I thought that’s what the cunts did anyway
Exactly. Kelly and Nugent were treated disgracefully. On top of that who is to say Nugent wouldn’t have banged in 2 goals in extra time? We will never know because coldrick decided to make up a rule.
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More than likely Kelly would have been under the high ball that nobody contested for Armaghs extra time goal
That’s more absolute nonsense.
Why wasnt Rian O’Neill sent forward was captain?
What if it was Kerry and David Clifford?
Nobody made up a rule, he just applied an existing rule arbitrarily
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Galway back saving football.
The sending off for the hit to tierney was correct. Walsh was rattled by being blindsided too, he mishit a few passes after that before the near suicide. So the theory that Armagh were clean bar the gouging doesn’t hold up. But that’s their style.
The run McDaid made for his goal was a beaut, a burst to get away from his man at the exact time. Seemed like an Aussie rules learn. Less said about the goals conceded, the first fair enough was a mishit point but you’d think after that the goal line defending would have been manic, it was deer in headlights instead.
Calls for Tiernan Kelly to lose his job are way ott. He’ll get a ban and rightly so. I’m not sure many Armagh lads have jobs anyway bar smuggling.
I’d say mayo are sick the son of a mayo legend turned into such a composed forward. Nurture not breeding.
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If he had sent off nobody, there would be far more calls for him to be removed from the referees’ panel.
Was there any course of action available to him which would not result in such calls?
The two sets of players caused the fight.
Anybody serious in their calls for Coldrick to be removed as a referee should also be calling for Galway to have 10 or 12 men suspended for the semi-final if they are to be in any way consistent and logical.
Recite the exact captaincy structure Armagh have and the players involved, please.
It wasn’t Kerry and David Clifford.
Surely there has to be a contribution bar being there.
He just decided to send off the two captains
A loophole that would allow opposition to create a mass brawl that would force Clifford off the field. Not a fair method of sorting the mess. A captain can’t be culpable for everything his teammates do on the pitch.
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The only red card worthy incidents in the melee were the gouge and the Galway sub then hitting him a slap. Not sure why you’d be suspending 12 Galway lads
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Contributing to a melee.
Exactly. It was just pushing and shoving up until the gouge
There did not appear to be a strike until the Armagh Kelly got involved. Very hard to see a red card situation. It was a row but not getting out of hand until the Armagh Kelly intervened.
No player deserved a red based on what has been shown.
The Gaa field management does deserve a kick in the hole. This issue of separating teams at half time or extra time has been well signalled. Teams get a directive on who comes out first. Should be the same team goes to the tunnel first when sharing the exit.
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Years ago in the early stages of the GAA’s obsession with importing rules from Aussie Rules which has sadly never ended, there was a suggestion that sendings off should be abolished entirely and only match suspensions imposed, to be decided by a tribunal.
I can think of several weaknesses with this dead proposal.
He did, but that’s the rule and he applied it, rightly or wrongly
By the way, we know Sean Kelly and he is certainly “not that type of player”
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I’d be very much against opposing teams going to dressing rooms at opposite sides of the pitch.
Because, let’s face it, incidents like today’s are what we all want. We all want tunnel incidents.
And we all agree that suspensions should be abolished, except for teams we dislike.
We all agree that we want furious argument, to feel angry over what other people argue - some of us while pretending we are not angry, others pretending we are angry in order to contribute to the absurdity of it all, just for the hell of it.
All of this is the chaos and absurdity that drives interest in the GAA.
Never, ever change.
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Yes he is. He’s a thug. Always Kelly. Always the victim. Never his fault.