Never doubted your integrity or sincerity for a single second. Apologies! The bit in bold didn't refer to you (an example of quoting someone's post and being used by me incorrectly) but it was suggested, in fact mentioned as a fact by some.
Mind you, you are also spot on with the round up and express how I feel about the inconsistent application of punishments. We can't help feel being "made an example of"! As some suggest and I agree we rightly deserved to be punished for infraction. But by that logic, our honesty allows us the right to ask why others didn't have the same applied.
I was determined not to comment on the events directly, but feel there are three incidents I think should have been mentioned and either not picked up by others or just not felt important.
On watching the footage over a few times I've noticed"
A steward from Donegal (wearing a hi vis vest) is clearing seen getting involved and physically manhandling at least two of our players
A Donegal backroom member (youngish lad) wearing a tracksuit and vest (like the Maor Foirne vest but can't identify what is on it, is clearly seen swinging a left hook and making contact with an unidentifiable Armagh player (unidentifiable as there's so many in the crowd.
A Donegal sub/backroom member wearing black shorts and a vest is clearly seen jumping into the foray and striking at least one of our players and pulling at a few others until he appears to get an elbow to the chin from Donegal #6 or #8 - not that clear, but he seems to skulk away after that.
I'll not name the player, but I'm astounded that one of our lads wasn't also cited for what looked like a two handed/fist punch clearly to a Donegal player.
We're far from innocent, but by an equal amount, we're far from being the worst at it. Obviously there are a lot of other incidents, but I can't remember who above also said something like, why wasn't there at least 20 players cited.
All that said, it's time to look forward. We take whatever punishment we get regardless of when it is settled, either with or without appeals going in our favour. We're not going into Championship with all our team intact no matter if he had OJ Simpson's legal team. We just have to accept that. It is of our making. If we get caught speeding we can't say, sure everyone else is at it and use that as a defence. Hateful as it is, we didn't learn after getting off light against Tyrone. In fact it made our lads think they were like Teflon.
