Not so sure Sean. I'm tending to be with @pablo with this one and think it's a tyrone agenda, but if Armagh were to be thrown out of the competition, that would be a punishment for breaking the rules which it seems the officials indicated was the way to go. What then would be the equal punishment for tyrone as they would have to be punished in the same manner and that would in effect be a reward for them as their game would be nullified. I agree there is little chance of a replay either as that punishes Armagh and rewards Tyrone for again the exact same rule breaking. A financial penalty is the only way a parity of punishment can be handed out as far as I can see.
And that's the bit that concerns me most. What happened to the duty of care to players especially the younger ones and their protection. Maybe stupidly I'm assuming they have all their exams sorted for the year, but if they're not someone will need to answer for the stress and strain being put on both sets of players. Even as far as the punishments, the CCC should have sat by now and had those sorted as far as possible with others to come sorted quickly. Let the lads know where they stand and move on.
Yeah my understanding is that the ref gets removed from the inter-county list [in this case] for 12 months so a period of retraining can be applied. I have to say though, that I thought on the night that the ref and his officials handled the game quite well and up until the incident there was little for either team to complain about. Yes one or two strange decisions, but that'll happen in a game as we don't all see the same things.
they merely wanted the referee to be punished for not letting them win. I hope future referees for their matches have noted this
yeah a pretty good summation me thinksAhhhhhhh so really us Armagh supporters are genuinely deluded in thinking Tyrone were just out to get us,
I thought it was the no.10 for Armagh that got the second yellow and red and thought that that was McQuillan, but one thing I'm certain of after having spoken to someone that would know is that Armagh at no stage brought on anyone that had received a red card.
Today/tonight I believe
Only going by what this guy told me. He’s a development officer in midget land
Yeah and to be honest Niall I'm going on second hand information from a similar source in Armagh and also close to the team from Portadown and they are adamant that no wrong player was used nor has even been suggested except on diving social media and I think that the source was shitetalk. They seem to be a horrible lot that can't see beyond their borders. He also said that the county board got a copy of the official video and they were able to identify the player in the subs area during both periods of the last two five minutes of extra time so that'll hopefully be enough to knock that on the head. Sadly though, "hopefully" won't win a battle!
Aye. I’m just passing on info I was given too. I’m not sure how close this guy is to the Tyrone county board but he was at the meeting which ratified harte’s most recent contract. FWIW he thinks Tyrone should just take their medicine and the appeal is a load of nonsense
