Donegal 2011 and Mayo 2015 drawn game.
Ok, what were the circumstances, can’t remember?
Silly yellows or outright stupidity and reds?
2011 - with about 10 minutes left, he lightly aimed a closed fist at Donegal sub Marty Boyle who made a total meal of it and went down as if he’d been shot. Was clearly being goaded but shouldn’t have allowed himself to be wound up or raise his fist.
Last year himself and Lee Keegan went at it when Mayo had pulled level near the end. Keegan dragged him back off the ball but Connolly again allowed himself to be wound up and punched Keegan on the ground.
Both were straight reds but both times he got off the suspension.
Ah ya how did i forget last year.
There is the issue. He has been allowed get away with it and Dublin can do what they want cos the GAA will bend.
Its enabling essentially.
It’s not just Connolly. Four or five Dublin players at least are very easy to wind up and constantly sail close to the wind.
It’s spread throughout the team in big matches, most notably the Mayo drawn game last year, and yesterday was another example.
If Aidan O’Mahony starts the semi-final, I’d say part of it will be with an eye to getting a Dublin player, preferably Connolly, sent-off. McMahon’s reputation is such now too that a referee is going to make an example of him soon and Donaghy will be on the wind-up from the start.
Having lost to Dublin three times since 2011, you’d imagine Kerry will be prepared to do anything to win this time and Dublin players’ indiscipline is an obvious avenue for them to try and exploit.
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Lee Keegan getting off relatively blameless again. If he played for Tyrone he would be public enemy number 1. Some amount of pricks in that Mayo side between the O’Sheas, O’Connor, Boyle and Keegan.
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If he played for Tyrone he’d be forgotten about cos he’d have no more football to play this year.
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We were no more kept in by soft frees than Mayo were.
The game simply came down to Mayo having that bit more composure in the final third. Tyrone were actually more effective in the other areas.
I don’t think neither team really hit their stride in the game. Keegan has a long line of gamesmanship now and he along with Peter Crowley rarely have any attention brought to it.
No, he wouldn’t. Tyrone are never forgotten about if there is bad press in the pipeline.
He’s been twice removed from the panel in as many seasons and told to ‘reflect’ after being dragged off Philly and ANO in training. The panel decided his return last time
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Both Philly & Cooper took an amount of abuse yesterday and didn’t react. Philly at least has the intelligence to realise he was a marked man this year. I think his game suffered for that earlier in the year but he has adapted well. He sauntered back yesterday after his point and gave his marker a wink.
Connolly needs to grow the fuck up. He’s a genius but a liability at this stage
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He should be in prison
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Fair enough, if players allow him back then they all have to be in it together.
Dublin are culpable in it also, constantly pulling strokes for him, practically enablers at this stage
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Dublin fans whinging about their players* getting a few verbals & digs off the ball should stay at home in future the fucking fanny’s.
*dirtier than most
Tyrone, Donegal, Mayo, Dublin and Kerry all have an equal amount of pups - very little between any of these sides in that manner bar the reporting and analysis of it from the media.
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Dead right @Nembo_Kid. We all remember Kevin McStay trying to get a Dublin player banned last year on Rte and the media ignoring Cillain O Connor smashing a fellas face in. Clear anti Dublin bias.
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Amusing how fans of teams can seem to ignore the cur in their own ranks, as Kev said all teams will have them. And most likely love them, yet get abhorred when others act up. Laois could do with a few tramps instead of faux hard men, you’d miss Billy Sheehan in that regard, there’s not many who could rile a fella up so much that he’d toe you in the hole in the tunnel 
That’s an excessive sanction for a second yellow card imo.
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Michael Murphy should have saw red
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