Originally Posted by
Benjamin
Ok people are on about Ollie Hayes here. Danger's performance in the Herbertstown V Hospital clash was worse. Let me start by saying I'm not with either club, I just went along as I know lads from both parishes through GAA. As a game it was poor, both sides created little, Hospital hit the post late on, and could have sealed it. But as for the referee, oh my God, the man is going to turn so many players off playing.
2 mins in, Hospital striker booked for a high leg. Fair enough he blocked the Herbertstown centre half from clearing it with a high leg, but it was never a card. 10 mins in, Hospital winger was booked for mouthing. He said nothing. He questioned a decision and was carded. Danger likes being the centre of attention, and boy did he lap it up. The next tackle from a Herbertstown lad was always going to be a card, and their left back went into the book for a hard challenge, late, but his first offence - very harsh.
And so it wore on for the 90 minutes.
Anyone who questions Mannion gets this verbal volley of abuse that sees the players threatened with the game abandoned. Several times he pulled out the red card, leaving lads on both sides holding their breath to see was their player going off. And then he gave a terrible decision at the start of the second half. The Hospital winger ran from behind the Herbertstown left back, their legs entwined outside the box, Danger points to the spot. It was never a penalty in a million years. But then again, he failed to give a penalty to Hospital in the first half when their cental midfielder was brought down inside the box. You could say it evened itself out, but for Herbertstown to lose to one of Danger's moments of madness, they must be sick.
On it went and again it got worse. At one stage two lads went for a ball, it went for a throw, nobody complained and he called both Captains into the centre circle. Then a ball was headed out of defence, a Hospital lad stretched for it & toes it over the line. The Herbertstown linesman gave a Herbertstown throw, incredibly Danger over-ruled him. He sent the linesman off and called the Herbertstown Manager into the pitch. Nobody knows what was said, but again it was another 30+ second stoppage inspired by the ref's desire to be centre of attention.
In the finish Hospital won in what was not a good game to watch, but it was not good to see a game decided by the referee's awful decision making. You can say had Hospital got the first half penno they deserved it would have been the same outcome, but the Town lads won't like that. After sending off the Herbertstown linesman, Danger was screaming at the sideline 'get him out of here' as play wore on. Then late in the game he gave Herbertstown two throws that were Hospital throws. He was also telling players from both sides 'tell number x to stop doing this/that'. I mean come on, lads want to play their own game & he's telling them to tell other lads what to do.
He is by far the worst referee I've ever seen and he destroys the game for players. For a local derby, last night's game was timid and there was hardly a card in it, well maybe one of the Herbertstown lads deserved yellow for a mis-timed challenge, but 6 players to be booked when there was not a piece of dirty play?
This guy takes the biscuit. I've seen referees make mistakes before, they get on with it, but this guy wants to be the centre of attention all the time. It doesn't mater you may have two teams who've trained for the last 8 months, this guy is determined that HE will decide their fate, destroying the game, wasting so much time talking when we could be seeing a cracker of a game.
Hopefully he won't be refereeing Hospital or Herbertstown again.
Ben.
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