Anybody know why natalie Sawyer was taken away from our tv screens?
Who took her away and what show was she in?
Exactly.
She must have been pro trump and anti lockdown
Is skysports news still a thing?
What’s the deal with Eoghan Harris? I must be a bit young to remember him as a relevant journalist, but what’s his story, what’s his obsession with unionism and why is he such a weirdo?
This should be good
There was a good thread on this
Is a handpassed point allowed in hurling?
Johnny Flaherty
The handpassed goal in hurling was banned about 1988? It was still legal in '87, John Commins saved from a handpass goal attempt by Liam Fennelly which might have won that final for Kilkenny.
I only ask because the handpassed goal was banned in football around the same time and you’ve had this bizarre situation in football for the last 35 years or so where you can’t handpass a goal but you can handpass a point.
And because I can’t, off the top of my head, recall anybody trying to handpass a point in hurling.
You can only score a point with your hand if you connect with it in flight. Actually maybe a goal too according to how you interpret the below. Surprising more don’t try it.
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The hand pass point in football is a cod and should be done away with. It annoys the life of of me seeing lads run in on goal and then taking the soft option of fisting the ball over the bar.
The rule should be changed in line with the fisted goal. You can only do it when you are not in control of the ball.
And this thing of lads using both hands to basically push the ball into the goal needs to be looked at too.
I often see lads running in onto the end of a move and a ball passed across the goal and they basically pushing the ball with both palms into the net. Some even do it in a near throwing motion.
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Dowling scored a goal with his hand in-flight against Wexford in 2014.
It’s definitely allowed as long as it’s not a “handpass”.
I think Mullane hand passed a goal possibly in the 2003 Munster Final. I think that was the time the Cork crowd jeered much he gave the the two fingers. The goal was obviously disallowed and Mullane could have hit it with his hurley.
To be fair that’s a beautiful skill which Dublin imported from basketball, the slam dunk goal from three yards.
It would do your heart good to see James McCarthy waltzing in through the centre of the Kildare defence, handpassing to Dean Rock who’d give a loopy handpass across the face of the goal leaving the goalkeeper stranded, and Michael Darragh McAuley doing a slam dunk into the net as good as Michael Jordan could ever do.
Signature. Skill.
The Dow @ 5:50 into this
The commentary got changed for the Sunday Game on the Sunday night then.
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“In flight goal” is a lovely little term.
Eamon Morrissey got an in flight goal against Wexford too, in 1993. And a kicked goal, perhaps the most elegantly kicked goal I’ve seen in hurling.
You used to see a lot of kicked goals in those days, not so much now.
Was Limerick’s winning point in the 1992 NHL final by Ray Sampson an in flight point? I have a notion it was.
I headed a goal in an u15 match against newbridge…a poor move in hindsight, I’ll admit to outbreaks of shameless showboating in my salad days. The senior manager heard about it and told me that if i pulled a stunt like that against balinderry they’d kill me. As it happened the opportunity didn’t present itself, probably just as well.
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