It just shows him as a complete cunt. Anyone else would understand the situation, take heed he was one of his own & keep his stupid beak shut.
He couldn’t even do that.
He has caused a shit storm and is going to end up seriously hurt eventually due to his own inadequacies ( being such a dumb bastard ).
Who is this O’Brien fella you’re on about?
Worth noting, the player who carried out the hit, Dooley, didn’t even have the decency to go to King and say it was an accident, in the hours or days after. If you did that much damage, from an accidental strike, you should at least be man enough to apologise, whether its accepted or not is another matter.
The fact that Camross as a club didn’t inquire for his wellbeing either, is another disgusting mark against them.
The guy tried to do a player, why would he need an apology.
I didn’t realise at first who Shane Keegan was, turns out he’s the former Galway Utd and Wexford Youths boss. Keegan managed Ross at underage level and has been writing for the Times since he finished with Galway earlier this year.
On what basis did the Camross fella get his 2-game ban overturned?
I don’t have that information to hand yet. But once I get it, I’ll notify the board.
Sound.
It’d be an awful reflection on the Laois CCC if it was on a technicality. They surely did their homework on this.
You’re putting too much faith in the Laois CCC here I feel.
It’s a tricky one as the referee “dealt” with the incident at the time and deemed it worthy of a yellow card.
One of two things happened next: (a) The CCC ask the referee for clarification and he agrees that it should be upgraded to a red card, or (b) he stands over his original decision.
If (a) is the case, the process should have been straightforward and the only grounds for overturning would be a prcedural error.
If (b), you’re into a grey area as, regardless of obvious evidence, the CCC have dismissed a referee’s report after receiving further clarification of same.
I believe what happened was the referee was asked about the yellow card. He said he gave it for the two pulls (are you fucking kidding me?!). Which gave the CB the opportunity to issue a two game ban for the hurl into the puss.
The referee had said he only dealt with the scelping, not the incident which caused injury to King. It was that which they went after.
Ok. Even harder to see how it was overturned if that’s the case.
Dont know. Depends what he was up for in the actual incident of the hit to King or how he defended it. A player ran at him from his blindside, he turned and lifted his hurl to lessen the impact. The hurl caused damage to King, but he did not forcefully hit him, the force came from King running.
Obviously others have different viewpoints on that, but I think it would be easy enough to over turn it on that incident. If he had got sent off for the completely over the top wild pulling, then there would be no way to overturn that and he should have got a red for the blatant offence. If they so wanted, a lengthy suspension for that could have covered them nicely then for what happened just after that.
The lads that gave them the hurleys in the first place are really to blame here.
I believe there was no real proof of intent. Which as we’ve seen here, is fair enough. O Brien in truth made a bollocks of the whole thing. @carryharry told us this would happen.
I believe he refereed the Leinster U21 Hurling this year between Wexford and Galway, was there controversy at this also?
He sent Cody off in a Walsh Cup game not so long ago iirc.
Was this him too Carry?
He’s building up quite a portfolio of cock ups. No wonder Tipp ran him. He sent Shanahan off this year too was it?
@Fat_Pox was never a fan either
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