Limerick GAA Discussion Part 2

I still don't think I've ever seen people boo an actual free taker tbh. Whether for or against my side. What exactly would they be voicing their displeasure at? That the player who has been told to take the free is actually taking the free? It makes no sense.

At least voicing displeasure at the decision to award the free - though obviously impotent / futile - is at least some bit logical.

Cork would win the All Ireland Booing Championship if there was such a thing !

That's goalpost moving a bit. People waving their arms and shouting obscenities etc. is clearly trying to put the free taker off. But booing does basically nothing. I'm not "JAQ'ing" here. Like it's completely illogical what some people are saying: "loads of Cork fans do this" and "Cork people are like this" and yet nobody on boards - literally nobody - tries to defend it or say anything like "that's understandable behaviour".

So either we have a weird unrepresentative set of Cork fans posting on here, or the people you think are booing the free taker are actually booing the ref's decision to award a free. And I'm totally open to being wrong on this, cos I'm not the one booing. I'm just perplexed by it because I've read it about a hundred times now over the last 24 hours and I'm baffled by someone booing a free taker (as opposed to whistling, jeering, waving, etc which is fairly clear).

As an aside I could easily make some cut off your motivations or make some generalisation about Limerick fans here too…but why? Why does GAA chat have to descend into this kind of weird slagging? It seems very juvenile... like booing... what's wrong with the sport that we can't actually discuss things. We're turning into soccer or something. My da is bigger than your da etc. Or maybe I'm the wrong one to be on here thinking / assuming everyone would post in good faith tbh, but in fairness, in ANY of my posts have I come across as disingenuous?

TLDR: If I'm wrong about stuff that's fine and I can accept I'm wrong or deluded but I'm not being disingenuous. I've better things to do than some kind of weird reverse trolling the day after Limerick beat Cork in a Munster final.

Fair enough, I shouldn't have risen to the bait.

I'll bow out and say - which ye all know anyway - the better team won on the day and they're still the top team in the country year after year. It's nearly a decade now, some going.

A few mad decisions like that yesterday on both sides, possibly just put it down to the conditions where they were constantly looking for shorter "safer" options

They'd definitely have won it if the ref had just allowed them another 30 seconds at the end to crank up the volume of boos.

Compared to last year the limerick team look ravenous this year in terms of appetite which was plain to see after the final whistle, there will be no taking anything for granted in semi final against Clare or Dublin .

I was saying Booooo yrnes!

Clearly still bitter over last year. I was glad he blew up when he did to be honest. Extra time wouldn't have been good for either team in those conditions with the condensed championship after already picking up a few knocks.

Have a read of Malachy Clerkin in the Irish Times for an impartial view on Owens performance. Mark Coleman has also given an interview on the smaller fish and clearly has no gripes whatsoever.

Nothing to do with being bitter, I just don’t understand the complaining from Cork that Owens blew it up too early. It was at 77 minutes when only 5 were added on. It was completely up to Owens discretion when to blow it up. Mark Coleman gave a fair summary of the incident alright, pity Ben O Connor wasn’t as gracious.

Was brutal. Now imagine how miserable that walk back was for a Cork supporter! Was interesting that Coleman said Owens didn't give a single instruction as to how he would be reffing it. Players should adapt in real time but a bit of communication to players and even supporters on what to expect might go some way to relaxing the heat on referees.

Kiely said similar to Ben last year only in reference to the referee playing too much time. He also referenced decisions that didn't go his way. Only difference being he has much more experience and is a bit more polished. Ben was still fired up immediately after narrowly losing a munster final in his first year as coach in a game they led until the 70th minute. I don't think he was particularly ungracious and think he deserves a bit of slack.

The only annoying thing about it is the it's getting so much media coverage because of it. I haven't spoken to anyone who feels in any way aggrieved over it. I will say though that the ball was out of play for the majority of that 5 minutes and TOM was injured over the last free and feel the attacking team shouldn't be punished for that. It's a separate point though and easily could have been blown up before then

Not disagreeing with you but as a Cork fan I didn't mind seeing Ben a bit angry after the last day. He might be becoming unpopular outside of Cork but I don't think he'll care too much. Pat Ryan was widely regarded as the ultimate gentleman but never got over the line and there still seemed to be a general dislike for Cork anyway.

Hard to know, but based on results to date it would seem that the Munster form may be a bit ahead of Leinster. Galway had two narrow wins over Kilkenny, who were well beaten by Cork.

Cork also beat Wexford and Clare beat Dublin.

Some great scores and passages of play.

You can really see how and where Some of these lads could fit into the senior team Some day. I thought #4 Mitchell had a great game and has a rel look of a Limerick senior full back line player.

2 trophies, a minor final and an All Ireland semi. Been a great year so far.