Just watched a program about the 80s GAA on TG4. Excellent if youâre an anorak type of GAA follower.
Anyway, the Keady affair got a brief airing together with the 1989 semi final v Tipp. Tipp were some fucking lucky to get that All Ireland. Sylvie seemed to be very upset with Nicky English. Did Sylvie actually hit him or did English dive?
Hopper McGrath could have no complaints.
Nicky admitted in his autobiography that silvie nudged him and he hit the deck, no sending off. There is no doubt Denton was influenced and some of his decisions that day were bizarre. Guilt still lingers on on tipp, you will see an annual attemp on PV to justify that result .
Thatâs gas. Dentonâs bizarre decisions werenât reserved for the All Ireland semi final of 1989 so I doubt he was influenced. Heâs still going this year in fairness to him.
The 3 things shown were: 1) Sylvieâs sending off, which happened on the advice of the umpire (Bandage was this you? I suspect he was the ref for your Clonard incident).
Leahyâs botched penalty x 2. 50/50 call.
Hopper which was a sending off.
And Chipp still only won by 3 points.
There was something much better about those games on TV back then. The old Croker had much more character than todayâs structure.
Meath beating Cork. 
Joe Cassells snatching Sam off Dowling.
Galway couldnât buy a free that day, the penalty wasnât one in the first instance and to order it retaken for the keeper moving was unbelievable. Hopper had to go alright. Galway were missing eanna Ryan , Martin naughton, keady and also pat Malone ( I think ) add the sendings off and they were nearly down half their team for a finish
Mullache Ide will be seething when he sees this
A lot of wealthy tipp people holiday in rosslare for August
Michael âBabsâ Keating is a regular visitor to Rosslare.
I actually watched this game a few weeks ago on youtube. Thereâs definitely no exaggeration when it comes to Dentonâs performance anyway. I find it hard to think of a performance by any ref in an intercounty games that was even remotely as bad. It was shocking at times. It wasnât just one or two decisions, but entire series of them that ran well into double figures that were simply baffling.
Some of the worst of them were Leahyâs wild pull across Finnerty that he got away with, and Finnerty being booked for absolutely nothing straight after it; a free against Gerry Mc where he cleanly knocked the ball away from Cleary where there was no way anyone with an ounce of sense could have thought it was a foul; and an utterly bizarre call against Lynskey where he pulled on and connected with a dropping ball from a puckout where itâs impossible to see what even Denton could have given a free for.
English made the most of whatever Sylvie did to him, but Hopper McGrath deserved to go for what was an insane tackle. Leahy, had he been wearing a Galway jersey, would have been sent off twice.
After all that though, Tipp still looked like the better team to me. Their forwards were way more dangerous and the Galway full-backline were destroyed in the first half. Galway were blessed with two very fortunate goals at either end of the first half and did not deserve to be in touch at half-time. Their forwards, with the exception of Eanna Ryan and Joe Cooney were brutal. Lynskey made a bit of an impact I suppose and Hopper came into it in the second half but they just were nowhere near as clinical or as dangerous as the Tipp attack.
Thatâs not to say Galway couldnât have won the game if Denton hadnât been such a cunt because they could have. Overall though it looked to me like a fitter, hungrier team got the better of them, and three points possibly even flattered them in the end.
:shakefist: Iâll never get over the way John Denton was treated after that match.
Sean Tracey had a stormer for Galway that dayâŚ
i did a search for the threats of violence on TFK thread and this was one of the first posts that came up
i did a search for the threats of violence on TFK thread and this was one of the first posts that came up[/quote]
cantonasboot was some poster.
he had another thread i remember about how to kill a man, one of the methods he advised was strapping a knife to your knob and to fuck him in the ass, it was sensational internetting in fairness
[quote=âmickee321, post: 742035, member: 367â]cantonasboot was some poster.
he had another thread i remember about how to kill a man, one of the methods he advised was strapping a knife to your knob and to fuck him in the ass, it was sensational internetting in fairness[/quote]
Lying about his Granny
The Superman jocks
The hairpiece
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