Ulster Club Championships

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pablo

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PatMustard said:
Glen weren’t exactly saints either though.

Some awful challenges in that game. Awful refereeing too, as you would expect with McQuillan.
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Bad idea to blow full time whistle when a scuffle was going on. Was worried when crowd ran on field there could have been a real nasty incident involving spectators/players.
 
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niall1980 said:
You couldn’t like that Kilcoo team. Typical down tramps
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Genuine question, if your club was offered an ulster and all ireland title but you had to display some dark arts would you say no?

Every single team in the country, or most certainly the successful ones, target opposition key men who are a) liable to react and get sent off or b) a big influencer on the game to negate them.

There are degrees of acceptability for sure but the lines are blurred every year. 20 years ago sledging was seen as an outrage now it’s part and parcel of the whole thing. The question I’d ask before branding anyone (or a whole county of people many of whom are exemplary gaels) tramps is as above, what would you do to win a provincial or all ireland title? And if it doesn’t involve some sort of divilment it is never going to happen.
 
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niall1980

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Not too serious said:
Genuine question, if your club was offered an ulster and all ireland title but you had to display some dark arts would you say no?

Every single team in the country, or most certainly the successful ones, target opposition key men who are a) liable to react and get sent off or b) a big influencer on the game to negate them.

There are degrees of acceptability for sure but the lines are blurred every year. 20 years ago sledging was seen as an outrage now it’s part and parcel of the whole thing. The question I’d ask before branding anyone (or a whole county of people many of whom are exemplary gaels) tramps is as above, what would you do to win a provincial or all ireland title? And if it doesn’t involve some sort of divilment it is never going to happen.
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If my club resorted to what some of those Kilcoo lads were at I would not support that. And also. They’re from down
 
Big Jim

Big Jim

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Not too serious said:
Genuine question, if your club was offered an ulster and all ireland title but you had to display some dark arts would you say no?

Every single team in the country, or most certainly the successful ones, target opposition key men who are a) liable to react and get sent off or b) a big influencer on the game to negate them.

There are degrees of acceptability for sure but the lines are blurred every year. 20 years ago sledging was seen as an outrage now it’s part and parcel of the whole thing. The question I’d ask before branding anyone (or a whole county of people many of whom are exemplary gaels) tramps is as above, what would you do to win a provincial or all ireland title? And if it doesn’t involve some sort of divilment it is never going to happen.
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I was kind of following this and thinking, yeah I like that and agree, but then read Niall's reply.....
niall1980 said:
If my club resorted to what some of those Kilcoo lads were at I would not support that. And also. They’re from down
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......and in those last three words he clinched it!
 
Big Jim

Big Jim

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I will add though, that whatever about what others do (yep the good old whataboutery continues) that some of the "tactics" (I know the media described it as antics) were about as low as it get's. How many slow motion replays showed that there was absolutely NO physical contact with the Kilcoo player and you'd swear they had been beaten with baseball bats.

Worst part was when they were actually in a scoring zone and did take a heavy knock, there was zero reaction.

McQuillan was brutal. Why was Sean Hurson on the line? By far the best ref in the country at the minute
 
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