Well he pulled a little recklessly . JC was dominating at that juncture .
- Barry Kelly
- Aodan Mac Suimhne
- Pat Horan
Are u related to MacSuibhne?
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Jimmy Cooney
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Barry Kelly the GOAT
It does seem fitting on the 30th anniversary of Denton Day that a Wexford man James Owens has been chosen to referee the All Ireland Final and another Wexford man (albeit exiled in Carlow) Paud O’Dwyer has been chosen as back up.
Sickening that the GAA appoint a Leinster referee for the final, particularly after the display of the Leinster referee in the Tipp/Wexford Semi-final.
I’d be worried for Tipp. He did great work for Kilkenny last year.
A well deserved honour for James Owens but one he’d prefer not to have bestowed upon him. Unfortunately Sean Cleere missed the blatant pelanty on Conor McDonald and Barry Heffernan’s second yellow / straight red offence, and Wexford folk, with the exception of James, just have to take their medicine and watch from afar.
He has form as well, rode Tipp red raw in the 2014 League Final.
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Some trimming in there for hurling referees
People need to get a bloody grip.
GAA is popular solely in the 32 counties on this island, save for a few members of the diaspora abroad.
VAR me arse.
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Will VAR be able to identify young lads in the terrace throwing flares and/or drinking cans 
The headline isnt really the story imo. A black card for hurling is more relevant.
But its this part which is pretty damning
The Monaghan native also revealed that he was constantly working with hurling referees to improve their positioning and workrate, and that he doesn’t believe there are as many good hurling officials as football ones.
He had some sympathy for the view of former hurling referee Brian Gavin’s view, expressed in his Irish Examiner column, that referees’ bosses were now more concerned about fitness than the actual standard of officiating.
"I would have a bit of a gripe with hurling referees. I don’t believe they work hard enough. I don’t believe they cover the ground. If you look at some of the numbers the football referees pump out – 10, 11k in a game. You don’t get that same level from hurling referees.
“Now hurling referees would have an argument that it’s a much faster game, but even some of the positional sense, some of the positions they would take – I wouldn’t say I was hard on them when I was chairman, but I used to always work at them to try and get themselves into better positions.”
Gavin himself expressed the opinion that football refereeing was in a healthier position than hurling.
“That’s always been the case unfortunately. You always have five or six referees capable of refereeing an All-Ireland final in football. That’s still the case today. You don’t have that massive selection of referees to referee a hurling final. You’re always struggling – you get guys who are performing well but you’re down to two or three guys that can referee an All-Ireland hurling final."
VAR is for multi million pound/ euro professional sports ffs, it’s a quality control in a high finance business. … Some scutter in that article. The GAA would be better placed to sort their umpires and linesmen out and it would be much improved…
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Change the steps rule from steps to a time based rule so it is far easier to interprete and referee and change the rule on a hand pass that there has to be two motions and a clear and obvious release and strike with the palm of the hand and enforce both. That would make hurling refs lives a lot more easier than VAR.
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It’s not too hard to see that he has fuck all clue about hurling. Surely to God it would make more sense to have two referees so that can concentrate less on running around and more on officiating.
It’d drive you soft.
Black card needs to be amended again when you see what happened at the end of the Mayo Galway game. There isn’t a single player that wouldn’t have done the same thing, confident that they had a two point lead and the worst punishment is a black card or a yellow depending on how the ref view the incident.
Make it a penalty for a deliberate foul like that in a scoring position or something similar.
100%… I can’t understand the lack of media focus on the steps rule… Granted every team is benefitting from it but there’s been umpteen games over the last few years with goals from over carrying by about 4 or 5 steps and nothing said.