2021 All Ireland Football-Covid is a cod tyrone style

[ironmoth]

@Cheasty

If the shoulder ever goes the games are fucked. Gaelic football and hurling as well as being ball games also essentially physical contests. Taking that element out would result in deeply sanitised sports that would be less fun to play and would be unwatchable.

I couldn’t agree more. The throw-in of a hurling and football matches might as well switch to a soccer-style “kick-off”.

[Halfpipe]

Deegan was standing within 10 yards of Hennelly telling him not to hit the first one because Mayo had 16 on the field and it had to be sorted. When Hennelly was kicking the retake Deegan was back out on the sideline where he should be. You’re not wrong that Lane had generally lost it by then - I expect seeing a lad go off in the manner Mclaughlin did would mess with any referees head because he knew he had missed something big - but he was working under instruction by Deegan on the Hennelly incident.

[BruidheanChaorthainn]

@gilgamboa

@Cheasty

And compared to what you see in rugby or American football, really big hits are rare.

Fellas lose their fucking religion on TFK when a fella gets a knock in the head playing Rubby. There isn’t even a HIA protocol in GAA. Another fella was shouldered off in ET by two medics after getting a straight forearm to the head that has barely warranted a mention.

Both events were red cards with lengthy suspensions in Rubby. The 2nd one by the other Small would get a much longer ban for intent I’d say

Very good point.

[Bisto]

Poor John Small…Put Keegan in jail …

[binkybarnes]

@Bisto

Poor John Small…Put Keegan in jail

I wonder who decked the mayo lad in the background

[TheUlteriorMotive]

That looks like a clear red card.

[Aertel220]

The reality is it wasn’t John Small’s first rodeo. He was sent off in the 2017 final, should have been sent off in the 2016 final and is regularly clouded in controversy. People say that’s because all good players play on the edge but I can never remember his former half-back colleague Jack McCaffrey ever being involved in any kind of skullduggery like that.

[Copper_pipe]

[Raylan]

Ridiculous comparison

[tallback]

@Copper_pipe

Streamable Video

Ah lovely - everyone either side of the camera in that comes off badly

[Fulvio_From_Aughnacloy]

Was sent off in the 2018 final too.

[Aertel220]

@Raylan

Ridiculous comparison

I know Small plays a more confrontational role but it’s just an example that shows playing on the edge isn’t necessary to be a great and win. A lot of the skirmishes he gets into are unnecessary and don’t really assist the team in any way.

[Aertel220]

@Fulvio_From_Aughnacloy

Was sent off in the 2018 final too.

A liability. You’d understand a certain level of tolerance for a generational talent like Diarmuid Connolly.

[peddlerscross]

Jim wouldn’t go into battle without him.

[Raylan]

Jack is grand for the choir but you need a few lads that aren’t afraid of the dark

[Cheasty]

@Aertel220

The reality is it wasn’t John Small’s first rodeo. He was sent off in the 2017 final, should have been sent off in the 2016 final and is regularly clouded in controversy. People say that’s because all good players play on the edge but I can never remember his former half-back colleague Jack McCaffrey ever being involved in any kind of skullduggery like that.

You need different ways to skin a cat.

You can’t win an All-Ireland with a team of John Smalls but you need a couple of them.

You can’t win an All-Ireland with a team of Jack McCaffre…actually scratch that, bad example. You’d win the All-Ireland final by 30 points with a team of Jack McCaffreys.

[Enrique]

That’s an awful challenge, full force into the ribs while JS not braced and completely exposed.

[Cheasty]

Sean McMahon sustained a broken leg in the semi-final, according to Paul Flynn.

[flutehook]

Specifically in the ‘shoulder’ incident I gather.

[glasagusban]

@Aertel220

The reality is it wasn’t John Small’s first rodeo. He was sent off in the 2017 final, should have been sent off in the 2016 final and is regularly clouded in controversy. People say that’s because all good players play on the edge but I can never remember his former half-back colleague Jack McCaffrey ever being involved in any kind of skullduggery like that.

Yet we shouldn’t call him a filthy player.