Typical GAA outcome. Nothing done , no resolution.What a joke this lot are.What was the point of the whole carry on.

911 (USA) - Posts: 41 - 17/10/2014 20:04:35    1664808

The seethe from the Cody-haters who were hoping for a big punishment will be exquisite. Storm in a tea cup, just as I thought.

ballydalane (Kilkenny) - Posts: 1246 - 17/10/2014 20:16:54    1664813

Another perfect example of why nobody would wish to be a ref.

911 (USA) - Posts: 41 - 17/10/2014 21:03:12    1664826

Typical GAA outcome but sure it was expected.I think he will dodge any referee questions in future pre or post match!!
Let himself down with the remark and been honest I'm happy he didn't get a ban or anything like that. You wont learn until you make mistakes and a slap on the wrist is enough in this case.

Still doh Mr.Cody it was a free!!!!!!

WildPundit (Tipperary) - Posts: 1709 - 17/10/2014 21:12:41    1664828

Not sure what sort of punishment,if any,would have sufficed here.I think Cody will have been surprised at the reaction,and will be ultra cautious in future.Obviously he was figuratively speaking,but his use of words was highly inappropriate.Just like his public strippingg down of a startled Marty Morrissey in a live post 09 final interview.Not sure what the referrees response to this will be,but for me its done with.Certainly not a storm in a teacup as Ballydallane has said.Was a pretty disgusting thing to say.However,we all say things we regret/dont mean at times.Cody is a decent man.A man of principle and dignity.Emotions run high at times.Being warned of his future conduct in interviews is good enough for me.Lets draw a line under this episode and roll on 2015.

cuederocket (Dublin) - Posts: 5084 - 18/10/2014 10:39:22    1664851

I have nothing against Cody nut It was terribly bitter and classless of him to raise the issue after winning an all ireland. It was a harsh free but he deserves to be punished.

Daith (Kildare) - Posts: 1171 - 18/10/2014 11:29:22    1664874

A prescience has now been set. How can the GAA ever hold a manager to account again for expressing opinions of the referee and his performance? Open season on referees next season. As for Cody - I can understand and even sympathize with a sore looser, but a bad winner is something I have no time for. Does Mr Cody think that he alone knows how to referee games? If he has any spare time, he would do well to read the rules of hurling. The penalty for a foul is a free, and no matter how many times a player fouls a free should be given against him. Eventually he will be sent off for persistent fouling. That, Mr Cody, is the way a game should be officiated; it should not be officiated to suit the whims of various managers.

Midleton (Cork) - Posts: 643 - 18/10/2014 16:56:05    1664975

It was never a foul. It could have cost him an all ireland. He had every right to be angry.

joncarter (Galway) - Posts: 2692 - 18/10/2014 17:07:20    1664981

Should have been put in charge of the footballers for a year. Then we'd see how good he is.

BallBearing (USA) - Posts: 72 - 19/10/2014 15:16:05    1665145

Was definitely a free alright. No confusion about it.

BallBearing (USA) - Posts: 72 - 19/10/2014 17:41:55    1665186

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1665145 Should have been put in charge of the footballers for a year. Then we'd see how good he is.

1665186 Was definitely a free alright. No confusion about it.

Shur, why would he be put in charge of the footballers, he's the hurling manager?

And if it was "definitely a free", then why was there so much disagreement about it? Surely a "definite" free would not even be open to debate?

ballydalane (Kilkenny) - Posts: 1246 - 20/10/2014 18:17:41    1665600

He was just after winning an All Ireland with a captive audience he attacked a man who has no redress at all. He's entitled to be angry if he doesn't like a call, don't we all week in week out, what makes him so damn special in the eyes of the rules?

arock (Dublin) - Posts: 4898 - 20/10/2014 18:31:12    1665605

Why was Barry Kelly not involved in the replay?

westisthebest (Galway) - Posts: 444 - 20/10/2014 19:29:11    1665623

Im not normally a huge fan of the Sunday Independent but Eamonn Sweeney is one of the few sports journalists worth reading in it. He hits the nail on the head with this piece, worth a read for all the mock-offended out there.

http://www.independent.ie/sport/gaelic-games/hurling/hold-the-back-page-no-need-to-shoot-the-messenger-30638637.html

ballydalane (Kilkenny) - Posts: 1246 - 21/10/2014 11:07:33    1665706

ballydalane

Im not normally a huge fan of the Sunday Independent but Eamonn Sweeney is one of the few sports journalists worth reading in it. He hits the nail on the head with this piece, worth a read for all the mock-offended out there.

He hit the nail on the head from a very pro Kilkenny point of view, a highly biased article accusing people of being outraged by the use of the word criminal (which I personally wasn't to bothered with), inconsistency because we weren't berating Davy Fitz (who I dislike as much as Cody, no difference in my view) and a few other things.

I'm not surprised or bothered by the fact that Cody wasn't punished for his comments, he didn't do or say anything reprehensible, I just found that his comments were totally pointless because they'd just won the AI and he came across to me as a bad winner.

Htaem (Meath) - Posts: 8657 - 21/10/2014 11:33:02    1665714

To me it was just his choice of words. Sometimes the proper words just don't come out. He could have said " In my opinion it was not a free ".
His choice of words has led to perhaps an OTT reaction but you can get why people are irked as they just won the AI.
If they had lost it then fair enough but you cannot argue a legitimate free with the words criminal whether it be 1st minute or 74th minute referees.
How many times have we not seen teams awarded frees in those situations to perhaps draw a game. Just because it was the 73rd minute and last puck of the match does that justify he has to have a go at the referee.
Team managers are giving out when the rules are applied and when they are not applied. That's just the way it is and we will never have a GAA season where there is some controversy with a referee decision.
Everyone in this country has great admiration for what he has done for hurling and what both he and his players have achieved over the past 15 years or so but a little outburst like that can turn some folk against you.

WildPundit (Tipperary) - Posts: 1709 - 21/10/2014 12:22:42    1665732

As balance,it should be pointed out that on that days Sunday Indo,i think it was D Crowe,that wrote a piece castigating Codys comments and previous misdemeanours(Marty Morrisey incident).

cuederocket (Dublin) - Posts: 5084 - 21/10/2014 13:31:16    1665756