Whats the general concensus on Maurice’s display? He made mistakes, sure, but that game must have been an absolute fucking nightmare to referee. [quote=“Julio_Geordio, post:8913, topic:21595”]
Mayo needed a forward to step up and take it on, Moran, O’Shea & O’Connor their marquee forwards were well below par.
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This was a huge issue for me. An amount of times AOS had opportunities to take the man on, but turned back each time. A man of his size and strength, in the first half of that game, should easily have been able to at least try get past McMahon, or anyone for that matter. Seamie did it eventually and got a scorable free out of it. It showed a lack of bottle and belief.
Also its worth saying, that while AOS disappointed, he still had to be marked, and invariably had one of Dublins better markers on him. And he still got some joy, regardless of that. He should be doing better and more, but he’s still a threat and Dublin showed him due respect.
I thoight Deegan was going ok. Disagree with Keegan call but most of the rest of it, whats he supposed to do? It was bananas shit. And i was only watching tv. I daresay there was plenty more going on everywhere.
I think tge refereeing is a.major issue and the type of people they seek. However they cannot be blaned for everything especially the stupid rukes and players being morons.
I thought it was pretty much unrefereeable under the current circumstances (rules/players/shiteacting/replay and everything that comes with that). I’d say your head would be in bits walking off that pitch afterwards.
He also talks to the players, which helps. It may not please them, but it doesn’t infuriate them as others do when refs ignore them. All joking aside, he’s got faults, but I’d hate to be a referee nowadays. I was in O’Moore Park yesterday at the Laois semi finals, and its fucking disgusting trying to watch the football, let alone try referee it. Not sure why anyone even bothers anymore.
Was there ever any drive to get ex players (of decent level) involved? Has little enough to attract it I guess. Assume fuck all money in it?
Lot of ex pro rugby players starting to get into it now, and few very good club level players ( one B Cutriss I saw in action recently who you may have knocked across in your travels). But it can be very lucrative if any use and pathway to the top is quick enough.
Plus, and most importantly, rugby is probably an easier game to referee now
Connelly looks to me very much like a lad who might have had treatment for allergies. This may or may not be supported by a history of random unprovoked attacks on strangers.
Maybe a simple fouls count like basketball, 3 or 4 or 5 fouls or whatever and you foul out. You can replace the first two fouled out but no one after that. No such thing as yellow cards or ticks anymore. But red remains for serious incidents. It removes the vagaries, a foul is a foul.
You’d probably need a total teams foul count as well to stop managers just subbing out lads on high foul counts.
It was criticism from Mickey Harte and Sean Boylan that scuppered the sin bin experiment a number of years ago. Them two lads moaning should have been evidence enough to the GAA that the sin bin was keeping. Instead they blinked and we are left with the cluster fuck of a rule that is the black card.
Jaysus. Theres hardly enough refs around the moment to ref club matches. You’d need a car load to run that system for each match.The refs that are there can barely keep score and keep time without trying to track the amount of fouls 30 lads commit on a wet windy evening.
At inter county level that system is fine but the rules you make for Dublin v Mayo also has to suit Pallas v Oola.
