citykat wrote: » Barry Kelly had a major bearing on the outcome of KK Vs Cork last year. His decision was subsequently rescinded. If that didn't ingratiate him to the Cork fans nothing ever will.
rebs23 wrote: » Jesus the amount of conspiracy theories about Cork is amazing. We beat KK last year because we were better than them? As for refs, every county has grievances about every ref!!
IrishAlice wrote: » Overall yes Cork were better than us in that match last year. BUT Barry Kelly did make some questionable calls, one in particular was giving Henry Shefflin two yellows which was later proven when the second yellow was rescinded. You're dead right about every county having grievances about refs, I'm very vocal on my dislike of Barry Kelly because I think he has a blatant anti Kilkenny agenda.
rebs23 wrote: » I think it is just down to a general view in officialdom that they want more open type play in Hurling and Football. Its better for the viewers! Thats the way soccer has gone all over the world and the same thing is happening in the GAA. Less of the rough stuff or manly hurling as you call it in KK:D Don't think it is down to individual refs. You could argue they all are as equally good/bad. As for the Sunday Game, it was absolutely chronic last Sunday night.
Grats wrote: » James Owens allowed a Waterford square ball against Kilkenny last year and another one for Tipp in the League Final!
Mountainlad wrote: » Did he? I don't think you mentioned that before. Forgot he was an umpire too.
Grats wrote: » Don't like moaning on about refs, they do their best, don't they? The ref has the final decision - don't they?
Mountainlad wrote: » Very big of you
dastardly00 wrote: » Anybody watching the Sunday Game? They've gone super fancy with a graph of 'scores' vs 'time' for the Wexford-Clare match!
adrian522 wrote: » Pretty embarrassing that neither Eddie Brennan nor Donal O Cusack seemed to know the rules for the black card given they were advocating it being brought in for hurling. A 2nd yellow was deemed to harsh but a black card would be the ideal solution was the general gist of the conversation. Amazed somebody at RTE wasn't able to point out that if you are already on a yellow a black card is essentially the same as a second yellow and you would not be able to bring on a replacement. It actually beggars belief that the conversation was able to go in that direction with somebody pulling them up about it. Ollie Canning chiming in with the same thing again today in the paper.
Martin567 wrote: » Could it not be the case that they meant a black card might have been given for the first offence? In that case, the player would leave the field but his team would still have 15 men. He then wouldn't be on the field to commit a second offence and potentially reduce his team to 14 men.
Nidgeweasel wrote: » Dry up lads.
jethro081 wrote: » you referencing the kieran hughes thing? that's never a red card for me. not in a million years. it's not like he puched him. it's not a nice thing to do, but sure god only knows what led up to it.
Nidgeweasel wrote: » Yes. He threw a ball at him, lightly. Big deal. There's a couple of minutes now could have been better spent with a preview of next weekends quarter finals.
jethro081 wrote: » couldn't agree more. if the ref had sent him off for that i'd have been livid.
Royce McCutcheon wrote: » iFrom a kildaremans perspective it was in no way a sending off offence but it shows a complete lack of class and respect for a fellow player.Going into extra time there should be only one thing on your mind and I dont think pulling a young and much smaller guys hair and throwing a football at him twice is it. Just left a bitter taste in my mouth after a game which I thought was played as fairly as any 2 teams could have in such poor conditions.
jethro081 wrote: » However, i can't argue that it was far from classy, i just feel it was overblown by the sunday game lads.
