Offaly v Waterford

Dirty Dingus McGee

Waterford 0-21 Offaly 1-14

Poor second half performance.We had the wind in the second half and should have made more of it

DeiseJon

Anyone else think James McGrath was very biased? And why was a westmeath ref doing in charge of this game when the winners were playing westmeath?

Deskjockey

DeiseJon wrote: »

Anyone else think James McGrath was very biased? And why was a westmeath ref doing in charge of this game when the winners were playing westmeath?

From a Waterford perspective he gave us absolutely nothing. Denied a stonewall penalty.

Don't know how he managed to give out 6 or 7 yellow cards in a game where there was hardly a dirty stroke.

Deise Hurler

Biased would be about right.

nkay1985

Yeah we'll all be accused of being biased ourselves if we criticise the ref but my wife was with me and she couldn't give a crap about hurling and even she said the same. I don't know was it intentional or not but he favoured Offaly a lot. How he didn't give that penalty I'll never know. Also some outrageous frees not given and allowing play to continue with Jamie Nagle down injured when he'd stopped play for 7 minutes when Molloy was injured (rightly so). Offaly go down and score a point from the position where Nagle would have been!

Luckily it didn't affect the result in the end but it was a very poor performance from McGrath.

WumBuster

Its crazy that a ref could be biased like that in an intercounty senior hurling match. Id understand a ref giving a free for a team 10 pts down against Kilkenny but what went on today in a match against two evenly matched teams was ridiculous. The ref is supposed to be impartial, this needs to be looked at seriously by the powers that be. This cant go on in the GAA, its too common.

Keanes Road

WumBuster wrote: »

Its crazy that a ref could be biased like that in an intercounty senior hurling match. Id understand a ref giving a free for a team 10 pts down against Kilkenny but what went on today in a match against two evenly matched teams was ridiculous. The ref is supposed to be impartial, this needs to be looked at seriously by the powers that be. This cant go on in the GAA, its too common.

Apparently waterford had registered their displeasure with the refs performance in the game v Clare. The Gaa dismissed their claims and appointed the same ref for yesterday's game. If true, you could see why we got very little.

He is a very poor ref at this level.

Ando's Saggy Bottom

Keanes Road wrote: »

Apparently waterford had registered their displeasure with the refs performance in the game v Clare. The Gaa dismissed their claims and appointed the same ref for yesterday's game. If true, you could see why we got very little.

He is a very poor ref at this level.

That alone is shocking, that a county would lodge a complaint against an official and that very same official thr be assigned to that county's very next game. Doubly so when the refs own county play the winners.

The GAA would really leave you scratching your head sometimes.

DeiseJon

Sure you could complain till next Christmas to the GAA and still get no where. Refs are a lucky draw .. they all too often decide games. Brick was clearly fouled and was given a free against among many very poor decisions he made.

That penalty that was denied would have taken a lot of pressure off and would've made waterford win the second half instead of drawing it.

I worry about betting activity on games like these and how all to easy it might be to affect a result with a dodgy ref. They seem to be able to get away with anything and still referee next sunday. Ask anyone from louth.