A DECISION IS expected tomorrow, Tuesday afternoon, from the GAA’s Central Competitions Control Committee on the controversy over the All-Ireland club football final.
Representatives from Derry’s Glen and Dublin’s Kilmacud Crokes both attended a hearing of the full CCCC committee in Croke Park tonight.
RTÉ News have tonight reported that a judgement from the CCCC on the matter is expected at some stage tomorrow afternoon.
Both clubs will then have three days to appeal that decision if they wish to the GAA’s Central Hearings Committee and from there could take the case to the Disputes Resolution Authority (DRA).
Tonight’s hearing took place after Glen objected to the outcome of the game, which saw Kilmacud win 1-11 to 1-9, and that was followed by the Dublin side counter-objecting.
Controversy erupted after the finale of the game where Kilmacud made two late substitutions as Glen prepared to take a ’45, but forward Dara Mullin did not exit the field immediately and was on the goal line for that passage of play, while Paul Mannion was going off the pitch on the Hogan Stand side when Danny Tallon struck the ball for the Derry team.
Tom Fox and Conor Casey had entered the play at that stage with Mullin and Mannion both off the pitch, as the error was identified, before goalkeeper Conor Ferris took the kickout that was followed by referee Derek O’Mahoney’s final whistle.
Rule 6.44 (b) (i) of the GAA’s Official Guide Part I states that a proven objection for a team exceeding the number of players permitted as per Rule 2.1 (15 player) can result in either the award of the game to the opposing team, or replay, or fine, depending on the circumstances.
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If I were Kilmacud n they force a reply I would tell them to stuff it, they beat them fairly on the day n want to replay it on a tiny technicality, on something the officials should have picked up at the time.
@Jonny Parkinson: I get your point completely but if the shoe was on the other foot so to speak I’d be amazed if Kilmacud didn’t look to have the match replayed.
Either way it’s embarrassing for the GAA and all involved
@Jonny Parkinson: that’s what one would call throwing ones toys out of the pram.. I’d expect better from a club of Croks stature ..’fair n Square’ typically means 15 v 15 … no?
@Jonny Parkinson: “they beat them fairly”???
@wormtubes: an extra play being on the pi
@wormtubes: an extra player being on the pitch for 30s at the end of the game is hardly something that warrants a replay of an entire game. In my opinion officials are in charge of the game and the referees should not have allowed the game be restarted if too many players were on the pitch. It’s an on the game decision and shouldn’t be now over ruled. Otherwise everytime a bad decision is made you’ll have teams looking for a replay. Sport is sport and sometimes things go wrong or mistakes are made but that’s sport.
@Jonny Parkinson: LOL. They literally had 16 men on for the final play of the game!
@Brian Murphy: 30 seconds out of a 65 minute game. And Mullen wasn’t involved in the final play.
@Jonny Parkinson: no they didn’t beat them fairly because they had to many players in the field anf that’s a distraction to the other team.
Will the GAA just make a bloody decision, this is going on forever.
Has to be a replay
Let’s replay every match were errors were made
@John O Reilly: Love it.
So the CCCC will make a decision which could be overturned by the GHC and that decision could be overturned by the DRA.
Straight forward enough.
There will be no replay, guaranteed, GAA will take easy option, fine Kilmacud a few bob, slap on on the wrist, end of.
@Sean Walsh: Hopefully.
Sure the GAA love an old replay
As per rule,fine crokes and move on.
@Daniel Roche: As per rule, award game to Glen and move on.
Soccer rules. We have var for these contentious decisions in big games.
@Paul Gorry: hi Paul. Do you mean soccer rules OK?. Am I annoying you?
@Paul Gorry: In fairness Var didn’t really cover itself in any glory yesterday with the Fabinhio tackle on the young Ferguson lad for Brighton.
@Paraic Faherty: Totally agree disgusting decision from the video assisted referee paraic.
A full replay is madness, I think Philly McMahon is dead right by saying he’d be embarrassed to force that game into a replay over one passage of play where let’s be honest 99% of the time glen don’t score a goal at the death against 15 players.
@Paul Mallon: If Philly was a Glen player or a Derry native, he might think differently. Nobody seems to have questioned why the substituted player didn’t come off, but took up a defensive position at a crucial point in the game. Did he know he had been substituted? If not, why not? Crokes have some questions to answer here and it would be interesting to hear their explanations. A replay would be hard on them, but it’s largely their own fault. I wouldn’t make a case against the second substituted player, who was at least walking off when play resumed, but the other guy was cheating. And if he wasn’t, then his club was.
@Pat Kelly: Of course, if the GAA had a rule that says a substitute cannot come on until a player has left the field, and it was strictly and consistently enforced, then we wouldn’t be having this discussion now.
@Pat Kelly: I don’t believe either Crokes’ management or the player who stayed on were intentionally cheating by having the extra man on for that last play. Fourth official and linesman are there to make sure that for every sub that goes on, someone must come off, so they are the ones who should hold their hands up and say “mea culpa”!
@Joe L: Jimmy Cooney did just that when he blew up a Munster hurling game about 1998 a minute or two early, but there was still a replay. It doesn’t matter whose fault it was, the fact remains that 16 against 15, even if only for a minute, is a breach of the rules and flies in the face of fair play. The fact that it was the final minute, when desperation and panic often come into play, makes it even more unfair.
@Pat Kelly: I agree 100% with you that it was a breach of the rules but it’s a hell of a jump from there to say that “ the guy who didn’t come off was cheating. And if he wasn’t, then his club was”!
Do you really believe a management team facing a last minute free decided to throw on an extra man just to make sure of a victory? I certainly don’t!
Great news this morning on this issue .
A replay .