Dublin have a strong bench and have many options even withouty Diarmuid Connolly - Have seen a guy comming in and contributing more than the misssing player in the past - hope mayo stay very aware of this.

Mayo have some options too - I hope that they push a speedy player up to play off O Shea , maybe Mikey Sweeney or Evan Regan he needs an outlet - then we can benefit from his presence on the edge of the square - he was far too isolated last sunday

belmay (Mayo) - Posts: 172 - 03/09/2015 11:20:20    1781081

Ban stands. At last they got something right.

kildare73 (Kildare) - Posts: 854 - 03/09/2015 11:31:40    1781092

I'll second that. Deserved the line.

Kildare30 (Kildare) - Posts: 603 - 03/09/2015 12:09:15    1781150

Another bad day for the GAA. I can fully understand how Dublin supporters must feel.
To me DC is carrying the can for all that went on Sunday. If things were right 2 or 3 more players could be banned. Let's be honest Lee Keegan had a massive say in the DC incident.
I know D C done wrong, it's a red card offence no doubt about it. But people on here saying he has previous, well that don't stand with me. DID HE NOT SERVE HIS PUNISHMENT OVER ALL HIS PREVIOUS?? And his previous has nothing to do with Sunday last. If he were to get suspended( and seemingly he has) it should be over last Sunday's incident not on what happened before. The way things are going you can forget about the rule book.
Personally I think Dublin should appeal it. Well worth a try( by the way I am not condoning what DC done on Sunday or indeed what other players done on Sunday )
Now to the Mayo poster and the head butting incident----- how are you so sure that a head butting offence occurred ? If it was so clear cut why did they(GAA) not take action??
According to a lot of people on here , in the papers etc no head butting offence took place
If AOS was head butted I'd imagine he would have hit the deck, would there not be an injury on his face / head. But if he was not head butted why say he was to the reporters. Don't all seem right to me

If he was not head butted but said he was well that's cheating in my own opinion.
Whether it's what T MC Cann done or say you were head butted when you were not.
Another point to the Mayo poster -- can you prove he was head butted ????

SamOnErrigal (Donegal) - Posts: 1427 - 03/09/2015 19:41:14    1781612

If Cooper got sent off(which he should have for an awful challenge) then Dublin would be out..

ziggy32001 (Meath) - Posts: 8354 - 03/09/2015 19:56:52    1781622

http://soberpaddy.com/should-dermot-connolly-have-been-sent-off/

best analysis yet

hill16no1man (Dublin) - Posts: 12665 - 03/09/2015 19:57:46    1781624

Has he done one for Cooper's tackle, slow motion an all like?

MuckrossHead (Donegal) - Posts: 5028 - 03/09/2015 20:45:05    1781647

Def looks like Connolly is being very hard done by that clip Hill

Shows it all very clearly

Very unfair

Fair play yo Connolly for defending himself

He's let no one down

Any man would have done the same

Don't blame you DC...

Wayno... Reckon you should watch that clip

jimbodub (Dublin) - Posts: 20600 - 03/09/2015 20:53:16    1781653

Hill16no1man
Thanks as it's the first time I saw the replay of the incident.
I think D C has been treated unfairly, don't forget he did punch and deserves a ban. But what about C o Connor as it clearly shows him throw a punch. Also L Keegan should have walked.
Watch him looking at D C and he fouled him at least three times. No way was he going to let Connolly past.
If that was Tyrone or indeed another Ulster county it would be highlighted again and again and it would be trial by media.
The people running discipline in Croke park have got it wrong here -- you don't suspend one man in an incident like that, C o C should also be suspended as probably should L Keegan.
Now people talking about DC previous , has Keegan also not got previous when he kicked out last year or at least attempted to kick? Also was he not the one who was yellow carded early on in the 2012 final for a lounging late tackle on K Lacey that could have taken Lacey out of the game??
I think Dublin must appeal and to be honest I think they might get his suspension lifted. I like to see fair play given to everyone and not to single one person out over a host of incidents which should have led to maybe five or six players getting banned.
I've watched a lot of Ulster games ( been to most of them) over the last five years and I never saw nothing like that what went on Sunday

SamOnErrigal (Donegal) - Posts: 1427 - 03/09/2015 21:14:23    1781676

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Hill16no1man
Thanks as it's the first time I saw the replay of the incident.
I think D C has been treated unfairly, don't forget he did punch and deserves a ban. But what about C o Connor as it clearly shows him throw a punch. Also L Keegan should have walked.
Watch him looking at D C and he fouled him at least three times. No way was he going to let Connolly past.
If that was Tyrone or indeed another Ulster county it would be highlighted again and again and it would be trial by media.
The people running discipline in Croke park have got it wrong here -- you don't suspend one man in an incident like that, C o C should also be suspended as probably should L Keegan.
Now people talking about DC previous , has Keegan also not got previous when he kicked out last year or at least attempted to kick? Also was he not the one who was yellow carded early on in the 2012 final for a lounging late tackle on K Lacey that could have taken Lacey out of the game??
I think Dublin must appeal and to be honest I think they might get his suspension lifted. I like to see fair play given to everyone and not to single one person out over a host of incidents which should have led to maybe five or six players getting banned.
I've watched a lot of Ulster games ( been to most of them) over the last five years and I never saw nothing like that what went on Sunday


spot on sam
thats exactly the point i was making all week

hill16no1man (Dublin) - Posts: 12665 - 03/09/2015 21:37:57    1781699

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http://soberpaddy.com/should-dermot-connolly-have-been-sent-off/

best analysis yet

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That's damning footage from a Mayo point of view. I've been in the DC must go camp up to now, just take the punishment, but clearly O'Connor should have seen red (again) and Keegan should have gotten at least a black. I would even go further and say that DC was in a stranglehold and was correct in striking to free himself. I'm backing him 100% now. He should get off.

O'Connor (this guy got MOTM!!!) has so much to answer for in this game. Couple this with O'Shea lying to the media about a headbutt that wasn't and Mayo have sunk in my estimation.

Dublin have been very hard done by in the media and by the likes of some posters on here falling over themselves to get the boot in. Thanks to video footage I think it's now clear that..

- O'Connor should be cited for the Connolly punch
- McMahon did not headbutt but O'Shea should be up on a disrepute charge for trying to get a fellow player disciplined by running to the media to tell tales. This is Tiernan McCann territory
- Brogan's point was good
- O'Connor should be cited for the ROC elbow
- Flynn waved at a camera

Joxer (Dublin) - Posts: 4700 - 03/09/2015 21:42:19    1781701

I feel a bit sorry for Connolly, he gets treated like Graham Geraghty did for years , 2 supremely gifted players who spend half of the games being pulled and dragged and who are always being wound up in the hope they will lash out and be sent off. But these type of players have to realise what is happening to them and learn not to strike back in such an obvious manner (Geraghty cut out most of the silly stuff later on in his career), it is about being mentally strong when the pressure is on and not being stupid. Some of the comments are a bit nonsensical. Connelly was caught throwing a punch at his opponents head (whatever the mitigating factors) and was sent off for this by the referee, afterwards video footage then showed this happened. He is not going to get off in this circumstance. People bringing up Cillian O'Connor giving someone a dig in the chest are clutching at straws, he was not sent off by the referee at the time and anyway giving someone a dig in the chest is not nearly in the same as category as trying to punch someone in the head. Dublin should not go for any more appeals, if they leave it now and concentrate on the game it will motivate them for Saturday, if it keeps going on and on it will become a distraction going into Saturday's game.

bdbuddah (Meath) - Posts: 1354 - 04/09/2015 09:32:37    1781776

Very good Joxer and I like your "" THIS IS TIERNAN MC CANN TERRITORY'. I say you can have the copyright to that as the way things are going and the way the GAA are enforcing discipline that statement will be cropping up time and time again
When will the GAA sort out all this mess---- off the ball stuff, Jersey pulling , tripping ( one Dublin player got a black for a trip on Sunday but D Moran done the same against Tyrone the week before but got no black card )punching, defenders fouling forwards from behind and getting away with it.
How the discipline crowd in Croke park have reacted to last Sunday is unbelievable ---- find ONEplayer guilty for all that went on ----- pathetic
I would have thought very few Dublin people would have disagreed if two or three more players had been suspended ( players from each side I must add) but to make Connolly the scapegoat is very wrong

SamOnErrigal (Donegal) - Posts: 1427 - 04/09/2015 20:02:03    1782388

As a Dublin supporter I am embarrassed by the clamour to lift DC's suspension coming from some quarters.He was correctly sent off in my view.Where is the respect for the referee?
The fact that other players may have escaped sanction on the day is neither here nor there.
We need to focus on the game tomorrow.We are more than capable of beating Mayo ( as flaky a team as you will get) without Connolly.They had 5 minutes to get a winner last Sunday and they couldn't do it.That was their chance in my opinion.
Maintain Dublin, maintain.Do it for Dermo instead of this nonsense of chanting his name in the 12 minute.

Condorman (Dublin) - Posts: 983 - 04/09/2015 20:24:57    1782394

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1782394 As a Dublin supporter I am embarrassed by the clamour to lift DC's suspension coming from some quarters.He was correctly sent off in my view.Where is the respect for the referee?
The fact that other players may have escaped sanction on the day is neither here nor there.
We need to focus on the game tomorrow.We are more than capable of beating Mayo ( as flaky a team as you will get) without Connolly.They had 5 minutes to get a winner last Sunday and they couldn't do it.That was their chance in my opinion.
Maintain Dublin, maintain.Do it for Dermo instead of this nonsense of chanting his name in the 12 minute.

im embarrassed that you are a Dublin supporter,tks for all your support well done.

superbluedub (Dublin) - Posts: 2837 - 04/09/2015 21:17:04    1782413

Condorman
County: Dublin
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1782394
As a Dublin supporter I am embarrassed by the clamour to lift DC's suspension coming from some quarters.He was correctly sent off in my view.Where is the respect for the referee?
The fact that other players may have escaped sanction on the day is neither here nor there.
We need to focus on the game tomorrow.We are more than capable of beating Mayo ( as flaky a team as you will get) without Connolly.They had 5 minutes to get a winner last Sunday and they couldn't do it.That was their chance in my opinion.
Maintain Dublin, maintain.Do it for Dermo instead of this nonsense of chanting his name in the 12 minute.

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Firstly, couldn't agree more about the 12 minute nonsense. However, there is such a thing as 'spirit of the rule'. The rule assumes that a strike takes place in an unprovoked scenario and in a deliberate attempt to injury the opposition. Look at the DC incident, he is hauled to the ground, maintained in a headlock with his face in the turf and then receives a punch to the stomach. By the letter of the law, yes he struck, but the law is black n white and does not take account of circumstances such as Connolly's where the player has been hauled to the ground and pinned for example. In this instance he was far more sinned against than sinned. So he has a real case here. I honestly don't think he should be banned here unless Keegan and O'Connor also receive punishment.

Joxer (Dublin) - Posts: 4700 - 04/09/2015 21:17:34    1782414

Agreed joxer

superbluedub (Dublin) - Posts: 2837 - 04/09/2015 21:22:25    1782416

I'm sick of this negative vibe towards Cillian O'Connor. One of the finest footballers in the country and very clean to boot.

What was Cillian supposed to do standing over Connolly and Keegan?

People should go and review the game. He was being pulled an manhandled by ROC until he went off. What caused him to go off. Cillian swung his arms and accidentally caught him on the face. ACIDENTALLY. and I know it was an accident becasue his back was to him. But it's something he has been lambasted for since. And then we have had to listen to incorrect abuse all week on this forum from Dublin fans with all this s**te about stitches for O'Carroll.

Also his brother Diarmuid nearly had his career ended by a vicious kick from Cooper. All Cooper got was a yellow. Then Connolly went in later on and tried to bury Diarmuids head into the Croke Park sod. Kevin McLoughlin was being held back all day and Dublin were constantly moaning about the frees. Aidan O'Shea was headbutted off the ball and no action taken. Philly McMahon dived in an effort to get him booked or sent off. Then Cillian himself was taken out of it by Cian O'Sullivan off the ball.

I'm surprised with all this going on that Cillian had the restraint that time to go to look at the linesman and let him know the fact. Most other people would have (if they had been subjected to that constant abuse from Dublin) eventually decided they had enough and then taken things into their own hands.

Bottom line is I commend him highly for letting the linesman know and highlighting the fact that a punch was thrown by Connolly.

Jim Gavin in he post match interview said he would have to look at the free count. Maybe he should take a long look at his own players and what they were at lat Sunday to give away the frees.

MaigheoAbu (Mayo) - Posts: 343 - 04/09/2015 21:58:52    1782430

https://twitter.com/DubGAAOfficial/status/640012196739686400
Looks like he's free to play

delboydub (Dublin) - Posts: 665 - 05/09/2015 08:00:35    1782431

The entire disciplinary procedure is well and truly shot to pieces following Connollys successful appeal this morning.

Torcaill (Australia) - Posts: 204 - 05/09/2015 08:03:20    1782433