All Ireland Senior Hurling Championship 2024 (Munster And Leinster Championships,Liam McCarthy Cup)

Ah look im being harsh. But the call at the end. When a jersey is pulled like that and your 5-10 meters away its easy to pick up on it. And as a ref you cant give a free in against mcinerney and not give him a second yellow. Its either a free and yellow or neither.

Also intercounty refs are the only ones who get away with not penalising throwing the ball. I call it each and every time and get slaughtered.

My stream cut out. Still haven't seen him smile!

Lads anyone know how to multi quote?

Oh Nostradamus posted already after the match… basically, even though Cork lost today, they will dominate the championship for many years to come 🤦‍♂️

Kelly looks like a guy who is gutted to be interviewed by cantwell twice in 20 mins. She is a disaster.

I wrote the following on here yesterday:

"In all seriousness, with the way the game has gone and the way the public assesses a referees performance these days, the easiest thing for the referee to do in an All-Ireland final is to avoid making any big calls by letting it flow as much as possible. Yes, they may get their wrists slapped from assessors later but a referee doesn't want the final to be remembered mainly for a decision they made or for being so fussy that they are accused of ruining the game. So I think we will a bit of a free for all tomorrow especially when you consider Murphy's last outing"

In short I thought it was likely that Murphy would let as much as possible go today, and I don't blame him, it's a product of how pundits and the public assess referees performances, they want the refs to let it flow and the last time he tried to lay down a marker it went horribly wrong.

What do you think as a ref? Wasnt the easiest thing for him was to avoid as many big calls as possible, let it flow so as to not be seen as fussy and the neutral public will be kind to him. Referee assessors may not but that is not public and who will remember that in 20 years time

With this approach you generally get a great spectacle and the neutral spectator is the winner. However often the losing team is left feeling aggrieved and the neutral public having enjoyed the game have very little tolerance for the aggrieved highlighting the reasons for their grievances, see Mantis's post about Cork supporters for example

On the refereeing decisions today. As someone pointed out here earlier, so many hurling pundits happily excuse the repeated disregard for rules in literally every game throughout the season. Steps and thrown passes especially. So why should we expect them to call out errors in the final?

Well then the GAA need to make that absolutely clear in the rules. Jersey pulling, tripping and pushing should be explicitly permitted in the rules as things a referee can ignore and not penalise.

Then there is a level playing field and the losing team can not feel aggrieved at the ref but at themselves for not fouling enough.

Should this be a free?

I cant believe people actually fall for it after all these years.

Spot on Freney 👍

Yes

It's not the referee's job to create 'a game for the ages' or 'to let the game flow'. Their job is to apply the rules of the sport in a consistent manner.

For me, Johhny Murphy was quite good in general. But he didn't have the stones to make 2 big calls. Send off David McInerney for the trip 10mins from time, and call back the final shot for a blatant jersey pull.

The 1st of those decisions is inexplicable. He correctly gave a 20m free to Cork, thus acknowledging the foul. Therefore, it had to be a 2nd yellow for McInerney. I'd defy anyone to claim otherwise, except maybe a black card but the end result is the same. But Murphy decided he 'didn't want to ruin the game' by applying the rules of said game, and issuing the warranted 2nd yellow card. Either we have rules or we don't. Doesn't matter if it's the 1st round of the league or the AI final, the rules are the same.

Finally, is there anything to be said for getting proper umpires for AI championship games. And by that I mean not just 4 lads the ref has rounded up! Surely be to Christ, 4 intercounty referees could be used for the final at least? One from each province. A blatant 65 missed for Cork, again I'm guessing because the umpires weren't too enthused about making a bold but correct decision.

We're a long way off professionalism in the GAA, which is a pity given the efforts of the players.

A video assisstant is more apt.