Replying To Breffni40:  ""Hurling Backgrounds" is a very conceited phrase to be honest. Someone with a huge love for hurling and hurling promotion can be dismissed very easily as being from a "football background". Everyone involved has a GAA background and shouldn't be graded or labelled over an individual's preferred game."

Replying To Breffni40:  ""Hurling Backgrounds" is a very conceited phrase to be honest. Someone with a huge love for hurling and hurling promotion can be dismissed very easily as being from a "football background". Everyone involved has a GAA background and shouldn't be graded or labelled over an individual's preferred game."

Replying To CCFabu:  "I found his comments about Michael to be distasteful and badly timed to be honest. One of Michael's lowest moments of his career and the camera goes on him and he's on the big screen as Burns waxes lyrical about him. Even the applause for Murphy wasn't that big, I thought the crowd picked up on it not really being a good moment.

Everything Burns said about him was true, he is the greatest to ever play for Donegal, but Kerry had won Sam and had won it convincingly - there was no need to be going on about Murphy there. Felt like bad timing and a bit disrespectful to Kerry as champions as well to be honest"

Replying To FullOfPorter:  "Mother of God, this is pure mopery. A person can't say a kind word about someone now without being criticised. Why would Kerry find it disrespectful? That is mental that someone would come to that conclusion. I'd say most of the Donegal crowd were gone which might explain why it wasn't a raucous roar. I don't know if it's scrolling endlessly through social media on constant negative feedback loops or watching too much reality TV and all the negativity that comes with, but people seem to see the bad in everything now. He was praising someone from each team. There was a possibility that could have been Murphy's last game, why not pay tribute to a great player.

His speech was 3 minutes. You'd swear he was talking for 20 by the way people are going on here."

Replying To TheUsername:  "Likes the sound of his own speeches."

Replying To FullOfPorter:  "Mother of God, this is pure mopery. A person can't say a kind word about someone now without being criticised. Why would Kerry find it disrespectful? That is mental that someone would come to that conclusion. I'd say most of the Donegal crowd were gone which might explain why it wasn't a raucous roar. I don't know if it's scrolling endlessly through social media on constant negative feedback loops or watching too much reality TV and all the negativity that comes with, but people seem to see the bad in everything now. He was praising someone from each team. There was a possibility that could have been Murphy's last game, why not pay tribute to a great player.

His speech was 3 minutes. You'd swear he was talking for 20 by the way people are going on here."

Replying To ThePowerhouse:  "Agreed. There are an awful lot of miserable people out there. They're just waiting to be offended and they're not happy unless they're giving out about something."

Replying To CCFabu:  "I just didn't think it was a good moment for Murphy and why bring the focus on him, there was a lot of Donegal people around me as we wanted to pay respect to the team and to Kerry as champions, it felt very off to me and I personally didn't like the focus on Murphy on the big screen and all the rest. Release a statement or something after Murphy confirms retirement if you want to pay tribute to him, why use that moment to do so? Why not keep focus on the FRC and the champions, if you want to mention Donegal as worthy opponents go ahead but no need to retire Murphy before he's had a chance to process what's happened on the pitch. It's unlikely but how silly will his tribute seem if Murphy comes back for another year?

It just didn't feel right in the stadium being honest, he could have said "a word for Donegal they were great all year" if wanted, I just don't like the focus on one player like that and like I said it was one of Murphy's lowest moments of his career, did he really need that at that moment.

I have no issue with Burns generally which many in this thread seem to, I just thought it was a badly judged moment from him that's all. Like I said in the original comment what he was saying was true, but I don't think it was the right time to say it. And I have little time for the negativity on social media, to be honest it's my main gripe with talking about GAA online, if you only took the negative interactions online then you'd never leave the house because all the posts despising Donegal and Jim McGuinness, but when you get out and talk to people that is far from the reality. If I met Burns tomorrow I wouldn't have a bad word to say to him, it was just in the stadium I didn't feel it was the right time to be saying all that."

Replying To Square_B:  "Is there any actual point to this post bar it being an obvious dig at him?"