GAA Refeering

I wish to paise referee J Murphy and his fellow officials for their bravery in Red carding and sending off Tipperary’s Darragh McCarthy in today’s Munster Championship Hurling Match and before the game even started. Too often I see match officials funking such a decision. It was a cowardly act by the Tipperary player who should have known better. He deserves even more punitive action from the GAA. I was disappointed in the RTE panel reframing the horrid act calling it a rush of adrenalin. I know too many former players carrying sports injuries into old age. McCarthy should be ashamed of his action.

I did wonder how much of it was down to adrenalin, a sports drink/Red Bull and maybe a caffiene tablet before the game as well? How wired was he? Dirty stroke from an inexperienced player (and I bleed rebel red BTW) but Dalton was an inch away from getting a red as well

Getting harder and harder to ref games, the Clare player getting a tap on the arm and going down like it was about to fall off, the Meath player who got a tap in the face and went down holding his head. Too much soccer behaviour going on, or else we are breeding a generation of wimps.

Peanuts20 said:

I did wonder how much of it was down to adrenalin, a sports drink/Red Bull and maybe a caffiene tablet before the game as well? How wired was he? Dirty stroke from an inexperienced player (and I bleed rebel red BTW) but Dalton was an inch away from getting a red as well

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If you strike another player with your hurl off the ball you should be sent off. There should be no grey areas on that. I stopped watching Gaelic Football because of the amount of shoving and pushing and the general diminution of skill as the main factor determining outcome. Hurling is in danger of going the same way.

Peanuts20 said:

I did wonder how much of it was down to adrenalin, a sports drink/Red Bull and maybe a caffiene tablet before the game as well? How wired was he?

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I'd imagine inter-county teams have enough of a handle on the basics of sports nutrition to prevent over consuming sugars or caffeine as these negatively affect performance.

Leo said:

I'd imagine inter-county teams have enough of a handle on the basics of sports nutrition to prevent over consuming sugars or caffeine as these negatively affect performance.

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You'd like to think so, and they also have sports psychologysts and all the stuff you hear about "controlled aggression". The days of some old fellow beating a hurley off the table and telling lads to go out and die for the parish are supposidley over, And yet this happened so it makes you wonder.

Peanuts20 said:

You'd like to think so, and they also have sports psychologysts and all the stuff you hear about "controlled aggression".

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It's hard to fix stupid.

Leper said:

McCarthy should be ashamed of his action.

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The post-match praise for the player and the GAA-splaining by his manager Liam Cahill were as bad as player's behaviour on the field. Be a man, show leadership, tell followers and boys and girls who play these games that the violent behaviour by Darragh McCarthy has no place in your team or in our games. If you can't do that, resign as you are unfit for the leadership role you've been entrusted with.

Cahill was appointed to the role on a three-year term in July 2022 so he's out of the job in August anyway.

From a long-term Tipp supporter.

mathepac said:

The post-match praise for the player and the GAA-splaining by his manager Liam Cahill were as bad as player's behaviour on the field. Be a man, show leadership, tell followers and boys and girls who play these games that the violent behaviour by Darragh McCarthy has no place in your team or in our games. If you can't do that, resign as you are unfit for the leadership role you've been entrusted with

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Cahill has to take a lot of the responsibilty for the way he sent the players out in the first place, were they too fired up? Also his behaviour towards a linesman in the 2nd half was awful, beyond me how he was not sent off.

I can't argue with that. It was a violent, ugly spectacle and apart from the two mentioned already, there were a few others who came out with very little credit. A couple of guys seemed to have helmet problems. There seemed to be discarded face masks on the field for some time. With seven officials over-seeing the game how does that come about?