At our game against Drogheda on Friday, one of the Drogs players was called offside. One Drogs lad roared at the ref (correectly) that he couldn't have been offside from a goal kick. Course, the punt upfield was actually a free-kick from about the same place a goal kick would have been taken. Had a bit of a chuckle at that. It's almost second nature now to assume the referee is a know-nothing twit, when in fairness, they do usually know more than anyone else in the ground.
Laughable so. As he didn't leave the field until after he was booked (and ordered to change his boots behidn the goal)
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Nothing surprises me anymore. However I was a little amused at the cup replay between GUFC & Salthill. Gufc left back clears the ball & smacks the assistant with it. The ball rebounds over the end line & the assistant awards a corner to Devon. After a lenghty debate the ref finally awards a throw to Devon with the assistant claiming "I was standing on the pitch when the ball hit me"
Well for starters he wasn't on the pitch when the ball hit him. I think that was all he could come up with to justify his call.
My reading of it would be that he is supposed to be standing off the pitch so therfore is not considered to be part of the pitch.
The ref, cornerflag & goalpost are part of the pitch so if the ball hits off them it's still in play or you carry on with throw/corner/goal kick what ever is appropiate. Could be wrong on that tho!
Nothing better then up in Salthill earlier in the year. One of our players cleared the ball which was goin out for a throw in but the salthill player caught it well before itwent out. Standing yards from the ref he said "Come on lads it was going to go out anyway"
I stand corrected. He may have been booked for leaving the pitch, but he clearly didn't.
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And just to show we are not all referee bashers all of the time, well spotted the man in the middle in the Drogheda-UCD game, definite peno for Drogheda, defenders usually get away with tugs and pulls like that so well spotted ref
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Was that the same Kelly who permitted Herrick to kick us off the park in the semi?
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