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have to say a great game that was helped in matter by how it was refereed. fergal did a great job and let it flow as best he could. ive seen lots of posts on here criticizing his appointment but can we be fair and say well done good job? mrsme (USA) - Posts: 172 - 03/09/2017 22:59:31 2042369 Link 1 |
100% agree. Mighty officiating Liamwalkinstown (Dublin) - Posts: 8166 - 03/09/2017 23:18:30 2042371 Link 0 |
He did ok but I wouldn't over-eulogise either, he was too lenient at times and was letting blatant fouls go. ballydalane (Kilkenny) - Posts: 1246 - 03/09/2017 23:25:39 2042375 Link 0 |
Both teams deserve to be complimented on their approach to the game, with no attempt at nastiness. This made it easier for the ref and allowed him to let the game flow. Well done to the ref.
neverright (Roscommon) - Posts: 1648 - 03/09/2017 23:30:16 2042376 Link 1 |
for me he was man of the match janesboro (Limerick) - Posts: 1502 - 03/09/2017 23:35:48 2042377 Link 0 |
fair play.another ref with a bit of common sense..himself and brian gavin are head and shoulders above the rest kavvie (Clare) - Posts: 504 - 04/09/2017 00:07:39 2042391 Link 0 |
Obviously I was a neutral at today's gripping match. Ibbecek (Meath) - Posts: 196 - 04/09/2017 00:16:19 2042395 Link 0 |
If you want to be really picky you could say he gave a few soft frees BUT in the bigger picture he was excellent. Well done! Ulsterman (Antrim) - Posts: 9688 - 04/09/2017 01:43:47 2042401 Link 0 |
Defo did a great job. Couple of mistakes but nothing major. Excellent performance. TheFlaker (Mayo) - Posts: 7831 - 04/09/2017 06:39:59 2042407 Link 0 |
"Letting it flow" means ignoring a host of obvious frees. This happened continuously yesterday, and was very frustrating to watch. The second half was very stop-start, with numerous extended rucks. Now, if that what people want, that's grand: just write it into the rule books so all refs do this consistently. football first (None) - Posts: 1259 - 04/09/2017 08:07:23 2042413 Link 3 |
Depends on what sort of job you want a hurling referee to do. As seems to be the case in the majority of games the full rules don't get applied so in that regard he did well. But on the whole, either remove half the rules i.e. the amount of steps, the hand pass, the tackle etc and allow manhandling, stick holding, grabbing back, taking attackers down etc as par for the course. That or else tell referees they have to actually apply the rules as written. Offside_Rule (Antrim) - Posts: 4058 - 04/09/2017 08:27:57 2042415 Link 1 |
I thought he had a good game, miles ahead of football refs, hurling is a tough game, football is getting soft with easy won frees riverboys (Mayo) - Posts: 1389 - 04/09/2017 08:33:22 2042417 Link 0 |
Jesus, he seemed to let a lot go in my opinion. On both sides. No influence on the game or anything witnof (Dublin) - Posts: 1604 - 04/09/2017 09:04:13 2042425 Link 0 |
Heres one. waynoI (Dublin) - Posts: 13650 - 04/09/2017 09:16:10 2042435 Link 0 |
The ref " let it flow", which means ignoring fouls and a lot of people like that but it does not always work out 50 / 50 to both teams. I thought in the last 10 minutes he made 2 crucial calls, Fives was fouled on his way out of defence and the ref gave a free against him for over carrying which Joe Canning scored, then a few minutes later the ref did a quick throw-in which was straight to 2 Galway players and another point was scored which at that stage of the game were vital scores and swung the game Galways way.
Clubgaa (Limerick) - Posts: 879 - 04/09/2017 09:44:21 2042441 Link 2 |
Well said. I thought he had a mare of a game. Ignored blatant fouls , he did not enforce the rules , since when is that to be applauded ??
joeblogs10 (Dublin) - Posts: 104 - 04/09/2017 10:26:38 2042462 Link 0 |
Agree. He either didn't know the rules or just didn't apply them. As someone who refs a few games his handling was shocking at times . those of us who get criticism because we apply the rules as the set out, see the nonenforcement like yesterday getting eulogized and its very disheartening.
joeblogs10 (Dublin) - Posts: 104 - 04/09/2017 10:31:07 2042463 Link 0 |
The rules of hurling no longer are a true reflection of the game as we now see it and its been that way for quite a while now. Lets call them half fouls, are let go all the time now, the tugs, the spare arm across the man, head high hurls around the neck, the overcarrying, the dodgy handpassing and so forth. This has been the case since the cats upped the "intincity" ala Tyrone in the football and with Cody intimidating every official who dared to blow them up for it and "taking the manliness out of hurling". The rest have got up to speed in this regard now and we have what we have which IMO can descend into bunching like we saw a few times yesterday where its near on impossible to decide who's fouling who so we let it go unabaited. Not sure what the answer is, but I'd prefer it to some of the feigning we see in the big ball. Can you image the face holding and rolling about if a footballer had taken the hit that John Hanbury got from Kevin Moran? Hanbury was right back up on his feet within seconds. bricktop (Down) - Posts: 2503 - 04/09/2017 10:47:22 2042467 Link 1 |
Overall,he had a good game but I do think he made some wrong decisions in the last 10 minutes which hurt Waterford but,having said that,Waterford hurt themselves with some bad wides which cost them in the end. My prediction for this game all along was a draw and I believe that's how it would have ended if Waterford hadn't hit those wides. C'est la vie. Moyle (Tipperary) - Posts: 86 - 04/09/2017 11:15:00 2042482 Link 0 |
i agree with you
waynoI (Dublin) - Posts: 13650 - 04/09/2017 11:55:07 2042503 Link 0 |