goes over the cross bar or wide of the post

A premier league ref gets buzzed immediately whether a ball fully crosses the line or not straight away

The 4th official is the 'official' back up 'score keeper' after the ref...

And in a lot of games , you would see the Umpires also writing down the scores.

So , the 4th official may not have been checking the score during the game as it was a bit frantic towards the end and he may not have been comparing his notes of the scores with the score board maybe a similar situation with the ref ?

Also , its something unheralded , never saw that happen , so the ref and his team wouldnt have expected the scoreboard operator to male such a mistake....

But if the ref was just going off the scoreboard (highly unlikley) that is not good enough !

How long is a piece of string

There might be a very brief mention of it in the end of year report from the county board

Other than that it will be complete silence

In every one of our junevile clubs games, one of the mentors kept a tally of the scores in a notebook.

Yes really looking forward to club matches we need to find 5/6 new players. We have no impact off the bench, we lack pace and we need to replace 3/4 of our backs. The more i think about it the more frustrated i get about the All Ireland Semi Final, no way we should be losing to a Tipp team that are only up and coming. Posts saying here we are close to an All Ireland, i personally do not see it, we are to old, to slow, no bench and management have a lot to answer too. How can we expect to win an All Ireland semi final when we do not use the bench, 4/5 forwards were out of there feet on 60 minutes, we needed to replace 3, we possibly could did not push up on puck outs because our players were bet. I spoke about this before the match, that we need a plan from 60 minutes on, simply not good enough. If we were in Munster it might benefit us in the long run but we would not get out with this team and management