gael_force_orchard
Well-Known Member
The main mistake he made was only calling 3 mins injury time when he took 4 mins to send the player off. There were also other stoppages in the second half. He should have called 7 mins by my reckoning. Secondly, shanes players messed about throwing balls onto the pitch to slow grange frees in injury time and that added more time and gave the ref the excuse to add extra. Shanes lost that game through petulance. Our lads played to end, never gave up and likely did Rob them. However shanes just didn't concentrate on the game and spent far too long trying to wind our lads up and trying to enact the dark arts of the game. They reaped what they sowed. The ref was consistent in the fouls he blew all day and in that respect shanes made a criminal offence gifting us a last kick of a free to win itAs a neutral at the game I personally thought the ref done well for 60mins, got most of the calls right and was right to send the Shane’s player off. It was the 3 mins of injury time plus the extra 3 mins of injury time that he let himself down badly. You can understand why Shane’s are going mad and some of their players and management reacted the way they did at the end. 30mins +3mins injury time on the clock Shane’s was winning by 1 point, 30mins +4 grange got the equaliser, 30mins +6 grange got the winning point. Not a nice way to lose a county final .