THE SCENE IS set for a spectacular ‘Hurling Night with the Stars’ at the Abbey Court Hotel, Nenagh, tonight at 8pm.
On the eve of the Bord Gáis Energy All-Ireland U21 semi-finals in Thurles, a host of the game’s top names will gather to discuss a remarkable summer for hurling.
Kilkenny legend DJ Carey, Waterford’s John Mullane, Tipperary’s Nicky English, Dublin manager and former Clare All-Ireland winning captain Anthony Daly and Galway’s Conor Hayes will take questions from the public at the Abbey Court Hotel, Nenagh, at 8pm.
The views of all five participants will be particularly interesting as all five men have plenty to reflect on as a gripping championship campaign draws to a close.
Carey, a nine-time All Star and holder of five All-Ireland senior medals, may wonder where Kilkenny go from here after they failed to make the All-Ireland final for the first time since 2005.
Mullane called time on his glittering intercounty career with Waterford before the start of the 2013 campaign and after Michael Ryan was ousted by player power, what are the views of the five-time Allstar forward as the Déise prepare for life under new management?
For English and Tipperary, there is plenty to ponder as the Premier County attempt to regroup and rise again in 2014.
Daly, meanwhile, is still coming to terms with Dublin’s defeat to Cork in the All-Ireland SHC semi-final but he’s a proud Clare man and will relish the prospect of watching his native county contest the All-Ireland final on 8 September.
And where to now for Galway? Conor Hayes was the last man to lift the Liam MacCarthy Cup for the Tribesmen back in 1988 but the 2013 season has left more questions than answers for the maroon and white, who contested an All-Ireland final last year.
Tipperary man Damian Lawlor will facilitate this questions and answers session and at half-time, a raffle will take place for some wonderful prizes.
Entry on the night is €10 and all money raised goes to the ‘Fix Crumlin’ campaign for the Children’s Medical and Research Foundation (CMRF) at Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital, Crumlin.
“upset the natural flow of the game”. can’t agree with that. you have lads throwing themselves on the ground left, right and centre which is far more disruptive in my opinion, especially in the bigger knockout games when they’re a goal up. sure they had water breaks in some matches in the last World Cup which went by almost unnoticed. time for the video ref.
Also it should be easy enough to moderate the use of video techology. I.e limit the number of times it can be referred to in a game…. each coach can call for a video replay three times and no more!
About time but I would rather see it use for cheating and simulation
You can nearly tell by looking up that Barcaloni19 page on youtube that you would get 9/11 conspiracy clips in the suggested videos. Short memories, he seems to forget the second leg at Stamford Bridge only the year before.
All club have been stung over the years by bad decisions but when it’s costs a team a trophy/promotion or indeed regelation it can be hard to swallow .
If ever there was a club that benefited from extremely dubious refereeing, Barcelona is it.
The farce at Stamford Bridge
The Thiago Motta red card with Busquets peeking through his hands to see if he could stop rolling around yet
Van Persie’s second yellow for playing the ball after as the whistle was blown
And then from this tie, the Suarez non-red, the Iniesta non-red and the Torres sending off.
You lost all credibility when you said Torres was harshly sent off last week.
In that inter game the goal Barcelona got was actually offside so if they had video ref back then that goal wouldn’t have stood, and also the ridiculous motta red card would never have happened
They weren’t in the video so clearly didn’t happen.
3 for the manager is too many. Its been in hockey for a few years at the high level and only now is it really a very good system without issue of bias or unfair advantage. Currently, each team has one video refferral, which they keep if they are proven correct or in the case of “no decision possible”. When the team refers and they are mistaken, they lose the referral. Teams must refer immediately after the incident (within 3 seconds i think) and it has to be close to a goalscoring event (can’t be at midfield). It goes upstairs to a ref who avails of different camera replays. There are still instances when cameras don’t pick up the incident or it is unclear what happened although football games have so many cameras this might not be an issue. Also, there are still complaints to referees even after video referrals! In football there would be issues surrounding interpretation – handball/ball to hand for instance but these would simply have to be cleared up by rules committees. I think aswell that referees own referrals would be useful but in rugby these are taken too much in my opinion. The system works well, there is usually 3 or 4 refferals a game and they are swift and exciting. I think it would work. 6 a game would be hefty and would lead to a scenario whereby there would be a refferal by a winning defensive team over a free kick the last minute purely to waste time/stop momentum type of thing. This is not attractive to see.
Trust no one
Didn’t need last night to prove this. Just the last 30 years of diving, cheating, handballs etc etc etc