Football Championship 2026 (Mod Note in OP)

There's lads on here who have suddenly become the moral police and Helen Lovejoys just because an incident involved Kerry and Donegal. I'm fairly certain same posters turned a blind eye after a horrendous shoulder by a Dublin lad a few years ago, and were always sympathetic to others flashpoints involving the Jackeens.

Funny that.

They could tidy it up fairly easily if they wanted. Management/backroom team come on to the field of play, at any point, whether ball in play or not:

Red card for the person involved.

Black card for a nominated player

etc etc

Very harsh, yes. But I think you'll start to see this creep in more and more now

I suppose the point is that one's 'greater knowledge' of something doesn't make one immune from error or bad judgment nor does it completely invalidate the 'opinion' of those allegedly less knowledgeable...

Not sure why people are acting so shocked. The CCCC is making a point lately of not undermining referees. Doling out retroactive punishments at the behest of media pundits and permanently outraged fans is not the objective, nor should it be, unless we want the whinging from every corner to increase tenfold after every single game. In Brennan's situation, he was red carded at the time of the incident, which was then recorded in the ref's report and the CCCC backed the report. That they went by the ref's report again this time and didn't sanction either McGuinness or Clifford is actually consistent with how these issues have been handled this year. Ultimately, the ref's report is being taken as the last word, and for me that is preferable to officials being dictated to by journalists and reactive spectators motivated by their own agendas. At the end of it all, Clifford and McGuinness will have their cards marked now and will probably have to be careful going forward, they're unlikely to get the benefit of the doubt again.

Not shocked . But disappointed this was the GAA / CCCC chance to act. And it would actually help the officials already under immense pressure. It would also stop players/management acting the maggot. Have a bit of decorum. In other major sporting codes, this sort of thing is just not tolerated.

Rugby - would have used TMO re Clifford - McGuinnes breech of technical area -  Low-end infraction: Automatic 2-week ban. Mid-range infraction: Automatic 6-week ban. Top-end infraction: 12+ weeks.

Soccer - independently cited - video evidence treated as absolute

:-:

The GAA CCCC - is more “Ah lads, it wasn’t in the refs report, that means we can ignore it, was no badness in it anyway “

In rugby the management team are generally up in the stand.

In soccer managers routinely make fools of themselves and get away with it. The behaviour of both benches in the recent Champions League semi with Atletico and Arsenal was embarrassing and nothing came of it.

There's a reason when there's a row at a match people are nearly falling over one another to get a look. As you say everybody loves a bit of argy bargy. When the meath mayo all Ireland 1996 is mentioned the row is what everyone this of.

Obviously players getting punched in the face like mchugh is unacceptable and we do not want that in our game but the hand wringing over Clifford and mcguinness is laughable

Kerry players be better off concentrating on the football instead getting wound up by likes of Yarragh O'Se articles. Foley and Morley were berating David Coldrick from the throw in while they were involved in off the ball incidents themselves. They also with Breen swarmed around Murphy when the row broke out.

but there is no scale though .thats the thing obviously designed to be zero tolerance.

If McGuinness thumped the head off the Kerry lad and the same ref report was submitted the CCC absolutely would have done something.

The more likely scenario is that if McGuinness thumped the head off the Kerry lad it would have been brought to the refs notice and he would have given him a red card.

The CCCC would have then given him a 12 week ban.

Your scenario involves McGuinness "thumping the head off the Kerry lad"

In all probability that sort of action would get the attention of the ref fairly quickly, linesman, fourth official, umpires etc would likely have seen some of it and notified the ref.

So the chance of the ref missing or not being informed of such an egregious act as "thumping the head off" someone are slim.

Much slimer than the ref missing a simple push in an already heated environment.

We get it.

The big bad bogeyman Jim McGuinness got away with attempted murder while little oul innocent choirboy Brennan was discriminated against.

Its over, move on and enjoy the rest of the championship, if your not too incensed by the inner-workings of the CCCC of course.

Jim McGuinness. Hated, adored, never ignored.