Paul Hearty frantically trying to get the kick out off after Tom Brewsterâs point in the 2004 All Ireland Quarter Final was iconic.
Evan Comerford v Kerry in 2022 was similar.
Eoin Murphy of Kilkenny has a great way of flying around at 100 miles an hour frantically getting puckouts off late on when chasing games too.
An iconic nonchalant stretching of the arms by John Bannon to end the game.
I can feel the ball
On this topic, when did umpires stop signalling scores before going for the flag? Nowadays some of them are very casual about it creating a big lag between the ball going over and the crowd getting the signal that it has.
That would have been stopped the referees association. When I was top level umpire back in the 00s we were told the only signal for a score was the flag. Putting your hand out / up, is the signal for a 45.
The old school umpires are the best - the white flag waving ones who raise their index finger skywards before briskly going for the flag.
Drives me spare these umpires, at both club and county level, who amble towards the post before leaving you in suspense until the last second, finally (belatedly) waving it wide or slowly going for the flag.
Whatâs going on here then? Were they living in a gym? The mention of comfortable quarters with nutrition is bizarre.
âIâll tell you one example of toxic activity. I received an email saying âare you aware that there are five members of the Mayo senior football panel living in Dublin in an area where it is not laid out for residential use? I am reporting those five players to Dublin City Council.â Lo and behold, they were reported and put out of it. Had to move. Five players from your clubs, you have to ask yourself what is the mentality of someone who would do that? Is that person for Mayo GAA? What is their agenda?
âWhy would you be so vicious as to want to do that to five of your county men who are living in Dublin and the county just wants to ensure they are living in good comfortable quarters with plenty of nutrition.â He continued: âThe people reporting back to these people are also in this room. That is the worrying part of it. All I am going to ask you to do is to reflect.â
I remember a lad I previously worked with from Belmullet mentioned Barrett was living in an office but I thought he was pulling the piss. Fucking hell.
Get well Kev.
Fuck MayoâŚ.
Could they have been living in the zoo?
Or a womenâs prison maybe?
Or a supermarket canteen?
Maybe an âI Passâ centre?
Surely itâs a good thing these Mayo players are no longer being forced to live in a factory, but not according to Jarlath Burns?
What harm were they doing living in a warehouse?
What I want to know is who was driving the forklift truck.
The âŹ300k a year for circa 30 years is some millstone round their necks all the same.
It a savage amount of money to find annually all for a bit of a vanity project on the Park.
Tis all go in Mayo.
A few water beds, microwave, showers and a nice Merc minibus chauffeuring them up and down the m4? What a setup imo.
This puts the frat boy house share that Eamo, Berno and Clucko had to shame
All the same must have been fair odd for them bringing a bird back⌠âwait til you see the nutrition we haveâ.
Taxi turns into a warehouseâŚ
Iâm gonna take one guess, and say âthe warehouseâ was Roddy Bolands.
Thoughts and prayers. Fuckinâ hate Mayo fans. Their behaviour after losing in 2012 was vicious, both in the stands, leaving Croker, and in the pubs afterwards.
That said, this is sport and it never pleases me to see any player of the opposition injured, and the same would be said for their backroom teams. The stress of managing an outfit whose fanbase expect to be in all-ireland contention most years must be relentless.
It sounded like heâd lost the dressing room, his refusal to adapt to the new rules seemed defiant and not in touch with reality, and I canât see the his replacement making much difference. Proven at club level, and allegedly a ridiculously good coach who dislikes intercounty management. He was coach under Declan Bonner in Donegal when we were brutal, but I was actually keen for him to manage the county afterards to see what heâd bring without Bonnerâs meddling, but they threw the baby out with bathwater.
Speedy recovery I hope.