And what exactly was Kildare's Number 15 doing kicking Connolly on the ground in the afters!!

Now did he kick him or maybe it was a muscle spasm or cramp? Very hard to improve intent in these cases...

doublehop (Kildare) - Posts: 4172 - 02/02/2012 15:48:05    1104356

Now did he kick him or maybe it was a muscle spasm or cramp? Very hard to improve intent in these cases...

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Zingg !!!!

waynoI (Dublin) - Posts: 13659 - 02/02/2012 15:56:20    1104365

*prove

doublehop (Kildare) - Posts: 4172 - 02/02/2012 15:56:36    1104366

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You're welcome Mes...

Well played sir. Take a bow!

MesAmis (Dublin) - Posts: 13846 - 02/02/2012 16:02:16    1104371

How many Dublin players were suspended after the League match against Meath?

As far as I can remember there was a fair few and correct me if I'm wrong but didnt some of those suspensions bleed into the Leinster Championship?

JinxyPoop (UK) - Posts: 1162 - 02/02/2012 16:20:08    1104387

just seen it for the first time... wow that connolly chap is one tough guy isnt he? takes serious bravery to do what he did...gaa are a disgrace when you consider how they deal with other less serious incidents...and fair play to james kavanagh for standing up for his teammate...the people on this forum questioning why a sanction was not imposed on him should hang their heads in shame!!!

breakingball22 (Louth) - Posts: 419 - 02/02/2012 16:25:59    1104392

At least 8 were put forward for suspension.. but with appeals I'm not sure of the final figure

JinxyPoop (UK) - Posts: 1162 - 02/02/2012 16:26:24    1104394

Just a little reminder to all those on here claiming that Dublin get preferential treatmrnt, Alan Brogan missed Dublin first league final in 12 years due to a suspension arising from a sending off in the NFL game against Galway, I was at the match and A Brogan was no more guilty than the A Team, in the same game a galway player made a near identical challenge to Connollys and got away Scott free, there were no cameras at the game.

Dermot Connolly was wrongly sent off against Donegal last year, a decision by the ref who was influenced by his linesman who in turn was influenced by the now written about Donegal strategy to get a man sent off. A decision which might have caused Dublin their All Ireland.

From what I have read on the O Byrne cup incident Kildare didn't want any sanctions to be placed as on of their own would also have been in the dock.

bernardmessi (Dublin) - Posts: 182 - 02/02/2012 16:57:55    1104411

This is ALL about perception and many Gaels firmly believe that Dublin get preferential treatment from the media, the Leinster Council, Croke Park and the CCCC. Connolly has form with this sort of thing and some who were at the game said he did it deliberately and cannot believe he wasn't charged. The dangerous action from Connolly had far more potential for serious damage to the Kildare player than anything that happened in the Derrytresk/Dromid game but it was virtually ignored by the national and Dublin media. Compare this to the rotten, sinister campaign carried out against Derrytresk, Ulster football and Northern people and you see why many Ulster people wretch at the stinking hypocrisy involved.

Ulsterman (Antrim) - Posts: 9840 - 02/02/2012 18:23:06    1104457

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"And what exactly was Kildare's Number 15 doing kicking Connolly on the ground in the afters!!
Now did he kick him or maybe it was a muscle spasm or cramp? Very hard to improve intent in these cases..."

*prove

From a different angle: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKBtelSQ0JI

This has already been posted but from a different angle. 19 secs in Number 15 gets a severe muscle spasm and unfortunately connects with DC on the floor. DC clearly deranged gets up and lashes out at him. Which of course gets snapped and shown in the Star - DC punches the head off Lillywhite!!!!

The CCC where spot on, as I also said (amazing how you have to keep repeating yourself), I am not defending him, if I was his mentor he would never be playing.

But if I was from Tyrone or Kerry I'd be rather miff'ed that no one at all was sanctioned from the brawl in the afters after the DC incident. We can all make excuses for thuggery to justify our own teams actions/reactions. Again none of it has any place in any of our games.

arock (Dublin) - Posts: 4968 - 02/02/2012 18:45:14    1104469

Number 15's name is James Kavanagh. Nominated for an All Star in 2010.

James Kavanagh was clearly deranged because of Connollys despicable act on Ciaran Fitzpatrick. As far as I can see he was the only Kildare player to see the incident clearly so he reacted. Wrongly I may add but understandable.

sedico (Kildare) - Posts: 1682 - 02/02/2012 19:27:10    1104499

That's my point breff no One was getting that long a suspension back then, they made an example of tommy Carr and he missed the whole season for a little kick. Dublin v Meath league game 08 biggest handbags mil up you will ever see a few shoulders here and there and what happens they make an example out of the dubs again and suspend our players for championship. It was a joke.

clondalkindub (Dublin) - Posts: 9926 - 02/02/2012 19:43:51    1104512

From what I have read on the O Byrne cup incident Kildare didn't want any sanctions to be placed as on of their own would also have been in the dock.

Except Kavanagh and Connolly were both booked for their little tangle together so the referee would be judged to have dealt with that incident, wouldn't he? Who else would have been in the dock? Kildare didn't pursue this issue (where did this idea come from that the CCC was like some court of law where an aggrieved party had to to press charges anyway?) because presumably Geezer and the players have got better things to be doing than worrying about a suspension in a different division. It had nothing to do with Kildare players being charged, I would love to know where you read that.

As for Kavanagh's little kickout at Connolly, would you not agree it's a serious stretch to compare it to the incident with Fitzpatrick?
DC clearly deranged gets up and lashes out at him.
I assume you mean 'enraged' but your word is probably more accurate anyway. And to imply Connolly was retaliating to Kavanagh is disingenuous, we all know it was the other way around.

doublehop (Kildare) - Posts: 4172 - 02/02/2012 19:48:49    1104516

Double hop I think you may be mixing my post with someone else's, enraged/deranged nothing to do me.
I agree with you the DC incident is a bad one. Hitting/sticking anyone when they are not in a position to defend themselves is cowardly, be it Connollys knee or Kavanaghs boot. My post was directed at the nonesensical theory that Dublin get preferential treatment. Dublin by and large are not a dirty team, physical yes dirty no. Likewise kildare.
I do however think they eye will be on DC for the rest of the league. Hopefully this incident will cop him on and allow us Dubs to glory in his undoubted talent to detriment of youz culchies.

bernardmessi (Dublin) - Posts: 182 - 02/02/2012 20:32:25    1104543

Ulsterman,how do you mean that connollys actions had far more potential to be dangerous than anything that happened at the JFC game?How do you know that?That is just an assumption presented by you as fact.Connolly should have been suspended,no arguments there,but that does NOT excuse what happened at the JFC game.Two wrongs dont make a right and while Connolly deserves a ban,just because he dosent get one dosent mean that the Tyrone and Kerrymen (and lets not forget that Dromid had players suspended too) should also be let off.

TheRoad (Galway) - Posts: 1339 - 02/02/2012 20:54:50    1104559

What chilldara said is the truth. On anothernote the video is conclusive enough also to know that he didnt slip and he deserved a ban. he is doing his teammates no favours and i dont see how not been banned does dublin any favours. IF anything the leinster councils decision does dublin more harm than good maybe the motive was the other way round.

AthCliath (Dublin) - Posts: 4347 - 02/02/2012 20:57:55    1104563

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Ulsterman,how do you mean that connollys actions had far more potential to be dangerous than anything that happened at the JFC game?How do you know that?That is just an assumption presented by you as fact.Connolly should have been suspended,no arguments there,but that does NOT excuse what happened at the JFC game.Two wrongs dont make a right and while Connolly deserves a ban,just because he dosent get one dosent mean that the Tyrone and Kerrymen (and lets not forget that Dromid had players suspended too) should also be let off.

In fairness if Diarmo played for any Ulster team he would've been banned for life.

And his tackle would've been completely acceptable for Ulsterman.

MesAmis (Dublin) - Posts: 13846 - 02/02/2012 21:13:10    1104574

Well Ryan McMenamin did the same thing to John Mcentee in the 2005 Ulster final,and he had a four week ban,which was overturned on appeal.(I think he missed a qualifier game against Monaghan).Connolly should definitely have got a ban.

TheRoad (Galway) - Posts: 1339 - 02/02/2012 21:29:01    1104594

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Well Ryan McMenamin did the same thing to John Mcentee in the 2005 Ulster final,and he had a four week ban,which was overturned on appeal.(I think he missed a qualifier game against Monaghan).Connolly should definitely have got a ban

More anti-Ulster and pro-Dublin bias by the GAA authorities there.

It sickens me.

MesAmis (Dublin) - Posts: 13846 - 02/02/2012 21:34:37    1104600

an awful reckless, bad tempered action

cuchulainn35 (Armagh) - Posts: 1691 - 02/02/2012 21:35:03    1104602