If you were Kildare - would you want to advance?
Posted: Tue May 30, 2006 12:08 am
I'd be interested to see the results of this.
I know it's easy say this, but I'd like to think that if a team has been FAIRLY beaten on the field of play, then you'd accept the result and move on, and not look for a loophole.
I know when McManus got his red card in 2000, the county board didn't shirk giving him an appropriate suspension, even though he was a costly absentee against Kildare that year. (For a guy in the thick of midfield, his record for red cards since then is pretty good - there's a lesson in there maybe?) I don't know if I've seen a similar act of sacrifice for the sake of fair play by any club or county since.
I can honestly say that gutted and all as I felt coming out of Croke Park in 2004 after the famous wide ball defeat, when the talk was of a possible replay, I didn't want it. We had plenty of chances to pull that Morley "point" back and about ten more besides and we didn't - while I'll never concede as much to a Westmeath man, it was Offaly's to win and we didn't win it, so Westmeath advancing was fair enough. This incorrect decision onSunday wasn't even worth a point - thirty seconds of wasted time at most, and even then the ref should factor it that time in. So the question is - if you were Kildare - would you be happy with progressing to the semi final in this fashion?
I know it's easy say this, but I'd like to think that if a team has been FAIRLY beaten on the field of play, then you'd accept the result and move on, and not look for a loophole.
I know when McManus got his red card in 2000, the county board didn't shirk giving him an appropriate suspension, even though he was a costly absentee against Kildare that year. (For a guy in the thick of midfield, his record for red cards since then is pretty good - there's a lesson in there maybe?) I don't know if I've seen a similar act of sacrifice for the sake of fair play by any club or county since.
I can honestly say that gutted and all as I felt coming out of Croke Park in 2004 after the famous wide ball defeat, when the talk was of a possible replay, I didn't want it. We had plenty of chances to pull that Morley "point" back and about ten more besides and we didn't - while I'll never concede as much to a Westmeath man, it was Offaly's to win and we didn't win it, so Westmeath advancing was fair enough. This incorrect decision onSunday wasn't even worth a point - thirty seconds of wasted time at most, and even then the ref should factor it that time in. So the question is - if you were Kildare - would you be happy with progressing to the semi final in this fashion?