In the event of a draw or a close result should the olympic countback system be introduced into the GAA scoring system.
I feel yes.
Look at all the Town teams in any county take Cavan for example.
If Cavan Gaels are playing a rural/country team. These teams can kick pull and push all day and accumulate a large number of yellow cards with no penalty.
The same goes for all Town teams, Kingscourt Virginia,Belturbet ect that are playing rural/country teams it appears to be open season with fouls being committed all day against the Town team.
What do you think.

tomsmith (Cavan) - Posts: 4163 - 19/08/2008 11:23:21    78984

Tom this post is just ridicilious get a grip man!!

D_Dude (Cavan) - Posts: 360 - 19/08/2008 11:36:24    79017

Tom you have way to much time on yours hands thinking up tripe, no affence

fred50 (Cavan) - Posts: 4 - 19/08/2008 13:24:42    79178

tom your some muppet! have you nothing better to do but start stupid threads? i see your on the main hogan stand message board making a fool of yourself also, i thought we'd heard the last of you when keogan resigned.........i hoped!!

dread08 (Cavan) - Posts: 69 - 19/08/2008 13:34:10    79192

I have been to a lot of Cavan football and whenever a skilled footballer from a town team is on th e ball he is pulled pushed ect.
This seems to b e country/rural thing.

tomsmith (Cavan) - Posts: 4163 - 19/08/2008 13:45:07    79201

Dread 08 my omission to contribute to a discussion board like Hogan stand should not be associated with the resignation of our Senior team manager Donal Keogan.

tomsmith (Cavan) - Posts: 4163 - 19/08/2008 14:34:56    79292

Thats FORMER senior team manager Tom. Seriously, think about what you are saying here practically, if a game ends in a draw, then the ref is going to count how many fouls or cards were handed to each team, and for the team with the most, the ref is going to say 'Well the game ended level, but actually your team got one extra yellow card so sorry lads, but you lose.'
Do you actually think that would be acceptable?? Honest to God you are seriously away with the fairies, I can't believe I'm even responding to this!!

snowflake (Cavan) - Posts: 19 - 19/08/2008 17:29:37    79610

Snowflake your are correct in you assertion that a referee could award a game to the team that had no yellow cards against the team that had say five cards in the event of a draw

tomsmith (Cavan) - Posts: 4163 - 19/08/2008 21:28:15    79792

yet again, tom has ye all biting... he loves it so just dont answer him. honestly, look back at all the threads he started, do you really think anyone would really agree with all he says. he is just buzzing off everyone goung mad at him

milhouse (Cavan) - Posts: 469 - 20/08/2008 09:16:57    79986

Tom I can see your point when you open it up to County football and look at the countrywide picture. The Dubs have been saying for years that they are unfairly treated by these ruffians up from the country for the day. Had your rule been in place last weekend I'm sure Tyrone would have held back in their "kicking, pulling and pushing" in case it ended up in a draw that they would lose in a "count-back" and Dublin would now be in the All-Ireland semi. Even your mate Donal may have survived longer had the country boys from Armagh and Kildare behaved themselves against our skilled townies.

opa01 (Cavan) - Posts: 550 - 20/08/2008 09:49:25    80012

Lads, come on stop even paying Tomsmith any attention. He is obviously a wind up merchant. If NOBODY replies to him he will eventually go away.

Brefni Lad (Cavan) - Posts: 107 - 20/08/2008 09:49:57    80014

OPA 01 you are quite correct and indeed I feel that both yourself and I will be commended in years to come for our brilliant idea

tomsmith (Cavan) - Posts: 4163 - 20/08/2008 18:20:08    80888

100% right Breffni lad, thats what I've been doing all along on this board. I can't believe alot of posters on here even bother to reply to any of his posts. He's obviously trying to wind people up.

CC1 (Cavan) - Posts: 65 - 21/08/2008 08:14:58    81160

No keep replying lads i think that its great to see that there are people foolish enough not to see that this tomsmith is on a full time windup.

RHF (Cavan) - Posts: 891 - 21/08/2008 14:13:35    81646

RHF , do you not think that it would be a great deterrent for certain Cavan Team, if count back was introduced.
It would make them thugs on such teams cut out the dirt.
And on the other side of the coin a fine footballing teams like Kill, Denn,and the Gaels would benefit from this rule

tomsmith (Cavan) - Posts: 4163 - 22/08/2008 12:14:09    82390

I don't agree with Tom's suggestion, However I do think that If a player accumilates 5 yellow cards in the course of the championship he should be suspended for 1 game. There is a tendency among certain teams to spread out the yellow cards amongst the team knowing that the slate will be wiped clean after the game. If this penalty was introduced then persistent foulers would be punished where it hurts by being suspended. Also While I am at it. This idea of "time" suspensions rather than "match" suspensions is ridiculous and should be stopped now.

s goldrick (Cavan) - Posts: 5524 - 28/08/2008 22:05:23    87977

Mr S Goldrick, what you have come up with would be very difficult to impliment.
What I state is that say at the end of a drawn game that the referee should be in a position to say Team A has two yellow cards, Team B has eight yellows. I now declare Team A winners.

tomsmith (Cavan) - Posts: 4163 - 30/08/2008 00:27:52    88865

Why would it be difficult to implement Tom. explain please.
surely the referees keep account of who they yellow carded in a game. all they need do is pass this on to the county board.
the county board keep a tally. But I was mainly think of county teams. This would be even easier to implement.
I can't see a problem. I am sure that a few years down the line you will see this in force.

your suggestion for count-back is total nonsence and is a recipe for a riot.

s goldrick (Cavan) - Posts: 5524 - 01/09/2008 12:05:20    89522

Unbelievable.

CC1 (Cavan) - Posts: 65 - 01/09/2008 13:06:57    89627

I feel that my suggestion has a lot of merit, ie yellow cards to counts as scores in the event of a draw.
I could go further and say that red cards where an offender deliberately takes a player out of the game could count for scores against ?

tomsmith (Cavan) - Posts: 4163 - 01/09/2008 20:11:24    90093