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Is this sledging I see before me? Were the big bad men from Ulster playing here? Was it two ulster teams playing each other? Was Mickey Harte and the Tyrone management team actively encouraging players to target the goalkeeper and goad him?

The answer to all the above questions is NO!

Now I am starting to wonder if the farmers in Wexford are using ulster fertiliser for their strawberries. It's the only thing that could explain this behaviour.


Just for the record I don't care about sledging, it's common practice in every sport. You do what you do to give yourself an advantage. There is a line you don't cross, anyone with any sort of conscience knows what the line is. I am just creating this thread to showcase that it's not just Ulster where this exists.

gotmilk (Fermanagh) - Posts: 4971 - 19/01/2017 22:02:29    1947192

Gotmilk this topic has been done to death on here over many threads!

TheFlaker (Mayo) - Posts: 7885 - 19/01/2017 22:52:38    1947208

Leaving the Ulster thing out of it, this is a good video. I like how the defenders protected their keeper as he went forward and also how he answered the jeers with 2 well taken scores.

Suas Sios (None) - Posts: 1550 - 20/01/2017 09:27:21    1947243

Horrible behaviour at the same time, though -not in the spirit of the game. Some consistent, severe sanctions, from referees would stamp this out fairly quickly.

football first (None) - Posts: 1259 - 20/01/2017 09:43:26    1947249

gotmilk (Fermanagh) - Posts: 4971 - 20/01/2017 09:58:51    1947255

gotmilk (Fermanagh) - Posts: 4971 - 20/01/2017 09:59:31    1947256

Wicklow always were an edgy GAA county

Donegalman (None) - Posts: 3830 - 20/01/2017 10:13:53    1947262

Not cold enough here in Galway for any sledging, the shnow just wont stick to the ground

The_DOC (Galway) - Posts: 705 - 20/01/2017 10:38:29    1947270

Try remember the age group were taking about here lads

Damothedub (Dublin) - Posts: 5193 - 20/01/2017 10:51:18    1947280

Wow, OMG, a bunch of school kids making life hard for the opposing free taker, OMG LOL ROFL #selfietime #amazeballs

Pinkie (Wexford) - Posts: 4100 - 20/01/2017 10:53:56    1947282

Sledging? Didn't get enough snow to do that

riverboys (Mayo) - Posts: 1389 - 20/01/2017 20:17:10    1947445

Spillane picked a novel 15 in the Sunday World yesterday. An outfit comprising the 15 dirtiest players he ever came up against. Of course, it was couched in the usual 'manly' stuff language etc.

Pope_Benedict (Galway) - Posts: 3410 - 23/01/2017 11:31:35    1948029

gotmilk (Fermanagh) - Posts: 4971 - 23/01/2017 11:54:27    1948042

I know these are young lads but don't think that would be allowed happen in any other sport.
So much for clamping down on sledging.

Dubh_linn (Dublin) - Posts: 2312 - 23/01/2017 19:00:39    1948189

would the referee not be entitled to issue black cards to anyone who body-checks or obstructs a keeper coming up to take a free. The reason why these things get out of hand is that the officials are too lenient. imagine this happening in soccer, it just wouldn't happen.

s goldrick (Cavan) - Posts: 5518 - 24/01/2017 11:38:11    1948366

Sledging is around are yonks - just because we have a silly name for it now.

Wearn't the bauld Sylvie Linnane and Lynsky at it with the Galway hurlers in the 80's and they didn't pick it up off the street

The_DOC (Galway) - Posts: 705 - 24/01/2017 16:32:33    1948481

gotmilk (Fermanagh) - Posts: 4971 - 24/01/2017 16:46:58    1948489