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Given the recent controversies involving both football and hurling should the GAA introduce a Television Match Official? Would it be money well invested? If only to keep the critics and begrudgers quiet. I mean the level of abuse thrown at the GAA and to a lesser extent Referees in becoming massive. How much would it cost I wonder and how would it work. galwayford (Galway) - Posts: 2513 - 01/09/2015 10:41:28 1779638 Link 0 |
slayer (Limerick) - Posts: 6480 - 01/09/2015 10:52:54 1779652 Link 0 |
Well if you take Sunday's game only - cavanman47 (Cavan) - Posts: 4977 - 01/09/2015 10:57:51 1779657 Link 0 |
I don't agree with TMOs unless there was some rule that required to be used very sparingly. Can see it slowing down the game far too much. It's overused in rugby as it is and rugby has much more natural stoppages. Breffni40 (Cavan) - Posts: 12101 - 01/09/2015 11:02:43 1779669 Link 0 |
Get linesmen and worst of the lot Umpires to be more involved and it would be a start and should have been the case long ago. SLLY (Dublin) - Posts: 463 - 01/09/2015 11:05:10 1779672 Link 0 |
Could it be introduced only in Croke Park though.What about provincial grounds for earlier rounds in the championship?What about league games.How much would it cost to have a TMO available at every ground?Or just like Hawkeye,will it only be for big games in HQ? cuederocket (Dublin) - Posts: 5084 - 01/09/2015 11:08:15 1779675 Link 0 |
It has to be done, it has gotten to a ridiculous stage where the refereeing is being analysed more than the actual match. Its an absolute joke, it is physically impossible for one man to manage it all. Compare it to soccer where refs regularly get abuse over big mistakes, yet gaelic has a whole extra team on the pitch in a way, with 30 players v 22, 3 cards vs 2, and far more complicated rules than soccer, for example while they have handball and bad tackles, we have picking up off the ground, travelling, double hops, illegal handpassing, no definitive tackle (3 men in a studio watching in slow motion cant even agree if it is a foul or not)square ball, and sledging and the likes of off the ball incidents to fellas trying to beat the shite into eachother while the refs not looking. The only tricky part of soccer is offside, which is not even the refs responsibility. Also the frees I believe are much more valuable in gaelic, a free inside the 45 is more often than not a very scoreable free, whereas in soccer its only really around the square and they are rarely converted. Now I dont think we should go the rugby extreme of it using a TMO for every call, but in the case of a penalty i think the team and supporters will be happy to wait 60 seconds if it proves it was out side the box, its better than people talking about it all winter. Could do something similar to tennis, i think where they have so many times management can look for tmo use, eg 3 times, if there right they dont lose the go if there wrong they can only do it twice more etc. That would have olved alot of problems in the mayo v dublin, Mayo could have questioned the penalty, Dublin question ROC injury. Mayofc (Mayo) - Posts: 95 - 01/09/2015 12:22:40 1779776 Link 0 |
all or none. cant just have it in croker DoireCityFC (Derry) - Posts: 1580 - 01/09/2015 13:31:41 1779870 Link 0 |
No, what are you shower going to moan about if all the calls are correct??? One also kill the pubs in Ireland!!! witnof (Dublin) - Posts: 1604 - 01/09/2015 13:59:58 1779896 Link 0 |