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Today was highlighted all the flaws with it, the inconsistency is ridiculous! It actually doesn't really serve a purpose either as if there is a couple minutes left and a lad is through on goal a player will happily take a black card! Get rid of it and just have a sin bin like rugby for yellows as_ky (Kerry) - Posts: 535 - 18/09/2016 17:37:06 1915728 Link
scrap it TirChonaillabu2 (Donegal) - Posts: 344 - 18/09/2016 17:50:48 1915738 Link
Replying To as_ky: "Today was highlighted all the flaws with it, the inconsistency is ridiculous! It actually doesn't really serve a purpose either as if there is a couple minutes left and a lad is through on goal a player will happily take a black card! Get rid of it and just have a sin bin like rugby for yellows" Very much agree. Probably 5 or 6 black or red cards could have been given today that weren't. The referees usually bottle all but the yellow card calls. When a black eventually is given to someone it's unfair that the rule usually not applied is suddenly applied to them. tyroneed (Tyrone) - Posts: 753 - 18/09/2016 17:52:03 1915739 Link
Replying To as_ky: "Today was highlighted all the flaws with it, the inconsistency is ridiculous! It actually doesn't really serve a purpose either as if there is a couple minutes left and a lad is through on goal a player will happily take a black card! Get rid of it and just have a sin bin like rugby for yellows" Agree 100%..if just hope they get rid of it next year..no one seems to understand the black card including the referees. Oshea done the exact same thing that Mccarthy done and got a yellow card. dave1988 (Roscommon) - Posts: 1051 - 18/09/2016 17:59:00 1915745 Link
Aye it was introduced to remove cynicism from the game and the one black card given today had nothing to do with it, just a bit of a clash that neither could or should pull out of. Weak referees are copping out giving yellow mhunicean_abu (Monaghan) - Posts: 1044 - 18/09/2016 17:59:56 1915746 Link
Of all the black card shouts in the game, the only 100% nailed on blacks were the foul on Kilkenny in the corner in the 1st half and nothing was said about it, and O'Connors near the end. Clear inconsistency. The rest were all debatable, excluding McCarthy's which was not a card of any description. Farcical rule at this stage. Hoped it would work but it hasn't. Breffni40 (Cavan) - Posts: 12116 - 18/09/2016 18:01:50 1915748 Link
Replying To Breffni39: "Of all the black card shouts in the game, the only 100% nailed on blacks were the foul on Kilkenny in the corner in the 1st half and nothing was said about it, and O'Connors near the end. Clear inconsistency. The rest were all debatable, excluding McCarthy's which was not a card of any description. Farcical rule at this stage. Hoped it would work but it hasn't." Mccarthy was a black card as he took out the mayo man who was about to make a tackle. We can't go back to the old days when players who didn't have the ball were taken out of it. Again problem isn't the rules it's the refs inconsistencies kevin03 (Tyrone) - Posts: 276 - 18/09/2016 18:16:37 1915764 Link
Replying To kevin03: "Mccarthy was a black card as he took out the mayo man who was about to make a tackle. We can't go back to the old days when players who didn't have the ball were taken out of it. Again problem isn't the rules it's the refs inconsistencies" The ref today was very poor. Totally inconsistent. There should have been three more Black cards. Two to Dublin players and one to Mayo. border Gael (Monaghan) - Posts: 894 - 18/09/2016 19:51:42 1915821 Link
I don't think it's difficult to apply. Cowardly refs don't implement it. Daith (Kildare) - Posts: 1171 - 18/09/2016 20:00:31 1915826 Link
The rule is fine. The refereeing of it is farcical at times. The worst is at lower levels. At an Intermediate game on Friday, the ref gave yellows for 3 clear black card decisions, the last one in particular was so blatant but the guy committed it expected a yellow. Players are stupid they know when a refs not going to give one. As for today as a neutral I thought the ref was poor. Worse for Mayo in the first half v harsh on Dublin in the second. The second half reeked of a ref not wanting to take control of the game and ended up him losing control of it. Whammo86 (Antrim) - Posts: 4213 - 18/09/2016 20:30:13 1915845 Link
For me McCarthys was a black card he ran straight into o co nor. McCauley should have got a black card in first half for foot trip and red for the tackle on I Connor. I shea should have a black card in first half Red was poor but to both sides which really made the game. Both teams we're poor alot of mistakes for this level but very entertaining. tom84 (Cavan) - Posts: 334 - 18/09/2016 20:43:13 1915854 Link
For me McCarthys was a black card he ran straight into o co nor. McCauley should have got a black card in first half for foot trip and red for the tackle on I Connor. I shea should have a black card in first half Red was poor but to both sides which really made the game. Both teams we're poor alot of mistakes for this level but very entertaining. tom84 (Cavan) - Posts: 334 - 18/09/2016 20:43:13 1915855 Link
Replying To Breffni39: "Of all the black card shouts in the game, the only 100% nailed on blacks were the foul on Kilkenny in the corner in the 1st half and nothing was said about it, and O'Connors near the end. Clear inconsistency. The rest were all debatable, excluding McCarthy's which was not a card of any description. Farcical rule at this stage. Hoped it would work but it hasn't." Speaking of inconsistency......... Llaw_Gyffes (Mayo) - Posts: 1113 - 18/09/2016 21:04:24 1915884 Link
Replying To tom84: "For me McCarthys was a black card he ran straight into o co nor. McCauley should have got a black card in first half for foot trip and red for the tackle on I Connor. I shea should have a black card in first half Red was poor but to both sides which really made the game. Both teams we're poor alot of mistakes for this level but very entertaining." According to Spillane the Mayo lad got in his way! :D ziggy32001 (Meath) - Posts: 8354 - 18/09/2016 21:20:32 1915896 Link
Replying To Breffni39: "Of all the black card shouts in the game, the only 100% nailed on blacks were the foul on Kilkenny in the corner in the 1st half and nothing was said about it, and O'Connors near the end. Clear inconsistency. The rest were all debatable, excluding McCarthy's which was not a card of any description. Farcical rule at this stage. Hoped it would work but it hasn't." Read the rules... McCarthys was a CLEAR black card. Third man tackle.. ziggy32001 (Meath) - Posts: 8354 - 18/09/2016 21:21:34 1915898 Link
What does lee Keegan have to do to get penalised for his off the ball antics? At it from the start today again. As a neutral, with no axe to grind either way, I find his antics hard to stomach. football first (None) - Posts: 1259 - 18/09/2016 21:50:34 1915918 Link
It was brought in with no sense behind it. Hyperbole over one tackle. McGee literally crys to congress and it passes. Where are all the posters who supported it on here? Still think it should be enforced? The_Fridge (Tyrone) - Posts: 2088 - 18/09/2016 22:07:51 1915924 Link
Both sides should have had black cards, Conor Lane was completely out of his depth today & the inconsistency was shocking. Whoever the fourth official doing timekeeping was, he should never get the gig again. Nine minutes extra played it was farcical. The Gaa had the perfect answer in the sin bin which had Brillant results in league games at the time but typical Gaa they caved into managers & media & concocted the black card which is now a joke. moc.dna (Galway) - Posts: 1212 - 18/09/2016 23:15:54 1915952 Link
Replying To The_Fridge: "It was brought in with no sense behind it. Hyperbole over one tackle. McGee literally crys to congress and it passes. Where are all the posters who supported it on here? Still think it should be enforced?" Spot on. I would like to hear Eugene McGee come out and tell us if he still supports and defends the black card after today's total farce. Eugene McGee was the main instigator behind the black card because he just doesn't like Ulster teams and he wanted to introduce something that he seen would hinder mainly Ulster sides. However It's biggest test would always have been officials implementing it in a high pressure game in somewhere like Croke Park in a game involving Dublin. Today 5 black cards should have been shown, 1 was, 4 weren't and 3 of those that weren't were Dublin players. Now I am not going to castigate the referee because I think he did show a bit of sense and not wave the black card for the sake of it and to let the game flow BUT if he had followed the rules set down by McGee a lot of fellas should have walked. It's this total hypocrisy and double standards that really annoy people, especially Ulster Gaels, who ONCE AGAIN see the rules set aside for others. HYPOCRISY HOW ARE YOU! Ulsterman (Antrim) - Posts: 9701 - 18/09/2016 23:23:02 1915956 Link
Cettainly I think Mayo could have had at least 3 black cards and fair play to Mayo fans in the Hogan, they realised that. Let's leave these rugby tackles to the teams that the black card was brought in to stop. It's a travesty that only one team saw a blsck card today but we're used to having to sucumb to decisions for the underdog at this stage. Joxer (Dublin) - Posts: 4700 - 19/09/2016 02:12:15 1915982 Link