unfortunately it was said that each referee has their own take on this. His advise was to ask the referee before each game what his signal is. Some will shout âplay onâ some will shout âadvantageâ, some will stick an arm in the air, some will wave their arm forward. It makes a fuck of it for people watching, but if the players know, thats the most important thing. Itâs up to managers/selectors or whatever to clarify how he is interpreting it before the game starts.
Thatâs a fuck of a thing so. Ripe for misuse. They should be obliged to shout advantage and advantage over.
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It maybe getting better with time, and the original advise was as you say, but sure you know yourself how some refs work, they make their own interpretation on things. Many will shout advantage, but not advantage over.
I had to laugh at a great viral clip there a couple of weeks back. Dublin were playing Waterford, and one of the Dublin players was fouled so the ref had his arm out for advantage as he ran out. But one of the Waterford players (Bennet I think) ran after him with no hurl and dispossessed the ball cleanly off him and the ref takes down his arm and waves play on. He clearly still had his arm up for advantage when it happened, but yet was happy for Waterford to get the ball back.
Then you have the other aspect of advantage which seems to be, while being fouled you are free to over carry to your hearts content.
yup. a real fuck of a thing. 2 wrongs making the right. I think the rule is fine, but the implementation and the referees being left to make judgement calls is what is making a fuck of it.
I agree with practically all whatâs being said about the advantage rule here. I could hear the gimp shouting âadvantageâ yesterday.
Iâm not saying we lost because of the referee but he SINGLEHANDEDLY cost us the game yesterday and was the only reason we lost.
The winning free was a dive by Brick. He tried it in the first contact in that play and it didnât work and then he managed it the second time and Ryan fell for it. All the while over carrying.
You canât beat âexperienceâ and a bit of cuteness
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I was discussing this with a lad what I attended the game with yesterday, not @Bandage.
We were standing close enough to that free. It was obvious what Brick was doing. He hadnât the legs to get anywhere and was well contained. And yet the referee bought it. Fair play to Brick heâs been doing it for his entire career. I wonder do referees ever think, oh wait Iâve been conned here? The players on both sides wouldâve known it was a dive or at best a manufactured free.
Maurice did earlier on the second half. Again fair play to him but again you can be sure that any of the players in Johnny Ryanâs vicinity wouldâve known he dived yet Johnny gives the free anyway.
It is sour grapes to be sure and a lack of cuteness on our part but fuck it I feel better now.
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Play the whistle lads, play the whistle.
And WHACK IT!!! Dont forget to whack it!!!
Fair play to them? Fuck em cheating cunts.
Liam Dunne is a great character. He thinks the clubs should spend more time developing their players than trying to knife him in the back 
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What Iâm getting from all of the media outlets coverage today is that the rumours of discontent were actually a ruse to lull Waterford into a sense of complacency.
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Liam Dunne should stay on as manager but he should shut up. As others have alluded to, we still lost yesterday and we wouldnât need to have these intermittent moral victories and performances âwhich restore prideâ if we didnât regularly take hidings. Time for some consistency* please, Wexford hurler TFK members.
*consistently good, not bad, performances though
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If he hasnât shut up since managing since 2012 heâs hardly going to start now. He needs to move on. Heâs too much of a loose cannon.
Liam Dunne silenced the doubters yesterday.
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It was a great weekend for beleaguered managers
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His quotes to Vincent Hogan in todayâs Indo are gas. Youâd swear weâd won the game with the tone of vindication.
Wexford will beat Dublin on 29 May.