the GPA have been very quiet on this......

Gammy_Knee (USA) - Posts: 1482 - 23/01/2014 17:34:21    1535815

TheGateKeeper
County: Tyrone
Posts: 2437

1535656 Good post ulsterman. The hypocrisy must come to an end!

what hypocrisy are you and Ulsterman for that matter on about, a player got charged , got a ban and its been accepted. Dub posters to a man and woman are disgusted with this behaviour and have said it should of been a year , end of story.
You see Ulsterman we don't go whinging looking for conspiracy theories and blame everyone else .
Thankfully we take our medicine and move on .

AthCliath (Dublin) - Posts: 4347 - 23/01/2014 18:31:16    1535840

3 things to say on this.

Firstly well done to the Dublin player who had the guts to own up. i known a number of other players in similar cases who couldn't find it in themselves to do the same thing.

Secondly, while I agree the ban should have been reduced for him owning up I still think 3 months would have been suffice considering some like Paul Galvin wold get about 2 years for something like that.

Finally let this be a warning to people who are not in the know letting their mouths off and falsely accusing players. You could wind up in a spot of bother some day with reckless comments like that.

Hopefully this won't drag on too long and the media take it easy on the young lad. Shows he's a decent guy when you consider most people would never own up to the wrongs they do unless their caught red handed.

Jack_Goff (Meath) - Posts: 2920 - 23/01/2014 18:59:25    1535855

Other than shooting the lad nothing will satisfy some, we said eight weeks is a joke, we said it is a farce and no place for this on our county team, we said it is disgusting behaviour and we said we don't want this crap in our game. The County board, the player came clean. If someone deems the punishment for this is 8 weeks they need their head examined. As for the other historical alleged "biting" incidents they've never been proved, admitted or acknowledged, this one was because it actually happened.

arock (Dublin) - Posts: 4897 - 23/01/2014 19:07:40    1535860

SamOnErrigal
County: Donegal
Posts: 30

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Last year the Sunday game was full of theme selves about Tyrone and especially Sean Cavanagh and the fouling and closing down the game by their(Tyrone) tactics They did not give much air time about any of the alleged BITING incidents. Neither did the man who was behind the Black card rule I wonder will he comment in the Irish Independent next Monday
A few of the posters here are spot on in saying that if it were a Tyrone player or Paul Galvin ,they would get 12months. It's seems very clear from P Duffy's statement that the GAA knows that the Donegal player was bitten in Ballybofey So if the 2010 biter is at large and unpunished so is the Ballybofey biter.
We can forget about it all now but to be accused of THREE biting incidents since 2010, and found guilty in one case plus the Colm Cooper incident last year, it asks questions about Dublins discipline
In the Donegal incident the player attended hospital and the question I ask here is:::: if a person said they were bit by someone else, would it be easy to distinguise a bite mark from a bruise??? If I'm correct the Dublin medical team disputed the bite mark with the Donegal officials. But they would do that , would'nt they
I'll finish by saying I would not have liked the Donegal team over the last three years or indeed at any time to have been accused of acts like that.
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Oh for the love of God grow up man. If it had been Galvin, if it had been Tyrone. Sure you wouldn't have liked a Donegal player to have been accused of that. Diving on the ground feigning injury and trying to get a player sent off is ok of course. Or I presume leaving two players hospitalised one kicked in the head while he lay on the ground is also ok. People need to take a step back. The incident has been dealt with and the player punished. I hope the DCB increase that by the way as I think it is lenient. Whelan will be no loss the the IC panel this year anyway.

Joxer (Dublin) - Posts: 4700 - 23/01/2014 19:14:18    1535864

A lot of dub posters on their high horse here, and the reaction from rte has been a disgrace. On this mornings sports news the biting item was buried with it warranting a five second mention deep into the sports bulletin with it being relegated in order behind a getting coup against bookies, a meaningless league cup tie in England tennis and golf. It didn't even get a mention in this evenings bulletin. Maybe someone would like to contrast this with the hysteria rte created last summer over Sean cavanaghs rugby tackle. Where was the Joe Duffy phone in this time?

mayotyroneman (Tyrone) - Posts: 1821 - 23/01/2014 19:44:34    1535880

mayotyroneman
County: Tyrone
Posts: 1077

1535880
A lot of dub posters on their high horse here, and the reaction from rte has been a disgrace. On this mornings sports news the biting item was buried with it warranting a five second mention deep into the sports bulletin with it being relegated in order behind a getting coup against bookies, a meaningless league cup tie in England tennis and golf. It didn't even get a mention in this evenings bulletin. Maybe someone would like to contrast this with the hysteria rte created last summer over Sean cavanaghs rugby tackle. Where was the Joe Duffy phone in this time





There is one rule for the Dubs and a different one for everyone else!
That is the hypocrisy we have become accustomed to regarding our sport
in this country unfortunately Mayotyroneman!

TheGateKeeper (Tyrone) - Posts: 2843 - 23/01/2014 19:54:44    1535891

mayotyroneman
County: Tyrone
Posts: 1077

1535880 A lot of dub posters on their high horse here, and the reaction from rte has been a disgrace. On this mornings sports news the biting item was buried with it warranting a five second mention deep into the sports bulletin with it being relegated in order behind a getting coup against bookies, a meaningless league cup tie in England tennis and golf. It didn't even get a mention in this evenings bulletin. Maybe someone would like to contrast this with the hysteria rte created last summer over Sean cavanaghs rugby tackle. Where was the Joe Duffy phone in this time?

Shock! Horror!

It happened in an O'Byrne cup match versus your example of an incident (not a comparable incident) in an All-Ireland Quarter Final with half the country watching on TV. There were probably only a few hundred at the DCU game.

GAA isn't high on anyone's, media included, agenda this time of the year. No need for the conspiracy.

Again O'Byrne Cup versus All-Ireland Quarter Final. Have a think man. Yes one incident was worse than the other but think of the difference between the profiles of the games.

MesAmis (Dublin) - Posts: 13718 - 23/01/2014 19:57:00    1535894

In fairness at least the media, in the South anyway, have always treated Dublin the same as any other county. No way they could be accused of bias anyway, if anything they have shown themselves to be biased against Dublin over the years. 8 weeks does seem very lenient in a biting case especially if he will only miss 4 games

bad.monkey (USA) - Posts: 4624 - 23/01/2014 19:57:45    1535895

mayotyroneman
County: Tyrone
Posts: 1077

1535880
A lot of dub posters on their high horse here, and the reaction from rte has been a disgrace. On this mornings sports news the biting item was buried with it warranting a five second mention deep into the sports bulletin with it being relegated in order behind a getting coup against bookies, a meaningless league cup tie in England tennis and golf. It didn't even get a mention in this evenings bulletin. Maybe someone would like to contrast this with the hysteria rte created last summer over Sean cavanaghs rugby tackle. Where was the Joe Duffy phone in this time?
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Ha ha. What game did the Cavanagh tackle happen in again, how many were at it and was there TV coverage - what would the TV audience have been and was the game analysed on national TV? Do we need to get the crayons out now and draw you a picture?

Lot of sour grapes and sly digs from Nordie posters on here I have to say. Poor form.

Joxer (Dublin) - Posts: 4700 - 23/01/2014 20:26:17    1535919

That's a fair point mesamis!

realdub (Dublin) - Posts: 8596 - 23/01/2014 20:32:31    1535924

What has the so called profile of the games got to do with this?....national newspapers have given this the lead in their sports coverage, so how come rte choose not to. We all know the reason why any yet our dub friends choose to ignore what is really going on the corridors of rate.

mayotyroneman (Tyrone) - Posts: 1821 - 23/01/2014 20:42:44    1535932

@samonerrigal

Biting is on par with stamping which we saw from a certain McGee last Summer, I witnessed Kevin McGloughin eye gouged by a Donegal player as well (Thompson I think?) in the league. Not trying to start a war here, but I would criticise the individuals in isolation rather than saying it's something unique to Donegal or tactics by McGuinness which would be foolish. Take the Whelan incident for what it is on its own and criticise the man rather than the whole county, you're over complicating things as are many others.

It was a despicable act but it should be forgotten about in future, I'm sure it was done in the heat of the moment as he has never struck me as a dirty player. Same goes for McGee and Thompson.

CaisleanCnucha (Dublin) - Posts: 1379 - 23/01/2014 20:45:14    1535934

They are not 'sly digs'; they are just people highlighting the inconsistency of the GAA pundits and mainly Southern based media who tend to bury ANY negative coverage regarding Dublin. I will give you an example: In one of today's Dublin (English/Oirish) tabloids this story is covered in a back page column. The headline says "Whelan gets 8 week ban....for an 'incident' in the DCU match". At NO stage does the story mention 'biting' or 'alleged biting' and never says what the incident is.....it's just an incident. That is the weighted coverage that Dublin get and many people can see it for what it is. This is the same media who constantly castigate and vilify Sean Cavanagh, Tyrone and Ulster teams for things far less severe than 'biting' or 'alleged biting'. That is why 'Nordies' as people call us are highlighting the nauseating, two faced hypocrisy of many so called Gaels and the Southern media.

Ulsterman (Antrim) - Posts: 9706 - 23/01/2014 20:47:06    1535936

mayotyroneman
County: Tyrone
Posts: 1078

1535932 What has the so called profile of the games got to do with this?....national newspapers have given this the lead in their sports coverage, so how come rte choose not to. We all know the reason why any yet our dub friends choose to ignore what is really going on the corridors of rate.

The profile of the game has a massive amount to do with the coverage of the sentence.

Think about it. It isn't that hard buddy.

MesAmis (Dublin) - Posts: 13718 - 23/01/2014 20:47:33    1535938

People seem to think that only Dublin players get away with things like these. I remember Michael Shields doing something far more cynical than Cavanagh's tackle on the same weekend as that game when Dublin played Cork - he handled the ball on the ground when the ball was sliding in for a goal. Not a word spoken about it again, one set of rules for Cork and another for everyone else. Example 2 - I remember a couple of years ago Keith Higgins being involved in 2 big incidents which should have lead to bans. He struck a Galway footballer in the face off the ball in a provincial match, later that night this was highlighted by the RTE highlights show. He was never banned. Later that year they played Kerry in the AI semi, there was a scuffle late in the game and Higgins knee'd Darran O'Sullivan in the ribs while he was on the ground. The ref missed it but it was picked up by the cameras, nothing was done about it. One set of rules for Mayo and another for everyone else. I mentioned an eye gouging incident with a Donegal player in an earlier post, nothing done or said. One set of rules for Donegal and another for everyone else.

People need to realise that the suspension system the GAA have is incompetent and it doesn't really favour anyone. Little would have been said about Cavanagh had Brolly not gone on with his hyperbolic nonsense after the game.

CaisleanCnucha (Dublin) - Posts: 1379 - 23/01/2014 20:56:44    1535943

Boohoo........not enough coverage of Dublin player getting banned.......boohoo........conspiracy bla bla bla.

It was Derry's own Brolly who made the fuss about Seán Cavanagh, a lot of "Southern" media disagreed with Brolly's stance from what I saw.

Dry your eyes and get over yourselves.

Boohoo!

MesAmis (Dublin) - Posts: 13718 - 23/01/2014 20:58:43    1535944

CaisleanCnucha
County: Dublin
Posts: 1031

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@samonerrigal

Biting is on par with stamping which we saw from a certain McGee last Summer, I witnessed Kevin McGloughin eye gouged by a Donegal player as well (Thompson I think?) in the league. Not trying to start a war here, but I would criticise the individuals in isolation rather than saying it's something unique to Donegal or tactics by McGuinness which would be foolish. Take the Whelan incident for what it is on its own and criticise the man rather than the whole county, you're over complicating things as are many others.

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Correct CC. In fact there were a lot of unsavoury incidents involving Ulster teams last year in club and county championship. The Donegal club game was quickly swept under the carpet despite hospitalisation of two players. Not even mentioned on radio as i recall. Apart from the Cavanagh incident, public execution by a fellow Ulster man. I don't remember the Southern based media/RTE giving these much coverage. Could you imagine if these incidents were carried out by Dermot Connolly or Ger Brennan? Dermot sent off for pushing a Donegal player in the shoulder, Ger last year for kicking a ball underneath a player. Pro Dublin GAA bias at work again!!

Joxer (Dublin) - Posts: 4700 - 23/01/2014 20:59:12    1535945

We don't escape media attention whatsoever, they had a field day with us after the '83 final that went on for weeks. There were 12 and 6 month suspensions handed out too!

realdub (Dublin) - Posts: 8596 - 23/01/2014 21:06:19    1535949

The thing with biting that makes it stand out from other acts with the exception of stamping/kicking a player on the ground and maybe spitting, is that you actually have to know your doing it before you do it because you have to remove the gum shield. If you hit a fella a dig it can be a moment of madness a rush of blood to the head but biting, Jesus Christ

Gavin is prepared to dump lads who show any interest in playing hurling will he stand by Whelan for doing something equally as bad as that!!! ? Not sure Id give him a jersey again. The 1 thing in his favour if you can call it that is he owned up, something others wouldn't have done I suspect

Brianmac78 (Dublin) - Posts: 1168 - 23/01/2014 21:22:29    1535963