A new low for the GGA - part 6345

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yep-sweeney is right-the GGA is a vile bigoted backwards organisation

Why does GAA get away with riots while soccer clubs get the red card?

God, they just can’t help themselves, can they? Less than a month into the new year and those neanderthals in the GAA show their true colours yet again by proving to the civilised population that thuggery and violence lie at the core of Gaelic ‘football’.
Last weekend in Portlaoise a club game between Kerry’s Dromid and somewhere called Derrytresk, in Tyrone, erupted into scenes which even seasoned Bogball correspondents described as the worst they’d ever witnessed.
The melee saw one player concussed and another with a fractured cheekbone and lacerations to his back, received as a result of being stamped on while he lay prone on the pitch.
Apart from the ferocity of the brawl there’s also the age-old problem of people entering the field of play to assault officials and opposition players. GAA fans seem to think they have some sort of right to run on to a pitch and lep about like lower-order primates, a delusion not shared by followers of other sports.
The pitch is sacrosanct and the reason we’re all in the stands or on the terraces is because we’re not good enough to be down there. Football and rugby fans have no problem accepting this simple and straightforward fact of life but GAA heads seem to think they’re a separate case.

Culchies
The GAA’s central ethos of ‘the parish is all’ also feeds in to the kind of mayhem we saw in Portlaoise. Localised tribalism is bad enough, but when you add in the natural chippiness of Nordie culchies then you have a brawl waiting to happen.
Interestingly enough, an upcoming game between another team from Kerry, Killarney’s Dr Crokes, and those fine, upstanding patriots from Crossmaglen Rangers, also set for Portlaoise, has seen the Kingdom club ask for all their supporters to be seated together.
They were desperately trying not to use the word ‘segregation’, but that’s clearly what they meant, given that when the clubs met in 2007 there were claims that three Dr Crokes’ players were assaulted/intimidated by supporters of the Bandit Country boggers.
If what happened in Portlaoise last Sunday occurred during a game between Shamrock Rovers and Bohs there’d be people facing jail and both clubs would be dealt with in the most severe manner for not controlling their players and supporters. Then again, one rule for football and another for the GAA – same as it ever was.

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Because when the GGA does it, it’s just passionate high jinks and all for the love and honour of the club and parish.

When soccer clubs do it, it’s indicative of the breakdown in society and the large number of untermensch that follow the game for no other reason than to ave a ruck.

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you love your parish?

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I’m a townie cunt, the country lads can love the parish.
It’s like the way you love Dubbelin mate and will defend its honour with all your might.
Soccerball fans only love whatever laundry their franchises employees are wearing.

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Rumours on Twitter that Derrytresk have had 8 men suspended.

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I hope Derrytresk win the final by 20 points.

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Balls.ie have this posted

http://www.balls.ie/2012/02/01/derrytresk-have-eight-men-suspended-for-final-and-fined-e5000-for-melee/

http://www.balls.ie/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/dt.png

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Handing out fines to amateur clubs is retarded. So is giving out time based (correct word escapes me…) suspensions. Those lads will be back for the local championship.

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They will miss the biggest day in their clubs history though in fairness

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Not sure a disciplinary process should take into account the importance of one off games. Those clowns especially the subs embarrassed themselves, their club and the GAA itself with their actions.

Don’t think in all the GAA brawls I’ve seen, that I’ve ever seen one really fighter clocking all around him. There must be boxers and others with martial arts training playing. Maybe they are able to control their emotions better or something.

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No sympathy, especially the subs. They vaulted a fucking barrier FFS. The fines are tough, not insurmountable but harsh enough. Still had to have sympathy for them though.

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By the way, Tyrone have a better man than most to work this appeal. This aint over yet.

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Hopefully the Laois County board get a severe slap on the wrists as well, they are far from blameless in this

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Nice one chewy :lol:

I’ll banter with you on it for the craic. What should they have done?

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They should have had far more stewards and officials there on the day. Their lack of planning and foresight is no surprise though

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Nordies again :shakefist:

There were disgraceful scenes at the end of a Sigerson Cup match in Galway yesterday after a referee was accosted before a mob of angry players raced to his dressing room and tried to confront him.
Westmeath referee Sean Carroll and some of his officials were surrounded by players from St Mary’s College — a teacher training college in Belfast.

St Mary’s had a chance to level the match with a last gasp 45 from their goalkeeper Niall Morgan in the second minute of stoppage time, but the kick was short and the full-time whistle sounded with St Mary’s in possession and poised for an equaliser.

Referee Carroll and two of his umpires were surrounded and confronted by several players as they made their way from the pitch, and were verbally abused.

At the final whistle, St Mary’s players and officials pulled their colleagues away as the referee and match officials left the pitch in the NUIG grounds at Dangan to make their way along a laneway a couple of hundred metres from the dressing rooms.

However, moments later several players, some of them urging their colleagues to “calm down, calm down”, followed and they ran through the laneway which was crowded with supporters making their way home.

Some players tried to get into the area where the match officials were changing but were prevented by officials. They demanded to see the referee and shouted abuse at they tried to get in a door to the referee’s rooms.

St Mary’s College manager Paddy Tally, who said that he did not witness the incidents at the referee’s dressing room afterwards, said that his players believed there was still 30 seconds remaining when the final whistle blew.

“It is just so disappointing after such a fantastic effort over the past few months,” said Tally.

The secretary of the Higher Education Council, Mike McMahon, said they would wait for the report from match referee Sean Carroll before proceeding.

“We will follow procedure and wait for the referee’s report and then decide what action is to be taken,” said McMahon, who was present.

NUIG’s goalkeeper Donal O’Sullivan produced a stunning save to deny Michael Stephenson in the dying moments. Carroll then blew for full-time, prompting disgraceful scenes. The Westmeath official dished out six bookings during a competitive but not especially fractious game where the standard never rose above mediocre. NUIG were reduced to 14 men just before half-time after Kieran Conroy picked up a second yellow card.

NUIG led 0-4 to 0-1 at the break but had it all to do against the wind in the second-half. Neil Douglas landed two frees in the opening half and Jason Doherty, who missed a good goal chance along with Kerry native Ian Galvin both kicked points.

Benny Herron landed St Mary’s only score of the opening half.

St Mary’s and Dungannon Swifts soccer goalkeeper Morgan produced a superb save to deny Doherty just after the restart, with points from Herron and Peter Harte reducing the deficit to the minimum after 35 minutes.

Douglas kicked a very good point from play and then added a free from the left to make it 0-6 to 0-3 after 42 minutes, but they did not score after that. Stephenson reduced the lead and Niall Sludden left just the minimum between them with seven minutes remaining but they could not fashion an equaliser.

Scorers for NUIG: N Douglas (0-4, 3fs); J Doherty and I Galvin 0-1 each.

Scorers for St Mary’s, Belfast: B Herron (0-2); P Harte; N Sludden; M Stephenson 0-1 each.

NUIG: D O’Sullivan (Limerick); G Sweeney (Galway), D Gavin (Mayo), K McDonald (Tipperary); J Moore (Galway), J Maloney (Offaly), R Kiely (Tipperary); S Guing (Offaly), S Moran (Leitrim); F Deasmhunaigh (Cork), S Gilmartin (Sligo), K Conroy (Mayo); N Douglas (Mayo), J Doherty (Mayo), I Galvin (Kerry).

Subs: R Rochford (Mayo) for Moore, 17; C Griffin (Sligo) for Galvin, 42; D Newcombe (Mayo) for Deasmhnaigh, 51; K Conlon (Leitrim) for Guing, 55.

ST MARY’S, BELFAST: N Morgan (Tyrone); M Slane (Tyrone), M Murray (Armagh), D McBride (Tyrone); G Teague (Tyrone), E McArdle (Armagh), C O’Hara (Tyrone); B Doyle (Derry), S O’Neill (Tyrone); J Gilmore (Tyrone), B Herron (Derry), D McCusker (Fermanagh); R Sexton (Down), P Harte (Tyrone), N Sludden (Tyrone).

Sub: M Stephenson (Armagh) for Gilmore, 42.

Referee: S Carroll (Westmeath).

Read more: http://www.examiner…l#ixzz1lDF6Fvk4

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Yea, good one. There was plenty of stewards there mate, its not for stewards to prevent substitutes from entering the field of play.

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:strokechin: yet you posted this the day after the incident

[quote=“myboyblue, post: 524697”]

Was speaking to a gentleman on duty in there, the carryon of the Tyrone side and supporters was completely disgraceful, with the utter blackguarding of Declan O Sullivan the out and out lowpoint of it all. Think the crowd was bigger than the CB expected, but disgraceful not to have more stewards on duty as I heard they were few and far between[/quote]

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And I was wrong. As shown from the video evidence, stewards are unable to prevent substitutes coming onto a field which was the sole reason for the fracas.

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:lol: BADLY EXPOSED