It's not a case of sour grapes here, and this isn't a rant either, because I'm sure it's happened all over the country. To give an example, during the week, in the run up to the E.A. Sports Cup Final, when the match officials were publicised, I saw them on a well known L.o.I. site. Now in my opinion, if I was the person choosing referee appointments, I would have looked at the game yesterday, and said, O.K :
(1) 1 team from Waterford
(2) 1 team from Dublin
Surely, it would be common sense to pick officials from Connacht or Ulster. By the way, yesterday's officials were :
REFEREE : Derek Tomney (Dublin)
Assistants : Dave Wogan (Dublin), M. Gavin (???????)
4th Official - Declan Hanney (Dublin).
That's 3 out of 4 of yesterdays officials were from Dublin. I just wonder if the shoe was on the other foot, would people complain.
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Yes it is.and this isn't a rant either
A Waterford referee would naturally favour Waterford because that's how the provincial mindset works. What rustics consistently fail to understand is that there's no equivalent attitude in Dublin (or in any quasi-civilised city.) Down the country, people would vote for a satanic alien paedophile if they knew his grandfather Benjy and he was active in the local Jay club. Dublin folk just don't think like that. They hate everyone equally.That's 3 out of 4 of yesterdays officials were from Dublin. I just wonder if the shoe was on the other foot, would people complain.
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No point blaming the ref, as much as we want to. Bohs were miles better, simple as that.
Appointing a ref from the same place as the team allows people to have their conspiracy theories, including me
Possibly the first match where i actually wouldnt have minded one of the Kelly's
I’m not pedantic...I’m merely overly concerned with minute details.
Only losers blame the ref! Are you a loser? This was shouted at us during a half-time team talk! I kinda agree!
I dont buy into the whole Dublin refs shouldnt ref games involving Dublin teams, but certain refs if not all of them no matter where they come from do lean towards certain clubs. Its like they feel obliged to give the so called tradionally bigger club the benefit of the doubt. This has been going on for years, but maybe its highlighted more nowadays due to increased TV coverage.
i actually e mailed the F.A.I about the standard of refereeing and was making the same point about Dublin refs.
No reply.
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well sure you lot start reff courses so!
I have never seen Alan Kelly ref a game in the Cross,but whenever we play Dublin teams all the Refs are from Dublin. The FAI must try and get referees from other parts of the country.
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Eh.. between Greater Dublin and Co. Cork, you've accounted for close on half the population and therefore is it not likely that at least half the referees will originate from one or the other? it would be weird if they all came from Leitrim and Donegal..... Dublin and Cork, not so much.
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Whatever about where they come from, I thought Tomney was shocking on Saturday evening!
A waterford player was hacked down and he waved play on and Bohs get a a penalty from the resulting attack.
Conor Powell blatantly kicked Warren and the free was given against the Waterford player - I was at the game and saw it clearly but it was more blatant on the TV when I saw it yesterday and it was directly in front of the 4th official!
The standard of reffing is shocking in the LOI and from what I am hearing from the interim FAI League review that is the message coming out of the surveys as well!
They have referee assessors at every game and perhaps there should be a public system of grading refs - as in UK when a ref has a shocker he is stood down for a period of time and this is made public. There is no system here!
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